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NORTH CAROLINA NEEDS IMMI GRATION. Extracts From Address of Clarence Poe, Editor of The Progressive Far mer and Gazette, 'iefore the North Carolina Press Association, WHghtsviMe, N. C., June 9, 1910. North Carolina uceds and must have a larger proportion of white people. The whole South, tn fact. Is ?it111 too sparsely settled. Our elev en Southern States, including Texas, support only 16.000.000 people of both races, and only 10,000,000 white peo ple, while the same area in Kurope supports over 160,000,000 white peo ple.. And it must be remembered that up to a certain point which we shall not reach for centuries yet, and other things being equal, prosperity depends upon density of population. If you owned the continent of North America, but lived on it alone, or if a hundred or a thousand men ?owned the continent and lived on it alone, it would be worth practically nothing to them. Population makes wealth, provided that it is normally Intelligent and efficient. The Sort of Immmigrants We Need. Of course, we do not want the low er-class Kuropcan immigration. It we can get immigration from Eng land, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, | Holland, Sweden, etc.,?the countries whose blood has gone to make up our vigorous American stock?it would be of great help to us. We are all of us such immigrants. From some ?countries of Southern and Eastern Europe, on the other hand, immigra tion Is of a decidedly lower order and objectionable because of a low stan dard of Intelligence and efficiency. On the very same principle, how ?ever, immigration of a normal or, tilgh standard of Intelligence and ef-' Ticiency is desirable. Such immlgra-i tton can be had, and ought to be had i ?In some measure perhaps from our| English, Scotch, Dutch, and Irish kinsfolk Hcross the sea?but chiefly, from our Northern and Western' *tates. Kor years now hundreds of thousands of the most enterprising ind progressive farmers of the Mld-j <11e West have been going Into ("an lda with its long hard winters and Mtter climate, not only giving up Am ? >rlcan citizenship, but actually pa.v-( ing two or three times as much for< land in that inhospitable region as land of the same fertility commands <n the South. We ought to have ^brought these men to the South. They know our Institutions, our lan guage, they are Industrious, thrifty, wide-awake, and many of them are of, '?Southern ancestry who should natur ally come back home. Let's bring thein back. Immigration to Solve the Race Prob lem. If there were no other reason fori advocating such immigration from the North and West, I should favor it as our surest deliverance from our race problem. The proportion of ne groes to whites is too large in ev ery Southern State, and my hope is that ultimately the tides of migration and immigration will equalise popula tion until the proportion of negroes in no State will exceed 20 per cent. We must train the negro?the more ignorant he is the greater the bur den on the South?but at best the process will be slow, and at present it would probably not be too much to say that in considering our whole population, including our great con structive leaders and captains of In ?ilustry, the average negro in North Carolina in economic worth and ef-j flclency is only half as useful as the average white man. Iir other words.! in rating general average of efficien-. ey we should put the white man at 100 and the negro at GO, so that a <ounty half white and half negro would have an average efficiency of j< 75, or a handicap of 25 per cent as i compared with a county with an ex-; elusive white population of a normal i degree of efficiency. |; Whether or not the difference is 1 as much as I have indicated, certain > it is that the larger the proportion of i whites, the higher the average of ef- ^ I ficiency, the more prosperous will be I our every industry, and the better it l will be for every individual citizen, I including the negroes themselves. I Two Ways to Build Up North Caro- 1 , ? , Una. 1 * i There are just two great ways to ^ \ build up North Carolina. First and . of paramount importance is the way | which Governor Aycock emphasized unceasingly in his administration?the Education of all our people;and I should only supplement this by put-', ling more earnest emphasis upon1; practical education, education that41 ?rains for efficiency, not education' xulted to the great urban centers of {, Europe and the North, but education suited to the needs of a great, awak- | ening agricultural Commonwealth .such as ours is and must be. And second only to education wnich' ?Governor Aycock emphasized, is Im-'i emigration which Governor Glenn set1' out to further, but to which the State ? did not respond because it was not ; made clear that the immigration was to be of the right sort. 4,000,000 Instead of 1,200,000 White People. Now let us start right?not by seeking immigrants from Southern Europe, but by advertising our re sources to the thrifty, epterrvislng and progressive farmers of the North and West?men of our own stock who now only need an invitation to make them come. Kmerson was right when he said that "every man who romes into a city with any purchas able talent or skill in him gives to every man's labor in the city a new worth," and If an ignorant negro slave In the old days was worth |1, 000, certainly we may assume that a Thrifty and intelligent white Western er, bringing not only himself, but in most cases substantial accumulations ;is well, should be worth many times as much as an asset to the State. The last census year North Caroli na had only 1,200,000 white people. It r.hould have 4,000,000. Consider for a moment how much more important every institution in the State would be, how much more would be our In dustries, how much better would be our schools and roads and railroads, how much more attractive would be country life In our thickly settled communities and how much easier it would be to get telephones and wa ter-works and trolley lines and local libraries and all the advantages of twentieth century life! Let us take as our watchword "Ed ucation and Immigration?Both of the Right Sort." A Dream of North Carolina's Future. For seventy years now North Caro linians have been going West to build up the new States of that great em pire. Now let us welcome back their children and neighbors to help us build here a great, prosperous and populous Commonwealth, where the masses of the people trained to as high standards of efficiency as any where In the world, shall develop a symmetrical and wellrounded civili zation: a splendid and forceful dem ocracy and trained, Intelligent and thrifty homeowners from among whom shall come not only a Jefferson and a Marshall, not only a James J. Hill and a Thomas A. Edison and a Sea man A. Knapp, not only men whom all the nation shall know as leaders in industry and in public affairs, but poets and seers, sculptors and ar tists?if not a Titian at least a Rey nolds or a Millet, if not a Michael Angelo at least a St. Gaudens or a Ward, if not a Shakespeare at least a Browning or a Tennyson, if not a Savonarola, at least some great re ligious leader who shall put the church into vital relations to modern thought and give it a new baptism spiritual power?all these until North Carolina shall stand forth as having developed the best-rounded civiliza tion of which any American State can boast. Better Medical Education. If the agent of the Carnegie Foun dation finds much to complain of In medical education now, what would he have said of the medlca) education mnarted thirty or forty years ago? The Medical Practice act of Illinois w;(s enacted only about thirty years ago, and at that . time one medical college in Chicago was graduating students after a single course of lec tures, occupying only a part of a year, and another more enterprising institution was graduating two class es i' year. The two high class and thoroughly orthodox medical colleges had but n single course of lectures each, and the two years' study consisted in tak ing the same course of lectures twice. The first year in the imaginary three years' course consisted of occasional contact between the aspirant for a degree and a medical practitioner. When one of these two institutions graded its course so that the second year should not be a duplicate of the first, and insisted on a good high school education as a condition of pntrar.ee, it was regarded as revolu-j lionary. In one town in Northern Illi r.ris a little earlier than this nine men were practicing medicine, only :wo of whom had any degree at all; the if ft picked up medicine In drug stores and army hospitals. The Med ic al Practice act drove fifteen hun dred doctors out of Illinois to prac tice in other States or get a profes sional education. All that is changed now every where.?Philadelphia Record. If you are not satisfied after using ] according to directions two-thirds of a bottle of Chamberlain's Stomach' and Liver Tablets, you can have' your money back. The tablets' cleanse and Invigorate the stomach,1 Improve the digestion, regulate the bowels. Give them a trial and get well. Sold by Hood Bros. "You look worried dear. What's the matter??" "My husband Is ill." "Too: bad! Is his condition critical?"! "Worse?it's abusive."?Cleveland Leader. J The Eduactional Bond Issue. The proposition for a bond lstue to fully equip the State Schools was sprung upon^lhe last Legislature, as our readers will remember, but In view of the strong feeling against the movement it was speedily withdrawn. Rut Its advocates have not been asleep. They never sleep, and never surrender. The other day at the al umni banquet at the I'nlverslty, Gov. Kltchln boldly advocated a bond Issue for the purpose indicated. The Gov ernor's favor, however, does not change the complexion of the mea sures in the least; It only put* be hind It the power and Influence of the administration, and thus calls for redoubled energy on the part of those who do not think It Just. Not con tent with ready access to the treas ury from which an ever widening stream of annual appropriations is flowing into the coffers of State schools, the advocates of this amaz ing proposition would saddle upon the tax-payers of coming ages the bur den of furnishing luxurious appoint ments at the various and sundry State colleges, that will be of not the least practical benefit to five per cent of their children. Already these schools are being fed out of a silver spoon. They get what they ask for and they always ask for a plenty. The tax-payers of the State have been for years providing these institutions wltt a cudgel to crack the heads of their sister schools which furnish instruc tion as thorough as that in any State college and without asking for or re ceiving one dollar from the public funds. All In the world these denom inational and private schools ask for is a chance to live; and North Caro lina denies them even that poor boon. These denominational schools were built by the very men who furnish the money to the State schools which en ables them to enter the field with free tuition in their hands and other advantages which ample resources al lo<v them. This is bad enough, but to bleed the tax-payers of the pres ent and burden those of the future for the benefit of twenty per cent of the jyoung men and women who pa tronize our various colleges is mon strous to us. These college lobbyists are shrewd and strong. They know exactly how to frighten the timid, flatter the vain and dazzle the am bitious. The only hope for the over throw of this bold demand is that the people will send enough strong, ear nest and patriotic statesmen *o Ral eigh to guard their rights and save the public money from the clutches of the most avaricious and Insatiate mo nopoly that has ever flourished in our State.?Charity and Children. I When Mark Twain Became Editor. The late Mark Twain spent two years of his life in Buffalo, includ ing the "honeymoon" period, for it was while he was editor of the Buf falo Express (1869-1870) that he married Miss Olivia Langdon of El mlra, N. Y. On assuming the editorship of the Express on August 21, 1869, the man who was afterwards to become one of the world's greatest humorists, said editorially: "I only wish to assure parties hav ing a friendly Interest in the prosper ity of this journal that I am not go ing to hurt the paper deliberately and intentionally, at any time. I am not going to introduce any startling re form or in any way attempt to make trouble. I am simply going to do my plain, unpretending duty?when I cannot get out of it. I shall work diligently and honestly and faithfully at all times and upon all occasions, when privation and want shall com pel me to do so. In writing I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience. I shall wither ingly rebuke all forms of crime and misconduct, except when committed by the party inhabiting my own vest. I shall not make any use of j slang or vulgarity upon any occasion \ or in any circumstances, and shall never use profanity except in dis cussing house rent and taxes. In-* deed, upon second thought, I will not even then, for It is Inelegant, un christian and degrading. I shall not' often meddle with politics, because we have a political editor who Is al ready excellent and only needs a term In the penitentiary to be per fect. I shall not write any poetry, unless I conceive a spite against the subscribers." Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is sold on a guarantee that if you are not satisfied after using two thirds of a bottle according to direc tions, your money will be refunded. It is up to you to try. Sold by Hood Bros. Chicago is to have a thirty-story hotel, which will contain more bath tubs than may be found anywhere else beneath one roof. New Tork has discovered that it pays $100,000 a year for the wooden skewers in the meat. The Blind Alley of Protection. | As Congress draws to Its close the Congressional Kecord comes freighted with more and more speeches, deliv ered ai d undelivered, having for their object to provide materials for the coming campaign. This is the cus tom with both parties, and it has de generated into a grave abuse. A Mich igan member for example, the other day exhibited an array of doctored statistics to prove that the priro of nearly all commodities are higher on the other side of the St. Lawrence than in Detroit. It was nothing to him that he Is flatly contradicted by the dally market reports as well as bj the experience of any one who visits the Canada side of the river. If he and his fellow-Protectionists were asked why they are so vehe mently opposed, then, to free trade with Canada they would say that the duties are needed for revenue, or they would resort to some other sub terfuge. It pleases the reactionaries In Con gress Just now to fill their speech es with laudations of the Payne-Ald rich tariff, as in former years the system of which this is the latest, and last, edition was held up to the ad mi: ing people as the source of na tional and individual prosperity. But as is observed, the method has whol ly changed with the occasion. For merly the Protectionist war cry was that the wonder-working tariff caused high prices, and with high pi ices high wages for American work ingmen. Now statistics must be dis torted and garbled to support the as3trtion that the tariff has nothing to do with the exorbitant advances in prices all along the line. Then it was said with a sneer by one of the pandits of protection that "a cheap coat implies a cheap man" under the coat. Now the breath of the react ionaries is exhausted In assertions j that the tariff has no share In the high coat ana shouairying or tnc clothing of the American people. Thus the reactionary champions of the Payne-Aldrich act. find them selves driven Into a blind alley on tlie very threshold of the Congression- ? al campaign. When they assert on the stump that the tariff has nothing to do with the high prices of the ne ! ??c carles and comforts of living or. which it is imposed they will be ask ed wherein lies the protection to, American industries which the tariff is assumed to secure.. What answer, if it be true that, after all, the tariff affords no protection, and that prices of commodities are wholly free from its influence? Coming down to the concrete is- 1 sues, the authors of the Payne-Ald rich act will be asked why they left untouched the brutal schedule of du ties on wool and woolens. President Taft has furnished the answer in the combination of Eastern manufactur- ' ers and Rocky Mountain sheep grow ers. Was this to maintain prices, or has the tariff nothing to do with the cost of the clothing and blankets of the American people? Why did Sena tor Oliver have inserted in the tariff the sneaking provision which increas es the protective duty on building materials of steel if this way not to enable the Trust to ward off foreign competition and maintain prices? Fin ally, for what else did the senior statesman of Pennsylvania labor to maintain prices of gloves and hos iery, not to mention his zealous ef forts in favor of high protective du ties on Myrobolan plum trees, brier rose bushes and umbrella sticks? Why, gentte shepherds of protection? Tell us why.?Philadelphia Record. Marvelous Discoveries mark the wonderful progress of the * ago. Air flights on heavy machines, telegrams without wires, terrible war ' inventions to kill men, and that won der of wonders?Dr. King's New Dis- . covery?to save life when threatened . by coughs, colds, lagrippe, asthma, croup, bronchitis, hemorrhages, hay fever and whooping cough or lung ! trouble. For all bronchial affections ; it has no equal. It relieves instant- r, ly. Its the surest cure. James M. ! Black, of Ashevlile, N. C.. R. R. No. ' 4, writes It cured him of an obstinate ; cough after all other remedies fail ed. 50c. and $1.00. A trial bottle j free. Guaranteed by Hood Bros. Even the playwright can't always : make his play right. ? I "Breathe ! ! P*" to^TT11 i Catarrh I (J No stomach dosing?fcwsthe the pleassrl, healing. gertn-kiling ail of Hyomei, and cure 1 CATARRH. COUGHS. COLDS. CROUP. SORE THROAT. BRONCHITIS. ETC. <j Complete outfit, including hard rubbet in. halef, $1.00. on rconey-back plan. Extra boaliM. 50c. Drugguts everywhere, and by HOOD BROS. Aids Nature The great success of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis covery in curing weak stomachs, wasted bodies, weak lungs, and obstinate and lingering coughs, ia based on the recognition of the fundamental truth that "Golden Medical Discovery" supplies Nature with bodybuild ing, tissue-repairing, muscle-making materials, in con densed and concentrated form. ith this help Nature supplies the necessary strength to the stomach to digest - food, build up the body and thereby throw off lingering obstinate coughs. The "Discovery" reestablishes the digestive and nutritive organs in sound lieckh, purifies and enriches the blood, and nourishes the nerves?in short establishes sound vigorous health. It your dealer offers something 44lust as Good," it Is probably better FOR HIM*"It pays better. Hut you are thinking of the cure not the profit, so there's nothing "Just as &ood9' tor you. Say so. Dr. Pierce'* Common Sense Medical Adviser, In Plain English; or, Med icine Simplified, 1008 pages, over 700 illustrations, newly revised up-to date Edition, paper>hound, sent lor 21 one-cent stamps, to cover cost of mailing only. Ooth-bound, 31 stamps. Address Dr. K. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. DO YOU NEED ******* % MACHINERY? jj I have secured the agency for the Gibbs Machinery Co. for Jf* Johnston County and bordering territory. Will be pleased ? to quote prices on Gin Machinery, Boilers, Engines, Saw y Mills, Threshing Machinery, Etc. (J# y* For further information, see or Address |2 J C. A. CORBETT, Selma, N. C. j* **** Hum** t inCo. W? LEADING STATIONERS AHDJSSs^B^L j^gS2^??> MAN UFA C TURING ENCRA VERS ORDERS FOR^, ENGRAVED CARDS, INVITATIONS * PERSONAL' AND" BIWINR <;<; ? .ETC: 'e" ^ U3 ,he assurance IKat the ^"^'Carrecr:^ m?t?vcWir. BEATY LASSITER | SMITH FIELD. N. C. A Full Line of Samples may be Seen at Our Office 1 GOOD THINGS TO EAT | Can always be found at this Store. 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