The News and Observer
VOL.XLVI. NO. 73.
LEADS ALL IMTO CAROUNA DAHLBEB 11 NEWS 111 GIRGUU7JN.
THE UNITED TRUSTS
OF AMERICA
That is What This Country
Has Become under Hanna.
WETMORE TALKS SENSE
A RICH -TOBAGO) M.VM FACTI R
l-ju who knows mil*:
EYILS OF TRUSTS.
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THE TRUST AND THE LOB3Y MUST CO
There Is Needed a Governor Who Shall Say to
the Lobby, the! Tool of the Trusts,
“You Must Stay Away from
the State Capitol.”
St. Louis, Mo., May 27. —(Editorial
< ’oirespomleiice.)—One of t In* most inter
esting figures in the public eye in the
Central West is Col. Moses C. Wot more,
wlio spoke on “Trusts ami Democracy”
at the big anti-trust banquet, lie emne
to St. Louis as a boy, with no money,
and lie ranks today with the millionaires
of St. Louis. He lias'made Lis millions
honestly—in the good, old-fashioned way.
Until recently, lie was a memlier of the
big tobacco firm of Liggiit. Myers A*
Co., the biggest concern in the West.
It has been a thorn in the side of the
American Tobacco Company, consistent
ly refusing to go into the trust or to sell
out to them. Last winter, when it was
given out with a great flourish of trum
pets that the Union Tobacco Com
pany had been organized to lighMhe To
bacco trust, an option was obtained on
the Liggett, Myers & Co. concern, and
under that sleight-of-hand performance
the Trust bought by indirection what
they Ttad failed to buy directly. Col.
Wetmore has been the lending anti
trust lighter in the West, and lie is eon
tident that if the Democrats make a
vigorous war. on trusts they will win tin*
light hands down in 1000.
Col. Wetmore is no politician, has no
political ambition and is interested in
politics now because he has had a per
sonal opportunity to see the dangerous
and ruinous spirit pursued by the gigan
tic trusts. He lias plenty of money and
could spend the balance’of his days in
luxury and foreign travel, but lie is one
of the rich men of America who have
not fallen down in worship of the Holden
Calf. He loves liis country more than
he loves dollars, and has not per
mitted wealth to lead him away from
those principles which give equal oppor
tunity to all men im the race for fortune.
Now that he has gotten rich. Col. Wet
more is not willing to join hands with
trust magnates to kick down the lad
der on which he and they climbed to
success. He wants to keep the ladder
free so that other industrious and push
ing men may. round by round, climb
up to a fortune or a competency. That’s
the feeling that actuates Col. Wet more,
and it is liecause id" such a sentiment
that he has thrown himself, heart and
soul, into this anti-trust movement
which is profoundly stirring the people
in all pai ls of the country.
Col. Wetmore has devoted his life to
business, and does not claim talent as a
speaker. He has a head full or sense,
however, and liis speech at the banquer
«ui “Trusts and nomocracy” was full
of epigrams fraught with Humiliation or
his subject, lie said:
COL. WKTMOHH’S SPEECH.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The next President of the United
States will l»c a Democrat; an old-fash
ioned, simon pure, Jeffersonian Demo
crat, with the fear of Hod and the love
of man in his heart. He will he elected
on a platform riveted with holts of steel
to the eternal truth of the equality of
man: and the strongest plank in that
platform Avill declare, in unequivocal
uimpstakaldc language that the nefari
ous and soulless trust system shall no
longer have a place in the American Ite
puldic. And when this platl irm shall
have lieen made we will place upon it
a man in whom the people wiM have the
most implicit confidence: a man who
will veto every bill passed by Congress
bearing the impress of the slimy hand
of the trusts. And if the national admin
istration. consisting of the trusts, ol
Senator Hanna and Mr. McKinley, say:
“We, too, are opposed to trusts.” we
will say to them:
“For more than three years you have
had absolute control of the Government
in all its branches, and you have per
mitted it to almost become the United
Trusts of America, and we want r*r> more
of stub anti trust work, and will have
no more of such anti-trust people.”
•We shall say to them that the people
of this country intend to take the Gov
ernment from the hands of the trusts
and place it where it belongs, and the
people will assume the Government
handed down to them by their fathers;
and if they say to us:
“We intend to continue the single
g,dd standard,” we will say to them that
the people in the future will decide on
what kind of money they will use. And
if they say to us: “We must have a
large standing army of 100,000 men or
more to protect our foreign possessions
ami to keep the peace at home, we .shall
point them to Santiago ar.d the Pliilip
pines, and say to them that the national
guardsman and the American volunteer
are good enough soldiers for us. The
people will understand that a large
standing army is in the interest of trusts.
With the right kind of a man on the
right kind of an anti-trust platform
we will caro* every State in this Union,
and we will carry the country by three
million popular majority, for at least
three millions of patriotic Republicans
will vote with us.
And. provided we at home nominate
th(> right kind of men on our State and
legislative tickets we will carry the
grand old Democratic State of Missouri
by an unprecedented majority, which, in
my opinion, will reach 200,000.
But we cannot and we must not oc
cupy any equivocal grounds on the
trust question, and we must make the
lobby—which is the tool of the trusts —
understand that they must stay away
from Jefferson City when the Legisla
ture is in session making laws for the
people of the State. We must elect as
Governor a man who will have the
moral courage to say to the members of
the lobby: “You must stay away from
the State Capitol while the Legislature
is in session,” and he must have Ihe
physical courage to stand, if necessary,
at tin* door of the State Capitol with a
double-barreled shotgun in his hand and
see that they do stay away.
There is no question as to how the
people of Missouri, and of the whole
country, feel on this trust and lobby
question. The time for action has come.
We have our friends, the enemy, up
against the proposition, and the national
administration, consisting of the trusts.
Senator Ilanna and the President, can
not get away from it.
$ Jji
Now you may read longer, mure elab
orate and more learned orations, but
1 do not believe anybody can compress
more sound sense in a shorter space.
When Col. Watmore withdrew from
the business, declining to remain In any
way connected with a trust, the em
ployes Hocked around him and he made
them a short speech, for there is no
employer in St. Louis so highly esteemed
by the men employed by him as Col.
Wetmore. Last night at the banquet,
when Col. Wetmore, was introduced, lie
was received with general applause, but
the most enthusiastic greeting came
from a company of young women sitting
in one of tin' highest, galleries. They
were a company of young women who
had been employed by »C<d. Wetmore’s
concern. It was the iinest sight I saw
at the banquet. There is nowhere a
scene fuller of pleasure than when there
subsists a genuine regard between em
ployer and employee. It is a relation
ship that you find strong wherever*the
just employer comes in personal contact
with the men and women to whom he
gives employment. As trusts rise and
nourish, this relationship comes to an
end. And that is one of the evils of trusts.
Next to the fact that trusts deny a fair
chance to individual success upon in
dependent lines, the death blow given to
the kindly relations that subsisted be
tween employer and employe when they
worked together, is the great and over
shadowing curse of the modern trust.
It is a hopeful sign when a rich man.
who could increase liis private* fortune
by helping further to strengthen the
trusts, stands out against tliein. ft
shows that wealth does not cause all
men to Inst* sight of the rights of the
humble, and that a man who has made
his money honestly is the first to cry out
against those outlaws of commerce who
seek to add million to million by illegal
combinations.
More than flint. It is gratifying to
hear a rich man cry out against the
lobby. It is the “tool of the trusts,
and theiv is as great need in every State
for an honest Governor to take whip
cords and drive them out of the legisla
tive halls as there was for the Muster
in his day thus to drive out the money
changers who polluted the temple at
Jerusalem. The sentiment is so strong
in this country against the operations of
the lobbyists that many would ap
plaud a Governor who would “stand, it
necessary, at the door of the State t api
tol with a double-barreled shot gun in
his Miami and see that they do stay
away.” It is an evil that is not de
nounced in severe enough language. It
is the fountain of corruption in more
States than one. and in almost every
instance, as (’ol. Wet more aptly said,
they are “the tool of tin* trust.
* is *
As a matter <»f fact. “Down with the
Trusts.” as a campaign shibboleth repre
sents tin* whole sum of Democracy's
duty. The money trust and th*' indus
trial trusts largely perpetuate tluin
selvis through corrupting legislators, and
the instrument they largely use is the
lobby “the tool of the trust.” Col Wet
nvore lias supreme confidence that the
voters will put an end to trust domina
tion in 11HMi if the campaign is wag *d
against all tin* trusts, from the money
trust to the peanut trust.
\YH\T A MINISTER SHOULD
BREACH.
(Webster's W’eekly.)
A minister of tin* Gospel makes a
serious mistake when lie preaches any
thing but Jesus Christ and him cruei
!io When lie steps aside from his sa
cred vocation to discuss science, poli
tics and other matters of temporal and
passing interest, he lowers himself in the
estimation not only of the world, hut of
good men as well. It has been well
said that when the preacher sticks to
the Bible he has a “thus saith the Dud
for his statements, but when lie discusses
medicine, science, politics, philosophy,
etc., it is “thus saith” the doctor, or sci
entist. or the politician, as the case
mnv be. We <i<. not say that a preacher
is not entitled to bis own opinion on
secular affairs, but we do say that when
he lays aside his high office and plunges
into the arena of polities he is entitled
to no more consideration than anyhou\
I else and has no right to complain if he
receives tit for tat.
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, SI'NDAY MORNING, JUNE 4, 1899.
JORN J. INGALLS
DISCUSSESTRUSTS
The Brotherhood of Man a
Mere Catch-Penny Phrase.
INDIVIDUALISM THE BASIS
OF OUR PRESENT SOFIA L AND
POLITICAL SYSTEM.
THE VANISHING OF THE HANDICRAFTSMAN
The Trust a Fictitious Creature Without Soul
But Endowed With Earth'y Immortal
ity Inopableof Crimeland
Yet a Robber,
(New York Journal.)
“The tools to him who can use them,”
said Napoleon.
“Them as has, gits,” says the Arkan
sas man.
“Every one for nimself, and the devil
take the hindmost,” says I lie nineteenth
century.
“Root, hog, or die,” says nature.
“To him that, hath shall he given, and
from him that hath not shall be taken
away even that which he seemeth to
have,” says God.
"All men are created equal,” says the
Declaration of Independence. But they
are not, any mere than horses are. The
1 1 ip- s 1 iot te ii . sway -1 me feed, lop-eared
street car steed was not created equal
to Ormond, the king of the turf, who
cannot be bought for a quarter of a
million. Not* Richard Broker !o Daniel
Webster; nor Alfred Austin to William
Shakespeare.
Since Adam left Eden, if he did. this
has been a tough world for the most of
its inhabitants. Not one came into
it of his own accord, and few* would
have come at all had they been consult
ed. Fewer still would remain were they
sure of anything I letter somewhere e'se.
AH being endowed with aspirations tor
happiness, multitudes find wretchedness,
poverty and disease their only inherit
ance. Our credentials bear the same
sign and seal, but. some are born to
honor atul some to dishonor. Some lie
in lilies and roses and walk on velvet,
while others equally deserving shiver in
rags and sleep in doorways, and stain
flinty paths with bloody feet. All de
sire to succeed, but few rea'eli the goal.
There is too much whining and squeal
ing in these degenerate days. Brave
men take their medicine without either,
and endure adversity with fortitude. It
would be sardonic to suppose that there
is to be no reparation for the elaborate
insults of fate, sometime and somew here.
Otherwise, life would be an unintelligi
ble, practical joke, played by a being
capable only of malignant laughter at
his victims.
Whatever our errand or mission on
this planet, it has long been evident to
the impartial critic that we are not
here for recreation, and that tlie brother
hood of man up to this time, as applied
to human affairs, is like a phrase drawn
out of a hat. Carnage and pillage con
tinue popular, and while in theory our
government has for its avowed object the
greatest, good of the greatest number,
with most of us the greatest number
continues to be number one.
Equality of condition, of endowment,
of possession, has never existed, and the
divergences now ary wider than ever be
fore. That tin* inequalities are to in
crease rather than diminish seems likely,
and we must face the consequences.
It is apparanet also that whatever
progress lias been made hitherto is due
wholly to the effort of individuals.
States make m> inventions. Nations
write no poems or dramas. Society is
rich or strong or pure only as the in
dividuals of which it is composed arc
wealthy and powerful and virtuous.
Battles are won or lost as the individual
soldiers are intrepid or timid. The
Decalogue, that statute enacted in the
parliament of the skies and promulgated,
amid tin* thunders of Sinai, has no effect
upon the race except as its precepts are
ol»eye<i by the individuals to whom they
are addressed.
So our social and political system rests
on individualism: flu* highest develop
ment of the individual as the unit of
the State*, and, as the correlative of this,
the equality of all men before equal
laws, ami equality of opportunity, so
that all shall have an equal chance in
this harum-scarum, helter-skelter scrim
mage which we call life. No man can
ask more than this, and none should
lie content with less than this. Every
arena must he open. Any citizen can
enter the ring if he wishes. If he is
put to sleep the first round, he can turn
to some vocation for which lie is b.oe**r
qualified. The Legislature can pass no
law making him equal to Fitzsimmons.
That would be unjust to Bob, who is as
much entitled to fair pl.\v as the weak
est mannikin of them all.
Aware of the incompatibility of
feudalism and liberty, of tin* dangers of
unrestricted accumulation of wealth, not
only to the individual but society, and
of hereditary limitation of property, our
political ancestors abolished primogeni
ture and entail, supposing that in this
way they had provided for the destruc
tion of great rotates and for the free
distribution of capital in each genera
tion.
They did not foresee the invention of
corporations and trusts, fictitious crea
! tores, w ithout souls and yet endowed
: w ith earthly immortality—legal monsters
incapable of crime, but that can rob
the citizen of his birthright and deprive
posterity of its heritage.
In the early part of the century my
Grandfather Ingalls, of Middleton,
Mass., was a blacksmith, as ironworkers
were called in those days.
Ou the hearth in my library in Atchi
son;, as the most valued of my ancestral
heirlooms, stands the old anvil upon
which he used to fashion and temper
the scythe blades, tin* hoes and spades,
the horseshoes and plough points for his
rustic neighbors, when Thomas Jefferson
was President. He was a man of in-
Hlienee and position, an active leader
of the local democracy, and died possess
ed of a comfortable fortune.
Today there is not one of the things
which he made in his forge that is not
manufactured by machinery controlled
by trusts, at prices which render individ
ual competition impossible, ami the oc
cupation of the blacksmith is gone.
My Grandfather Chase, of Haverhill,
Mass,, about the same time, was a pio
neer in the wholesale manufacture of
boots and shot's. The soles and uppers
were cut by hand and taken home in
sets of sixty pairs by the neighboring
farmers, where the women stitched and
hound them, and the men pegged or
sewed them, in the intervals of toil
in the field or the forest. Within the
life of tlie man of middle age all the
hoots and shoes in the world were made
by manual labor.
My father invented the first machine
for cutting soles from leather and for
burnishing and finishing tin* edges and
shanks. This has been followed by a
multitude of inventions, so that now,
with the exception of a few cobblers
here and there, no man makes shoes.
They are all made in factories by ma
chinery requiring K!<l different operations
for every shoe, so that tin; man who
makes the heel never sees the toe, and
the avocation of the shoemaker is gone;
and when by caprice or over-production,
or under consumption, the factory shuts
down, the operatives?, having no indepen
dent handicraft, is thrown out of employ
ment. his wages stop, and lit* becomes a
mendicant or a tramp. In the same way
the tailor, the carpenter, the composi
tor, the weaver, the farm hand have
gradually become dislocated. Population
is constantly increasing and the avenues
of employment are continually diminish
ing.
I remember a story in my boyhood of
a captive, confined in a vast apartment
from which there was no escape, who
was startled at midnight by tin* clang
of the Ih*ll in his prison tower. Waking
in the morning, he discovered that there
was one less window in his room. The
folk wing morning there was another
missing, and thus lie became aware that
day by day the wails of his cell were
closing in upon him, and that sooner or
later the discordant hell would toll the
hour of his doom.
Labor, tLus having lost its indepen
dence, is becoming degraded and discred
ited and losing its self-respect as well.
Society is stratified. Its nobility is dis
appearing. ’The relations between the
rieli and the poor are not cordial. The
prosperous aro tolerant or patronizing.
The dependent are sullen. They feel that
under existing conditions they do not
have equal opportunities. They are
right. The race is no longer to the
swift, nor riie battle to the strong.
Not long since in a Western State I
encountered a gentleman who described
himself as am agent of the American
Biscuit Trust, lie said liis duties were
to see that no other biscuits or crackers
than those made by bis employers were
sold in the territory in liis charge. Dur
ng our conversation, im response to my
curiosity, he mentioned that two Ger
mans* who had been bakers im Berlin,
having made a few thousand dollars
keeping a saloon in Illinois, had con
cluded to abandon that business and
make crackers again. As soon as he
heard of their intention he mentioned
to them that it would lie a losing ven
ture and advised them to desist. But
they kept on, supposing they had as
much right to sell biscuits as to sell neor,
and commenced business; whereupon the
agent of the trust hired an adjacent
store, stocked it with their goods, cut
the price 10 per cent, and when this
was met, cut again. I asked the result,
and was told with a complacent smile
that in three months the capital of the
unsophisticated Germans was gone, and
they were financially strangled to death.
This was not competition. It. was crime.
It was worse than robbery on the high
way, because it lacked the courage of
the footpad. In the dominion of the
Sultan or the Uzar there is no more
execrable tyranny, no more abomina
ble violation of the fundamental rights
of man.
At the time this trust was formed
there were several bakeries in St.
Joseph, Atchison and other towns along
the Missouri River. They were com
pelled to close. The workmen were
discharged, and one of the proprietors
now has a large salary for visiting (be
grocery stores in order to guard against
free trade among American citizens in
ginger snaps and to prevent smuggling
of illicit food into the stomachs oi the
people.
Formerly flax culture was an ex
ceedinly profitable industry in East
ern Kansas. The fibre was valuable
for fabrics, and the seed for linseed
oil. Mills were set up at many towns
in the valley, providing a market for
the farmers and yielding good re
turns to the owners. AN ben the Lin
seed Oil Trust was formed, these es
tablishments, either by purchase or
strangulation, were suppressed, and
flax culture has disappeared as abso
lutely as though the earth had be
come incapable of its support.
That the hostility to these combina
tions is not selfish is shown by the
fact that in many cases they have
cheapened and bettered products, and
thus helped consumers in tlie strug
gle for life. The Standard ('il (Vm
pany lias undoubtedly diminished the
cost of light for the poor and added
immeasurably to the comforts of ex
istence. And yet it stands as the
most odious representative of intol
(Continued on Second Fageg.)
SECTION ONE--Pages 1 to 4,
MR. GRAY'S TRIB
UTE ro VANCE
His Life the Model for Am
bitious Young Men.
THESE HANDS ARE CLEAN
HIS LOYE OF STATE AND ITS
DEO RLE DOMINATED Ml IE
GREAT UIOMMOINEIE.
SECRtT OF HIS SUCCESS AND POPULARITY
No Threats or Promises from Political or Cor
' porate Power, No Frowns or Smiles of
Majesty, or Aught Else Could
Make him Abate One Jot.
At the University commencement last
week, the* senior class presented a bust
of Y a lice to the University. The presen
tation speech was made by Mr. Julian S.
Carr, Jr., president of the class, and tin*
speech of acceptance on the part of the
faculty was made by President Alder
man. Both of these siieeches appeared
in Thursday morning’s issue. Mr. R. 1.
Gray, shaking for the Board ol 1 nis
tees in accepting the gift, said:
iMr. President and Gentlemen of the
Senior Glass of 181)1):
“Du behalf of the Trustees of the
University of North Carolina, I accept
this work of art which so well repre
sents and reproduces the lineaments of
that great North Carolinian the memory
of whom, more than that of any other
son of our beloved State (and this can
he said without disparagement to others)
'Lingers 'with the people whom lie loved
and served and who loved, honored and
idolized him. And in thus accepting it,
1 beg on behalf of the Trustees, to
thank you, the class of 1899, for the Imp
ly and patriotic thoughtl'ulness Which
suggested so becoming a gift to youi
'Alima Mater, and you, sir,” (addressing
Julian S. Carr, Jr.) "for the very grace
ful and eloquent address with which you
Iliavc presented it, and to thank Mr. Ran
dall for file labor lie has so lovingly
bestowed upon it and for the correctness
of eye and the deftness of hand and
chisel Which, guided by the innate gen
ius of the true artist, have enabled him
so l’aithfblly to reproduce the 'image ot
Governor Vance. Alexander standing at
tile tomb of Achilles cried out, ‘O, tortu
inate youth, in that thou hadst a Homier
for thy Eulogistl” ‘(O fortunate juvene,
qui Ilomerum praeeonem habueras!)
Ladies and gentlemen, trustees and stu
dents, is it. out of place or too much
for me to say that our beloved Vance,
though in his grave, is fortunate in hav
ing as Inks sculptor so accomplished an
artist as Mr. Randall, native and to the
manor 'born, and whose first breath was
from the air of the same mountains
Where Vance was inspired and among
which he was nurtured and grew strong.
It 'is not expected nor would it be ap
propriate in the performance of the duty
assigned to me, to discuss at any length
the life, character and virtues of Gov
ernor Vance, or to recount the services
wii.eh he rendered to the State during
his long and useful public life, and 1
shall therefore content myself, and thus,
1 hope, make but slight draft uiisni your
patience, with calling your attention to
what may be considered to have been
Vance’s most prominent characteristics
as a public man and, which were, in
my opinion, the secret of the great hold
lie had upon the heart-strings of the peo
ple—his rugged honestly and inde
pendence, Ids intense love of North Gar
olina, liis fidelity to the interests and
welfare of the pcojh*. liis close commun
ion wit'll his constituents, and his un
swerving belief in tin* virtue, integrity
and wisdom of the great mass of the
piHiple, and, in a word, his trust in the
popular heart. These were the qualities
that endeared him to the people and
caused them to trust him without ques
tion —to lay their hands confidingly in
liis and, without fear or tremor, to fol
low whithersoever he led, no matter how
great the darkness or how wild t'he temp
est or how rugged the road!
“As to bis honesty, it was incorrupti
ble, avarice had absolutely no place in
his moral constitution and neither the
blandishments of wealth nor tin* attrib
utes of high official position and power
could tempt him to swerve from the
plain paths which his conscience and
love of truth marked out for him. Liv
ing and moving for nearly a half a cen
tury in the fierce glare of the light that
critics and enemies and envious contem
poraries are accustomed to turn upon
successful politicians and statesmen, no
(•barge of personal or official wrong do
ing was ever preferred or suggested
against him. His escutcheon from his
earliest entrance upon the public arena
down to the day when his spear was
broken and bis warfare ended, was as
bright and spotless as an untarnished
mirror. And when, in that ever memor
able campaign of 1879 in which he con
tested with the knightly Settle for the
uppermost place in the esteem and affec
tions of the people. In* held up his hands
with dramatic action and cried: “Throe
1 lands are clean!’ it was not because
any imputation of personal or official
corruption had been made against him.
hut it was the confident and triumphant
challenge that an honest steward of the
people made to the world and to his
enemies to find, if they could, one sin
gle instance of wrong doing in liis ca
reer which had been full of opportunities
for enrichment to which ordinary men
PIUOE FL r 3 ENTS.
might have yielded, and the wild enthu
siasm which greeted that thrilling chal
lenge from ihe sea to the mountains and
the 'November acclaim of "Well done,
thou good and faithful servant." show
ed that the people saw no slain upon
those upturned hands.
“As to his independence, lie lvad no
master but the people whom he always
believed capable of reaching just con
clusions when they had the opportunity
to calmly and dispassionately meditate
and pass judgment iqxm a question, and
no clique or ring, no threats or promises
from political or corporate power, no
frowns or smiles of majesty, no shim
ming in his fa<*»* of white house doors,
could make him abate one jot or tittle
of Inis well considered opinions or stay
his arm or tongue or pen in liis cham
pionship of tin* ]H>oph»’s rights.
“Being close to the people, hi* commun
ed closely with them, learned and sym
pathized with their needs and fearlessly
contended for their relief. He fulfilled
tlie ideal of the true statesman as jior
trayed) by Edmund Burke when he said:
“It ought to be the happiness and glory
of a representative to live in the strict
est union, the closest. cotTijs'poiidenee and
the most unreserved communication with
his constituents. Their wishes ought to
have great 'weight with him; their opin
ions high respect: their business nui re
mit ted attention. It is his duty to sacri
fice his repose, his pleasure, liis satisfac
tion to theirs, and alxive all, ever and
in all eases, to prefer their interests to
his own.”
“But not the least secret of his suc
cess and popularity with the iieople lay
in his love for his native State which
was in constant evidence and liis con
stant care for the interests of the peo
ple. The utterances with which Inis
speeches and writings abound, showing
his pride in liis Stale and his love for its
history and traditions, were not the
honeyed phrases and clap-trap of a mere
ipoftitiicdain, but the sincere tribute of a
patriot ‘who deems his land of every
land the pride.’ As Congressman, Gov
ernor during the trying times of the
Civil war and in 187(1 and as Senator, the
burden upon his sotfl was to uplift the
State, protect its soldiers and citizens
and to advance its prosperity and glory.
Young gentlemen, let the love which
Vance cherished for the 'State he an ex
ample and inspiration to you in the ca
reer upon which you are entering with
such bright hopes and auspicious begin
nings. If you shall love your State with
the ardent affection of true sons, you
will he useful in your day and generation
and being useful you will be successful
according to the true standards. No son
of a mother really loves her if he neg
lects or brings sorrow or disgrace ui|w*n
her, and if you shall be proud of your
State and shall love her with a true and
knightly devotion your brain and brawn
will ever bt* at work to devise and carry
out plans for her prosperity, peace and
glory.”
A RUSH TO DELAWARE PARK.
Twelve Excursions Already Booked for
the Month of June.
In spite of the late spring and com
paratively cool weather of May. the ex
cursion fever seems to have taken pos
session of everybody.
Early in the mouth of May over 2.900
peoplent to Delaware Park for the day,
and instead of being jaded by the jaunt
returned refreshed; for conveniences and
diversions afford one opportunity for
rest and creature comforts in the midst
of pleasure.
As many as twelve excursions are al
ready hooked for June by the Seaboard
Air Lin** and unless prompt application
is made for the grounds then* certainly
will he difficulty in securing suitable
arrangements.
Outing parties, picnic parties, associa
tions. convention parties, Sunday school
parties, all kinds of parties should ap
ply at once to L, S. Allen, General I as
senger Agent, Seaboard Air Line,
Portsmouth, Ya.
There will he a rush all summer for
this resort which is growing phenomen
ally in popular favor. There is line
fishing {iml boating for the children on
the famous Nottaway river, flowing
picturesquely at the foot of the breezy
and winding hills of the park. The
spot is beautifully situated, forty miles
from Norfolk and KJt) miles from Ra
leigh, covering 14 acres of ground, all
inflosed and protected by a high fence.
The observatory commands a rare
stretch of rolling country, there is a
perfectly equipped ten pin alley, merry
go-round, shooting gallery, pavilion for
dancing on the river hank and other
spacious pavilions, amply protected
against both storm and sunshine. A
grand piano is on hand for concerts,
quadrilles and cake walks as the case
may be.
Stages may also he erected for
theatricals or other festive entertain
ments.
The park as a pleasure ground is not
surpassed in the South, and the water
alone is destined to make of it a per
manent summer resort.
There are three Sulphur Springs said
by many to be equal in their tonic and
alterative effect to the waters of tin*
renowned Greenbrier White, and there
are other mineral springs, also, including
the notable Magnesia springs, the sani
tary effects of which have liven known
for years by the old residents of this
country. An artesian well sparkles
forth one hundred feet in the air, the
stream being six inches in diameter as
it issues from the earth. For, that mat
ter the whole landscape is twinkling with
springs for those who prefer their water
"straight.”
There are over one hundred improved
swings which keep the groves merry
with the laughter of children, promen
ades and lovers nooks, rustic seats and
leafy vistas, birds and balmy air.
A few hours and a few dollars and
one is out of the heat of the city, out of
danger of doctors’ hills, among the cool
ing Nottaway hills.
Every time the sun shines the pessi
mist consoles himself with the thought
that it is raining somewhere.