The farmer and mechanic., 1907-09-03
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| duced Governor Glenn to make the
I first welcome address, saying Inc
I fifth annual congress OF the FARMERS
! Association OF North Carolina WIN Dc
! opened with an address b. the Gov
! ernor OF this great commonwealth
/ This is the second time have intro
/ duced him TO you. and you Will join
me in the expression that we thtak
more Of him than ever he ha$
Z demonstrated in his actions az Gov
! ernor thai ne believes in square deal
: that be stands for the equality OF all
/ before the law He is as courageous
/ patriotic and brave as those who
/ fought a. Appomattox. and il gives me
| great pleasure to Introduce 70 you the
/ man whom the state and nation loves
/ to honor. Governor Glenn of North
| Carolina.
| Tie Governors Address.
Governor Glenn began his address
By eaying that the meeting had caught
him ahead Of time, or rather that ne
had lost DAY as his memorandum
was to speak on Thursday. Then in
his warm hearted fashion he extended
a welcome 10 the Farmers Association,
6ayinR that though he had welcomed
great meetings Of captains OF INDUS
try" and old soldiers, educators and
Others that nothing gave him more
genuine pleasure than to welcome ohe
farmers for he esteend no class more.
foi. none stood for higher or greater
things than the farmers, the founda-
ton stones upon which all else is
built, men who made possible all the
other development. As Jefferson had
said Of other lines Of business they
are hand made while the farmers
are God made.
Governor Glenn declared that he felt
at'home in a farmers meeting. that he
had been between the plow handles,
had used the hoe and swung the
tcythe cradle, had planted tobacco
and cured it, that it was his twenty
four years of farm life that had given
him strength for later duties. IF
you don't think I've a farmers
muscle" he said. and put up his
hands in front of him. Just stand
up before me and l will make you
see more stars in five minutes in the
day time than you ever saw at night
No one accepted the invitation, and
continuing, the Governor paid trib-
ute 20 life on the farm. that from 1t
came the stalwart soldiers. the states
men, the men who did things, men
ready to live and die for their coun-
try, women the prettiest and sweetest
the world has ever known. If you
are ashamed of being a farmer" said
he, "get out and make room for
others"
Then Governor Glenn made a
sweeping review of the progress of the
Nation. the South and North
Carolina, pointing out that this
is the greatest country in
the world its flag emblem loved,
feared and respected, country Of
WOndrOus strides. The SOuths de-
veIopment of late years, he declared
exceeded all, and as to North Carolina
no State has shown greater progress
in recent years, and it Is now standing
with the first. He gave figures show
ing how the South, in the forty years
since the war had left it desolate had
forged to the front, SO that the slogan
is not now "Go West, Young Man,
but Go South, Young Man. for here
the best things are TO be had. that
producing 85 per cent of the cotton of
the world, rs per cent of the tobacco
SO per cent of the peanuts, all the rice
and all the sugar made from sugar
cane, coal, iron, oil and timber, that
with its farmers standing together
they hold the key to the situation ana
controlled the world. He emphasized
the need of State pride and said il
North CaroIinian did not have this
he ought to ''get OUT and make room
for others, that as for him he loved
his State, and was ready to lay down
his life for it, He told of the State
being out of debt, moving forward on
lines of material educationa. AMI
moral progress, that the figures show
ed it to be a State that was being
excelled by none. exceeding all south
of Mason and Dixon's line in driving
out iIliteracy.
He urged upon the farmers respect
for their work. that it was not the
chara cter of the work. but how 1t
was done that counted. He told them
that their influence in party politics
should be for the best men, to noml-
nate no corrupt men for office, that
while no one could question his De-
that in the future if a corrupt man
or a scoundrel got on the ticket, that
he would not vote for him. He spoke
of the needs of good roads, that farm
ers should demand these as they are
needed for progress.
Then turning to the personal wei
come he told the farmers how glad
he was to be with them to say well
should lead any to the dispensary and
a hard-hearted blue-coated officer got
them in the lock UP he would pardon
them at once. That he hoped the
meeting would be a profitable one
and that after it the farmers should
make themselves felt as an influence
for good, that such things came
from the fireside and that the great
est of all in North Carolina Zeb
Vance, was delighted to say he came
from the country, as did tomas Ruff
fin, il being thing OF which one
should be proud.
Illustrating his love for the peo-
pie by happy anecdote, he wished