Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-05-08
MR., CLARENCE POE'S
GREAT ADDRESS
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Gus daily.
Fighting public taxation for better
schools, better roads, better streets,
and other methods of training and en-
riching the average man, your manu-
facturer has struggled along with a
small business, when a prosperous av-
erage man would have given us great
industries like those in the North and
West
Still arguing that education and
training would spoil the working man
and that cheap labor is what we
need, your banker has complained
that the South offers no opportunities
| for the great financier, forgetting that
cheap, unprosperous labor means
small, unprosperous banks.
Your lawyer, doctor, preacher
lteacher-each falling in line with the
| ancient heresy, has paid the penalty
in diminished fees, diminished sala-
ries, diminished influence.
Victims of the vicious teaching ]
am pointing out, your men of talent
artist, sculptor, poet, orator, have toe
often fled TO other sections, or else
have died with vision unfu1filled
among a people unframed to appreci-
ate their genius-when but for these
things you might see statues of South
ern leaders in all great American cit
les, the work of Southern artists in
the worlds great galleries, the
thought of the Southern poet the com
mon heritage of mankind 1t is moi
that we have no mighty dreamers; il
is that they sleep in neglected graves
trampled under foot by war, anG
waste, and error.
Snow, war and waste, thank God
are behind us. Let US aIse put error
behind us.
"Of all our errors our greatest has
been the failure to recognize the fac
that the prosperity of every man de
pendS upon the prosperity of the aver
age man-and in many cases the ac
tual acceptance of the doctrine tha
the State is benefited by having cheap
unframed labor We now see, on thu
contrary, that such labor is a curse
And our second great error ha:
been like unto 1.-THE belief that ever
if the prosperity of every man doe'
depend upon the prosperity of the av
erage man, we are too poor to trail
him. The truth is, that we are TOT
lpOor not to do SO. The fullest ant
freest training Of the average pan il
1.-THE one and only positive guTantee o
Southern prosperity and by this
mean the prosperity not only of ou
Isection, and of our institutions, and o
|society as whole, but the prosperit,
lof every manufacturer, every profes
isional man.< every inhabitant, from
the boy who blacks your shoes to tn
master mind that builds railroad sys
TENS or governs your State
At the conclusion of Mr.. Poe's ad
dress he was warmly congratulated
and made to feel that he had won tn
} hearts of all his hearers.
) The judges having decided in favo
of the vehicle decorated by the ''Mec
graph Club" and occupied by severs
representatives of the club, as bein
the most beautifully decorated, Mis-
) Ellen Dortch appeared upon the ros
trum, delegated by the club to receiv
the lovely loving cup, which was pre-
} sented, on behalf of the GoldsboT
Woman's Club, by Mr.. George G. Ro.
D all, who always says just the rigl
D thing and always in the right wa
6 and on this occasion he was particl
0 larly happy, both in thought and e.
0 preston.
The unique vehicle of Master Ca
0 Stanley, Jr., artistically decorated, ar
5 deftly driven by him, was greatly a.
0 mired, and the judges unanimous
4 accorded him honorable mention.
The exercises then concluded Wi
0 the Maypole dance by class of dali
|tily gowned little girls of the Gold
o boro Graded School that was watch'
o with as much delight by all present
it was executed by the beautiful lit
5 dancers.
The Civic Improvement League, u
9 der whose auspices Park Day is o
Iserved, added a number of new meI
70 bers to it's association yesterday b
IS lyet a larger membership is desired
70 every public-spirited citizen in Gold
boro should send in his name with t
q 81 90 annual membership fee, and a
p to- be enrolled as a member of t
q Civic Improvement League.
so The several marshals, Messrs. TIC
20 OBerry, Jack Smith, Rayton SIaug
10 ter and Herman We'll, were particule
10 ly efficient and courteously consi
50 crate handling the large assel
DO blage andlin maintaining excellent {
)3 der, and our own Goldsboro Corr
DO IBand came in for full measure of pu
OIL &c appreciation for their very exc
25 lent music
After the exercises Mr.. Poe W
30 ifiven about the city by delegati
20 Of tire League and was greatly pleas
SIS With Goldsboro. While here he W
rs tse guest Of DR.. and Mrs. M. e. Re
76 nson, and returned home on the t
80 O'Clock train last night.
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