The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-09
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SOL AND CLIMATE OF
4 SOUTH UNSURPASSED
Declares England the
Friend of the South, that
ia this Favored Regions
There is an Unsurpassed
Chance to Show What
the Energy of a Stalwart
and Progressive Race can
Accomplish.
IN
INDUSTRIAL SKILL

; The great national gathering having
In and the best interests of the farm
ers, the Farmers National Congress,
yesterday morning heard a strong and
practical address from the Hon. James
Bryce, British Ambassador to the
United States. It was a valuable one
and in it he paid a ribute to the
South, saying also hat England is its
friend, that it has no better. He was
handsomely introduced by Col. Bene-
han Cameron, of Raleigh, president
OF the Congress, and was given great
applause, the Raleigh Choral Society
then singing God "a the King"
In his address, Mr.. Bryce said:
= Mr.. Bryce expressed the pleasure it
gave him to meet so large and rep
resentative a gathering of men from
many parts of the country, and es-
pecIa11y from the South. The pleasure
was all the greater because he could
congratulate them on the amazing
progress which the South has been
making. He first visited it twenty
eight years ago. 1t Vas then just be-
ginning to recover from the effects of
h war and of the troublous times
that had followed the war. Since then
the had become far more
rapid, and now the South was more
prosperous and more hopeful than at
any previous epoch in It's history. 1t
was beginning to waken up to the en-
ormous possibilities of development
that lay before it, soil, forests, min
erals, all contained sources Of mate
rial wealth which had perhaps been
not yet fully realized, even by Ameri-
cans themselves. Upon these, how
ever, he would not dilate, because he
might assume that the members of
the Congress knew them better than
he did Ruf of two things he would
venture to speak, because his obser-
walton of other countries and other
parts of the United States had enabled
him to form some opinion. For the
full development of agriculture and
especially for it's development in the
Southern States two things were
especially needed. One was an ade-
quate supply of effective labour The
other was the adequate application Of
science to the cultivation Of the soil.
AS respects labour, every one who
knew the South knew what the diff
ficulties were. Now he had enjoyed
opportunities Of studying in other
countries problems somewhat similar
to those that presented themselves
here and had been struck by the ex-
tent to which abour was a matter of
quality as we'll as of quantity. It was
merely that some kinds of men were
stronger for work than others, but
I11i oih WIZ T. poL
more intelligence and interest into
their work han others did. Now in
dustrial training did much to promote
such intelligence and interest. Even
if the number of labourers who re-
ceived it was only d fraction Of the
whole, 1t came to affect the whole.
because every we'll trained man influ-
enced his fellows His intelligence
and his assiduity in work enabled him
to secure constant employment and
better wages, he lifted up others and
others were led to initiate. Nothing
better could be lone for agriculture
than to extend the opportunities for
industrial training. AS respects col
ored people, he need hardly say that
the habit of settled industry was not
natural to all races. 1t was in the
white races the result Of many CEN
lures spent under Natural conditions
oI climate and soil which had COM
peileo men to work. The colored peo-