The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-10-13

discussion. While there were some IN
telligent and respectable colored peo-
pie the majority were iliiterate ana
unfit for the suffrage.
But may | recall to you another
vivid contest which prepared the way
for the success of the struggle OF 1900
and whose benefits will ever abide
with US. In 1899 and 1890 four
young men, filled with enthusiasm
and patriotism. took up the work OF
arusing North Carolina to educate all
her people. They went up and down
the State, in it's hedges and its by
ways, preaching this new gospel or
education for all. They l.: d been fell
low students at our State University.
And their names will ever be held In
honor in North Carolina.
Four Men of Service.
One of them vas the polished ora
came in succession president Of your
State University. president Of a great
university in LOpisiana and is now
the president Of the great university
founded by Thomas Jefferson be-
meath the shadow of the walls OF
Observation-Disclosures A. Alderman.
Another was the magnetic orator,
the Jealous. earnest legal advocate,
| who became Governor of your State
and whose portrait is to be presented
this evening. a man whose name Is
still full of magic for the masses
Charles Brantiey Aycock.
Another was that sturdy, thought
full, fOrceful BOanergeS. who wOulC
know no defeat and whose energies
knew no limit, the founder of this
great and eve growing institution
Charles d. McIver.
Another and the last. was thai
learned. energetic, systematic "or
ganizer of victory'-as some one sait
of Carnot-once head of this institu
ton and now superintendent Of Edu
cation in our State. Under his skilfu
management. the revenues appropri
ated for the education of the children
Of the State have more than quad
rupled. Today there are nearly IS,
00O, 900 appropriated by North AFRO
lima for that purpose. OF this on
and aquarter, million are special tax
es appropriated by special vote Of tn
people themselves in 1900 tax dis
tricts in which the people have bee1
persuaded of the value of such taxa
ton. In 1889, when these four yOun,
men started their crusade for educa
ton the appropriations, state an
county, were about 500, 900. That i
they are now seyenfold. The schoo
term which then averaged sixty-nin
q L 1io" Uodb1S lIId w
have been building of late years
school house for every day in tn
year, and the new buildings are mod
ern, and up to date. The little 10
school house has disappeared forever
There is an organization, a system,
hopefulness throughout the entir
Department Of Education Whic
guarantee rapid and greater develop
ment. North Carolina can never fol
get that she woes much these thing
to James Y. JOyner.
l am glad to be with you tonigh
1 rejoice in the great things that tn
institution has accomplished fC
North Carolina. / am Profound
convinced that the State can not b
) better served than by the educatio
Of it's people, and that education ca
: not be brought to it's people NOR
? surely than by the education of il
women. If I were asked for a mott
to be placed over the entrance to you
2 grounds l should think a%ppropriat
: that which vas proudly borne by tn
, Italian Republics in the Middle Age
s "EstO Perpetua"-"Live Forever"