Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-06-11
PRESIDENT EXPRESSES
GRATITUDE TO GEORGIANS
Declares Thai He Deeply Appre ciafes
Gracious Courtesy of His Mothers
Native State.

There is ample field for the reform
energies of every one of us in his
or her particular sphere of home an
neigIborhood activity.
Not only is an OF this true rs be-
tween one community and another,
but It is just us true between one
clnss of our citizens and another.
Now and then we meet well-mean.
Ing people who have u genuine hor
ror and uread of all rich men and
mink uf them as Deing set apart by
peculiar vice ana inquiry. Now ana
then we meet equally well.meaning
rich men who have an equally IRA
tional dread of those whom they
style labor leaders" In each case
think tho hostility Is In large part
due To II want of sympathy caused
Ivy complete ignorance of the men
who arouse such uistrust or anger
As matter of fact, If we take Il
given number OF men of large fort.
une and like numOcr OF wage-work-
ers, we find that in their essential
human nature they arc all alike. In
each group we find men as wise ant;
us foolish, as good and as bad as in
the other group. Such being the case
1t is certainly well that, SO far as
possible, when the men Of given
group, as n whole, act in n way that
we deem contrary to the public inter
est, we should treat the action rs n
wrong to be rcmedied rather than rs
n wrong to be avenged. We ough!
not to tolerate wrong. II is sign o!
weakness to do so. and In It's ulti.
mate effects weakness Is often quite
ns bad ms wicliedness. But in putting
in stop to the wrong wc should, so
far us possible avoid getting into an
attitude of vindiciivc hatred toward
the wrongdoer. He may be morally
to blame and II may he necessary to
punish him: hut on tho other hand
the wrong lle has committed may
simply he due to the existing condi.
tion OF things, 10 conditions under
which lie has been brought up; and
In such case. while we must apply
the remedy, and see that there is no
further chance of harm 10 the com.
munlty, 1t is neither Just nor far
sighted to exact revenge for what
has been done. In short. friends, lei
us realize that in very truth we arc
knit together in tics Of brotherhood
and that while It is proper and NO
cessary that we should insist upon
our rights, we should yet he patient
and considerate In bearing with one
another, and in trying so far MS In
MS lies, each to look Mt the problems
that face us from his brothers. stand
point as well rs from his own.
Material Progress of Nation.
During the last quarter of century
this nation Inns made astounding
strides in material progress, and in
no other section has this progress
been more noteworthy than in the
South. While her agriculture has
grown faster than ever before, there
has also been new growth of hei
manufacturing industries-indeed
there has been growth of every kind
But of course there is ample room
for further growth. Tho South will
be all the better for now immigrants
of the right type, and I hope to see
steamship lines carrying such immi
grants established Mt ports like Sa
vannah and Charleston. inst MS
hope TO see ports like New Orleans
connected by lines or steamers with
the South American continent, the
continent with which our relations
should grow ever closer and mutual
ly more advantageous, In the South
as everywhere through the Union. We
need to sec good education given
free to oil children no matter whni
may be their race or color. Nor car
we wisely permit this education to
be of merely literary type. More
and more we are growing to realize
that there must hn an education Of
tho hand as well MS of The head
There must he agricultural and in
dustrial colleges, and, above Mi
schools in which there can he Gle
montary preparation for agriculture
and Industry These schools foi
technical training will hold great
place In the future in fitting our citi