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SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1909.
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An Able Discussion
North
Members of the General Assembly,
Ladies and gentlemen:
Political parties are not only na
tural, but necessary in our Govern
ment. Under our Constitution all the
legislative powers of the State every
two years, and all the executive pow
ers every four years are returned to
the people, to whom all governmen-
! tal powers belong, and the electors at
these stated intervals determine into
' whose hands these powers shall be
: committed. The Democratic party
; has again been charged by the people
with the responsibility for the proper
exercise of these powers during the
I constitutional periods. By thus
i further entrusting public affairs to
this party they have endorsed it?
record and have approved its declar
ations of principles as set forth in
i j;he Charlotte platform. In approving
' its record they did ltot intend to de
clare it faultless, or to approve every
act committed in its name. No hu
man being is perfect and no organi
zation of men is perfect. The people
did, however, approveve its funda
mental doctrine. As no man is alto
jether bad, no political party is al
together bad. Jn disannroving the
record of the Republican -party and
rejecting its platform the people did
not declare that nothing in the re
cord is good and nothing in that
platform desirable, but they express
ed tbeir judgment that the record as
a whole of Republican party in this
State has been harmful, that its
platform criticism of' the service of
the Democratic party to the public
j is unjust, and that its denunciations
J of Democratic policies are unwar-
ranted.
In assuming today, in obedience to
! the will of a majority of my fellow-
citizens, the weighty responsibilities
of the Chief Executive of this Com
monwealth, it is unnecessary to give
assurance that the recognized prin
ciples of the Democratic party shall
be encouraged and pursued by the
j incoming administration. We have
j been commanded to maintain and
j promote so far as we can the great
policies which have been continued
or inaugurated during the last eight
years, as well as to undertake the
establishment of the new policies pro
pounded in the platform which was
endorsed at the polls and with the
provisions of which you are already
familiar.
primaries.
Many electors unfortunately have
the easy disposition of failing to ex
ercise their right of suffrage, or of
exercising it in the general elections,
with other motives than the highl
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puipuses UJ. surenguiening me party
representing their political princi
ples, and selecting officials who will,
in their judgment, best serve the
country's interests. Every precau
tion should be taken to assure each
elector's having, and understanding
ly having, an equal voice in naming
the candidates of his party. A prop-eriysafe-guardecT
direct primary for
selecting the nominee of all political
parties is the best plan that has been
or can be devised. It enables the
people to have closer touch with,
and more effective control of their
officials. It renders harmless efforts
to trade against the wishes of the
electors. It does much to destroy
the cry and more to nullify the at
tempt of ring rule. It ought to di
minish the expenses of campaigns
for nominations. Should such ex
penses for legitimate purposes in
crease as they have increased in re
cent years, it will soon be that none
but wealthy men can hopefully as
pire to our higher offices unless
others pay his campaign expenses
for the nomination. If others pay
his expenses, he will feel under ob
ligations to them and will not be in
position to render the people his
best service, especially in matters
involving doubt as to the path of
public duty. The public should in
sist on haying every " ial free
from obligation for his nomination
for office, except to the people.
Every reasonable safe-guard should
be thrown around our nominations
and elections to secure the
accom-
plishment of the honest judgment .
and unconstrained wishes of the elec-j
tors, and to render less effective the
shrewdness of astute politicians in
furthering mere personal purposes
and reaching mere personal ends.
Ability, patriotism, character, ser-1
vice and the principles and policies I
of aspirants are rightfully the ele-1
ins
naugurai Address.
of the Best Interests of
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Carolina.
ments whichppeal to the judgment
of electors, and these should be the
source of success. To partially attain
to this standard and to partially eli
minate other considerations,the pub
licity, before convention and elec
tion, of campaign funds and the
names of contributors as favored
in the last Democratic platform will
be effective, and a suitable law
should be enacted to accomplish the
purpose of that plank. Whether you
favor a general mandatory primary
law or not, there are provisions to
which there may be no opposition
and which ought to be enacted and
made applicable to all counties where
primaries are held. Among these
provisions are the following: First,
delegates should be required to cast
the vote on the first ballot, according
to the primary result. Second, there
should be a registered list of party
voters subject to challenge. Third,
the legislature should fix the date of
primaries for all State, judicial and
congressional offices, and also fix an
other date for primaries for legisla
tive and county offices, with a pro
vision permitting the. county execu
tive committee in its liscrection to
adopt for any county primary the
state and district primary day.
Fourth, all corrupt use of money for
primary effect should be made an
offence against the law. Fifth, when
only one candidate gives notice in
vriting of his candidacy to the prop
er executive committee by a stated
period prior to the primary day, the
committee should have the legal
power to declare him the party nom
inee. This period should be longer
for State and district than for county
candidates. Sixth, the wilful publi
cation of any false charge Yrcern-
mg his political record or reflecting
upon his moral character for the
purpose of injuring a candidate in
the primaries with the people should
be penalized by law.
PROHIBITION.
The p.iople having, after much agi
tation and full discussion, ratified by
a large majority State prohibition,
the Legislature should not seriously
consider any prtiposioion to repeal
the prohibition law. No one doubts
the right of the people to have their
will in this matter duly, fairly and
earnestly expressed, to reign as the
law of our State. Every good citi
zen whether he originally favored
this law or opposed it, should ins;st
upon its honest and faithful enforce
ment. It is an experiment with us,
but no State ever entered upon the
experiment under more favorable
conditions than confront us. and I
trust that a unity of purpose will in
spire all good citizens to aid in -rendering
enforcement as successful as
possible. No one expects the law to
remain unviolated, but we have a
right to expect its penalties to be
upon those who violate it. Our pun
ishments are not for purposes of
cruelty, or revenge, but are unfor
tunately necessary to diminish viola
lations of law and to obtain com
pliance with the people's, will in
their efforts to elevate themselves
and improve the conditions under
which they struggle to better ard
happier circumstances.
education.
The blessings of education no good
man denies, its necessity no wise
man doubts, and its opportunities no
just citizen would withhold from the
public. Pride fills the heart of every
patriotic North Carolinian in con
templating the rapid strides with
which great improvement in our pub
lic schools is continuing. Larger
and more comfortable school houses
taking the place of inferior ones, a
higher class of teachers and instruc
tion constantly appearing, and at
tendance day after day increasing
cause gratification over our system.
I have in mind no general reform in
our educational work, but a deep
conviction that we should more
thoroughly develop a system already
constructed by patriotic wisdom.
Nothing can strengthen your deter
mination to advance the educational
interests of our State to the utmost
of your ability while duly consider-
ing the public revenues, the sources
from which they are derived, and
the other needs of the State appeal
ing to your judgment. We are not
a wealthy State in market or taxable
values in comparison with States a
vast part of whose wealth has never
been swept away by war, and its
blighting aftermath, and the same
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rate of taxation will not raise for us
so much money as they received per
capita. The less wealthy a State is
the greater burden a given rate of
taxation is, as from every one's in
come his fixed necessary living ex
penses must first come. The State
is doing well and as her wealth in
creases she will do better.
Under present conditions every
child in the State may receive at
public expense an education, limited
though it be.which will greatly ben
efit him in the contest of life's re
wards. The basic p ,;pose in public
education is good ritii.ensh.ip. In a
republic to have a republic certainly
just, and to insure the punishment of
wrong and the protection of virtue,
to prevent oppression and guaran
tee right, to distribute the blessings
arising from organized society
equally and to levy the burden of its
sustenancee equitably upon persons,
property and privileges, three things
are essential in citizenship--a heart
so honorable that it cannot be cor
rupted, a soul so courageous that it
cannot be intimidated, and a mind
so intelligent that it cannot be de
ceived, for then three methods the
hosts -of wrong attempt are to cor
rupt, intimidate and deceive. With
a people merely conscientious and
courageous oppression has easy con
tests and fruitful conquests, but
with such a people education be
comes the bulwark of libertv. in
creasing tneir honor and courage,
discovering the purpose and plan
of the oppressor, and enabling them
to resist inJrect and insidious as
saults, as our uneducated ancestors
repelled the direct wrongs against
them centuries ago. While there will
continue to be bad men whose evil
conduct will ever emphasize the vir
tue of others it is fortunate that in
our eivilization good men, though
not perfect, predominate, and with
te people educated, this majority
:s greatly strengthened and its atiec
tiveness for right, truth and liberty
more than doubled.
No State can afford to do other
wise than be liberal, both with her
ordinary public schools and with her
higher institutions of learning. In
an agricultural State such as ours is.
too much stress cannot be placed up
on agricultural education, as a great
majority of our people live upon ihe
farm. A man good in his avocation
or profession, whether a farmer,
doctor, blacksmith or other is apt to
be a good citizen, and the probabil
ity of success and contentment is
largely in his favor. The skilled man
in his line of work adds rapidly to
ihe wealth of the State, and thus
strengthens the revenues upon which
the State depends for all the great
work 'she undertakes. With tele
phones, rural free delivery of mail
and good roads, there is needed to
make country life more profitable
and enjoyable, a knowledge of com
prehensive and accurate as may be
of agriculture, of preserving and
increasiug-soil fertility, of plant se
lection and plant life, of rotation,
drainage, diversification, farm econ
omies and comforts and other mat
ters to make happier and more re
munerative the business of those who
woo necessities of human life from
the soil with patience and toil. Not
a dozen great colleges can adequate-
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iy supply it to tne neopie. we re-
Wnize the great value of those men
here and there in the State, some of I
them graduates of our institutions,
whose intelligent, practical and pro
gressive farming is an example and
an inspiration to whole communities.
Doubtless in the long years the de
sired results will be reached under
the present processes of progress,
but the magnitude and the magnifi
cent possibilities of our agricultural
interests justify every reasonable ef
tort to quicken them. I shall en
courage a policy already adopted,
urging that the simple essentials of
agriculture be throroughly taught
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in our public schools. With such es- ed to that magnitude that the public
sentials taught to the boys I predict j may rightfully require that hereaf
a thirst in them for more informa- j ter every mill erected shall be con-
tion which will increase the atten
dance upon our institutes, the sub
scription to agricultural papers, and
the study of farm bulletins and
other literature, all of which will
promote the pleasure and profit of
agricultural life.
I am strongly impressed with the
importance that in addition to regu
lar instruction in hygiene, there
should be special instruction upon
typhoid fever and tuberculosis, and
especially upon precautions to limit
and avoid them, both of which, in
the opinion of the medical world are
largely preventable diseases. Those
who know, even partially,must teach
those who do not know, and when
teaching is one's business, what
should he teach rather than how to
protect human life from its mos
terrible enemies? Teachers are not
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expected to oe doctors, out some
simple text work on the prevention
of these two diseases should be
taught. Their prevalence and fatal
ity, and the fact that they are avoid
able justify the teacher in preparing
suitable lectures, or better still, in
securing some physician to lecture
on them. The profession of medi
cine, which does so much charitable
work, I doubt not has members in
every county who will gladly lecture
to the schools on these subjects
charitable institutions.
The good people of our State have
no cause tor greater pride in their
governmental undertakings than in
their care of and provision for the
unfortunates within our borders.
Our institutions for the education of
some and tor the maintenance and
treatment of others shrink not in
comparison with such institutions in
our sister States. No better work
or one closer to the hearts of us all
is being done by the State, The
State should not be profligate, but
it should be liberal with these insti
tutions. With liberality for such
worthy purposes should go the
closest scrutiny into expenditures,
and a constant determination not to
be careless with taxes willingly paid
for meritorious public purposes, and
not to be extravagant in public gen
erosity. PENSIONS.
The Confederate veteran needs no
further eulogy than he has always
had and will always have from every
brave and patriotic North Carolinian,
but many veterans need more assist
ance from the State whose honor
they maintained, whose glory they
increased, and to whose cause they
gave an unstinted devotion in the
days of their young manhood. I
trust that with a due regard to other
i matters requiring your appropria
tions you will find the conditions of
our revenues such that you can in
crease our pensions.
RETURN TO PROSPERITY.
We congratulate the State that its
manufacturing industries are emerg
ing from the shadows of the recent
panic. While prices of some of our
farm products have not been very
greatly depaessed during this period
of general hard times, yet the low
prices of the important crops of cot
ton and peanuts wrought serious in
jury to large sections of the State.
With the revival of business through
out the country, which always fol
lows panics, our State will reap her
share of benefits. State policies
never yet caused a general panic, and
State legislatures can do nothing to
avert one. Our people were extreme
ly fortunate in being so well prepar-
ed to weather the storms which they
did not produce and could not es
cape, for the industries of ho State
withstood the panic better than ours
and suffered less its direful ef
fects. Every citizen should do what
is in his power to hasten the full re
turn of prosperity to our farms and
factories which they so richly de
serve and which will assure similar
prosperity to all other industries.
FACTORY LIFE.
Factory life is increasing and fac
tory conditions will constantly press
upon the attention of all. Factories
should not be hindered or crippled
in their great work, bt?t should be
urged forward to greater triumphs.
However, the object of effort is not
to pile brick upon brick or to merely
perfect processes of earning money.
Human happiness is sought, not
merely for the few, but all. He that
works to help another amass a for
tune is entitled in addition to his
wages to healthful surroundings.and
pleasant conditions, otherwise his
struggle for happiness is handicap
ped and fruitless. While many of
our mills are sanitary to a high de
gree, especially those of recent con
struction, our factories have attain-
struct ed in accordance with the
de-
manrls of sanitation to avoid as tar
r.
as possible disease among operators
as they are now constructed in ac
cordance with insurance demands to
avoid as far as possible fire losses.
Every right thinking man is
against child factory labor, yet eve
ry one knows that under present
conditions unless our homes for the
aged and infirm and our orphanges
are vastly enlarged some children
must labor. Neither the counties
nor the denominations are ready to
shoulder the expense, however good
in theory, of maintaining' 'all those
whom children now help to Bupport
and such children themselves as now
have to work. Child labor of some
kind at present is an unavoidable
evil. It appers that those children
who must toil can earn more in fac
tories than on farms, and often they
and theirs perfer the frctory. The
mill children of today will be the
ancestors of many workers of the
future. For our factories to com
pete with others high class labor will
be essential. High class labor must be
healthy. A- far-sighted wisdom
makes our mill owners anxious not
only to preserve, but to improve the
health of every operative, both for
present results and future safety.
Our law prohibiting children under
thirteen years of age from working
m lactones should be enforced.
doubt not that our managers en
deavor to comply with its provisions.
There should be some official inspec
tion to aid in its enforcement, and it
should be under the Bureau of Labor
and Printing. We know the difficulty
of refusing employment to the child
who must work and who can earn
more money in a factory than else
where, but the law which has been
written should be obeyed. While a
system lodging m some official the
duty of investigating each case of
proposed child labor and ascertaining
how otherwise the child.or a disabled
,ather or widowed mother could be
supported, or whether admittance to
some asylum could be had, thecondi-
ions under which such child would
work, his physical development, the
number of hours required and other
facts bearing on it, and requiring
upon such investigation a decision in
writing, giving reasons, and either
permitting or denying employment,
might be better than the system we
have adopted, yet our3 was adopted,
as I understand, uion mutual agree
ment of those employing labor, those
representing the employed and those
representing the public, and it re
mains for the authorities of the
people, including the legislature, to
see that our system is properly car
ried out. In wise efforts to perfect
this system you may confidently ex
pect the co-operatioa of our manu
fae'urers. CORPORATIONS.
The Attorney-General should be the one that violates it. TheLegis
authorized to examine every propos-l lature prescribes the law as a rule of
ed charter lor corporations to see
that it violates neither the written
nor unwritten law. He should bei
specifically charged with the duty of
enforcing our law against all corpor
ations domestic and foreign habitu
ally violating its provisions. When
a corporation is conducting a busi
ness in violation of law, no one feels
that it is his special duty to act, but
every one is inclined to wait for some
one else to proceed, and where the
greatest violation iscommitted-here
the corporation may create strong
sentiment against its prosecution.
Many of the wrongs committed by
corporations against our people are
under circumstances which the State
cannot control and cannot be wholly
remedied except by the. Federal gov
ernment. Yet the State can do some
thing for the "public and has a duty
to do for her own interests. We
should require every foreign corpor
ation to obtain license to do business
in this State, and should provide that
such license should be revoked when
it is engaged in violating our law, or
in attempting under the powers of
monopoly to exact from the indus
trial life of the State unreasonable
profits with which to pay dividends
upon fictitious values or watered
stock. Such license should also be
revocable when any such corpora
tion maintains an "established office
in this State for the transaction of
its regular business or the collection
of its revenues, enriching itself from
our people, under our laws and by
our comity and yet fails to submit to
the jurisdiction of our courts, as all
our domestic corporations are re
quired to do. I am aware, of course,
of the criticisms which may be ex
pected from such foreign corpora
tions as desire to be let alone in their
wrong doing, and of the opposition
which they will offer to our effort to
compell them to conform to the rule
of justice and equity. The State,
however, owes her people the high
duty which a brave citizenship should
require to be performed. Nor corpor
ation lacking confidence in our courts
should desire to enter our midst to
gather wealth from fields it did not(
cultivate, and no corporation having
contempt for our sovereignty should
be permitted to reap golden harvests
where it did no sow. We have reach
ed that stage of industrial and ma
terial ' strength where if every
foreign corporation should unite in
withdrawing from our State, domes
tic corporations obedient to the pub
lic will, respecting the people's law,
will take the places, perform the
functions and render the services
now by such foreign corporations
performed and rendered. Our State
has always dealt and will continue to
deal kindly with corporations. Their
importance, usefulness and necessity
in developing our natural resources
are recognized. They have univers
al praise for their part in the up
building of our State, in the increase
of wealth, in the employment of our
people, and for the spirit of progress
which they exhibit and inspire. They
have rights which are and will be re
spected and encouraged. Unjust
burdens and wrongful restrains have
not and will not be placed upon them.
They have special privileges which
individuals however interprising can
not have privileges which justify
special burdens and require a more
careful supervision by public author
ity than individuals. Creatures of
the law, they owe an obedience to
its mandates strictar if possible than
individuals who created the law.
Without soul, conscience, or physical
body, exempt from remorse, from
fear of future punishment, and from
jails, it is natural that they should
more easily than individuals yield to
temptations to violate the laws in
their effort to make money the
great purpose of their existence.
Yet owing to the high character of
men who control them. I doubt not
that nine-tenths of our corporations
comply with the law and do abso
lutely honest business, and are there
fore entirely free from public com
plaint. These corporations -like in
dividuals suffer the injury inflicted
by men and corporations that violate
the law The law-abiding corpora
tion has the desire to enforce the
law against the law-defying fellow,
for no one can have a greater busi
ness interest to prevent corporations
from violating the law than the cor
poration that lives within it3 bounds.
The State believes in justice even
handed and universal and it strives
towards the attainment of universal
right, regarding not wnether a cor
rupt man or a corrnpt corporation
impedes its progress. As it discrimi
nates between the man who obeys
the law and the one who violates it,'
so should it discriminate between the
corporation that obeys the law and
conduct commanding what is right
and prohibiting what is wrong, and
in my opinion only the man or cor
poration that fears the right or fol
lows Wrong need dread the wisdom
of the people or the action of their
legislatures. The man who by foul
means wilfully and needlessly takes
the life of a rival, under our law for
feits his own. The corporat mono
poly that by foul means wilfully and
needlessly destroys his rival by
wrong doing for the purpose of ex
acting unjust profits from the pub
lic should forfeit its existence. All
the power of the State in all its de
partments should be exerted to de
stroy every unnatural monopoly, ev
ery industrial trust that commits its
wrongs upon the people and their
industries. And the fixed policy of
regulating the natural monopolies,
the public service corporation.should
be maintained.
good roads and drainage.
It would be a difficult to ever-esti-mate
the value of good roads. While
various counties are doing much in
this direction many counties are
doing very little. We are yet but
on the threshold cf the good roads
movement and the next generation
will witness wonderful progress. We
of this day should in every practical
way encourage it. Whether it is
feasible to adopt a general plan of
State aid to or co-operation with the
counties under present conditions of
our revenues is extremely doubtful.
The State can enact an improved up-
to-date law which shall apply to eve
ry county that hereafter adopts the
taxation plan of building good roads
and thus promote uniformity of sys
tem. A thing to be considered in
adopting a State aid plan is that if
the State should help the counties
either in accordance with thtir
wealth or population the counties
which need it most would get the
least help per mile of road, in my
judgement a State Highway Oom
mUsion may with great advantage
be created to consider the whole mat
ter and report to the next Legisla
ture, as we have no department
charged with the duty of investiga
tion and reporting upon this impor
tant subject.
We have vast areas of swamplands
awaiting drainage to become fertile
and profitable. In many cases the
timber will pay the cost of drainage.
The time cannot be far distant when
these lands will be drained and be
come largely free from their present
Continued on I'age Two.