The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-27
THEY DINED AT DELMONICO'S.
ELECTROMAGNETIC ASSOCIATION
HELD ANNUAL DINNER.

Senator McLaurin Made an Import
ant Speech on the south and Its
Trade in the East-CottOn Mills
Will Come Where the Cotton
GroWs-IncreasingT Trade With the
Orient-SOuth VIII Ultimately Com
troll whole Cotton Trade.
New York, Jan. 26-One hundred and
two members and guests of the American
Asiatic Association sat down to the sec
ond annual dinner of the organization at
Delmonico's tonight.
Among the guests of honor were Senator
John L. McLaurin of South Carolina, Ju-
taro Kemura, minister from Japan;
Charles DENLY, ex-United States Minister
to China; WI Ting Fang. minister from
China; Cornelius N. Bliss, John Barrett,
ex-minister to SIAM and Brayton Ives.
The English and American colors at
the head of the table were the only decor
ations. Letters of regret were read from
President Mckinley, Secretary of State
John Hay, Secretary Gage, Senators Bev-
eridge, Lodge and AIdrich, and Morris K.
Jesup. president of the Chamber of Com
merce.
The toasts and the speakers were as
follows:
1.-THE President of the United States
Charles DENLY.
"rhe American-Asiatic Association"
Everett Frazar.
"China, the Greatest Potential Market in
the World" WI Ting Fang. ~
Japan, the Pioneer Of Asiatic Progress"
Jutaro Kemura.
The South and the Open Door in the
Far East" John L. McLauriu.
THE Pacific Slope and the Asiatic
Trade" Addison G.. Foster.
THE Paramount Interests of the Unit
ed States in Asia" John Barrett.
Minister WI Ting Fang wore his bril-
liant Oriental costume of silk, embFoid-
cred with heavy gold braid and decorated
with Chinese characters The Minister
from Japan wore full evening dress after
the American model.
Senator McLaurin's Speech.
Mr.. DENLY was the first speaker. Sena-
tor McI,aurin of South Carolina spoke a
length of the industrial growth of the
south and its stimulation by trade with
the Orient.
finder favorable conditions there is no
limit to the Industrial possibilities and
progress of the South. The mills are
bound to come to the cotton in the near
future, and you will find in every little
town a ginnery, oil mill and yarn factory
run bv the same power and combined I'M
der one management. Add to this system
cattle feeding, and think what II means.
There is no by-product in the world whose
possibilities compare with cotton seed. The
nroft for such a plant would be about 80
ner cent per annum. When every neigh
borhood has such a plant of this kind the
south will be the richest country on earth.
In iron, steel and other Industries re-
markable progress has been made. 1t was
confidently predicted, and, / fear, hoped
nv the New England manufacturers TWEEN
~ wears ago that the South would never
become a manufacturing center The la
Dor problem, the chief predicted obstacle.
has been satisfactorily solved: cheapness
and adaptability have been demonstrated.
Where the New England mills pay S.25
per day our mills pay IS cents. There is
no better class of citizens, and no better
la Dorers than the mill operatives of the
south. They are the children Of those who
for four years followed Lee and Jackson
without reward or the hope Of reward for
they were not slave owners.
All efforts to use the negro in the fac
tories have been futile, but the negroes are
directly benefited, because the fac+orv
draws labor from the farm, thus enlarg-
ing the coiored mans opportunity in a
field for which he is peculiarly adapted
The magnificent possibilities Of a com
nerce eagerly awaiting DEVELOPMENTS is
a prize worthy to be solved. The South
cannot stand stll and conservativelv on
pose commercial expansion. To do so
means to go backward toward the ruin
Gus conditions of thirty years ago.
The unexpected and unintentional acqui-