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Vol.1. No. 13.
A Weekly Mirror of North Carolina Life
RALEIGH, N. C, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1913.
The Message Ambassador Page Will Carry
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AMBASSADOR PAGE.
Since Ambassador Walter H. Page goes to
represent the greatest Republic at the court
of the greatest Kingdom, it is important to
know the kind of message he will carry. It
will be of peculiar interest to the people of
North Carolina, since he is a native son of this
State, where others still live to honor the
name he bears. The following extracts from
his speeches and writings indicate clearly
what his message to the Old World will be.
It will be one of courage and hope, of faith in
democracy and confidence in the future up
lift and betterment of mankind. And the Old
World will hear his message gladly.
"The only advantage that Americans have over
their kinsmen of the Old World is the advantage
of free democratic training. We are no more ca
pable by nature than the English, and we are not
as well trained as the Germans, but we have
greater social mobility, which is the very essence of
democratic training. We have built a type of so
ciety that permits more men to find their natural
place in it. And thus it is that the greatest con
tribution to social science, to the science of train
ing men and of building States, is the demonstra
tion that we have made of the ever recreative and
ever renewing quality of democratic society."
"Society forever needs re-enforcements from the
rear. It is a shining day in any educated man's
growth when he comes to see and to know and to
feel and to admit that it is just as important to
the world that the ragamuffin child and the worth
less neighbor should be trained as it is that his own
child should be. Until a man sees this he cannot
be a worthy democrat nor get a patriotic concep
tion of education, for no man hos known the deep
meaning of democracy or felt either its obligation
or its lift till he has seen this truth clearly."
all known two such who held high places in Church
and State. President Eliot said a little while ago
that the ablest man that he had known in many
years' connection with Harvard University was
the son of a brick mason. The child, whether it
have poor parents or rich parents, is the most val
uable undeveloped resource in the State."
"The most sacred thing in the Commonwealth
and to the Commonwealth is the child) whether it
be your child or the child of the dull faced mother
of the hovel. The child of the dull faced mother
may for all you know be the most capable child in
the State. At its worst it is capable of good citi
zenship and a useful life, if its intelligence be. quick
ened and trained. Several of the strongest per
sonalities that were born in North Carolina were
men whose very fathers were unknown. We have
"I believe in the free public training of both the
hands and the mind of every child born of women.
I believe that by the right training of men we
add to the wealth of the world. All wealth is the
creation of man, and he creates it only in propor
tion to i he trained uses of the community; and the
more we train the more wealth every one may cre
ate. I believe in the perpetual regeneration of so
ciety, in the immortality of democracy, and in
growth everlasting."
"The Southern people were deflected from their
natural development. Tney are the purest Ameri
can stock we have. They are naturally as capable
as any part of our population. They are now
slowly but surely working out their own destiny, and
that destiny is a democratic order of society which
will be an important contribution to the Republic
that their ancestors took so large a part in estab
lishing. Rich undeveloped resources of American
life lie in these great rural stretches that are al
most unknown. The foremost patriotic duty if
our time is to hasten their development."
"Great changes come as silently as the season.
I am no more sure of this springtime than I am of
the rejuvenation of our society and the lifting up
of our life."
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