The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-12-09

III SohSecrated purpose. that the vast !
oess interests Of the country have )
~ un0lsturbed in the face of
me greatest economic revolution ~
thls generation.
Turning from the evidences of ,ros
perIty in the country at laree r ~
iH~iiiie0lats section in which God haS
paced US, We find that the South 10
no longer on the eve, but well across
tne threshold Of An era of material
that enables her at last TO
reaIlze upon the marvellous gifts of
God, in those hitherto undeveloned re-
sources of climate, soil and mineral
| wealth.
|, Inc imagination is staggered by the
pare enumeration of some of the in
oicatlons of this prosperity:
In the textile industry alone the |
number of spindles in the south has
increased from ten million in 1880 to
$1,000 200 in 1912, while the capital |
invested in this one business in 1912
amounted to $2O5, 900, 600.
Looking out upon the wide spread
ing farm lands of this God blessed
lands and farm buildings amounted
to $2,O8S, 900 900 in 1912 their value
was $S,971, 0GO, 0OO-an increase of
$4,000, 900, 00o within the decade, or
five times the amount Of the capital
Of the National Banks of the COUNTRY
The combined products Of factory,
farms and mines Of the South in 1912
was over $1,000, 900 900, or more than
twice he value Of the slaves owned
in 1851.
Turning to our own State we find
that value OF the manufactured pro-
ducts of the State increased from
$40, 375,OOO in 1890 to s2%16,656,Oo
in 1910, and the value of farm prop
erty within the State from $233,834,-
693 in 1900 to $537,716,210 in 1910
al increase of 1870 per cent within the
decade, and in the great textile in
dustry the State ranks second in the
county.
Surely God has blessed our basket
and our store, and shall we not in
our gladness be grateful unto Him
for these gifts shOwered down upon
us in the golden sunshine Of our pros
perity?
God and the Peoples Hope.
CID Under the authority of my
!. text, I would dare this day to speak
l of Gods relation to the problems Of
; our political life, not as that life. is
concerned with the passing issues of
party politics, but the larger interests
l Of the peoples hope.
The country has grown from fifty
. million in 1880 to one hundred mil
l lion people. 1t has been for the last
y two decades the seething pot of the
: nations. And this vast influx of alien
4 peoples from every nation under
HEAVIER has come at a time Of poEt-
cal unrest. Serious minded men
e without regard to party, have realized
e that the institutions of democracy are
q on trial for their life. Ideals which
have inspired the battles by
which freedom has been won
o the very constitution which ha!
y been for generations the palla
e dunn Of liberty, have been sub
T~oo GOO .
- jected to the fierceSt assaults. Grea
ST economic and social wrong have en-
trenched themselves behind veste'
interests, so powerful as to set a
"a naught civil government and defy tn
ie mandates Of constitutional law.
l. Praise God For Awakened People.
n Shall we not with reverent heart
E. praise God this day for that spirit o
rs an awakened people abroad in tn
land that sees at last that the founda
ne tons have not been shaken! tina
ID what we need is not an overturnln
m Of the pillars of our common Wea
n but an application of the Old trle
ne forms Of republican institutions, tn
" old principles Of a true democrat
to modern conditions, that the trOU
ed ble> after all has not been with Ia
e. constitution nor with the great pas
on principles of government, put IN u
1d failure to apply these principles. I
the new cOlultiOIiS, dfto ~ 49,
these ideals into practical efficiency
lst In the South particularly should "
be grateful for the interfering Of po
~, itical thought through the laying {
the ghost of a long dead perl!-tf
peril Of negro domination. AT last
is possible among us Tor men 70 Oh
fer about political problems and COZ
ditions without such differences II
lr. volving. social ostracism and buslne
10 failure. -.
m h leadership founded upon arr
I'D tocratic conditions of life passed aWs
er- with the wreck and rum OF We oiu'
ks ordor and vet after the lapse of on
lbs q little more han a generation, the
iey has been such REIMBURSEMENT TO Il
as naw order that in the new era or
his rayitalized democracy the respohs
he bility of leadership has again pass
to men of Southern birth.
jtv would remind You. however.
of +ta Fact that such leadership n