Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-06-05
A STRIKING SUMMARY.
Senator Simmons Says Some New
Things Well Thought Out at Elon
College Yesterday.

OVAAOSO lCSCtIudys
| Tuesday at Elon College COM
| mencement Senator Simmons was the
orator, and it is said he was greeted
! by great audience, to whom he talk
ed on North Carolina and Her Pep
pie" and in the course of his unus
ually original and great speech he
said some new things, we'll thought
out. that are worthy of being pdblish
ed abroad. Here are some OF them
Il want to talk to you about North
Carolina and it's people, about our
selves. What we have done; what we
are doing; what remains for us to do,
and what we hope to do.
North Carolina is by 20 means an
empire, yet with people possessed
with highest attributes of manhood
and womanhood she has For more
than two hundred years we almost
stood still compared with the prog
ress of other states, we moved SO
slowly that we seemed to stand still
moved so slowly that we won the title
of the Rip Van Wrinkle of the Union.
"Why did We move so slowly? That
is what | want to talk to you about.
North Carolina has never suffered at
any time from lack of patriotism o,a
the part of her children. During those
years of slumber we were not stag
nant, because our people did possess
patriotism and the energy nee essary
to develop our resources and we
could not develop them only because
we could not see them But we see
them now and have made more real
progress in the last two decades than
we have made in all our previous his
tory.
What were the causes, I ask, of
our lethargy? First, the Civil War.
Second, the action of 1868, which in
troduced a warm political element in
to our population which retraded oar
pi ogress for more than a generation.
The adoption of the amendment of
1893, which reversed this action, was
a great step in the right direction,
we won last year over the bar and
distillery, removed the last nindrance
TO our progress as state.
But there is work for us yet t, |
TO-" said the Senator in substance |
In connection with our material wei
fareSand in connection with our So
cial culture and our intellectual ad-
The most enduring mon
of our people are it's intellec- |
tual and literary advantages, and it is |
my sincere hope that North Carolina |
has not only developed the material |
wealth and social culture, but intel |
tectuM achievement.
II pray for aggressive individuals |
in orr State, in thought as we'll as
in action
Concluding the Senator said that |
North Carolina is to be great and |
powerful state, and her people live |
and progress even beyond the expec-
tations of the optimist. But let us
hope that her grace may cause intel
lectual achievement in the creative
genius of her sons and daughters, as
we'll as their material accumulations.
ALu W l1lS Cuu, Ill ConCluS1On, J.
appeal for a deeper and broader cui
ture and hfgherl intellectual life IN
North Carolina. for a training aud cul-
ture that will smight the spring of our
greatest victories. l appeal for a
broad, catholic North Carolina, for a
spirit to serve and sacrifice for her
that will love as well as sing
e Carolina, Carolina, Heavens bless
ings attend her,
While we live, we will cherish and de-
fend her,"
In the course of the address Senar
tor Simmons paid glowing compli-
II cnts to Ex-Governor Charles B. eAy-
cock, and Ex-Governor Robert B.
Glenn, whose names, he predicted,
would be written high in the roll of
North Carolina's famous men. Gen
efous applause greeted the Senator in
many of his oratorical flights. DR.. w.
w. Staley offered the opening prayer
for the address, and President Moffitt
nj tho