The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-06-08

! do not stop to consider now what
are really important matters, nor to
consider the relative capability ~ men
to form correct Judgments. / have
found that men are ready and >Onfi-
dem to interchange views and esIl-
mates. eNry few in the great mass are
really equipped for the great ,tfice as
Sumed. How many men not proion11
aWyerS are to be really considered
when the matter to be decided 5 pure
~ legal. 1t is 50 with most questions to
he reasoned upon, and to be decided.
Nhlle most men are swift and earn
est to deliver judgments and express
opinions upon almost any topic, how
many are truly furnished and prop
erly qualified for the deliverance How
many people are really rejecting
duly furnished. well balanced, so as
convincing judgments? Only such are
to be confidently accepted as really
capable and We'll furnished. The
great AL Of the world said:
Mems judgments are
4 parcel o. their fortunes; and things
Do draw the inward quality after
them,
To suffer all alike"
Again with is.acutenesS and pen-
etration, he said of Judgment:
What worst, as oft,
Whiting or SrOSSer quality, is cried up
AS our best act"
That is enough of the wise man
for one day. l nave been, of course,
citing Shakespeare.
/ recall that some eight, or it may
have been q dozen or more years
since, a citizen of the Cape Fear sec
ton published a we'll considered short
article in the Daily Messenger of our
town, in which he offered some very
10 ~ - Vn - - -, 49, 49,
been stirring North Carolinians
through the decades-'who is our
Man, or who are our Great
est Men The article is clever and
judicious and sane. There are many
good things in it. I give a brief sam
pie taken from near the beginning.
writes. and / do no: know now
" no it was who wrote:
There is a greatness because of
high station, q greatness because Of
heroic action: a greatness a Of
unusual thought; a greatness because
If extraordinary endowments; a
greatness because of important ser |
rendered to ones country. or to
humanity.
"A king and his ministers are
great men, though they may lie dull
and stupid
There has been more or less said
in newspapers as to WhO was the real
~ greatest m a in North Carolina. OF
curse editing so long as [ did, / took
hand, and offered some personal
Contention of my own. / never could
definitely and finally in my own
mind on any one man. but / did
name six to be considered in the con-
test. The truth is North Carolina has
had many highly intellectual men
many Of whom deserve to rama high
among our oremO men. I am not
,hn,,, 70 ~a-n,Dy, tina ct1hiect now hP-
Eond expressing a long cherished.
we'll Considered view that the great
est man is not Nathaniel Macon, and
y a very great deal. There are more
a dozen who We're ADLER. better
equipped men than the famOus Sen
ttor of Warren county. 50 belieNe,
I have studied his life and read
was possible to obtain as to
lis public efforts, and speeches.
The writer in the Messenger
thought Senator ManGun. OF range
.ounty, superior to Macon. The
We'll says:
NV own idea of greatness is great
thoughts or great actions concerning
nomentous subjects: inpressing ones
upon his generation and
influencing the q of men Tor The
lttainment of some high purpose.
If that be substantially the touch-
tone, bring Mr.. Macon and MI. Man.
to it"
would not name either OF these
is the highest among North Carolh-
/ would put CASTOR. BadSer.
ance and some Others ahead OF
hem, never omlttlng -i'''s
Tart Benton in any contest. some ol
mon favorably commented upon
" the writer in the Messenger are
.ot those | would myself name as
oremost. He q a high view Oh
-ance. but he does not put him above
ONE others he names, and yet he g..
as much and just tandation for u /,
reat senator and governor, n ne ,
the greatest of II governors % !
believe. OF Vance the CORE. 6
nondon+ Who signs himself :