The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-02-17

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either race-as il the hundre fam
lies OF each race were grouped to-
gether.
In both town and country with the
better education of workers the gem
eral intelligence should be 50 stimu-
hating and wholesome social agencies
SO satisfying as TO give life and work
new color and richness. Ruskin who
reminds US that God said man should
work, In the sweat OF his brow" but
did not say. In h breaking OF his
heart" believed with William Morris
that men should find pleasure in every
task they do. and our own Lanier has
pictured a mans ideal relation to his
work when he says OF another:
ms songs We're only a living aloud,
his work, a singing with the hand"
How Ter 1t Is possible to realize
these ideals Of 10. in work in the mere
processes Of factory pro-
duction | do not know. but / do at
least believe, as Secretary OF Agricul-
| ture Houston said to me recentfy, that
1.-The farmer should have a JOYOUS ex-
istence.' I am sure it is no chance
adjective that Thomas Gray uses in
referring to the English ploughmen
two centuries ago. How iocund did
they drive the team afield," and hat
we shall yet see in North Carolina q
country life happier and more stimu-
fating than any poetic plantation life
Of ante-bellum days.
And now in conclusion, let me sum
Marie the agencies on which we
must chiefly rely in building up our
greater civilization in North Carolina:
First, there must be a great awak-
ening to III possibilities OF our State
and people, a great vision. a great
ideal.
Second, the colossal energies OF our
Christian churches must be directed
more and more to the task of bringing
Gods Kingdom on earth and to in
; spring men with q vision Of what His
Kingdom means.
Third, our schools, society. and
government must forever recognize
that civilization is based on work,
> achievement, and nothing else. must
= honor workers and OstraciSe idferS.
Fourth, North Carolina young men
must be directed more and more INTO
the productive industries Of a~gricul-
Y ture, manufacturing. etc, etc, instead
Of concentrating into overcrowded
s non-productive professions n bust
neSSeS.
g Fifth, our schools must free them
selves from medieval tradition and
s begin training more and more for
work and for life; and the education
Of grown men and women must be
~ regarded as much a function of the
IS State as the education of boys n
Fe girls.
% Sixth, a spirit OF brotherhood in So
~ ciety and government must free age
a. and sickness from their companion
oe spectre Of pauperiSm, must Danish in
III furious child labor, must stimulate in
&c dustry and thrift by putting taxation
q on inherited and ~unearned wealth,
III :. and must grapple with the growing
- problem of tenantry.
Seventh. isolation being the bane
= Of country life, we must 0 &c
rs there especially all the wholesome
~ social agencies, social centers, a richer
life, better schools, churches. libraries
etc. ETC., and to this end must encour.
" & homogeneous local units and tn.
settlement of landowners Of each rae,
- in separate communities.
v SO runs my dream Of the NORTH
~ Carolina that is to be, OF the Norti
Carolina that it is our glorious privi
"a lege to help Develop North Caro-
lima in which, with the coming Of tn
best citizens from other sections, GU
,s white population will become increas
~. ingly predominant, and all our peopl
IL, predOminant1y homecoming, q Stat
- Of marvellous productiveness, famou
~ alike for great captains Of industr
"a and for the high efficiency Of it's aver
% % age worker. a State where scienc
- and the schools have made labor a
- art rather than q drudgery, and i
- which universal education, a passio
for brotherhood and social righteous
~ ness ana a nfSn teVel OF Wei
being have provided that ichness an
"a joy of life necessary for the develop
~ ment OF North Carolina EdisOns an
Darwins and Jeffersons and Mile,
ars and st. Gaudenses and BrOwnings ar
"a Gibbons and Twains-men Of gent,
who will find inspiration in the sin
pie, rugged heroic qualities of tn
North Carolina character in tt
~ beauty Of our yet unsung mountain
orc hills, and rivers, in the tragedy an
io.iiahCe u ouI HistoiS, anu WIN "
late aspiration and idealism Of o,
people.
Let Us W" FoF"dru.
yel- Let US go forward, men and wome
nits OF NoTtn CaToiina, 70 possess his TAI
of our dreams. confident. as / ha'