The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-14
WILL BE DONE IN SIX YEARS
SENATOR MORGAN DISCUSSES THE
NICARAGUA CANAL.

Year If the Commission Appointed
by Congress Is the Right one-scn-
ntOr says south Has Only Recently
Supported Him-IiuntsyiIIe Com
ventfOn Adiourns-GoV. Atkinson
of West virginia Among the
Speakers.
Huntsville, Ala. Oct 13-'rhe Southern
Industrial Convention, which has been in
session here four days adjourned sine die
this morning. Chairman McCorkle will
select a place for the next meeting 10 be
held six months hence.
The principal speaker Of the day was
Senator Morgan OF Alabama. The Sena-
tor reviewed his work on the Nicaragua
canal He said that unul recently con-
gressmen from Maine Pennsylvania and
Massachusetts had given him more sup
port than Southern siatesmen. Recently
the South has undergone a complete rev
olution on the matter and all now favor it.
IF the work of the commission, headed
by Rear Admiral Walker recently OPP
pointed by Congress shall bear any rela-
ton to the Importance OF its duly, "a year
will not have passed before work on the
canal would be commenced" sa 4 Senator
Morgan, He predicted that the canal
would be completed in six years The
convention will memorabilia all senators
and congressman 10 support Morgan IN
his work
Papers were read by Col. v W. Grubbs
of Texas, and Maj. e. B. stahlman OF
Nashville. Col. Grubbs advocated that
children should be taught TO work. saying:
In my opinion, the first thing to be
done, is 20 awaken public sentiment all
over the South in favor of a general re-
form IN our educational system We need
10 uproot and destroy the old idea so prev
aient IN the South that manual labor 9
degrading and unworthy The ambition of
our youth TO attain the efficiency therein.
Their eyes should be open TO the fact that.
there is but little, if any room in those
pursuits which are termed Literary and
professional, and they should rather be
directed towards the industrial pursuits
of life. They should be taught the dignity
of intelligent labor, ana inspired with an
ambition to excel in their handiwork. That
j is more honorable to be a successful
Grmer, carpenter or blacksmith, than a
poor, haif-starvcd lawyer doctor or school
teacher. Those who have eXcelled in in
dustrial pursuits should be rewarded by
social distinctions, evidencng the appre-
citation of their fellows as encoura cement
efficiency. The social barriers which have
so long been maintained by professional,
literary and commercial circles. against
the industrial classes, must be broken
down in the outset Of the campaign in be-
half Of Industrial education"
Addresses were made by GOV. Atkinson
of West Virginia, J. NJ Nix OF Texas, f.
s. Shepard, president of the Montgomery
Chamber OF Commerce, and Lewis NJ.
Coleman of Chattanooga. Gov. Atkinson
said:
Gov. AtlkinsOn's speech.
1--WE are not here Mr.. Chairman, TO talk
politics or narrow seci9nalsm. We are
here 10 compare Views. We are hrs to
consider what we owe 10 ourselves and to
our country as citizens in doing what we
can TO bring 10 the attention of capital
lists in and outside The United States. the
natural advantages which We possess as a
people and induce them, il we can 10
come among US and invest their money
10 hep them ard us on in life. As / I'M
derstand it, this is The sole purpose of this
convention. If we adhere TO this idea
alone, and leave restricted sectionalsm
and PARTISAN politics wholly outside, This
great gathering will l am sure, accom-
plish scmething; but If We inject the Two
monsters above referred 10 In our dellb-
eptlons IL would have Teen better that
an Of US had remained at home.
Tine larger portion of all the Southern
states is wonderfully endowed with what
is commonly called natural resources IN
addition TO this, The climate is mild and
equitable the SOL is rich, the scenery is
unsurpassed, the great waterways offer
cheap transportation and The people are
open-hearted, kind and generous to a
fault. In all the Southland there is no
record of one asking bread and being given
stone, or asking fish and being & ven
serpent. Our Southern people are not
built that way. 1t is a well-known fact
that they will, in an emergency, divide
their last loaf of bread with a brother la
need. This well-known peculiarly. l
think, Is greatly 10 their credit as a peo>
pie. a tender-hearled sympathetic man
is worthy to be classed as the sat of The
earth. There is a large amount of this
sort of salt in the warp and the wool
and filtered INFO the blood of nearly all
OF our Southern people, ana it viii stand
greatly 10 their credit until the cycles
cease TO roll.
The trouble with you folks. my coun-
uymen, down here in the extreme South
is, that YOU have been 100 exclusive and
too hide-bound in your ideas for a full
hundred years. Whai care you where i
man comes from so he Is man? What
you have needed above everything else
down here in Gods country for a hundred
years or more IS a lot of enterprsing, go
ahead class of men; men with money.
men of nerve, men of enterprise, men of
serse and men who know how to do some
thing and do it right. These are the SORT
of people YOU need TO hep you on in life.
They are the kind of peop.e who open coal
mines and build mills and factories and
FORCES. What care you whence they come?
am glad to know that most of you have
quit foohng about these most important
matters of your growth. development and
prosperity. God Almighty intended the
Southland to be the center of practically
all manufacturing for our great country
/ say this with emphasis because He
placed in this great Southland the bulk
OF the raw materials from which all fin
ished products must evolve. What sense
Is there thai you ship your cotton, iron,
coal and other products to the North or
to England and pay your good money 10
their skilled labOrers TO work them into
the finished products and then buy back
again these finished products, always pay.
ing the manufacturers prices? Ii seems