The Savannah morning news., 1900-12-06
INDUSTRIES or THE SOUTH.
INTERESTING ADDRESS ny q. ".
THIRBER 0F NEW YORK.

New orleans, Dee. 5.-rhr second dan
secession Ut thv Southern Industrial CON
yentou opened to-day with very large
attendance. The han was scarcely large
enough 10 admit the delegates and tho
ecuerli pub.ie was turned away
Shortly after to o'olSck Cardinal Glib
hons, dressed 81 tho rohee % his hsh
office. opened the convention with prayer
President Hargrove turned the ravcl
ever 10 Vice President sidney storey. and
the latter introduced pr. Lyman Han
president Of the Georgia school Of Tech
uo.oSy WHO spoke on technical education
other papers on the same subject were
read
= paper on the railroads ~ the South
ana Southern Industrial developments was
read boy Hon sanord Berney OF Mobile
and paper on foreign ana coastWise
trade. as necessary factor in southern
Industrial development by y D. Kelly.
secretary o. the Trades League Of rhAa-
dephls
Resolutions were offered by Y. W.
Gruhbs Of Greenvilc. Tex and adopted.
expressing the sense that trade schools
ana schools Of technology are imperative
essentials in the feture development Of
the Southern states
Jackson. Miss. Waco. Tex and Mem
phis Tenn are working to capture the
next conveu Ion.
A telegram was read from senator Nor
gan thanking the convention Tor the
honor paid him The Senator says. re-
ferring to the Nicaragua cxnal.
rs prospects, of snccrss grow brighter
every DAY. Costa Rica aud Mica raEua
are DO happy accord with oar govern
ment IN making preliminary agreements
OF vital importance
Mr. Thurbcr sad IN part
"tp a. the beginnins 81 the last half
% the present century Il WAS the pastoral
or agricultural age. but then, with the
advent OF steam. electricity and machiu-
erv. IL became the Industrial age
'it has taken the people ~ the Southern
States nearly nifty years to realize this
fact and that 10 h.r forests mines ana
factories the South has resources which
Ia the next nfty wears will equal. 10 not
outstrip la value. those ~ her fertile fields
OF which IL Is literally true:
Tickle them with o spade and they
viii laugh a harvest"
witch fuU resources in agriculture #
was perhaps natural that they should
ose r.ook other advantages and allow iess
favored sections OF our country TO take
the lead in the march OF industry There
may he other reasons also bat certain e.
is that up 90 very recently majority IN
the south have been governed by pollti-
cal traditions and shibboie,hs that arr
has hesus
t'rhe word protection and subsidy
owing 20 abuses u these good words. have
Jared on many ears both Nodh ana
South. but especial y on those Of sout bern
Statesmen until the Dglc Of events Ia
other countries and other sections has
forced them 10 look on both sides Of the
question This Is evidenced by a debate
IN the Senate Of the United States. Feb
&C. 1900
He then quoted the remarks 81 some Of
the senators participating In tho debate
on the postal appropriation bin on that
day and continued:
Three quarters Of the mail routes in
the United States are to-day subsidized
IN the sense that the postage collected
on them does uot equal the coat OF the
service, only one-quarter have deve opcd
sufficient business 10 pay a profit esop
subsidy on land and Il would stop three
quarters Of the mail routes In the United
States today. In this DAY and genera
tion the field Is the world in commerce
as We'll as religion. and why not aopiy
this principle on che sea as well as on
land? u matters not whether you call IL
mail pay or subsidy. Il Is fair pay FOR q
service rendered. and whether IL "a freight
trains or fast mails, freight vessels or
express steamers. there must be an equiv
alent for the service. II We can tempt
capital into Harvesting steam and cleo
triclty and applying Il to transportation.
whether on sea or land. nine-tenths u
the benefit via iuure TO the public, aud
only one-tenth to capital"
Que Merchant Marine.
Passing 10 a discussion OF our merchan,
marine Mr. Thurbar said that with a coast
line greater than that OF any other ma
ton, with a nation OF marine instincts.
with traditions from Paul Jones to George
Dewey ia an unbroken record OF inteIli-
gence and iutrepidity. We have tolerated
a policy toward our foreign shipping
when has handicapped effort and dis
couTaged investment until u is nothing
short Of a national disgrace
1T - a. Gbsurd for the United States 10
rely upon foreign ships 20 distribute our
products as II would be for one business
house 20 depend upon the wagons OF a
competing house 40 make les deliveries
He read the resolutions adopted by the
nuai convention: advocating the passage
Of the Frye Senate bill. or the Payne
House bill
Taking up the subject OF transportation
on land the Speaker said
ION land our unequaled railway service
has given MS a great advantage our
railways carry our products .o0D miles 20
our seaboard for less than foreign rail-
ways carry them two hundred miles In
land from their seaboard. and as =
whole. our rates IN this country are only
about one.half shoae OF other cOuntrien
while IN safety. speed and comfort. We
are immeaaurably superior: aud yet W
legislative halls and IN the jury box. We
md a cons idera bic element 81 hostility
10 our railroad interests. They are looked
upon by some a. the original trusss. but
they have done more 20 develop the
United States than any other single
agency. aud the great need OF large Sec
tons Of country g. more railroads. VIII
railroads be bulk a. fast as ~ desirable
n Ia sections where they have been con-
structcd they are treated ~ ~ they were
public enemies 70 be constantly legiaiated
against. their rates reduced by law ana
their taxes increased tax OF % per
cent upon the net earnings 81 mercan-
tile house would be deemed exorbifant
yet on one great railroad system with
which I am familiar Its taxes amount 20
eighteen per cent OF TO- revenue Rail-
roads pay q larger percentage % their
earnings for taxes and Labor than any
other business ln existence. and yet. only
faat week saw that the state az Ken