The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-04

gcther as with a common purpose, had proposed to enter their own domain and overthrow their system of labor, and de- stroy property amounting in value to more than two thousand millions of dol lars? Think you they would have offered no resistance?
 It seems to me, my friends, that the fu- ture historian will see in all this the courage. the manhood, the pride. the in. dependence the quick jea alousy to resent an invasion of private rights and a men ace to the liberty of the citizen, which has ever characterized the Abglo-Saxor race in this country. and in the mother country. We find the Revolutionary patri- ots going to war with the mother country because of the stamp act and an incon- siderable tax on tea, which was levied to compel them to bear, in part, the expense of their own government We find our English ancestors going to war with Spain in what is known as the war of Jenkins Ear. because it was considered that the honor of England had been of tended in a trespass upn the person of an English officer And so OUT fathers did not hesitate to take up arms to de- fend themselves against a movement which was not only an infraction of their rights under the Constitution but had for it's purpose the overthrow of their insti- tutions, and the destruction of untold mill lions of property!
 Our Duty as Citizens.
 But now a new generation has been born. I hope 1t is true that both sides have grown weary of conflict and of bit- terness. As Bishop Gaylor announced in his address in Chicago a short time since, there has now come to us reawakening of national self-consciousness, and the corresponding increase of the sense of national responsibility. God grant that the time may come when our civil war may be regarded as the war of the roses, like the conflict between the House of York and the House of Lancaster. when the descendants of neither will be ex- pected to regard the descendants of either as traitors, but as acting up to the high est duty of patriotism, and when. as MT. Hamilton Mabie expresses 1t. the strains of both may mingle and commingle to- gether to form for both even a higher type of citizenship!
 The people of the South have lived through a great revolution. They have experienced the evils of reconstruction. They have seen their former slaves be- come their masters and placed in control have experienced all of the evils which our fathers predicted would follow negro emancipation and negro suffrage, and they have survived 1t all!
 A new generation has been born, and all along the line, in every city, town and hamlet, in every rural precinct throughout these Southern States, there is the pulsation of a new life, a new in- spiration, new determination to over come the disasters we have suffered. and pay the debt which we owe to an en- frightened and progressive civilization
 As Victor Hugo, in closing an address to his people, upon the conclusion of the Franco-Prussian war, said: Out of the humiliation of defeat our people have come forth purified and ennobled, pre- pared to work miracles in the field of ideas and in the field of events"'
 In recovering control of our own affairs, freed from the menace of negro domina- ton. our people have accomplished rev. olution which brings with 1t new duties and new responsibilities. We must show to the world that we were right, and that we are broad enough and have that mo- bility of spirit which alone can make such reform movement rebound to the growth and development of our country, and to the peace, happiness and prosper ity of all our people. both white and black.
 The qualities of virtue of honor. and patriotism you already have. These you received as a heritage from noble an- cestry. If I were called upon to State what 1t is of which we stand most in need today, I would say, 1t was greater economy, the infusion of still more en- ergy and the means of an education placed within the reach of every citizen. There is no people on the face of the earth Nho are so blessed as we in climate, fertility of soil. mineral resources, and manufacturing facilities. The duty that lies before us is to educate our people, and avail ourselves of the magnificent opportunities that lie all around us. The AR 1ah a0 In thn0o other States which have undertaken suf- frage reform. have rightly considered that the betterment of facilities for securing an education for all the people was q necessary and essetial part of any just and wise scheme for the regulation of the right of suffrage, and for the purific"- ton of the ballot. The productive power of labor in Massachusetts is said to be nearly double that of the average for each inhabitant of the whole United States, and the reason assigned Is, the superior educational advantages she fur nishes to her people.
 Let us get away from provincialism. Let us go forth to grapple with the great practical problems that press upon us for solution. Already we have made mas ter strides in the development of our re- sources. in the construction and extension of plants for the manufacture of our cotton staple, and the wealth of min erals that lie tIuDSuueu HI thS SOlA' I HS school house for both races, in every lc- cality is becoming a place scarcely second to the church in the interest and affec- tions of the people. From zero, Alabama has advanced to a place second only to Pennsylvania in the mining of coal and the manufacture Of Iron. We have facto- ries for the manufacture of cotton goods located in every part of the State, and increasing at a ratio almost surpassing comprehension. This is true not only in Alabama. but in Georgia and the Carolinas. Why, Mir. Calhoun himself. if he were permit ted to look upon his beloved State, would see textile school located at Clemson, on And which he once owned. with hun dreds of the youth of South Carolina studying and mastering the problem of from our cotton staple. the growth of which once made the South rich, and which, under new conditions. with the courage, energy and spirit of our people. is destined to make her still richer!
 With the construction of canal con meeting the Atlantic with the Pacific, the trade of the East will be within our reach. Our products of coal. iron and cot ton will find a market without limit, and it requires no prophetic vision to see ships laden with minerals and goods of our own manufacture leaving every Southern port From a purely agricul- tural people, we have 1t in our power to become, and believe we are destined to become, not only rich and powerful in agriculture, but a center of commerce, and a stronghold Tn manufacture.