The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-31

structlOn and help. These people are
of "the salt of the EARTH" and it is
from scenes like the Sunday morning
gathering and the hospitality hat is
free and unaffected that "old Caro-
1ina's glories rise" / wish every man
residing in a large town would go to
such a ountry church as Salem once
every month and see the heartfelt,
simple worship Of strong folk, partake
Of their bounteous dinner, and feel the
sincere and fine spirit that dOmi-
and UGH homes as abound here
around Salem. 1t would be an in
spiration and would grid all with
strength for the hour of endurance.
At Salem the people have the best
land and nave prospered. They put
religion high above everything and
there are very few people, young or
old in the section, who are not church
members. They are untouched by
hypocrisy or skepticism. The old
truths that guided their fathers and
mothers still have the allegiance Of
the sons and daughters. They believe
in education. All the children are
educated. n not a few are sent to
college. There is now building in sight
of the church an excellent building,
Salem having recently voted a
school tax and having beer desig-
mated as one of the sites for one Of
Granville's new high schools. Happy
the youths trained in this wholesome
atmosphere n environment. In that
surrounding men and women will be
reared who will in the future as in
the past illustrate the best virtues of
this good Commonwealth. The men
to whom the world is looking for cad
ership are coming out Of the homes
Of the type represented in Salem con-
~gregations. They are learning to rely
on nothing out labor, thrift, and char
acter, despising the pull by which
the many young men are trying to
reach to high places in h world. AS
I looked into the honest faces Of the
young men, as we'll as the old men,
in the congregation, I recalled a speech
made last year by Arthur Brisbane at
a banquet given in New York in honor
of Lord Northcliffe, editor Of the
London Times. The representatives
Of the New York press and the great
financial and industrial concerns were
at the dinner, and The Keynote of
most of the speeches was an adulation
Of the captains Of wealth. When MI.
Brisbane came to speak he rebuked
the spirit and said in part:
"This is a fine gathering of power
full men, big fortunes, and great repu-
taticns. I want to say something for
lars, never got on the payroll of a
millionaire.
II don't want N%orthcliffe to go back
to England believing that a man with
out a million in this country might as
we'll hide under the table Or jump off
the dock.
1.-THE real American nation, it's real
resources, it's real ability are hidden
among those Seventy-nlne
millions that never go to DelmonicO's
most Of whom know as little about
terrapin as about birds nest soup.
"ColoneI Harvey say that if you
take ten thousand men out of his
country-the ablest ten thousand-the
country will fall to pieces. He
might as we'll say that if you take ten
apples off a tree, the tree will wither
and fall. Not a bit Of it. You men
with money and power are the pretty
shiny apples on the tree. The sun
light, the warmth, the praise, are for
YOU, but you are only the passing fruit.