The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-14
HOW TO BRING CAPITAL
TO INVEST IN GEORGIA
Address by Edwin Brobson-Leasue of MunIcip
alties to Meet in Savannah.

Macon. Aug. 13.-The League OF
Municipalities will hold it's conven-
ton in Savannah next year, on the
second Wednesday in August. Two
bundred is the attendance promised for
mat gathering, it being claimed that
savannah will be great drawing
card.
Bridges Smith, Macon's Mayor, was
elected president for the ensuing year
N succeed himself. The other officers
are; First vice president, ]. F. Rhodes,
Of Athens; second vice president, Hon.
lanes r. Atwater, of Thomaston;
third vice president, r. E. Allen, of
Augusta; fourth vice president. 2. E.
Peacock, of Cochran; secretary and
treasurer, David ]. Bailey, of Griffin.
The paper of w. B. Hollingsworth of
Fayetteville, Edwin Brobston of Bruns-
wick, Clifford Walker of Monroe, Julius
A. Horne of Milledgeville, and others,
we're important features of the conven-
ton in Macon.
Probably the address of chief inter-
est was that of Hon. Edward Brobston
on The Encouragement of Capital to
Come to Georgia"
Il assume" said the speaker, "there
are not many to deny that Georgia
needs more capital. That 1t is espe-
cially needed to develop her mines, to
build her factories, to develop her
power to improve the beauty of her
landscape, and to utilize the fertility
of her soil. That vast additional cap
ital can be used profitably along these
lines, l take it there are none here to
dispute.
That we have sufficient natural re-
sources in our soil to support many
times our population, is quite evident,
even to those who have given the
matter but slight consideration. That
Georgia's position as a base for collec-
ting raw material from our own or
other nations is only equaled by her
advantage as a distributing point from
which to supply the world with a fin
ished product, are matters upon which
We might dwell far beyond the limits
of an address of this character.
These are matters perhaps familiar
to most Georgians yet but little known
to the~outside, for while we know that
Georgias ports are hundreds of miles
nearer to the great West than are New
England's ports; that it is many of
City than it is from New York, or even
Pttsburg to Kansas City, there are
millions of people who do not know
these things; and there are probably
millions of people in our own country
who could not name a Georgia sea-
port, or if asked about Macon, the
central city of Georgia, would not
know if was meant some place in Eu-
rope, Asia or South America, (Why,
even the Encyclopedias Britannica says
that Macon is on the Chattahoochee.)
THAT our farms can yield more dol
lars per acre than the farms of the
West; that our factories pay better
dividends than the factories of the
East; that cattle can be fattened for
less per pound in Georgia than in
Kansas, has been demonstrated again
and again. That machinery can be
constructed cheaper in Macon or At
lanta than it can be constructed in
Providence or Pittsburg, is being
demonstrated every day That vessels
can be constructed more cheaply on
the coast of Georgia than on the coast
of Maine, is easy enough to demon
strate.
THAT health conditions in the South,
particularly in Georgia, surpasses the
health of New England or the West,
is illustrated by statistics; it is partic-
ularly Illustrated by the death record
of those who were encamped during
the Spanish American War.
Yet with all these natural advan-
tages, with all our talk about being
the Empire State of the South, are we
not laggards in the race for material
development
After reviewing the relative progress
of the Southern states since 1880, the
speaker said:
How to Get Capital.
Now as to what we might do to en-