The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-04

Those at the guests table included
Mayor Low. George Foster Peabody.
clark Howell, James NJ. Griggs. N. A.
Morris and Rev. DIR. S. A. Steele. Mrs.
Terrell was escorted to the table by
Charles H. Williams, and Mrs. Clark
Howell by 1. H. Mercer.
The toasts were as follows;
United States" drunk standing.
Empire State of the South" Mayor
Low.
Empire State of the North" Gov.
Terrell.
Empire City of the World" C. F..
Peabody
James Oglethorpe. Founder of Geor-
gia," Oscar S. Straus
Gov. Terrell in speaking to the EN-
pire State of the North" said, in part.
Governor TerreITs Speach.
Gentlemen of the Georgia Society.
you have selected a state wherein to
make your future home, that is splen-
did in accomplishment and unbounded
i'll possibilities But past achievement
and future success may be seriously
hampered by any legislation or add
ministration of Office that locks only to
historic prejudice and misapprehended
civilization. The law of reciprocal
good will, between the highest and
most intelligent types of cooperative
citizenships must. always be main
tanned, or industrial growth, intellec-
tual advancement and patriotic unity
will fall into a common heap of ruin
In the discharge of this joint and
solemn duty which the progress of this
great country imposes upon all the
states alike, Georgia looks with conf
dence to the head and heart of the
best people of the North, so proudly
represented in the highest American
ism of New York. She does not come
to the people of this section as a self
appointed preceptor in loyalty, but she
does come as a rightful member of a
great and impregnable union of states,
proud in the conscious glory that she
has not, in the past, nor will she ever
follow flag except that which clasps
within it's cherished folds the SUI
premest test of patriotic devotion. She
comes as an Independent, self-respect-
ing member of the common sisterhood,
giving brave sons to the continued up
building of each and all, and claiming
from each brave son consecrated to
the same grand cause.
The Highest Americanism.
withholding nothing from any in
ferior race that may be, or that may
the way of all the essentials of life,
liberty and property, and a full NEED
of justice in all matters relating to
their we'll being, we should educate our
| children in the great central thought,
that the best and most enduring
Americanism is founded upon the un-
| yielding rock of Caucasianism. The
best way to add to our country's
| strength is to inculcate lofty ideas of
| eInorinrifU OF a tha EIIraGt TO
encompass our land in doubt, and
strife, and gloom. is to encourage low
| ideas of equality. No more fatal
| blunder can be made by any state or
section than to attempt interference
| with the peace and progress of it's
neighbors, or by that species of philan-
| thropy which mistakes amelioration
for elevation. The standard of great
ness will always crurnble when it's vo-
| taries attempt to carry it into the low
| ly planes that were designed and set
apart, by natural law, for an inferior
civilization.
IntermedIing Not Desirable.
'fIn the solution of internal prob
lens, as they relate to state or Sec
ton, the people more directly interest
ed need intelligent sympathy, without
interference, more than they do ignor-
ant assistance, with prejudiced inter-
meddling. 1t is better to leave the
adjustment of all social problems to
those who come into daily contact
with them. At this particular stage
of the worlds history, it seems
splendid time for all the states to rele-
gate the Pharisee and the theorist and
interest themselves in attending to
their own affairs, while they watch
with a common patriotism the dangers
that may await America abroad.
A Comparison of Resources.
ION this, my first visit to your state
stree the people of Georgia honored
me by electing me their chief execu-
tive, desire again to congratulate
your people upon the magnificent
manner in which they maintain their
right to pre- eminent rank as the EN-
pire State of the North. While paying
this merited tribute with the most
sincere feeling of congratulation, 1
know that you will pardon a compar-
alive depression that leads me back to
the proud and resourceful state of my
birth. 1t is altogether fitting that /
should not neglect Georgia in what
have to say this evening. Providence
has been SO lavish in the dispensation
of blessings to our mother state that
we refer to her in comparative way,
not with a feeling of invidious distinc-
ton, but more as grateful recipients of
most unusual gifts. Such is the va
riety of her climate, the productive
ness of her soil, the infinite scope of
her resources and the sublime culture
of her civilization, that IL a Chinese
wall were built around her inviting
boundary lines she would in time be
not only the Empire State of the South
but the Empire State of the world, in
all that goes to make a people great
and a commonwealth independent and
potential.
Each states Beauties.
New York has her circulating mil
lions represented in the vaults Of her
world famed banks and trust COM
panies-yet Georgia takes proud COM
fort in the thought that her physical
body is yellow with the commercial
blood of gold bearing veins. New York
is rich in her mineral wealth, and
alive with the music of her great fac
tories-Sut Georgia rests secure in the
confidence that she holds within her
borders coal and wood sufficient to
make her independent of strikes and
famines for all time. If New York is
the proud possessor of great buildings,
that rise in colossal grandeur upon her
thickly populated surface--in Georgia
the plenteous palm of the Omnipotent
hand has emptied mountains of mar
BILE and granite that adorn her prestine
bosom and unselfishly await the indus
try of the blaster and the genius of
the artist. If New York eongratulates
herself upon the magnificent scenic
beauty of Niagara, and the splendid
physical results to be seen in the re-
cent Harvesting of that wonderful