The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-06-11

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,-arf -rar7 - End cause for celebra-
don d., her whole people in the fnai
lrra1rtfor NJ the railroad that binds
hog a:h steel 70 the world rms
c.-.ummatien. in the particular case.
sf peculiar significance. 80 citE on
t1a coast has been At the same time
81, naturally independent and - cir
eametautiaIly reliant upon ! railroad
for a future. Beaufort has IN every
material respect the elements of heT
greatness and at her hand
she has suffered from an artificial
isolation. Had railroads never been
Invented. Beaufort would today be
one 81 tne most important ports % tho
t,antIc |Seaboard. IS il Il. for the lack
Of the invention. she has failed 70
realize the advantage Of nature. The
railroad supplies the deficiency;
bridges possibility with opportunity
It was the possibility that the men
who founded Beaufort saw, in the
ancient days when the equation Of rail-
! roads diverting natural advantage was
not discernible. They built well With
the coming Of the railroad, there is
every reason to believe that their vi
sion viii meet with a realization that
shall prove the brighter for it's delay
Geographically. in the logic Of COM
4 merce, Beaufort has the ~potentiality
of greatness. She is in the mouth If
the sea. The deep water highway Of
the world is at her lips. She is in
touch with the tides that drift between
the East and the West. She is the
natural toll taker OF the traffic OF
nations. In relation to climate and to
locality she is blessed with a near
enough proximity to the uulf stream
to guarantee an open harbor and sea
sons that in their turn guarantee agri~
culture. Her back country abounds
in timber. in rich lands capable o.
growing almost any produce as quickly
in d commercial sense as purely tropi-
cal lands. She is the natural centec
and outlet of a rich section ~harboring
a progressive race of men, and filling
up from day to day with a new brcei
of long-headed and far-sighted CAPT
talists and workers who are putting
their labor and their faith on the
stake of her prosperity.
With the railroad, with widening
recognition. with increase of faith and
realization of prophecy, Beaufort may
be said to be pausing in this celehra
tion for the purpose of concentrating
in effort.
The effort now is, of course, for an
adequate harbor. It might be said
that the harbors, from being n~obody's
~1A,.- Ia--1 1865 H. 49, 49,
Germ Of dominant politician whose
constituents need harbors in their
business. To an extent Beaufort has
undoubtedly suffered from this condi-
ton. Had one-twentieth of the money
expended by the Government on har-
boris with one-tenth OF Beaufort's
claims for consideration. been put into
the Beaufort harbor, the celebration
of Yesterday would have been one par
ucipated in by a great city in fact as
wen as in promise. Yet, in the need
of the harbor. it must be recognized
that the lack of the railroad was in
the long run the determining factor
il the denial Of the benefit. Other
wise justice would have forced its
way.
Now That the railroad has hridged
the river, the eagerness of the sea for
q harhor will prove sooner or later ir-
resistible. And, with the harbor, the
next Oldest town in the State will take
a forward leap towards its destiny of
the ewes city. The very fact that
the railroad has come is evidence that
the tide has turned and h the forces
No. IN ,1rI-QTear+ towards tho -lirru
that in the end shall always prevail
the economy of nature and the avail
ability of trade. In other ways has
the trend been shown. In Congress,
in the person of ohn Small, the sec
ton has found an advocate who has
studied his case and believes in his
cause. Small has seen a vision and
proved it to the world. Il his de-
mOnstratiOn in his persistent appeal,
he has spoken for the whole Of East
ern North Carolina and made the
country see that. in speaking for it, he
has spoken for the nation. The
scheme of waterways that he has ad-
yocated viii eventually be realized,
because it is a scheme that requires
only education and does not need gen
crosby to succeed. The Eastern North
Carolina waterway and harbor system
will prevail as certainly as it is true
that the man will prevail, in himself
or his successors, who weds an in
spiratiOn with study. and conviction
with determination. IN the realization
of the scheme Beaufort will occupy the
strategic position, the Queens place.
Her future, so long lost in haze,
stretches before her as bright and
smiling as the waters spread them
selves away to the whitecaps of her
bar.
1t is as Fastening the future by re-
moving the vestige of captious obiec-
ton that the railroad is of the great
est significance. The road itself is in
position to share in the glory and the
pront of the dream tha first found
expression from the lips of Governor.
Morehead. It should receive and is
deserving of the gratitude of the peo-
pie so enthusiastically expressed. It's
building required that cerfaioty Of in