French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-02-03
THE FUTURE MEN AND
WOMEN OF HENDERSON COUNTY.
(By Thos. j. Rickman.)

W. AAVS s
Editor Hustler:
We have heretofore talked of past
Idealismg so far as it could be applied
tic Henderson county people, now let
LIS look to the future and what it is TO
be.
Old things AID CID Ee091e Iaye GaG5-
ed away and new things have come
and will continue to come and is the
past ages were beset, on all sides with
struggles, so may we know that the
future will bring its troubles. The
modern threshing machine has cut out
the old hickory, or white-oak fail,
while mothers knitting needles and
spinning wheel has been superseded
by the whistle and hum of factories
The ox-cart gave way to rubber tired
buggies, they to the dashing automo-
bile and mex comes the flying ma
chine.
Has Henderson county been insig-
n%iicant, in her material and intellec-
tual progress, or has che been up tc
date, abreast of the times, and moving
on? That she did not happen to be
the center-spot of Western North
Carolina, West of the Blue Ridge,
SO as to make her county site,
Cike Asheville,) the metropolis of
this region, will you for that rea-
son, lay blame to her people? Have
not some great men, like Count Mule
ncux. Chas. G.. Memminger, Richard
Lounds, James Rutledge, DIR. M. G.
King, Judge John Baxter, Judge w.
NJ. Ship, Colonel Ripley, Rev. r. N.
: Price. DR.. r. H.. Lewis, Judge Geo. A
Jones, DR.. G. w. Fletcher, d. Harrison
Graves, DR.. Harvey Johnson and num-
erous others of younger issue all had
their names and work connected with
Henderson county and her splendid
people? After all, it is not the wealth
and splendor of a county, that makes
her great, it is the people and their
dcings, that are to count in the world.
Let Us compare Henderson county,
her wealth and citizens with q small
insignificant hiIly country or rocks
and barren lands with no railroads
while Henderson county is ~tarversed
with nearly 40 miles-no rich soil, as
We have, and e destitute OF art. no
buildings OF literary institutions, {
YET every child i'll Henderson county
Sunday schools can tell us all about it.
Many of them in all probability can
give its history. better than their own
county, where they were born and
where they have been raised.
Why is it then, we repeat, that little
old poverty stricken oyer-run down
trodden Palestine is possessed wit
Such greatness as to be known TIE
world around? Not only because sh2
gave to the world an immortal One
but because with that gift, she gave.
that which laid the foundation of truth
OH which a worldwide Christian ciyi-
i1Eation has been reared. Because her
Great teacher made known to the
world that back from the beginning
and running through all time, was
Eternal Goodness; and that His right
meme was Father, and that men we've
His offspring-and in his image and
That therefore in His Kingdom should
be the Fatherhood of God and the
Brotherhood of man.
Palestine is great, because it has
determined lives of countless millions
it's though has become our thought
anG from it has sprung a large part of
the literature of the earth. Not a
week passes, but that in all u
homes, in our schools, in our churches.
in all public gatherings on our street
corners and in our courts of Justice.
are uttered words that point us back
tC Palestine, a hundred times oftener.
than to the grand old country of Scot
land, Switzerland. England, or even
to Greece or Rome. 1t has no stand
ing army, no metropolitan hotels, no
banks of wealth, no highways of com
n,erce, not even a decent ruler of any
kind, a d~own-trodden and despiscl
generation of people and yet we sing
of. mediate about, center our thoughts
on, mention III our prayers and open
our windows toward Jerusalem and
Palestine.
It may be sentiment but let US con-