The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-07
We Appeal to the Press.

Huntsville Tribune.
 The press of Alabama have never failed of Alabama and to exercise a powerful
 influence sSr God nye Tsen the ehsf o the Sister states of this Union, relative to State exhibits at the St. Louis World s Fair. Are we, the press, to see Alabama one State of the Union which is unwilling to meet her sister States in competa; tive display of resources and mechanical and commercial achievement. Even were 1t fact, which Is absolutely untrue, that an exhibit would not pay, can we as a State afford to exhibit a vacant chair at creditabIe, huTniliating? What a sense of shame a proud and enterprising Alabam. ian would experience when the list or States are called at this worlds fair and W Where nsf IS sA Aiaba@a9 @ Would not the intel.
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 am I here convinced that there Is no such State. or if there Is such State, 1t Is so sSe fa f Tt sive sister States and make a show down of her resources. Again we think we can hear the stranger say thought stssts AlaSsma nnat coal and iron state. d great lumber State. It seems to me I have heard of Bir- mnEham MsSbTie saTIGs ,a Montgomery, D,SsG aiys,,n guished cities which 1t seems to me were located in the State known as Alabama
 Now we, the press. must cringe and bow In shame when we go to St. Louis and feel like a stranger in strange land, not @ bale of cotton, an ear of corn q lump of coal, bar of iron that we can came from my native State where dwells brand of prince of liars r,s will be stsmpsd ed her absence from this fair. We can no more boast of our progress, Cod has been forests is the home of the finest hard woods in inexhaustible quantity her soll Is responsive to the hand of the skilled quantity, the finest In quality. Her wa ters are the purest, her gentle breeZes the balmiest. But what can we say of her Executive officer. who obstructs all eff fort looking towards the State availing herself of the greatest opportunity? Ad- ty here Is to spread an object lesson be- fore the people from the four corners of the earth, showing them what we have Did 1t ever occur to his Excellency Coy ernor Jelks, as to what 1t would cost Ala bama to extend this information as to same number of people. A million, nay five million. would not foot the bill, we even question if all the values in Ala nary means of sdvertising adopted, We therefore appeal to the press of Alabama to exert itself in behalf of inducing His Excellency and the people of this State to avail themselves of this opportunity. We can not afford to lose the opportun- fly. Once lost 1t Is gone forever and the stigma lack of enterprise, rests on Ala bama's name for ever. It Is true. we may live without it, may exist, but had we not about as well be stopped up in hole in | the ground two by six feet deep. as to be entirely out of the list of progressive of AlabamA can save the State this loss, this humiliation by raising its influential voice. Let us all cry aloud for an Ala wise and admonish him Of the necessity | If this be done with one accord good re- suits will follow. But If we remain as unmindful that we are the leaders ot l progress. Alabama will suffer back set | from which 1t will not recover in years