Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-05-08
MR.. CLARENCE POE'S
GREAT ADDRESS
Park Day fittingIy Celebrated
Monday With Parade
and Sp echas.

0oiusDoro S observance or Park Day
yesterday afternoon-which is pecu.
liarly "Geldsboro Day'-while quite
generally participated in. was not uI
to that representative observance
which we yet hope to see achieved in
The Best Town in the State in the
years ahead of us; for Park Day" is
an established institution in Colds
ooro and will be observed as long as
he charter of the city stands, with
more or less enthusiasm, in proper
ton as the "Goldsboro Spirit" pre-
walls in the communicated without
the supremacy of which spirit we can
not go forward.
While the attendance yesterday was
not the general outpouring of the peo-
pie that the day is destined yet to
command, it was larger than has been
experienced in the past, and the exer-
cises were in all respects most cred
table and enthusing, and the splendid
address of Mr.. Clarence H. Poe, edi-
tor of The Progressive Farmer, of
was alone worth going miles
to hear and marked him as one of the
closest students of men and economic
onditions, correct thinker and stur-
liest Drained of the younger men of
the State.
The long parade of carriages, deco
satad vehicles, automobiles, fire ap-
paratus and marching population,
headed by the Goldsboro Cornet Band
that discoursed most excellent music,
all made pageant prideful and i'm
pressive, and highly creditable and
and when Herman Park
was reached the beautiful prospect
was certainly such as every citizen of
Goldsboro would have thoroughly en-
have been there to see.
The exercises were opened with
most beautiful and appropriate prayer
by Rev. J. Gilmer Buskie, rector of
ST. Stephens, after which Mr.. Poe
was introduced by Col. Jos. E. Robin
son.
From his opening sentence to his
last utterance Mr.. Poe was listened
to with closest attention and intense
appreciation, and our only regret is
address, and that we cannot publish it
in full-its application to conditions
in Goldsboro-its splendid OPTIMISM
its stable truth-its abiding inspira-
ton and influence for better things
with all whose good fortune it was to
hear it.
Among other things of a local ma
ture Mr.. Poe said that is of general
1T is upon the intelligence, charac-
ter and energy of our average man
that the prosperity of the State de-
pends-not the intelligence, character
and enegry of a few exceptional men,
but the general level of intelligence
and efficiency.
THE great principle of democracy
to which our American government is
dedicated is not confined to the world
Of politics, but applies with equal
force in the economic world. We must
revise not only our old aristocratic
IDEAS of government, but our old ideas
# wealth and industry as well. These
cid fatal miscopceptions have shack
led us too long, and there is hope for
rs only in realizing that wealth is,
by nature, not aristocratic, but demo-
cratic. ass
The poorer every other man is,
the poorer you are. The richer every
other man Is, the richer you are-not
the reverse of this, as too many peo-
pie have long belived.
Every man whose earning power
is below par, below normal, is a bur-
den on the community; he drags down
the community; he drags down the
the whole level of life, and every other
man in the community is poorer by
reason of his presence, whether he be
white man, or negro, or what not