n
Advertising Brings Success
pi.it ir pays to advertise in the Gold
t L.ea.f is show n by it well filled
advertising columns.
) As an Advertising Medium
The Uold LeoLfstauJsat tie head of
q newspapers in this eeeticn.the
( Bright Tobacco District.
! Sensible Business Men
t 55?
A
wf l i miti:ositinue to spend good
II money where no appreciable
returns are seen.
fnat is Proof That it Pays.
The most wide-awake and sue- J
ceseful men nse itucolumim with
the highest "
Satisfaction to Themselves.
TrUQ R. MANNING, Publisher.
Caboliita, Carolina, IE3jEA.-v-Eisr's Blessings Attend Her"
SCBSCRIPTIOH $1.50 Cash.
,'OL. XXIV.
HENDERSON, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1905.
NO. 45.
I
ii
II
Correct Dress
The "Modern Method" system of
'iigh-grade failcnr? introduced by
L. E. Hays & Co., of Cincinnati, O.,
;fies good drrrren everywhere.
All Garments M.-ule Strictly
to Your M-asurs
a! nooVrate prirs. stvlrs of foreign
ir i domestic fabric rroi vftirh to clvj.se.
Roprctt t.ted by
Tt e Daws & Wat kins Co,
HKXDEUSOX. X. C.
FRANCIS A. MACON,
DENTAL SURGEON.
Office in oung Block.
:!:. Inur: !t a. in. to 1 i. in.. 3 to (5 p. m.
l:.'i.it'fice Phone 88; Office Phone 25.
K-timates furnished when desired. No
chili t: lor examination.
E. B. TUCKER,
DENTIST,
HENDERSON, IN.C.
OIF1CK: Over Thomas Drug Store.
DR. F. S. HARRIS,
DENTIST,
Henderson. N. C.
W OFFICE: Over E. Q. Davis' Store.
HENRY PERRY.
INSURANCE.
A Htroiif? line of both L1FK AM) FIKE
t'OMPANIES reprcHPnted. Policies ismied
and rinks placed to best atlvunt ige.
Office: : : : : In Court House.
Notice to Tax Payers.
1 SHALL ATTEND AT THE TIMES AND
. places Im-Iow mentioned for collecting the
Stat.- and County taxes for the year 1005:
Amos' Mill, Thursday,
Middleburg, Friday,
White's Store, Monday,
Townesville, Tuesday,
Williamsboro, Wednesday,
Dabney. Thursday,
Henderson, Friday,
Kittrell, Saturday,
October 19
" 20
23
" 24
n
n
n
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25
26
27
28
1 will lie in tn.v office in Henderson during
t lie month of November. I'leiwe meet me
ami settle your taxes and save me trouble
and yourself cost. I am required by law to
K.miisliee if poll taxes are not paid by No
w iiiImt 1st Your taxes arediie. TheState,
S. li. n 1 and County are in need of them.
Hoping tbis notice will be all sufficient for
M'U to come forward and pav your taxes.
E. A. POWELL.
Sheriff of Vance County, X. C.
turnip seed time
Is here acain. We have
the seed.
ALL KINDS.
BEST VARIETIES.
NEW CROP.
And everything else you
want in ourline. Large and
complete stock at right prices
Special Attention to
Prescription Work.
Only the best and purest
Drugs and Chemicals used.
MELVILLE DORSE Y,
Druggist.
Shaving and Hair Cuffing.
That's my business. I have made a
study of it by long and constant prac
ticeand think I understand it pretty
well. Come in and let me shave you or
cut your hair and see if you don't think
I do. a. Bohlinger,
Next to Barnes' Clothing Store.
A. G. Daniel,
Wholesale and Retail
Dealer in . . .
Shingles. Laths. Lum
ber, Brick, Sash, Doors
and Blinds. Full stock at
Lowest Prices. Opposite South
ern (Jrocery Company.
Henderson, N. C.
Cora Celdsi Prcvaats Pneumonia
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
Meets With Cordial Reception
at Raleigh.
Ureeted by Great Thrones of Enthu
siastic People Everywhere Brings
Message to Friends in the South
Full Text of His Speech at the State
Fair Thursday.
Following is the address of Presi
dent Roosevelt delivered at the State
Fair in Raleigh last Thursday. Be
ing introduced by Lieut. Governor
Francis D. Winston, he said:
In some respects the address de
livered at the fair grounds by Presi
dent Roosevelt today was more im
portant than his speech at Richmond
yesterday, for he went after meat,not
after generalities. He did not neg
lect to remind the thousands who
heard him, and the tens of thousands
who will read what he said, that this
is a Commonwealth that is ricli in
achievement, rich in history and pa
triotism and good deeds. He spoke
of the wonderful forests and the need
of pre.servingthem,andhe urged that
they be saved from destruction.
Having eliminated that subject tit
Richmond, President Roosevelt dwelt
at length on the question of govern
ment control of railroads, not owner
ship, but supervision to guarantee
equal rights to all of the shippers.
The President received a royal
greeting when he arose to speak. He
said:
I am glad here at the capital of
North Carolina to have a chance to
greet so many of the sons and daugh
ters of your great State. North Car
olina's part in our history has ever
been high and honorable. It was in
North Carolinathat he Mecklenburg
Declaration oflndepe ideuce foreshad
owed the course takt-i in a few short
months by the representatives of the
Thirteen Colonies assmbled in Phila
delphia. North Carolina can right
fully say that she pointed us the way
which led to the formation of the new
nation. In the Revolution she did
memorable deeds; and the battle of
King's Mountain marked the turn
ing point of the Revolutionary war
in the South. Rut I congratulate
you not upon your past but upon
your past, but upon your present. 1
congratulate you upon t he great in
dustrial activity shown in your Com
monwealth, an industrial activity
which, to mention but one thing, has
placed this State second only to one
other in the number of its textile
factories. You are showing in prac
tical fashion 3'our realization of the
truth that there must be a founda
tion of material well-being in order
that .any cumnmnity may make real
and rapid progress. And I am happy
to saj- that you are in addition show
ing in practical fashion your under
standing of the great truth that this
material well-being, though necessary
as. a foundation, can only be the
foundation, and that upon it must
be raised the superstructure of a
higher life, if the Commonwealth is
to stand as it should. More and
more you are giving care and atten
tion to education; and education
means the promotion not only of in
dustry, but of that good citizenship
which rests upon individal rights and
upon the recognition by each indi
vidual that he lias duties as well as
rights in other words, of that good
citizenship which rests upon moral
integrity and intellectual freedom.
The man must be decent iu his home
life, his private life, of course; but this
is not by itself enough. The man
who fails to be honest and brave both
in his political franchise and in his
private business contributes to polit
ical and social anarchy. Self-government
is not an easy thing. Only
those communities are fit for it in
which the average individual prac
tices the virtue of self-command, of
self-restraint, of wise disinterested
ness combined with wise self-interest;
where the individual possesses com
mon sense, honesty and courage.
And mow I want to sav a word to
you on a special subject in which all
t lie country isconcerneu, outiuwuicu
North Carolina has a special concern.
The preservation of the forests is
vital to the welfare of even' country.
China and the Mediterranean coun
tries offer examples of the terrible ef
fect of deforestation upon the physi
cal geography, and, therefore, ulti
mately upon the national well-being,
of the nations. One of the most ob
vious duties which our generation
that are to come after us is to pre
serve the existing forests. The prime
difference Wtween civilized and un
civilized peoples is that in civilized
peoples each generation works not
only for its own well-being, but for
the well-being of the generations yet
unborn, and if we permit the natural
resources of this land to be destroyed
so that we hand over to our children
a heritage diminished in value we
thereby prove our ungtness to stand
111 the forefront ot civilized peoples.
One of the greatest of these herita
ges is our forest wealth. It is the
upper altitudes of the forested moun
tains that are most valuable to the
notion as a whole, especially because
of their effects upon the water supply.
Neither state nor nation can afford
to turn these mountains over to the
uurestrained greed of those who
would exploit them at the expense of
the future. We cannot afford to wait
longer before assuming control, in
the interest of the public, of these
forests; for if we do wait, the vested
interests of private parties in them
may become so strongly intrenched
that it may be a most serious as well
as a most expensive task to oust
them. If the Eastern States are wise,
then from the Bay of Fundy to the
gulf we will see, within the next few
years, a policy set on foot similar to
that so fortunately carried out in
the high Sierras of the West by the
government. All the higher Appala
chians should be reserved, either by
the States or bv the nation. I much
I prefer that they should be put under
1 t i 1
truism to say that they will not be
reserved either by the States or bv
the nation unless you people of the
ooutn snow a strong interest therein
0 1. "1 1 .
oucu reserves would oe a paying
investment, not only m protection to
many interests, but in dollars and
. . . i-.. A.- A.1 . r. 1
,tuL iu tut; government, me im
portance to the Southern people of
protecting tne Southern mountain
t a 1 - rr m
urei is ouvious. 1 nese torests are
the best defence against the floods
which, in the recent past. have, dur
ing a single twelve mouth, destroyed
property officially valued at nearly
twice what it would cost to pay for the
n .1 . ... 1
ooutnern Appalachian reserve. The
maintenance of your Southern water
powers is not less important t han the
prevention ot floods, because if they
1 . . . .
are uijureu your manuracturmg in
terests will suffer with them. The
perpetuation of your forests, which
have done so much for the South.
should be one of the first objects of
jwui (luuut uiHi. i ne 1. wo (senators
from North Carolina have taken an
honorable part in this movement.
But I do not think that the people of
North Carolina, or of any other
Southern State, have quite grasped
the importance of this movement to
the- commercial development and
prosperity of the South.
The position of honor in your pa
rade today is held by the Confederate
veterans. They by their deeds reflect
credit upon their descendants and
upon all Americans, both because
they did their duty in war and be
cause they did their duty in peace.
Now, if the young men, their sons,
will not only prove that they possess
the same power of fealty to an ideal,
but will also show the efficiency in
the ranks of industrial life that their
fathers, the Confederate veterans,
showed that they possessed in the
ranks of war, the industrial future of
this great and typically American
Commonwealth is assured.
The extraordinary development of
industrialism during the last half
century has been due to several caus
es, but above all to the revolution in
the methods of transportation and
communication that is, to steam
and to electricity, to the railroad and
the telegraph.
When this government was found
ed commerce was carried on by es
sentially the same instruments that
had been in use not only among civi
lized, but among barbarian nations,
ever since history dawned that is,
by wheeled vehicles drawn by ani
mals, by pack trains, and by sailing
ships and rowboats. On land this
meant that commerce went in slow,
cumberous and expensive fashion
over highways open to all. Normal
ly these highways could not compete
with water sransportation, if such
was feasible between the connecting
points.
All this has been changed by the
development of the railroads. Save
on the ocean or on lakes so large as
to be practically inland seas, trans
port by water has wholly lost its old
josition of superiority over trans
)ort bv land, while instead of the old
lighways open to every one on the
same terms, but of a very limited
usefulness, we have new highways
railroads which are owned by pri
vate corporations, and which are
practically of unlimited, instead of
limited usefulness. The old laws
and old customs which were adequate
and proper to meet the old condi
tions' need radical readjustment in
order to meet these new conditions.
The cardinal features in these changed
conditions are, first, the fact that
the new highway, the railway, is,
from the commercial standpoint, of
infinitely greater importance in our
industrial life than was the old high
way, the wagon road; and, second,
that this new highway, the railway,
is in the hands of private owners,
whereas the old highway, the wagon
road, was in the hands of the State.
The management of the new high
way, the railroad, or rather of the
intricate web of railroad lines which
cover the country, is a task infinitely
more difficult, more delicate and
more important than the primitively
easy task of acquiring or keeping in
order the old highway; so there is
properly no analogy whatever be
the two cases. I do not believe in
government ownership of anything
which can with propriety be left in
private hands, and in particular I
should most strenuously object to
government ownership of railroads.
But I believe with equal firmness that
it is out of the question for the gov
ernment not to exercise a supervisory
and regulatory right over the rail
roads; for it is vital to the well-being
of the public that they should be
managed in a spirit of fairness and
justice toward all the public. Actual
experience has shown that it is not
possible to leave the railroads uncon
trolled. Such a system, or rather
such a lack of system, is fertile in
abuses of every kind, and puts a
premium upon unscrupulous and
ruthless cunning in rauroaa manage
ment; for there are some big shippers
and some railroad managers who are
always willing to take unfair advant
age of their weaker competitors, and
they thereby force other big shippers
and big railroad men who would like
to do decently into similar acts of
wrong and injustice, under penalty of
being left behind in the race of success.
Government supervision is needed
quite as much in the interest of the
big shipper and of the railroad man
who wants to do right as in the inter
est of the small shipper and the con
sumer. Experience has shown that the
present laws are defective and need
amendment. The effort to prohibit
all restraint of competition, whether
reasonable or unreasonable, is un
wise. What we need is to have some
administrative body with ample
Eower to forbid combination that is
urtful to the public, and to prevent
favoriteism to one individual at the
expense of another. In other words,
we want an administrative body with
the power to secure fair and just
all shiDDers who
use the railroads and all shippers
naiiouai control, nut it is a mere
rr?rnmrr?mmyT7frfmm
I Selling OutlothJng. 1
Every Man's, Boy's and Child's Suit
included in this Closing out Sale.
g Biggest Stock, Latest
jfc Goods.
I ALL MUST GO.
ll Every Suit marked with
Just Right
1 Come quick and get
I Samuel Watkin.se
have a right to use them. We must
not leave the enforcement of such a
law merely to the Department of Jus
tice; it is out of the question for the
law department of the Government
to do what should be purely adminis
trative work. The Department of
Justice is to stand behind and co
operate with the administrative body
but the administratve body itself
must be given the power to do the
work and then held to a strict ac
countability for the exercise of that
power. The delays of the law are
proverbial, and what we need in this
matter is reasonable quickness of
action.
The abuses of which we have a gen
uine right to complain take mairy
shapes. Rebates are not now often
given openly. But they can be given
just as effectively in covert form;
and private cars, terminal tracks and
the like must be brought under the
control of the commission or admin
istrative body, which is is to exercise
supervision by the Government. But
in my judgment the most important
thing to do is to give to this admin
istrative body power to make its
findings effective, and this can be
done only by giving it power, when
complaint is made of a given rate as
being unjust or unreasonable, if it
finds the complaint proper, then it
self to fix a maximum rate which it
regards as just and reasonable, this
rate to go into effect practically at
once, that is within a reasonable time
and to stay in effect, unless reversed
by the courts. I earnestly hope that
by law power will be conferred upon
representatives of the Government
capable of performing the duty of
public accountants carefully to ex
amine into the books of railroads,
when so ordered by the Interstate
Commerce Commission, which should
itself have power to prescribe vhat
books, and what books only, should
be kept by railroads. If there is in
the minds of the Commission any
suspicion that a certain railroad is
in any shape or way giving rebates
or behaving improperly, I wish the
Commission to havepower as a mat
ter of right, not as a matter of favor,
to make a full and exhaustive inves
tigation of the receipts and expendi-i
tures of the railroad, so that any !
violation or evasion of the law may j
be detected. This is not a revolu-
tionary proposal on my part, for i
only wish the same power given in
reference to railroads that is now ex
ercised as a matter of course by the
national bank examiners as regards
national banks. My object in giving
these additianal powers to the ad
ministrative body representing the
Government the Interstate Com
merce Commission, or whatever it
may be is primarily lo secure a real
and not a sham control to the Gov
ernment representatives. The Amer
ican people abhor a sham, and witn
this abhorrence I cordially sympa
thize. Nothingis more injurious from
every standpoint than a law which is
merely sound and fury, merely pre
tense, and not capable of working
out tangible results. I hope to -see
all the power that I think it ought
to have granted the Government;
but I would far rather see only some
of it granted, but really granted,
than see a pretense of granting all,
in some shape that really amounts
to nothing.
It must be understood, as a matter
of couse, that if this power is grant
ed it is to be exercised with wisdom
and caution and self-restraint. The
Interstate Commerce Commission or
other Government ofiicial who failed
to protect a railroad that was in the
right against any clamor, no matter
how violent, on the part of the pub
lic, would be guilty of as gross a
wrong as if he corruptly rendered an
improper service to the railroad at
the expense of the public. When I
say a square deal 1 mean a square
deal; exactly as much a square deal
See Some of oir Marked Down
118.00 Suits Reduced to $10.00, fl2.00 and
16.50 " " " 8.25, 10.00 "
15.00 " " " 7.50, 8.50 "
12.50 " " " G.25, 7.00 "
10.00 " " " 4,00, COO "
Suits at $3.00, $3.50, $4.00 and $4.50, GOOD AND
Red String Ticket Showing Price that was and now is.
$5.00 Shoes now $3.50 and $4.00.
our Bargains,
for the rich man as for the poor man;
but no more. Let each stand on his
merits, receive what is due him, and
be judged according, to his deserts.
To more he is not entitled, and less
he shall not have.
Don't Borrow Trouble.
It is a bad habit to borrow anything, but
the worst thing you can possibly borrow is
trouble. When sick, sore, heavy, weary and
worn-out by the pains and poisons of dys
pepsia, biliousness, Bright's disease, and
similar internal disorders, don't sitdownand
brood over your symptoms, but fly for relief
to Electric Bitters. Here you will find sure
and permanent forget.fulness of all your trou
bles, dud your body will not be burdened by
a load of debt disease. At Melville Dorsey's
drug store. Price 50e. Guaranteed.
Local
Reciprocity, Business
Social.
and
New Berne Journal.
Reciprocity between nations is very
often held to be the great panacea of
its commercial sides and unites coun
tries for peace and trade interests,
and proves a bulwark against pos
sible international complications
which might lead to war and blood
shed. If reciprocity is so important and
beneficial between nations, what
must be said in its favor when given
local application in a community,
when neighbors join interest to as
sist each other and promote good
feelings, commercially and socially.
If there is one certain means to give
development and establish local
stability in trade, it is through recip
rocal efforts of every citizen to trade
with the home merchant and for
merchant and citizen to work togeth
er to promote and build up local
enterprises.
In no particular, usually is the
lack of reciprocity so evident, as is
that shown towards the local news
paper. Here is an enterprise, an in
stitution, which stands for every
community's interest, gives free help
to local enterprises, bears the brunt
and fights every outside attack made
upon its people, and this without
any recompense. And yet in every
community there are citizens who
accept its newspaper's favors in way
of local protection, and never adver
tise in its columns, or subscribe for
its issues. But if one of the friends
of such men die, or a relative gets in
the police court, or a social function
is given, there is the favor to lie
asked of the local newspaper, to sup
press the evil, exalt the dead, glorify
the living. Such people are like the
citizen who pays no taxes, but is the
first to call out loudest for police
protection, and abuse the officer
who does not come to his help on the
run.
It is this mutual help from every
side that builds up every line of trade
in a community. It is the same in
religious matters, where the question
is not asked as to being a brother's
keeper, but going unsolicited when
the neighbor needs help. Society is
not given its true value unless there
be the joint effort of the entire circle
to assist, and thus it is on every side
in a community, the urgent need for
reciprocity, the kind which is unself
ish, which is willing to give and
share, instead of standing aside wait
ing for the chance to get the better
of some neighbor who may be in
trouble, and cannot protect himself.
A Card.
Thin is to certify that all druggists are au
thorized to refund yonr money if Foley's
Honey and Tar fails to core yonr cough or
cold. It stops the cough, heals the lungs and
prevents serious results from a cold. Cares
la grippe cough and prevents pneumonia and
consumption. Contains no opiates. The
genuine is in a vellow nackatre. Refnm anb-
statutes, Melville Dorsey, Druggist.
IN RICHMOND.
Style, New j
Prices:
$15.00
12.50
10.00
7.50
5.25
ALL RIGHT.
State Pride.
(iroonslioro Industrial Vvs.
We cannot commend too highly the
able plea for a greater State pride
made by President i'nbt. W. Winston
of the State Literary and Historical
Association at its meeting in Raleigh
Tuesday night and produced iu our
issue of yesterday.
As Judge Wi list on says, '-()nr St a t c
!.- UMI, Mil f M I I :M rl I 111 IlVeilOlll
and short on methodical 'habits and
attention to details." and much in
formation lias been lost forever,
which would today be considered
priceless.
To rely solely on the glories of the
past and be forever recounting what
we have doneisent irely different from
giving to our lx-nl and State historv
the importance it deserves.
For generations we North Carolin
ians have been doers rather than
writers and have allowed the name
and fame of our old mother State to
lake care of themselves. content with
ourselves, knowing that we were do
iag nothing to disgrace her.
Paul Revere won deathless name
and fame, and while we have no dis
position to do aught, but praise him,
we do say that a thousand deeds as
brave as his have been done and for
gotten in North Carolina, simplv be
cause our Longfellows had no public
waiting for their deathless words.
It is all well enough to talk of great
writers finding an audience for them
selves, but a country does not pro
duce great writers which has not
among its people a love for their
work.
The State Literary and Historien
Association has a great work before
it and it is almost with shame that
we repeat the fact stated by Judge
Winston that it has only two hun
dred and forty active members. Ten
times that number would be all too
few and we urge all loyal North Car
olinians to give it their active sup
port. A Pleasure to All.
No I'ill is as pleasant and positive as D
Witt's Little Early Itii-ers. TliPxe famoiif
Little Pills are so mild and effective that chil
dren, delicate Indies and weak people enjoy
tueir cleansing effect, while st rone people say
they are the best liver pills sold. Sold at
Parker's Two Drug Stores.
The Cigarette Evil.
In a recent discourse on various
evils. Rev. J. C. Massee, pastor of the
Jiaptist labernacle 111 Kaleigh, said
this about the cigarette evil:
OI the cigarette it mav be trulv eaid
that the youth of the present generation
has no more dangerous foe, and the habit
is almost universal. Almost every boy
one meets is a emoker; and its power
over its victim is almost absolute. It is
almost incredible that so much barm can
be wrapped up in a small roll of paper
with a taste of arsenic upon its edce
and filled with a pinch of tobacco. But
its physical ear-marks upon the human
body are yellow Angers, bloated eyelids,
a peculiar yellow-green complexion, un
steady nerves, and an ultimate cough af
fecting the lungs and insuring a tobacco
heart. The mental and moral results
are loss of memory, loss of will-power,
loss of resolution, the failure to make
proper moral discriminations, the con
stant weakening of moral character, loss
of moral standing and ultimate complete
moral slavery.
What ia needed is more education and
more agitation about the evils of the
cigarette education in our schools of a
scientific sort, and in our homes and
churches of a social and moral sort agi
tation everywhere in the homes, at
school, at church, in social circles, in
every public institution and in every
legislative ball in our land. Talk is
-u' -:u. ,--7.. I
oicttu, uut iur riRui iwu ui lain iruiu lue
right folks is effective. And the mothers,
wives and sisters are the right ones to
talk oo these subjects and to demand
that their talk be beard.
CoiEYSHiruEYCunE
First Formal Address Made on
Southern Trip.
Capital City of Old Dominion Pays
Signal Honors to Distinguished
Ouest.oPresldent Captivates Hear
ers by His Words of Friendless and
Praise.
The first stop made by President
Roosevelt on his Southern trip was
in Richmond. He received a royal
reception and made a speech which
greatly pleased his hearers. The
President was introduced by Gov.
Montague and spoke in the Capitol
Square. He said:
I trust I need hardly say how great
is my pleasure at speaking iu this
historiccapitalof your liistoricState;
the State than which no other has
contributed a larger proportion to
the leadership of the nation; for 011
the honor roll of those American
worthies whose greatness is not only
for the age, but for all time, not only
for one nation, but for all the world,
on this honor roll Virginia's name
stands above all others. And iu
greeting all of you, I know that no
one will grudge my saying a special
world of acknowlegement to the vet
erans of the Civil War. A man would
indeed be but a poor American who
could without a thrill witness the
way in which, in city after city in the
North and the South, on every pub
lic occasion, the men who wore the
blue and the men who wore the gray
now march and stand shoulder to
shoulder, giving tangible proof that
we are all now in fact as well as iu
name a reunited people, u people in fi
nitely richer because of the priceless
memories left to all Americans by
you men who fought, in the great war.
Iast Memorial Day I spoke 111
Brooklyn, at the unveiling of the
statue of a Northern general, under
the auspices of the Grand Army of
the Republic, and that great audience
cheered every allusion to the valor
and self-devotion of the men who fol
lowed l?e as heartily as they cheered
everv allusion to the valor and self-
devotion of the men who followed
Grant. The wounds left by the great
Civil War have long healed, but its
memories remain. Think of it, oh,
my countrymen, think of the good
fortune that is ours! That whereas
every other war of modern times has
left feelings of rancor nnd bitterness
to keepasunder the combatants, our
great war has left to the sons and
daughters of the men who fought, 011
which ever side they fought, the same
right to feel the keenest pride in the
great deeds alike of the men who
fought on one side and of the men
who fought on the other. The proud
self-sacrifice, the resolute and daring
courage, the high and steadfast de
votion to the right as each man saw
it, whether Northerner orSoutherner j
these qualities render all Americans
forever the debtors of those who in
the dark days from 'Gl to (." proved i
their truth bv their endeavor. Here 1
around Richmond, here in your own
State; there lies battlefield after bat
tlefield, rendered forever memorable
by the men who counted death as but
a little thing when weighed in the
balance against doing their duty as
it was given them to see it. These
men have left us of the younger gen
eration not merelv the memory of
what they did in war, but of what
they did in peace. Foreign observers
predicted that when such a great
war closed it would be impossible for
the hundreds of thousands of com
batants to return to the paths of
ieace. They predicted ceaseless dis-1
order, wild turbulence, the alterna-;
tion of anarchy and desfotism. Rut j
the good sense and self-restraint of'
the average American citizen falsified '
these prophecies. The great armies!
disbanded and the private in the!
ranks, like the officer who had com
manded him, went back to take up;
the threads of his life where he had
dropped the.n when the call to arms'
came. It was a wonderful, a mar-'
velous thing, in a country consecra-'
ted to peace with but an infinitesimal I
regular army, to develop so quickly
the huge hosts which f routed one'
another between the James and the
Potomac and along the Mississippi j
and its tribut nrif?s. Hut it wns ui
even more wonoenui, ana even more;
marvelous thing, how these great !
uosis, ojee ineir worK oone, resou'ea ,
themselres into the general fabric of I
ie nation.
XOHLK NTltl'liCLE SINCE W'A It.
Great though the meed of praise is
which is due the South for the sol
dierly valor her sons displayed dur
ing the four years of war, I think
t lifi t even irrwiilur Titvi ii. !j lni r, l,u. !
for w hat her wople have accomplish-!
ed in the forty years of iieaee which j
followed. For forty years the South
has made not merely a courageous, I
but at times a desperate struggle, as
sue nas striven ior moral aim mate
rial well !eing. Her siiere ha been
extraordinary, and nil citizen of our
common country should feel joy and
pride in it; for any great deed done, i
or any tine qualities shown, by one!
group of Araeri -ans, of necessity re
flects credit upon all Americans.
Only a heroic people could have bat- j
tied" successfully against the condi-1
tionswith which the people of the;
South found themselves face to face
at the end of the Civil War. There
had been utter destruction and dis
aster, and wholly new business and
social problems had to be faced with
the scantiest means. The economic
and political fabric had to be read
justed in the midst of dire want, of
grinding poverty. The future of the
"n.-a owum
broken, war-swept South seemed be-
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K! TL t Y T
daughters had been of weaker fiber
! there would be in very truth have
j been no hope. But the men and the
I sons of the men who had faced with
sous
unfaltering frout every alternation of
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