The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-06-04

The raising o. a statue IS evidence
that pain has been eased while mem
CRY abides. Statues and monuments
spring up not from the first passion
If crushed hearts or breken fortunes.
they are the emblems OF that time that
heals without destroying. They are
the perpetrators Of love and. in the
sense Of the closing of a wound. the
monuments Of bitterness These me-
MORALS stand as h sign-posts OF the
periods Of stress that prove the quail
ity of iron that abides in a people;
hat serve to show forth the rever-
cnoe Of the people; that prove the
faith OF the people. They are the UNI
~derstanding acquiesence in destiny; in
the processes Of liberty. in the prom
ises Of hope. A monument is not
possible in tine fullest sense unless IL
be an epitome IN essence of the life
which il sets fcrth-and it must be q
life that looks forward with a clearer
vision for having locked lack. Mingled
with the instructive lessons which they
teach the monuments are glad signs
and trustfuI. They are recognition as
We'll as recOlle rtion.
That statues are raised 70 men as
examples for men is one OF the vital
habits Of nations. The past renews it
self in fables. symbols teach mutely
lessons that cannot be learned of
books. A statue or monument appeals
10 the elemental sense Of sight. They
force a physical study, inculcate an
appreciation that is the stronger for
being unconscious Amid all the whirl-
winds Of emotion and Of strife and bit
terness-in all The divisions and en-
mities,-they remain mutely appealing
as m cause and common herit-
age Upon the plastic period of youth
they place fingers that are gentle yet
permanent in impress. BY being they
teach; by teaching they make.
The South has recently awakened to
the necessity OF making monuments.
For long time il needed none. It's re-
gretful fingers could point to tragedies.
Vacant chairs made its membranes.
Ruined fortunes bore deep into the life
CT the people the significance of their
history. Poverty contrasted with
= y dChIIS ldDol Iei1leillDeIe 1
against ease; political battles for ex-
istence measure against the habit of
command etched in life and blood the
story of sacrifice. But service wrought
not for foTgetfuiness but for victory,
to which We're born other generations
that did not know in their lives and
could not learn or understand in their
hearts These levy pSnaratjnnS foI1r1
loyalty and faith and prosperity. Thev
heard tales of coercion, of sack. of
overly and death and travail. These
things were Lessons conned of books,
that needed the persona touch. that
needed in more than occasional race
sentiment the daily reminders of the
past.
To these-fortunate or unfortunate
as one applies the term-the monu-
ments and the statues stand visibly to
remind and to encourage. They are
the human embodiment of the relig-
ious spirit of trust, the heroic incite-
ments to the racial spirit of reverence.
They say to thu youth hat all is we'll
end nature ordered and destiny tri-
umphant. And at the same time they
teach the greater lesson that in the
conflicts out o. which grows history,
the end is the more perfect where the
battle is best fought. and where the
human tides flow against each other
most strongly; where there survives
most purely tho truth that soul is in
domitable and that defeat is an Incl
dent of purpose. Out of the monu-
nents flows the lesson that life is i'm
mortal and that faith is supreme.
In the last month it has nance
that the South has given no less than
four conspicuous examples of this feel
ing of its perpetuity and it's integrity
change. The trerd has long
been visible, in the soldiers
that have graced SO many capitals of
States, that haze served to identify so
many obscure towns and counties with
the nation. The last four occasions
are, however, national in effect, if
sectional in peculiar pride First, in
point of time, was the unwilling of the
to Bagley at Raleigh, marking