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The Wilson Advance.
Entered in the Post Office at Wilson,
N. C, as second class mail matter.
C. F. WILSON, Editor and Proprietor.
"For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the' wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance,
And the good that we can do."
6 Pages.
Thursday, May 12th, 1892.
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTIONS.
National, Chicago, June 22ud.
State, Raleigh, May 18th.
Comity, Wilson, May 7th.
Township, April 30th.
COUNTY CONVENTION.
The Advance wants to congratu
late the Democrocy ot Wilson coun
ty this morning. For more than six
weeks it has been saying that it
would come up to the full measure of
what was required of it. Democrats
from all over the county came to
gether here on Saturday and held a
harmonious convention. It was
characterized by a broad spir
it, of fairness and conserva
tism. Everybody wanted to do
what was right and just. This was
expected. A good delegation was
selected men who will go to Raleigh
and deliberate over " the questions
presented for their consideration.
They will do all they can do to sub
serve the interests of the people they
represent. They can do no more
and they will do no less. They will
ably discharge the obligations resting
upon them.
That grand old Democrat, Willis
R. Williams, of Pitt county, will be a
candidate for the nomination for
Auditor, as he understands the pre
sent incumbent will be a candidate
for Governor.
The Situation.
(SPECIAL COR. THE ADVANCE.)
Raleigh', May 10th, 1892.
Before another issue of The Ad
VANCE appears, the Democratic State
Convention will have named the can
didates, and the campaign will have
been opened. It is impossible from
the conflicting reports to made
a prediction as to who will be nomi
nated. Gov. Holt has a very strong
following, but thousands of good
Democrats do not believe he can be
elected if nominated. For this reason
alone they favor a candidate who will
be acceptable to all elements of the
party. The indications point strong
ly to the gratifying situation that
there will be many delegates in the
convention who will be ready to put
party success above personal prefer
ences. If so, we shall have platform
free from extreme-ism and candidates
who are not objectionable to reason
able men in and out of the Alliance.
Unless conservative views prevail, and
popular men are named, there is no
hope for success. But I believe that
conservative men will control the
convention, and that the ticket named
on the 1 8th of May, will te elected.
A large majority of the delegates so
far elected are known to be uncom
mitted, and ready to do what will
best advance the interest of the party.
This is an encouraging sign.
Josephus Daniels.
NASUVILE NOTES.
What the People of "Good Old Nash'
Doing and Saying
(special cor. to the advance.)
May nth, 1892.
Mr. Haywood Braswell near town
1$ seriously sick. His little child is
also quite sick.
Miss Benie Boddie is visiting the
family of her brother, Dr. N. B. Bod
die, at Cedar Grove, Orange county-,
N. C.
Messrs F. B. Ricks, R. A. P.
Cooley and L. M. Conyers went
down to Wilmington on Monday to
attend the meeting of the Grand
Lodge of Odd Fellows.
Judge Brvan, of Baltimore, Col. R.
B. Peebles, of Jackson, N. C, J. H.
Kufhn, Esq., Mrs. E. B. Lewis and
son and daughter, of Rocky Mount,
are registered at the Farmers Hotel.
Harry Taylor, an old colored
man, is in jail here for selling whis
key without U. S. license, he having
failed -to give bond for his appear
ed at the U. S. Court in Raleigh in
June.
Burton Hicks, of Bailey town
ship, and David Griffin, of Coopers'
township, both white, are under
bonds to appear before U. S. Com
missioner Robbins for a preliminary
trial on a charge of selling whiskey in
violation of the laws of the U. S.
Court will meet Wednesday morn
ing and probably adjourn Thursday
evening to give Judge Shuford time
to hold Hyde court next week. It is
thought that a good many cases on
the,civil docket will have to lie over
till next court which will convene Nov.
2 1 st. We think the next legislature
ought to give us an additional term
as it would in many instances save
the cost of keeping prisoners several
months, would give to the accused
a speedy trial and vindication if
innocent, and in civil actions would
do away with much of the law's de
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WHICH SHALL IT BE T
Government Ownership or Government
Control of Railroad? Or Railroad
Ownership of Government ?
(special cor. the advance.)
Raleigh, N. C, May 9th, 1892.
For more than ten years many of
the business and professional men and
farmers have been advocating the
passage of a Railroad Commission
by the Legislature. Twice it has
passed the House, and twice the
Senate, at different sessions. In 1889,
the Cooke R. R. Commission bill
j passed the House by a large "majority,
and went over to the Senate on next
to the last day of the session. An
opponent moved to postpone until
Saturday. Senators Turner, of Ire
dell, and Aycock, of Wayne, pointed
out that postponement meant to kill
the bill because it had been agreed
to adjourn the following day. The
vote was a tie, and the presiding
officer of the Senate voted to post
pone. This killed the bill. Then
the advocates of the Railroad Com
mission appealed to the people, and
at the last session of the legislature,
with scarcely any opposition, the R.
R. Commission was enacted and three
excellent gentlemen elected to exe
cute the provisions of the bill. It has
been in operation more than a year,
has been instrumental in accomplish
ing: much good. There is need of
amendment to the law so that it will
be more efficient. The same is true
of the Inter-State Commission. Now
it is the farmer and merchant, acting
together, who have secured this leg
islation. It is a new species of leg
islation, and if the people demand
that it be continued and made more
effective, it will finally put an end to
railroad discrimination and injustice.
This legislation has been secured
only after a victory over the great
army of railroad officers, attorneys,
and their newspapers. The people
are familiar with obstacles that have
been in the way of securing these
commissions and of the difficulty in
enforcing them. If they are made
effective, the people must be alert
and united in their effort. But, just
in their infancy, the very men who
have been chiefly instrumental in se
curing the Railroad Commission
threaten to destroy its usefulness bv
advocating Government ownership of
railroads. Ihey base their advocacy
of this ownership by alleging that all
R. R. Commissions are failures, and
must need be failures. This is a mis
take. They are not failures. They
accomplish much good, and with a
growing public sentiment behind
them there is every reason why they
will become the most powerful bul
warks of the people to prevent dis
criminations and injustice.
This being so, are not those few
who advocate a R. R. Commission
making a great mistake to abandon
our position, and confess failure, by
advocating the dangerous and cen
trallizing idea of government owner
ship of railroads ? Do we not run
the risk of giving up "control and
regulation,'.' and getting ' nothing in
return ? Even if it were possible and
wise to buy the railroads, it cannot
be done without submitting a consti
tutional amendment to the states'con
ferring the power to purchase on
Congress. Every man may figure
out the probability of securing an
adoption of this amendment to the
Constitution by three-fourths of the
States. But, suppose that can be
gotten, cannot the railroads buy up
Congress as they did in the great
land steal by the Pacific Railroad ?
And, then, this would only give Con
gress the power to buy Inter-State
lines. No power but the 'States
could compel the sale of railroads that
lie wholly within the State. Some
States would exercise the power ;
others would not, and we would have
a mixed system, partly private and
partly governmental. These are the
preliminary difficulties to the acqui
sition of the railroads by the govern
ment. Even if the principle of gov
ernment ownership was a sound one,
the acquirement of the roads would
present so many difficulties as to
make it impracticable as a measure to
affording any relief to the tax-burdened
people who are fiVhtintr for
better and juster legislation. But the
principle is not correct. It tends to
centrallization and to puttine too
much power in the very hands that
have imposed many burdens upon us.
There is no tyranny so ealline as the
tyranny of government It is lawful
tyranny and crushes out the individ
ual. Give to the party in power the
appointment of the 750,000 men em
ployed in connection with the rail
roads of the country, and it will be
safely entrenched in power for all
time to come. If we have found it
almost impossible to drive out the
Republicans with the present patron
age and pension-stealing, would it
be even possible for the people to
secure any relief from class legislation
with so large an increase in the public
patronage? It would be the most
dangerous step ever taken by a free
people, and there can never be any
reason for it until it becomes a Ques
tion of whether the government shall
own the railroads or the railroads
shall own the government. In some
sections that issue has been made,
and the interference by corporations
in politics has made the oeonle msrlv
mdignant.
Joe Black said fifteen years ago
that if railroad encroachment and
political domination continued and
multiplied as rapidly as within the
first ten years after the war, the peo
ple would have to rise up in their
wrath and check them. He was
nght. But he did not advocate
government ownership. He knew
that this would be no remedy for the
great evils, and might in fact increase
them by making them lawful. But
he advocated strict control and limi
ting their'charter so as to make them
always subject to legislative super
vision and control. This position
is the position of the Alliance, or
most of them, and they have advo
cated ownership because some have
persuaded them that the State and
country cannot secure control. If the
people cannot now secure control
how could government regulate?
North Carolina has owned several
railroads, and it never could run one
successfully. It is notorious that
it costs the State or Federal govern
ment more to do any work than it
costs a private company. It ought
not to be so, but until human
nature is regenerated it will so.
There is one other serious ob
jection to government owner
ship : This is comparatively a vir
gin country so Jar as railroads
building is concerned. If the State
owned the railroads, the building of
new roads would be discontinued or
there would be the most notorious
log-rolling in Congress from every
District for appropriations to build
railroads. We have seen the bane
ful effect of the river and harbor, and
the public building log-rolling. The
log-rolling to build new railroads
would be a disgrace and a continual
source of trouble.
I have not touched upon the cost
of the railroads. That is not so im
portant as the others. The govern
ment could float the railroad bonds,
and it wonld require no cash, even to
pay interest, except where the income
of the railroads is too small to pay
expenses. But, and see it, the chief
evils in ownership would be the two
outlined above, and they would be
far greater burdens than any relief in
lower tariffs that we could hope to
obtain. The farmers, as a rule, are
not determined on ownership. They
are determined that railroads shall
not dominate the country, as they
have done in many instances. In
this they deserve the hearty co-operation
of all good citizens.
I heard a level-headed old farmer
say a good thing the other day which
I quote and say "amen" : "I don't
believe in owning railroads, but I am
eternally tired of hearing abuse of the
Alliance advocacy of ownership from
fellows who belong to the railroad.
If they didn't cuss us so much and
didn't affect to be better than other
people, (when I know they have
sold their souls) a majority of the
Alliance people would at once go
back to advocating control. But
human nature makes men stubborn
when they are "cussed" by men who
have sold out their principles, and
then set up on street corners and
thank God they are better than the
publicans (Alliancemen)."
There was much in this remark, but
the Alliance ought to do the nght
regardless of the criticism and abuse,
and ought not to stubbornly demand
ownership before they have given a
fair test to their own legislation. And
I believe that the large majority of
them are standing by the Ocala plat
form which demands control, and not
ownership. It is a big question, but it
is not an issue now. In years to come,
when the whole country is honey
combed with railroads, as in the
case with Germany, railroad owners
may control the government. Then
it may be practicable to talk about
ownership. But I do not believe the
people are going to lie supinely on
their backs and permit that day to
come. Under Cleveland's adminis
tration millions of acres of public
lands which had been fraudulenUy
given to the Pacific railroad was re
claimed. If the Democrats succeed
this year, the State Commerce law
will be strengthened and more of the
public land taken from the railroads
and restored to the people.
AS TO POLITICS.
South Carolina doubts the avail
ability of Cleveland. So does North
Carolina. So does Virginia Rich
mond Dispatch.
In the long list of States that are
alleged to be in favor of Cleveland
the name of not one appears which
gave him an electoral vote in 1888.
There is force in the language of the
New York World, when it says, "Let
the States that elect select."
Col. Elias Carr, of Edgecombe,
writes a letter refusing to allow his
name to go before the State Conven
tion for the gubernatorial nomination.
There's no mistaking the tenor of his
letter. The Tarboro Southerner
still urges him as the strongest and
most available man, but the South
erner is not in it.
"If every ounce of gold that has
been dug from the bowels of the
earth during the past five hundred
years was in the Treasury of the
United States, it would be for too
small an amount of money to pur
chase the railroads of this country,'
said Judge JUernmon baturday night.
And yet the so-called Third party
has one of the demands in its plat
form, that the government buy all the
railroads. Asheville Citizen.
The New York Sun is not yet con
vinced that Iowa is a Democratic or
even a doubtful State, but it admits
that Liov. Boies deserves much of
the credit for making it a Democratic
state in non -Presidential years, and
the Iowa Democrats do well to show
their respect for him and their grati
tude to him. Gov. Boies is a good
fellow, and the Iowa Democrats are
evidendy resolved to play him for
the first place."
. "Fate is pretty sure to push Blaine
into the Presidential chair," says the
Denver Times. "It is seldom safe
10 tamper witn tate, and it is never
never profitable or creditable to lie.
President Harrison does not stand
the slightest chance of being nomina
ted at Minneapolis by acclamation or
with any degree of unanimity. As a
matter of historical and mathematical
fact, President Harrison is much less
likely to gain renomination at all than
he was a week ago."
"The latest fool rumor," as the
Philadelphia Record terms it, "put
afloat by the comic newspapers is
that Mr. Cleveland has made a
present of his Presidential 'boom'
to Chief Justice Fuller. As Mr.
Cleveland doesn't own his 'boom' he
couldn't transfer it to anybody, even
if he should desire to do so. When
a nomination for the Presidency shall
be made at Chicago, the constructors
of 'booms' will not be consulted. The
work is mere speculation and guess
work, having no serious popular
foundation and no appreciable influ
ence in shaping results."
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OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
(special cor. the advance.)
Washington, May 7, '92.
Speaker Crisp has been obliged,
by his duties here, to decline the in
vitation to Charlotte on Mecklenburg
day and a number of similar invita
tions. Representative Branch has obtain
ed a favorable report from the House
Committee on Public Buildings on
his bill to direct the erection of a
public building at Elizabeth City.
The appropriation is fixed at $40,
000. This is a signal triumph for
Mr. Branch and he has labored hard
to achieve it. There are many public
building bills pending and the com
mittee is disposed to go very slowly
in acting upon them.
It is perhaps in bad taste for me to
be giving advice to our friends, "the
enemy," but the North Carolina
Republican delegates to Minneapolis,
may be premature in pledging them
selves too unanimously to Harrison.
There was a meeting of the leaders
in this city yesterday and they are
still in solemn conclave to-day, try
ing to select a Republican Presiden
tial candidate who can win. I iearn
from good authority that Harrison
has lost ground, and that John
Sherman is forging to the front with
giant strides. Here is what a friend
of Clarkson and Quay says :
"The fact that Senator Sherman is
stronger in New York to-day than
ever before, and that the anti-Harri
son men say his nomination would
render Republican success in that
State far more certain than it could
be with Harrison at the head of the
ticket, led the Ohio Senator's name
to be more frequently referred to than
that of any other Republican
although the running capabilities of
all possible candidates were discuss
ed. Events are said to be shaping
themselves in the direction of Sena
tor Sherman,' and while no agreement
was reached as to the ticket which is
to be put in the field as against Har
rison, the probabilities of the selec
tion of Shermau have increased j
ftundred-fold in the last twenty-four
hours. Ihe Albany editor who
hauled down the Harrison banner and
flew the Sherman ensign was on the
right track, but he displayed his
colors a little too soon. The fear ot
Sherman's candidacy has been before
the eyes of the administration for
sometime, and an attempt was made
a week ago to distract attention from
him by a statement that he had con
sented to place the President's name
in nomination at Minneapolis. As
matter of fact, he will not be in the
convention,
"Senator Sherman has grown gray
in the service of the Republican party.
As long as 1848 he was a delegate
to the Whig convention that nomi
nated Zachary Taylor, and when the
Republican party was born Sherman
joined its ranks. Crowned as he has
been with the honors of the party,
he has once or twice sought the high
est gift of all, the Presidential nomi-
Tl i 1 r .
naiioii. 1 nai ne was unsuccessiui in
the achievement of this desire was
due to circumstances too familiar to
need repetition here, and which led
him, for a time, to assert that he had
sought such recognition from his
party for the last time. The case,
however, is now different. The nom
mation will come to him he will not
seek it. If at Minneapolis the New
York leaders aasert, as they will as
. .
sert, that Harrison cannot carry the
pivotal- State, but that Sherman can ;
and if Ohio joins the movement with
all enthusiasm and earnestness, it will
not be difficult to swing the conven
tion. At least that is the hope now
i j 1 . ....
cAuresseu, ana wnetner riently or
wrongly, it has grown considerably
since Mr. Piatt paid his brief visit to
Washington.
I saw Senator Sherman a few days
ago and he looked unusually well and
hopeful. He is somewhat venerable,
but is as strong and virile as many a
younger man. Lx-Senator Piatt,
Lhauncey Depew, and President In
galls, ot the C. & O. R. R., are still
here and the Sherman boom may be
a big one in twenty hour.s
There is an effort on foot to resur
. .1 ;i 1 -.1 ,
uie silver diu ana waste more
time over it. I believe it is consider
ed almost criminal in me to criticise
the big Democratic majority in Con
gress, but I must ignore the opinion
of my critics and repeat that the
party needs a safe, conservative, able.
and patriotic leader on the floor of
the House, more than it has ever
done within my recollection !
On Wednesday Representative
Williams appeared before the House
Committee of Coinage. Weights, and
Measures and advocated earnestly
the provision of his financial measure.
No action was taken.
On the adoption of the conference
report in the House, on the bill ex
cluding Chinese from this country,
Representative Grady voted in the
minority, which comprised a small
number of able Southerners and a
few Republicans.
Republicans Counselling.
(SPECIAL TELEGRAM THE ADVANCE.)
Washington, May 1 ith, '92.
J. B. Eaves, Z. V. Walser. H. C
Cowles, Archibald Brady, and other
prominent Republicans were here to
day consulting, with party leaders.
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THE EDUCATIONAL MASS MEETING,
Big Speeches, Breathing Grandly Patri
otic Sentiment, the Order of the Occa
sion, Listened to by a Highly Pleased
Audience.
The hall of the White Graded
School was comfortably filled by a
representative gathering of Wilson
people last Friday night, when the
children began that grand old song,
"The Old North State," which was
well rendered. Dr. Cordon led the
audience in prayer.
The first speaker of the evening
was Dr. Albert Anderson, of the
Board of Trustees. Those acquaint
ed with this brilliant, rising and pains
taking member of his profession,
were not surprised at "his earnest,
practical remarks. He began by
reference to the first Graded School
in Wilson, so ably organized and
started by that efficient and capable
man of rare executive ability, Prof.
J. L. Tomlinson, to whom he paid a
genuine tribute. He talked of what
it had done for the town and referred
to the men it had equipped and sent
out prepared for the battle of life.
Among those he mentioned in pass
ing, Prof. Dred Peacock, of Greens
boro College, J. D. Bardin, County
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
H. F. Farmer and Paul V. Dunn, in
Government employ, Douglass Win
stead and Ed Wootten, in the rail
way service, and here in Wilson, C.
E. Blount, E. R. Gay, Willie and
Charlie Harriss. As to the present
school he had only to refer to the
material advancement Wilson had
enjoyed since its inauguration last
year. Now there is not an empty
house or store in the town all filled
since the school started. He
concluded his speech by paying a
glowing tribute of praise to
Prof. Foust and the corps of teachers
who have labored so faithfully, all
of which was heartity afflauded.
Mr. C. B. Aycock, of Goldsboro,
was the next speaker. He needs no
introduction to Wilson people and
Advance readers. He made a short,
practical, eloquent speech, charac
teristic of the man, and showed the
practical value of a good school to a
town or community. He com batted
the error that a public school was a
charity school, and plead for the best
possible school and urged adding the
higher grades and showed their
importance.
Hon. Geo. T. Winston, President
of the State University, of Chapel
Hill, was the next speaker. We be
lieve this was his first appearance be
fore a Wilson audience. He made a
very favorable impression.
Prof. Winston began by saying
that there was never a time when more
was demanded of individual lives. To
meet those demands we must be pre
pared. io people needed prepara
tion more than the South in which
1 . 1
great revolution nas Deen groine on
There are three things we need to
employ the best agencies with which
to develop material resources :
1. Public Schools.
2. Public Libraries.
3. Savings Banks.
We need them all. How would
you start a factory ? You would go
around and get shares subscribed
and the money paid in. A Library
can be gathered together in the same
way.
Public Schools and education do
not necessarily mean money. They
mean culture, refinement. I wi
show you that education means prop
erty and wealth, but not in a material
sense. Suppose a man of travel and
culture should suggest a bird hunt,
do you suppose he would take an
old fashioned dog ? Not at all. He
would take a trained pointer or set
ter an educated dog. And when
the dog found partridges there he
would stand quivering all over until
told to goon. The natural instinct of
the dog is to spring on the birds and
tear them to pieces. Education
makes him stand there like the een
tleman he is. You educate a dog to
watch over and guard your sleeping
enno. is tnat the dogs instinct?
No. The dog is savage, but that in
stinct has been cultivated and will
stand there and die if need be. There
is no better illustration of the benefits
of education than animals. All of our
domestic animals were once wild and
useless. Education has made thein
uselul. You have no respect for an
uneducated dog. You refer to him
as a "yaller dog." Laughter.
Fruits and vegetable are the same
way. 1 hey have all been educated
Why, you sit down to dinner and an
elegant potato is set before you. It
is good, palatable, and you feel like
taking off your hat to it. That oota-
to has been to school to a Graded
School, and a school where they had
high grades and taught Latin and
Lreek. Loud aDDlause.l
x j
Iron and steel the same wav. Iron
has been educated until vou can
make almost anythiner out of it from
a steel rail to a watch spring. Will
education do evervthinp-. vou ast ?
Yes. 2,000 years ago our ancestors
were wild, half-dressed barbarians,
dwelling in caves, tents, etc. To-day
what are we ? Think of England
with her commerce and manu
factures and pray what can you ex
pect of Africa, with not a
spelling book in the rnnnlrv
What power has . such a peo
pier Where do you look for
power.'' To the United States, Great
Britain, and Germany. Naturally the
soil of Scotland is barren, rocky,
sterile, yet the second city of import
ance in Great Britain is in Scotland.
Years ago the river between Glasgow
and the ocean was a mere ditch.
Now the largest ships in the world
sail up it. No people but the Scots
could have conceived and executed
such an undertaking. They are the
best educated people in the world.
There is an idea prevalent that an
educated man won't work. Well he
won t plow a bob tailed steer, and he
has no business doing: it. The bieeest
work in the United States is the
Brooklyn Bridge. The man who
built it never saw it. He was blind.
He was a student, a thinker. He
built it in his study. He knew the
shape of every stick of timber and
bar of iron in the massive structure
and calculated how it all would
fit together, and it did. Oth
er men rolled a wheelbarrow
loaded with sand to make mortar for
this bridge. But for his intellect the
architect might have done so.
We think that above all things else
it requires no education to fight. But
it does. Our late war was fought by
men who had been educated up to it.
All the generals came from Wes
Point. They were trained for it
The Franco-Prussian war was fought
by an old man 70 years old, Von
Molke, in his study. He studied the
terrible art and the Prussians con
quered. But every German was an
educated man. When the army
beleaguered Paris the Purssian sold
iers spent their time in reading Homer,
Horace and Virgil.
It has been said that an education
is worth nothing to a business man.
A.. T. Stewart, the biggest dry goods
merchant ever known, was an edu
cated man. When he went home at
night he read Greek and Latin and
found enjoyment in literary pursuits.
It has been said that an educated
man does not work. What did Eli
Whitney do when he invented the
cotton gin ? How many men's work
does he do ? Why didn't some of
our people who toiled laboriously by
the old process, discover it ? Because
he came from an educated set of
ancestors. Add your high grade de
partment to this school. Let Latin,
Greek, Trigonometry and higher
branches be taught here for 100 years
and your people can do anything
they want to.
Prof. Winston went on at length
along this line. He paid a high
tribute to the University, the
cap-stone of our grand public
school system. Character is made
there, he said. And he knew no place
that would more quickly develop it.
He gave examples of many boys who
had worked theirway through, and
Kwere now successfully engaged. He
spoke for one hour and fifteen min
utes. Prof. J. Y. Joyner followed him,
making an earnest plea, thirty min
utes long, in favor of a Public School
library. He showed how necessary
it was, and how much good it would
accomplish. His speeeh was elegant,
classical, and evidenced the scholar.
Prof. Foust had expected Hon. S.
M. Finger and Judge H. G. Connor,
to be present. He had a letter from
Supt. Finger regretting that he could
not be present, enclosing a check for
$200 of the Peabody fund, for the
Wilson School and promising more
next October.
Judge Connor could not come on
account of his duties in holding
Wake Court. But amid the cares
and duties of the week he found time
to write the following letter, which
shows the interest he has in educa
tion :
Raleigh, N. C, May 4th, '92.
My Dear Mr. Foust : Your
very kind letter of invitation to be
present at the Educational Mass
Meeting on Friday night was duly
received. I have delayed answering,
hoping my official duty would not
prevent my doing so. I find to-day
that I cannot conclude my work here
in time to reach home until Saturday
night. I regret that I shall not be
able to give expression to my intense,
hearty interest in that which has press
ed most heavily upon my mind and
heart, the cause of education in my
home and among those who, by all the
ties ot affection, are so near and dear
to me. For the past fifteen years I
have regarded this as the one ques
tion, which above and before all others,
affecting the moral and material inter
est of our people, imperatively de
manded our attention.
At times the condition has
been discouraging and the future
uncertain but I am heartily thankful
that we have passed the danger line ;
our people have with united hands
and hearts determined that Wilson
shall, in this as in all other respects,
do her full duty to her children and
the commonwealth. Too much honor
cannot be bestowed upon those of
our citizens who have, by their
efforts, brought victory out of defeat
and led the people to the establish
ment of our school upon a safe and
permanent basis. The building which
they have erected will be a monument
to their patriotism and an ever pres
ent reminder of our debt of gratitude
to them. It would seem that the
cause of public education is so firmly
fixed in our American life that noth
ing more need be said in its defence.
The right of every child to have an
opportunity to acquire an elementary
education is as deeply fixed in our
organic law as his right to be protect
ed in his civil or political status. That
the safety, honor and welfare of the
State demands that the child shall
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taught by the fathers of the Republic
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To any one at all observant ot our
past and present industrial condition,
and taking thought of our future, it
must be apparent that we have reach
ed the conclusion of an old and are
entering upon a new era. That new
and perplexing conditions are upon
us in Eastern Norrlt, Carolina is, it
seems to me, apparent. That, to
successfully meet and adjust ourselves
to these conditions, demands a higher
order of intellectual manhood and
womanhood is equally apparent.
That the era of wasted forces and
crude methods of labor and living
must give way to economizing of
forces and resources, regular and in
telligent methods of application of
labor is manifest. Our industrial,
social and domestic welfare demands
the strengthening and toughening of
our moral and and mental fibre, cul
tivation of our powers of endurance,
perseverance and patience. We
must learn to use as not abusing the
soil, climate and other blessings where
with God hath blessed us. These qual
ities we have, as our past has demon
strated. That we have not made the
most of them and realized the
largest results from them is largely
due to our want of general public
education. Our children must be so
educated as to discourage class, or
caste feeling. We must teach them
that in our free American life it is
not wealth but worth not quantity
but quality which measures the man.
They must learn that sympathy with
and for each other, and the varied
means and methods by which the
complicated machinery of modern
life is carried on is essential. That
we. have a community of interest and
that it is by the success of all honest
industry that this community of
interest can be advanced. Again
the children must be taught that good
citizenship demands an intelligent
participation in the making ol wise
laws and a strict obedience to the
law when made. Love of country
of home, of the institutions inherited
from our fathers, improvement of
these institutions and adapting them
to the new condition of our country
instead of rashly and rudely tearing
them down, is essential to the welfare
of the State. These and such like
matters must be taught in the homes
and in the public school.
Again, while in respect to those
matters which come peculiarly within
the province of the domestic forum,
the public school should never inter
fere, in all other matters affecting the
welfare of the child, there should be
cultivated the most harmonious re
lations between the home and the
school the parent and the teacher
I trust that in . view of my deep
personal interest m our schools
may be permitted to say that I think
much injury has been done both to
child and teacher by ill advised and
unwise interference by parents. The
teacher should be regarded by chil
uren ana parents as tne model in
manners, the safe guide in morals
and the ever welcome visitor to the
home. If he cannot command this
respect, the delicate relationship
should be severed at once.
Permit me to say that nothing in
connection with our community
has given me so much pleasure
and encouragement as the good
woik that has been done for the past
year among us by the teachers ot the
public and private schools. I am
sure that at no time has there been
a more harmonious co-operation and
desire to advance our common inter
est. I congratulate ourselves upon
the happy selections which have been
made. I am encouraged to believe
that under the faithful, intelligent
management ot our County Superin
tendent, and the teachers in the
county, good work is being done.
lo one who loves his home, his
neighbors and friends, to whom he
is indebted for all that he is or hopes
to be, who sees in every child of the
county the friends and associates of
his own children, as they shall reach
maturity, these matters are full of
vital heart-felt interest. To me they
attect most vitally the life that now is
and that which is to come. This is
my excuse-for troubling you with
this long letter. I send to you and
through you to our friends my hearty
greetings. I congratulate you upon
the presence of the honored President
of the University and other friends of
the cause which we all have so much
at heart. I trust you will pardon this
letter, hastily written, in the midst of
my official duty. With kindest re
gards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
H. G. Connor.
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