The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-16

Gentlemen, North Carolina is a good
State to move from because II is a
| good State to be born and reared
in. A man who has lived in North
Carolina is thereby qualified to be
| governor of any other State. If to
twenty years in North Carolina you
! add a residence of twenty years in
New Jersey, there is no limit to the
power or possibility of such a man. |
One man has don SO and he has
| become the foremost figure of the age,
| and is now President of the United
States.
The old North State has been a ner-
sery of men.
Your annual custom is to have some
citizen of another State to deliver an
address. You purpose be to learn
wherein New Jersey may reform her
practice and procedure. Your own
acts are models upon which all fu-
ture reforms must be built. / have
therefore concluded that you are ami
mated by the highly commendable
desire to now something of your
neighborS and friends.
Temptation to Levity.
The temptation to address you in a
lighter vein is almost controlling. The
dancing wave, the cooling breezes,
this goodly company, the days eX-
haustion, this delectable menu, appeal
strongly for such a speech. l should
nave ylcIOcu 70 THESE siren voices OUT
for the promises made in my name by
him who presented me in such lat
tering words.
A short time ago l read the state
ment that there had been brought to
America for sale at public auction in
an art gallery patronized by the enor
mously well-to-do, two of the most
important documents the western
world has known. One was a procla-
nation Of Tom Paine's Rights Of
Man" The other was a proclama-
5 ton Of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence."> They are literary twins, con-
celVed In the same necessity, born Of
! the same spirit Graded in the new
J experiment. on the western hemis-
l phere.
> The author of one said Of the other
r 1.-THE Independence Of America, con-
! sldered merely as a separation from
England, would have been a matter
Of but little importance had it not
o been accompanied by a revolution in
the principles and practices of gov
I eminent. She made a stand not only
Q for herself, but for the world and
$ looked beyond the advantages which
she could receive"
n For more thar a century these
e documents have hung side by side on
the historic walls of an ancient Chat
eau in France. No ordinary hand
q nailed them there. They were by de-
- sigh. Inc MARQUIS La Fayette post
re ed them.
In an admirable article on the
q worlds Foment Towards epubli
z CanlSh,' Vance Thompson writes
Paine speaks truthfully. The French
revolution owed more to the Ameri
IS can war for freedom than the histo
ID rians have acknowledged. Indeed, i
&c was in the thirteen states that tn,
Of germ of Re~publicanism, as the mod
I'd ern world knows it, was lOOsed from
lr the sealed bottle, an uneasy spirit
at Again and again the monarch-lovin:
Ill nations throttled, bottled and heavet
he it into the sea-" 1t has never sunk
ne From the ancient hall of splendor an,
ne ease in Republican France, thes
have come to Democrats
e. America, not to move mems hearts an,
te, sur thelr souls to a greater libert.
pr. than they first proclaimed, but the
are brought to appeal to the curious
and to test the ~prOdigality Of thos
he whose main concern in life is to dis
ey pose OF the "unearned increment' i
We the purchase of something which tn
tn treasures OF earth may not duplicate
VI me a~uc,loneers mme will pass tn
legal title TO them. The spirit whic
of they e~nkindled, the fame which tho
we hgted, cannot be sOld-that belong
ut 10 humanity On new walls these al
by papers viii be hung side by side.
no - no rash presumption to surmis
es- that these faded sheets will pass I
INT the ownership Of one who feels M
ed, the touch Of their spirit, who wall
not IN the light of their flame. The
led leave the old world in ~,
err rest. They find unrest in the na
-no worid. The unrest there and here
ave easily traceable to them. In the,
'ns was porn more than Il century gon
'na What historians call The RepubIica
Inv nu IT.. IT and what philosophers ca
TJualty OF Man. Neither Q.
OF preston proclaims their real Go. :
,he neance' which may truthfully be d
rse, Opportunities ~. VI IIquality
.orcn which this age is to hand dow
y 'hose who stand next in II
ere. porto
re TODAY ~ Aiehtl
skinned portnaa out darke
hal with il. +oan. an eXperimentll