The farmer and mechanic., 1911-02-28
NORTH CAROLINA
LAND Of PROMISE
State Part in Romance
And Historical Asso-
Citations
WHAT MAYOR Rose SAID

Visited Raleigh Last Month, was
Charmed BY the Architectural
Beauty of the Caption Of the State.
ExMayor David S. Rose, who had
been elected Mayor Of Milwaukee half
q dozen times, who was travelling
through the South with his charming 8
and beautiful wife spent day IN Raj
eigh last month. He has written story
OF his visit to Raleigh, and his impress
sion here, TO the Milwaukee Sentinel.
from which the following extracts are
taken:
1T IS an interesting study to watch
the treatment Of the black by the white
man anu VICE Versa. Intrt sceIlio 20
be d universal bond of sympathy be-
tween them; "a bona in wnIcn tna mas
ter mind always dictates ana the weak
er obeys, in watch the one is sternIy
kind and the other IS lnEarlaOiy ut-
ous-ostentauo uously respectful. Tho
old slave still loves the old master andi
the Old master still loves the Old slave.
And why not? Was it not ! black!
NANNY that nursed the white ba by,
that cr0oned to him the evening LUNA
b. that petted and ted and idolizedl
him?
standing at the head of the prj1ci-
pal street, IN setting OF century old
trees, is the State capitol building. It
was there before the war and many
was the day that its Old walls echoed
the noisy tramping of armed men. Its
corridors Were used for storing salt
peter to be manufactured into gum
powder to be used by the COnfederates.
while visiting with Gov. Kitchin, a
most estimable gentleman and a typi-
cal son of the South, me opened the
outer door Of the executive chamber
and pointed to the scar of wound
inflicted by an ak swung by the sturdy
arms Of q Federal soldier who battered
in the door. In an instant the room
lighted with that tragic scene enacted
long ago, for the magic hand of imag-
cry painted it SO freshly in the twink
ling of an eye. One look into that
st.,n face, the face of the boy whose
fafher wore the gray, and the heart
@t the South was laid bare before my
eyes. The heart that bleeds always
Will bleed forever, but in uncomplain-
ing silence
Another directed my attention to
.he broken 'nosings' of the stone steps
tnat led to the chamber of the House
OF Repre resentatiyes and TO the chamber
were broken when the carpet-baggers
held North Carolina so relentlessly, sc
cruelty, by the throat, they were brok-
en- by ending up barrels of whisky with
which to deSecrate the sanctity OF
those old halls OF legislation with al
Of their tender traditions and all OF
their splendid history with which tc
convert them into cesspools of vice and
debauchery and viciousness A people
ff,niy rn1i
ic pride. wounded and heart-sick, thei1
every sensiblity outraged and tram.
pied under the iron heel of british
bestial, in:quitous force ., NORTH
Carolina has forgiven much she hat
much to forgive!
Chat old building, so filled with his
toric interest, is a picture of lowell
ness unto itself. 1t stands as a mile
stone by the pathside Of the centuries
Its architecture is of the classic styl,
that delights the eye and satisfies tn,
most exacting critic. They told me tina
only few years ago a movement wa
launcheds to raZe the old building ant
supplant it with one of more moderl
des gn- The suggestion was startling
to me. 1t seemed like sacrilege S
unlike the tradition-loying sons of tn
Proud old State to harbor even
thought SO unworthy. Nay,let 1t stan
untll tnOSe granite walls snail Crum Dl
with times decay: nurse those old bat
tie scars and keep them before tn
) generations yet to be born, the chill
dren of the North, as we'll as the chill
dren OF the South, that In the year
to come out of that eternity of tn
future, stern lessons may be taught b
visible objects. Lessons that tell q
a great people disunited, of internectn
strife and battle and death: Of coura 2
Of honest conviction and sacrifice fo
that courage, so that the horror OF /,