The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-04-25
Editorial Correspondence.)

lima at its very hear. YOU must leave
the main lines and t~horoughfares and
turn aside into the quiet rural Sec
tons and see the people in their
daily lives in its rural communities.
When Mr.. Jefferson would learn the
real France, he quilted Paris and
travelled along the unfrequerted coun-
try roads, went into the homes OF
those who earned their living by TILL
ing the soil. looked into their pots
to see what they were cooking for
dinner, lounged upon their beds to
see whether or not they We're com
Portable, and found real France in the
simplest homes Of its %toilers, those
who were nearest to the soil from
which they obtained their substance.
sistence.
9TH Man With the Hoe has been
sung In song and story. Edwin
Markham has c~ommiserated him
as though he were an object for sym
pathy and as though his life was one
doomed to toll without the JOY and
happiness that ought to fall into the
the life Of every human being. Burns
SolS oA A-Ail "S IAN IoS
and most v%irtuous of men, and the
picture he draws Of The Cotter's Sat
urday Night" Is the most beautiful
picture Of rural life ever found in
song or preserved in art.
We are making great progress in
North Carolina in our towns and
cities. We have now more large n
prosperous growing towns than any
State in the South, and we are diversi-
flying our industries and securing
those larger benefits that are possible
to big communities. But though this
development Is healthy and steady,
the man who would know this State
must not seek to find its spirit it's
life and its future n what he see in
Raleigh, or Asheville, or Wilmington,
or in the cotton mills or in the tobacco
factories. These, to be sure, are a
large part Of its best and most pro
gressive life, but in comparison it Is
a small part of North Carolina and
the development in this ideal commu-
nifty IS typical Of the real spirit tina
controls and dominates this agricul-
turai State. You will find the real
ASoItH SIIciIIfd spirit IN the country
home, in the u~npretentious and simple
abodes of the thrifty people whose
hearts are set upon the things that
are real and that make for character
and for solid and enduring prosper
ity.
Bryan put into a classic, what is
truer OF North Carolina thar of the
whole cnJ1nfy.Sr rvhnr hn JocJar a ;n
his famous Chicago speech, Burn
down you cities and leave the farms
and we Will build greater cities; but
destroy our farms and grass will
grow on the streets OF your most
splendid metropolis" In this
State, with three-fourths OF the
population village or country, you
must come into the very heart Of the
country to know North Carolina and
to see in the ambition and pursuits
and thoughts of the farming people.
the future North Carolina.
In January Mr.. Bruce White, super
:ntendent of public instruction of
Franklin county. came into my office
and said, L am anxious for you TO
| meet face to face the people Of the
best community in North Carolina,
and the most typical of The develop
ment that is goinS on in the State,
and therefore I want you to make the
address at the closing of the school
in the rural n~eishborhood of Bunn's
in April" / have always had a par
ticularly warm place III my heart for
the people Of Franklin county who,
in the real virtues Of life and its
amenities, set an example for all other
people. 1t is a county without any
cities, largely rural, and populated
by an independent and thrifty folk,
who ave simple tastes and lead quiet
lives and are always ready to do the
patriotic thing n a quiet and UMPIRE
tanI;ouS yay-thc way that [ love to