The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-26
SCHWAB Is BUYING ALL
THE PIG IRON OFFERED

New York, May 25-Charles NJ. schwab,
who reached New York today, said:
II have just returned from a trip
among our mills In the Pittsburg district.
Reports Of serious labor difficulty in any
departments of our business are without
| foundation. We are just concluding the
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these, all strong in themselves, and why
| cannot they unite for the common good
| of all? The Wholesale Grooers' associa-
| ton represents a particular branch Of
trade. The board of trade speaks espe-
| cially for the merchants. The CONNER
| cial club represents the citizens generally,
| a common ground where the professions,
| the trades, the artizans, the miners, and
| the manufacturers can touch elbow In
the performance of public duties and the
extension Of public enterprises
mo one questions the crying need OF
| a hall In Birmingham, where conventions
may meet without money and price. For
Is not every convention that comes here
| a public advantage and of some financial
profit to our people? A commercial build
ing could give its upper stories to such
purpose and make Birmingham the
Mecca of every order, church and party
that meets In annual sessions.
"a more immediate duty that lies just
| before us is an ean.hit at the st. Louis
exposition. II Birmingham is absent from
that worlds show Of the worlds riches,
we shall be false to ourselves and false
to every claim we make for our great dis
trict We would much rather the state
took the lead and did her duty, with Bir-
mingham occupying her own proper place
in tho splendid array of riches our
magnificent state could present, but 1t is
to be regretted that the state Is in back
ward frame of mind on this theme.
Whether the state turns hand or not,
we must.
This leads me, naturally, to another
subject that seems to me we ought to pre-
sent in a large way 1t has undoubtedly
paid us well to advertise, especially in the
earlier days, the wealth of coal and iron
that lay In our hills and valleys. VIII 1t
not now pay us vastly better to advertise
what we are actually doing with these re-
sources7 We can prove beyond all doubt
| that money Is being made by utilizing our
| coal and iron.
important as are these matters. and
many others which 1 might touch, all
pale into insgnificance compared with
| the demand for cheap, inexhaustible
and pure water supply. l do not mean
| the mere matter of drinking water for
the people, subject well understood, and
| which has enlisted much of our effort
and thought In the past. If we are to fill
| this great valley with factories from
East Lake to Bessemer. and we can and
must do that we are bound to offer them
all the water they want. If the manufac-
| turer cannot get water here, he will go
| where he can get 1t. as we have seen to
| our cost. Nor do the factories require
simply water. but good, clean water.
Already this enterprise Is afoot in the
| shape of the proposed canal. The Com
mercial club can do no work so great, so
prolific of good, as to go into this wa
ter problem in a large way.
II need not give assurance that this club
will continue in the future as In the past
to throw the weight of It's influence on
| the side of education and sound public
morals. 1t Is too late now to argue the
conceded fact that prosperity Is bound up
In the sobriety, the good habits and the
orderllness of the people.
I'm the great work of building up our
city, our county. our state. let no one
falter, but every one to his place and
| duty"