The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1901-06-12
FOR UNITY IN TRADE
Southern Industrial Association Meets
In Philadelphia.
WELCOMED TO QUAKER CITY.
Object of Meeting There In to Dis
cuss Measures Looking to the,
Welding Of Interests OF the
North and South.

l'nllauclpnli, June ll.-IHo aIIlual
convention of the Southern Industrial
association was formally opened in
Horticultural hall and will continue in
session until Friday. Preparations for
the convention have been in progress
for several months. The association
is composed Of numerous commercial
bodies. This years convention is held
in this city with the object principally
of giving wider knowledge of the
south's resource and to discuss meas
urcs looking to the welding of the i'll
terests of the north and south.
The convention was called to order
by President II. II. IIargrove Of the
association, several hundred delegates
being in attendance. Bishop Cyrus d.
Foss Of this city offered the opening
prayer Governor William A. Stone Of
Pennsylvania aroused the enthusiasm
of the delegates in his address of vel
come by frequent reference to the
splendid resources of the south. Gov
ernor Stone said in part;
"Thcre never was bur one period in
our history when we were not glad to
see the representatives of the south.
We hope to make our relations more
neighborly. We want to trade with
you. We realize the south is the great
est mission field for commerce in the
world. We recognize that commerce
is inspired by the hope Of profit and
not sentiment The south produces
two-thirds of all the cotton in the
world and mnkes very little of the fin.
ished product.
"If we can make steel products and
tin plate in this city and underscll
Wales. you can make cotton products
, and undersel England. What the
south needs is not cnrpetbsggers, but
carpetbags full of capital. We make
many things you need, and you pro-
ducc things We peed. Let us sell to
each other We do not care who has
the balance of trade. We are one pe0-
pie, speaking one language under one
flag
welcomed by the Mayor.
A felcitous address Of welcome was
made by Mayor Samuel II. Ashbridge,
during which he presented President
Hargrove with the keys of the city
John H. Converse president of the
Baldwin Locomotive works, and Attor-
ucy John L. Lewis welcomed the dele
gates in behalf of the commercial or
ganizutions of the city.
To bn nilrnss pr VOL
come Presiden IIargrove spoke of the
resources OF the southern states.
THE southern states" said Mr.. Har-
grove, contain onefourth of the area
of the Union, and the territory has
practically as great an agricultural pro-
huction as the remainder of the coun.
try combined.
Its capacity in raw material is al
most beyond measurement. This sec
tion has 80 per cent of the population
of the United States. 1t raises all of
its cotton and cotton seed and Ameri-
can rice, 50 per cent of its tobacco, con-
tains 65 per cent of its timber re-
sources, 80 per cent of its coal area, 20
per cent of its coal production, pro-
duccs 171a per cent of its iron and fur
nishes so per cont of the American pig
iron exported, is the third largest cane
sugar producing section Of the world,
contains more coast and river frontage
than all the other states, has 80 per
cent of railroad mileage and affords
the cheapest lumber building material,
lands, cotton, coal and oil and living in
the United States"
In concluding President IIargrovs
said the south possesses everything eX-
cept adequate population and finance
to forge that section ahead Of the rest
of the world.
In the afternoon the delegates and
ladies of the party enjoyed an eycur-
sion on the Delaware river, visiting
points Of interest on the river front.