The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-11

DuSlneSS men ana nndnClcrS or the pres ent day. Samuel Spencer. the President miles of track, is a southern man, as IS also the President of the seabosrd, whose nose influences in the purchase and develop ment of this system a few years ago who led the fight against him. and who Is today one of the most powerful fac tors in New York's financial interests Is a native of the same State--Virginia. ly secured the ownerchip of a majority of the Louisville and Nashville stock, thus bringing together 10000 miles of road is a Marylander-and Maryland is Southern State inherited vast railroad interests which he has doubled and Quadrupled.
 Southern men created the fertilizer bus mess of this section and Southern men organized and financed and now manage the $o0 100000 fertilizer combination which furnishes the bulk of the fertilizers used in the South. In the brain of a Southern man the great tobacco combination va. born, and the same man has made It one of the most powerful business oiganiza- tions in the world, meeting in bitter ccn- test and conquering many of he ahlest and richest antagonists which Europe and America could produce.
 But why continue? The list could te stretched to almost endless length. These are but a few illustrations of thousands which could be given. and they are given only because III IOTeCdSllIS IUe IutuIG Ol country 1t is necessary to understand the character of Its people. These typi- cal illustrations of the men who are not only making the South, but who are helping to make America, show that the old and the new South are united in this work; that the men born since 1860 are rivaling in energy and in broadness Of business activity the men who created the old South and who led in Its four years of bitter contest
 As we contrast the remarkable oppor- tunities which the boys of this genera tion enjoy with the scanty opportunities of former years we cannot fail to be inn pressed with the wide difference. But great opportunities mean great responsi- prevailed after 1865 the South, If it had yielded to despair, if it had lost heart and said that 1t could never reconstruct it's civilization and it's business interests. might almost have claimed some justi- f1cation for such weakness; but 1t did none of these things. It took up It's bur dens, 1t fought to finish its great battle for the world recognition of it's advant- ages, and since 1865 1t hos spent $500 ,009, 900 in It's educational work.
 The boys of today are the interiors of rience, of wealth, of education. of brain and brawn. Will they measure up to their responsibilities? Will they meet the great issues of the day as their fathers met those which they had to face after 1865? The industrial potentialities of this section are beyond our comprehension. we produce IHTS6-IOuTlnS Ol lIG WOElu 5 cotton crop, and yet, notwithstanding the rapid advance of our cotton mill inter ests of late years. we have only 7,5Oo. 900 splndles out of total of 119.OOO,0OO in the ure the possible expansion of this indus try. remembering that the worlds de- mand for cotton cotton goods is ever increasing S own 'e mlls H'esen viii Consume the 1oCooooo to RSSGs 6nes 9GW % repgre crop of B 100000 bales or more of the South? We have in the South five times as mpcn hcat eoai territory so oao as ooG Great to nat Ga Rrton Is mining 30o000,000 tons. The limit Of our possibilities. for the trained expert the engineer, the chemist. the electrl- clan. such as of coal as Great Britain Is now mining we will be turning out only one-fifth as much in proportion to coal area: The development ot iron ana steei making will keep pace With coal mining. In the ownership of one-half of the stand ing timber of the United states we have the basis for an almost indefinite exten- these things we may add granltes ana marbles, ciays, phosphate roCk, pyrite;sS; oils and many other things wniGn ti aod immeasurably to our wealth-cr.esasting re, sources. Some of the boys slttlhg here today will doubtless live to see the in dustrial interests of the Soutn eXGeee nf li the entire country. Here are possloiA- ties for the trained expert the engineer. the chemist, the electTlCldn SuC4i 1H tito world has never. before seen. The de- years to come grow more rapidly than inc South can fit its boys for such work,
 Hours Supreme Need
 The supreme need of the hour is for more general technical education for Southern boys. more schools are needed, more money is needed for those already established and the South Is abundantly able out of its own resources to provide every dollar required. Talk not about heinz too poor to provide the smpIest educational facilities. Self mand that the South should do this Work and do 1t out of its resources. That itself would be an education worth more than millions of outside aid. Talk about the South heinz too poor! The total value of ifs nroDerty today Is almost exactly the same as that of the United States In 1860. Against the 5000 miles of 1dilroad in the whole country then the South now has 60 OO0 miles. In that year the United coal and made S00,0O0 tons of pig iron. Last year the South alone mined 6O,co0o0 tons of coal and made S.000. .000 tons of pig iron. Then the lumber product of the country Wae S9S 900 %; today the South markets over $200, 0Oo, 600 Of lumber pro- ducts. Let us stop talking poverty; let us realize what We have accomplished and ao forward with renewed energy to carry on a broader educational campaign than Rhunda ntly able to do It. In this 1 would preach no narrow sect!onalism We have problems which we alone must solve. h. stead of sectionalism I would bid you as an American citizen to let your patriotism be as broad as the continent; yea, let it