The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-06-06
INDUSTRIAL CONGRESS.
THE MEETING OF TIE SOUTHERN IN
MIGRATION CONVENTION.
Speeches OF Teicoue-Augusta as an
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AUGUSTA. May 30.-The Southern
Industrial Immigration Congress open
ed auspiciously "a Augusta today. II
was called to order at noon lG the
grand opera house by President Bryan
of Nashville, who introduced Mayor J
H. Alexander Of Augusta. who vel
coined the congress on the part OF the
city.
Mayor Alexander'S speech was full OF
interesting historical facts about Al
gusta. He said:
Augusta is the oldest inland city IN
the South Atlantic States, aud was the
second established by Oglethorpe. This
city. before the days Of railroads. being
the furtheTest inland city with river
navigation to the sea. south OF Vlr'
GINA, was the point Of communication
with the outer world of all that terrific
ry embraced in Northern Alabama,
East Tennessee, Western North Caro-.
lima. North Georgia and South Caro-
|
in wagons to trade.
81 have been told by old citizens, who
saw with their own eyes. that in the
fall and winter il was not uncommon
to see our capaciouS Broad street so
closely packed with wagons that one
might step from one to another for
mile or moIe.
"This city is mentioned in contempo-
raneous history in 174G, five years after
the settlement was planted, as already
in a state of great prosperity, we'll
equipped for trade and conducting an
extensive traffic throughout the vast
and fruitful tributary country. 1t was
here that Eli Whitney conducted his
experimental works and, IN 1893, devel.
oped the cotton gin, one Of the most
famous industrial inventions Of the
world, which Immediately revolution
lied the agriculture Of this section
from tobacco and indigo to cotton as
its staple crop. IN 1891, the whole cot
ton crop of the South was thirty-eight
bales. In 1800seven years after Whit
ney's gin appeared, Georgia alone ex-
ported over 1000 bales.
"We have here the Oldest public jour
nal in the South, the Augusta Chronl-
bic, established in 1855 and published
continuously since that time. We have
the Oldest incorporated educational In
stitution in the South, TIE Richmond
Academy, established by act CT the
Legislature of Georgia il 1888. We
have the second Oldest completed rail-
road il the country-the South Caro-.
lima road, running from Charleston to
Augusta, and preceded only by the
Camden and Am5oy railroad IN New
jersey"
Following Mayor Alexander, Hon.
Joseph R. Lamar, president Of the
Young'S Mems Business League Of Au-
gus.a, which secured the convention for
| this city, welcomed the congress, and
followed with more valuable facts con-
cerning the Augusta of today. Taxing
simply the official census figures for
1890, he showed that Aug usta had In
creased in the number of manufactu-
ring establishments in the past decade
63S per cent; in capital employed 21o
per cent, and in wages paid of ~ per
per cent; and that it had spent more
money for public Improvements than
any other city in the South, snd had
the lowest death rate in the South.
Governor Northern welcomed the
congress on the part Of Georgia, and
gave glowing picture OF her progress
and thrift. He declared the readiness of
Georgia to welcome Industrious imnl-
grants, who came TO cast their lot here.
Senator Patrick Walsh, whose home
is here, welcomed tns congress and eX-
tended them the privileges of the Com
| mercial Club, Of which he is president.
He said the assembling OF thirteen
Southern States reminded him of that
! first convention OF the thirteen origi-
caI States to declare their lndepend-
ence. The present movement is to for
mulate plans by which this most favor
ed section could enlarge Its citizenship
and work out its material InGepsnd-
ence. he thought the occasion most
auspicious and the outlook very bright
| for the success Of the congress.
Responses to the addresses of wei
come were made by Governor MacCoT-
kle Of Wes. Virginia, Governor Carr OF
! North Carolina and Governor Tlllmsn
of South Carolina. Governor Tillman
declared it was well enough to invite
people and capital from the outside,
and all that came would be welcome,
but for every dollar Of outside capital
the Southern people must expend ten
! of their own, if they were IN earnest
about desiring to build up the South.
| The future Of this section, he said, de
perds on the efforts Of our own peo-
pie, and what the Southern farmers
| need most is sn immigration Of ideas
and intelligent agricultural methods.
Southern farmers would never prosper
as long as they SDeLt six months Ia
the year trying to kill the grass IN their
fields and the next six months ID buy
ing hay from Maine and Northern
States.
At the conclusion of the address of
welcome and the responses, President
| BRYAN addressed the convention. He
explained the need for immigration IN
the Southern States by contrasting the
population per square mile OF some OF
the States as follows: Massachusetts
2S7, Kentucky, which is toe most dense
ly populated Of the Southern States, ,49;
Rhode Island, 264; Texas, s. He
showed the material advance which
has taken place 10 tie South, and calf
ed attention to the fact that education
al advantages were keeping pace, the
increase having been 100 per cent. IN
the past decade, in appropriations by
Southern States for this purpose, last
year being over 5000. The total Val.
ne OF scnool property il the South Is
S10O00000; number Of teachers, 81. .OyG;
white pupils, 2,250,G0O; negro pupils,
1.l5000O; pupils IL prl7atescnoolS, 300,
coo; II parochial schools, 10000. He
thought the time was ripe for the I'M
migration movement ir the South and
believed that by patriotic and united
efforts on thu part of the intelligent
men composing the congress some wise
and practical plan would be adopted.
at the afternoon session, permanent
organization was effected Dy the re.
election of President II. I. Bryan, of
| Tennessee ard Secretary 8. L. Elliott
of Florida. It was decided that each
State represented should vote according