The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-09

SdteS 10 vote Iof the Declaration -.
Independence at ~Philadelphia in ~
She recalls that she helped n 80;
this Union when many States nnm
great n prosperous, were as W.
rowing ground for the wild Indian 80
the buffalo. ~"1
We are glad to see so many farm
ers here, the sturdy men who f,1
nish the subsistence Of the world 49,
who steadily fill up the gaps whinh
the vices Of the cities make in our
population. You furnish the foN5
n the wool and cotton and Won frr1
nish sooner or later, the people n
use them.
amiss, it is not I trust a breach of DO
likeness, to speak with frankness OF
the South as we know it.
The South has the best climate in
the Union, where work can be done
out of doors, twelve months in the
year. It has magnificent water power
which in view of the certain KLAUS
coal mines. will be invaluable sup
plies for heat, light and power-jn
those long centuries of the future in
which electricity must take the place
of steam. Indeed I believe that his
State. with it's great mileage of non-
navigable stream is il to lead any
other State in the water power that
can be developed.
The South a a womanhood tina
is unsurpassed for loneliness and pa
triotism. The valor Of ther sons has
been displayed on every battlefield
that this country has known since its
discovery. They have aided to found
this government and to guide for
tunes. In peace and in war, they
have been equal to all demands upon
them as soldiers, as statesmen, as
citizens.
At the close Of the war of 1865
and of the calamitous reconstruction
period that followed it the South had
lost "a Of her property. A far great
er loss was that the war had killed
or disabled more than Ia of our best
and bravest men.
Not only this, but of the $4,000, 900
which have been paid as pensions to
Federal soldiers by a grateful people,
$500, 900 has been paid by the
South u of it's poverty, besides PEN
s~ionfng our own gallant veterans out
Of our scanty means. The North did
not feel this because for any 81 any
Northern State paid into the Pension
Fund, SO anne pack to that State as
pensions to it's soldiers, while of the
$1,5OO,0O the South has paid, moth
inc came back to large sections, in
Guiding nearly the whole of this
State. The South has not complained,
it's representatives in Congress have
voted for all these bills. None the
less it has been an enormous drain
get upon its feet. It is the largest
war indemnity known to history and
far overstops that paid by the 49,
100000 Of Frenchmen to Germany.
Then whatever we may say of the
advantages or disadvantages of the
tariff, no one will assert that the eff
feet has been, or was intended, to
-;~- o co-&I VIZ
have paid hundreds Of millions in
tribute to the life and fire insurance
companies Of the North before we
were able to retain part of these
Profits by establishing our w COM
panies. Our railroads built largely by
State aid in reconstruction days or III
the days of poverty succeeding, passed
into the lands Of Wall street and the
enormous profit of Watered stocks and
thereon has been and still
is a heavy tribute paid by the South.
There were and are still other heavy
drains, I have not time to mention.
In spite Of that, the South has to-
day more property than the whole
Union had in 1851. It has more
wealth than the whole Union had in
1861. l will not go into statistics for
they are tiresome, further tina one
item, that is that while cotton mills
were almost unknown in the South
in 1861, and even as late as 1891, to-
day we have more looms and spin
dies than the populous and wealthy
North. But we a measure our OPP
portunity for further development III
this line by reflection that while the
South now manufactures one-half the
cotton that is manufactured in this
country, 10Th North and South to-
gether manufacture only 1-3 our cot
ton, that is, the South as yet manu-
features only 1-6 the cotton we raise
and that in the coarsest and least
goods.
A land and a people that starting
in poverty and desolation, and handl-
by such enormous drains can
accomplish these things, possess no
ordinary I have no eulogy
for the South. AS Webster said Oh