The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-01-21
The Inaugural ADDRESS
Governor KitChin Takes Oath of Office
and Makes Conservative Speech
ProMhition.

Fr0mp1C10n.
The people having after much aci-
tation and fully discussion ratified
by a large majority State prohibi-
ton, the Legislature should not
seriously consider any proposition
to repeal the prohibition law.
Education.
The blessings of education no good
man denies, its necessity no wise man
doubts and its opportunities no Just
citizen would withhold from the pub
lie. / have in mind no general re-
form in our education work, but a
deep conviction that we should more
thoroughly develop a system already
constructed by patriotic wisdom.
Nothing can strengthen your deter
mination to advance the educational
interests of our State to the utmost
of your ability while duly consider
ing the public revenues, the sources
from which they are derived, and the
other needs of the State appealing
to your Judgment. The State is do
ing well and as her wealth increases
she will do better.
Under present conditions every
child in the State may receive at
public expense an education limited
though it be, which will greatly bene-
fit him in the contest for life's re-
ward. The basic purpose in public
education is good citizenship. Three
things are essential in citizenship
a heart so honorable that it cannot
be corrupted, a soul so courageous
that it cannot be inundated, a
mind so intelligent that it cannot he
deceived, for the three methods The
host of wrong attempts are to cor
rupt intidate and deceive. | is for
tunate that in our civilization good
men, though not perfect, predOmi-
nate, and with the people educated
> this majority is greatly strengthened
and its effectiveness for right, truth
and liberty more than doubled.
0 No State can afford to do other
' wise than be liberal both with hel
1 ordinary public schools and with hel
: higher institutions of lerning. In an
agricultural State such as ours IS
S too much stress cannot be placed up
l. on agricultural education, as a great
/ majority of our people live upon the
farm. A good man in his avocatlor
n or profession is apt to be a gooc
d citizen. The skilled man in his Line
ii of work adds rapidly to the wealth
# of the State and thus strengthens the
: revenues upon which the State de
ponds for all the great work she I'M
y dertakes. We recognize the great
IL e Al za~o 0o1 khnro ~
s the State, some of them graduate
of our institutions, whose intelligen
practical and progressive farming !
f an example and inspiration to who'll
communities. I shall encourage tn
l. policy already adopted urging tina
the simple essentials of agrieultur
be thoroughly taught in our publ
it schools. With such essentials laugh
to the boys l predict a thirst in ther
for more information which will In
crease the attendance upon u II
stiututes, the subscription to ayr
III cultural papers and the study G
ID farm bulletins, all of which will pro
le mote the pleasure and profit of as
rieultural life.
re In the schools should be taught
knowledge of tuberculosis and ty
u phoid fever, now considered prevent
able diseases. Professionals shoul
be secured to deliver lectures @
\ these topics in the schools.
~ Charitable Institutions.
he No better work or one closer
in the heart of us all is being done B
es the State than at our charitable IL
Is stiutions. The State should not
profigate but it should be Hberi
es with these institutions. With liberia
Ie- ity for such worthy purposes shou-
Mt go the closest scrutiny into expend
be lures, and a constant determinatlc
of not to be careless with taxes wlllln
of lv paid for meritorius purposes, al
,st not to be ~extravagant in public ge
We crosby
od Pensions.
at The Confederate veteran needs
ed further eulogy than he has had al
lot will always have from every bra
It and patriotic North Carolinian, b
of many veterans need more assistan
ge. from the State whose honor tn
tie maintained, whose glory they incres
re. ed, and to whose cause they gave
unstinted devotion in the days
their young manhood. I trust tn
,ty with a due regard to other matte
ing requiring your appropriations, y
in will find. the condition of our re
IN enues such that you car increase q
let pensions.
of Factory Life.
he Factories should not be hinder
,w. or crippled in their great work 3
should be urged forward to great
ord triumphs. However, truman hap
ness is sought, not merely for the f
but for all. He that works to h
the another amass a fortune Is en1itr
in addition to bis wages. to health