The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-12
PROSPERITY OF SOUTH
THE INDUSTRIAL CONVENTION DISCUSSES
HOW ST TO PROMOTE IT.
Ex Governor McCorkle Says Get Down to Bust
ness. Our Timber interests and Min
eraI Resources Papers Read.

Huntsville, Ala, October 1.-THE
Southern Industrial Convention laid
aside its regular programme for a bart
of the day and gave the afternoon ses-
sion to impr0mptu speeches in support
OF the objects which the delegates are
advocating. Congressman Bankhead,
of the Sixth Alabama district, a mem
Der of the House River and Harbor
Committee, was called upon during the
discussion over the matter OF increas-
ing the South'S exports from her own
ports. Colonel Bankhead thought the
South had been literally treated by the
committee. Business and not politics
controls and governs this committee, y
said the Congressman. Out of the 30
100000 dollars appropriated by the last
River and Harbor Bill one-thrd went
10 the Southern States. Alabama for
her rivers and harbors received nearly
T2.000000 and Georgia, Florida, Texas
and other States along the Atlantic and
Gulf Coasts were literally provided
for
Congressman Bankhead said he had no
doubt the next Congress would make
a liberal appropriation for the improve
ment of the Tennessee River, over
which the committee recently made a
trip.
w. G.. Sadler. of Nashville, spoke
upon phosphates in the South. His pa
per related for the most part to that
industry in Tennessee.
Judge $. G. McLendon, of Thomas
vile, Ga. delivered a forceful address
on the railroads Of the South and their
relation to industrial development, and
Ex-Governor MacCorkle pleaded with his
fellow Southerners TO lay aside senti-
ment and politics and get down to bust
ness
Missouri has Il strong delegation hele.
John II. Coffin represented Govern or
Bloxham, of Florida, reading a paper
ut the morning session on the varied
resources of his State.
Edwin Il. Brobston, of Brunswick.
delegated by Governor Gambler. OF Geor-
gia, spoke of the advantages offered by
Georgia in her stores of minerals ana
woods.
G. r. Desaussure, of Atlanta, form
erly yice-p president of the Exchange
Bank, gave his Ideas on how to make
Southern prosperity permanent.
An interesting paper ON the timber
interests Of the Southern States by
~ VIII SihiShNuhs vi AID, WIS
read by Secretary Thompson.
NJ. v Richards, land commissioner OF
the Southern Railway Company, Wash
ington, read a paper on immigration.
Tomorrow's discussion in the Indus
trial convention is expected to be ex-
tremely interesting relating as it does
to the race question. The problem bears
almost directly upon the industrial prog
ress of the Southland, and it will be
brought to the attention of the delegates
by several of its noted champions.
Prof. Booker T. Washington, Presi-
dent of the Normal school at Tuskegee,
will speak upon the question during the
morning session.
Former Governor w. A. MacCorkle.
of West Virginia, who is president of
the convention, will deliver a speech on
the race question.
1t is expected that these speeches will
bring on a heated and lengthy discus
sion, and Colonel n. f.. Thompson, Secre-
tary of the Convention, said this morn
ing that he did not know where it would
end. Prof. Washington has no objection
to the disfranchisement of the negro, but
he wants the ignorant white mans vote
cut off at the same time.