The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-05
THE ATTENDANCE LARGE
Address by Governor Tyler on Rehalf
of the State.
IA PAPER BY PRESIDENT E. A. ALOE RMAN
Memorial 10 the Senate Urging the EARLY Build
ing of the Nicaraguan Canal. TeIe-
gram Conveying Warm Greet
ing to Senator Morgan.
(By the Associated Press.)

New Orleans, Dec 4.-The Southern
with a fine attendance. President H. H..
Hargrove called the convention to order
and Bishop David Sessums opened the
proceedings with prayer.
Governor w. w. Tyler delivered the ad-
dress in behalf of the State.
President Alderman, of Tulane Univer-
sity, then read his paper, which in part
was as follows:
THE South is still the land of conser-
vatism, of ideals of enthusiasm and of
refusal to be submerged by the mere
brute force of commercalism but its
leaders at least have taken to heart a
few great principles.
81 No civilization can become great in
poverty any more than a man can do his
best work in hunger and in nakedness.
There must be some leisure for consider
alton of higher things of living and this
leisure comes out of skilfull work. A
mans or a nations first duty is to earn
bread and clothing, to build homes and
cities, to keep them clean and healthy.
After men have done that then they
have a tolerably fair right to enjoy the
Venus or Milo or a musical symphony,
and they are more likely to struggle up
out of anmalsm into the things of the
mind and the spirit. Wealth has it's
peris, ominous and tyrannous, but power
ty, especially in urban conditions, is half
crime and half tragedy If all men had
some industrial skill the tragic extremes
of society would approach each other and
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and less sullen envy of the poor
''2. To grow in wealth a people must
know machinery and the organization of
industry. thereby enabling it to get with
least cost it's own raw material, to con-
vert that material into the manufactured
product, and to find the best markets. In
deed people must know these things to
keep from becoming slaves to people who
do.
''3. To bring about this knowledge there
must be technical education in the col
leges and schools, and constant agitation
and information among the people away
from the colleges. Democracies move
slowly because they must be taught and
not driven. When the Southern people
realize these truths in their nerves and
blood and bones, vivid action will follow
and not until then.
The report of the Committee on Or
ganization named the objects of the asso-
citation, which are to promote the indus
trial development of the South; to gather
and disseminate data regarding the re-
sources of the South; TO aid in organizing
and maintaining commercial organizations
or business clubs throughout the South and
in general to become the medium for
stimulating the people of the Southern
States into greater efforts for manufac-
turing their raw materials on their own
soil and also seek to interest capital to
invest in the South and encourage settlers
to come among us.
In addition to providing for officers
committees and meetings, the report en-
powered the establishment of bureau
or lyceum as a separate department. The
matter was laid over until Thursday.
The night session of the Industrial con-
vention was given over to the reading
of papers on the Nicaraguan Canal. Ex-
Mayor c. l.. Lauretta, of Mobile; w. A.
Hemphill, of Atlanta, Ga, and AdneI
Storey. OF New Orleans, were the speak
ers
Mr.. Storey as Chairman of the Commit
| tee on Nicaraguan Canal presented a me-
| mortal to the Senate of the United States
| urging the early building of the canal.
The following telegram was ordered
| sent to Senator Morgan:
The Southern Industrial convention now
in session in this city directs me to send
you the warmest greetings of the body
the greatest of its kind ever assembled
on this continent on the prospect OF
the carly crowning with success of the
years of labor you have given to the
Nicaragua Canal, an enterprise that has
just received the unanimous endorsement
of this assembly
(Signed) IN. r.. THOMPSON
Secretary"