Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-12-13
EX-GOVERNOR GLENN
OF NORTH CAROLINA.
Address on The New South the cIosIna
Number Entertainment Course.


In the final number OF the Y. M. c. A.
entertainment course. ex-Gov. Robert
Is. Glenn of North Carolina was the
lecturer on Tuesday evening, address,
ing a good sized audience at the Cen
tral Baptist church, who heard him
with intense interest and with frequent
bursts of applause as he spoke upon
The New South.
The lecturer was introduced by Rev.
p c. Wright, pastor of the church,
who referred TO three noteworthy ac-
complishments during the governor s
term as North Carolina's chief execu~
tive, the paying off of the state debt,
the bringing of the railroads up TO
obey the law like common people, and
the passing and enforcement of state
wide prohibition.
Governor Glenn made his brilliant
address cover wider field than the
south only. eloquently portrayfng the
wonderful development and possibflf-
ties OF this great country and illumi-
mating q solid array OF facts with oc-
casional witty touches OF a story OF
some old southern darky that brought
out the point he was making. In this
class was the story of the old colored
man who the speaker said, gave the
hest illustration he knew of the great
ness OF the United States. II he
should attempt to talk about the great
things he got de lock in de jaw" II
he attempted to think about them he
got ''confusions I'm de head" and the
only way the old man knew of coming
anywhere near seeing all the great
ness was to lie down and dream about
IL, and even then he had TO be mighty
keerful." or he'd dream himself into
PARADISE.
Governor Glenn proceeded to an elo-
quent picture of the south around war
times, and of the desperate bravery Of
the confederates and the heroic valor
Of the union soldiers on the field Of
Gettysburg. and then OF the devasta-
ton and desolation in the south after
the war, when in the terrible recon
struction days the people OF the south
We're fighting the scalawags of their
own land and the carpetbasgers OF the
north.
From this condition the south had
arisen in 20 years from the manufae-
tire of five million males OF cotton TO
/: million bales. from 11s cotton mills
to SOd mills. and from producing 420
million bushels of grain TO two billion
bushels. From hunger nalSedness and
desperation. the houth had arisen till
l. was second to no section OF our
broad land. producing I'm the last year
10 per cent. of all the tobacco in the
United States, 80 per cent. OF the cot
tor of the world one-third Of the
standing timber OF the United States.
all the rice and all thu sugar cane In
the United States. and lastly 20 1-2
per cent. of al the peanuts in the
v orld.
with our women just as sweet and
our men just as brave as any on earth,
n we can't win on a hand like that. we
don't deserve to. said the governor.
In the latter part Of his lecture he
issued a warning ward to the nation
upon the dangers which threaten IL. Of
which he mentioned first non obedience
10 law. men and women becoming a
law unto themselves. He also con-
demned the growing inclination to a
gambling spirit, and pointed at the
Fspp fnn IA tab oh. d a
we are swapping husbands and wives
very much as we might swap horses
and mules. He also delivered a strong
condemnation of the drink traffic and
the social evil and predicted for the
future that the fate of the country
would be answered by the kind OF boys
and girls we turn out in the present
generation. He urged his hearers to
make IL true that we may say we are
that land whose God is the Lord.
Governor Glenn led the audience In
singing America at the close OF his
lecture.