The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-18

| sThere ia no class of men, ladies and gentlemen, that know that has great CT or more serious responsibility Inap those who stand between the great | capital that is invested in the railroao | interests of this country and the grear
 masses of the people who produce the | wealth of the country You ana ! anu
 we ail. know thatI without railroads. we could not succeed, we could not ! prosper, we could not advance to the | high destiny we have already reach l ed. The world is brought into close | connection through the instrumental | ity of the means of communication. | The steamships and the cable bring us into intimate relations with all or | the civilized world and the railroads | and the telegraph and the telephone bring us into intimate communication | With each other as States ot a great
 and glorious Union. Indeed, might | give you a little advice along here, but | shall not do so. In the first place. | you know more about 1t than do, and | in the second place, just at this time
 l am not giving advice to railroad com | missioners.
 But coming, as you do, from every State insthe Union, wish to say that the, hall you now occupy will live in history. Many of you perhaps were never here before, but you can go away | from here with this sentiment which hope will live in your hearts, that | this spot Is sacred, not only to the city or Montgomery and to the people of Alabama, but the people of the South. It was here, ladies and gentlemen, that iculminated a contest that had been going on in this country for more than two hundred and fifty years. It was here that started a revolution which, under the circumstances, was neces- sary. ttf
 Patriotism of the South.
 We must not forget, ladies and gen. | tlemen. that there was no North and no South in 1776. We must not forget, that in the Declaration of Independ- ence in that year, on the 4th of July, was the declaration of liberty and of freedom and of justice that 1t took six thousand years to evolve. It was l maintained by the blood of our fore fathers, the flag and ensign of our lib- erty was the flag of the people of the South the same as that of the North. l and if, ladies and gentlemen, in 1861, | the people of Alabama and others of | the Southern States. decided to sepa- | rate from the Union, 1t was because we believed that the Union was com | pact and not a contract, 1t was be- cause we believed that the sovereignty of the State stood supreme in the reg ulation of it's own internal affairs. And want to say, ladies and gentlemen, that I thank God from that faith we have not departed.
 | We recognize the fact, though, that during the years in which this country had existed natural laws had gotten in |
 that through the operation of the laws
 of nature certain classes of the popu-
 lation Of this country had drifted to the South. We recognize the fact that the progress of civilization had decreed that slavery must go. To that decree
 there Is nowhere in all this land a l more hearty, sincere. sympa thetiC
 amen than is to be found throughout this Southland of ours.
 And l will make another proposi- tion, ladies and gentlemen, that while we fought under the Constitution and laws of Congress and the decision oi the Supreme Court the question of the | legal authority for secession was one
 of disputation. which could never have
 been settled upon the forum or in youi halls of legislation. It took the sword
 War Was a Necessity.
 | War has been large part of the history of the world The war between the States, ladies and gentlemen, was
 a necessity. and am glad to know thaI today, growing out of that terrible conflict between brethren, in whicf
 heroism were shown upon every occa sion and upon both sides. that we al stand together as brothers of a grea and glorious Union. united again a:
 one people of the two sections of oul Icommon country. I am glad to know
 that differences of opinion upon polit ical economy will never separate us. am glad to know that the abstrac Iquestion of State sovereignty, embrac ing the right and the power of seces
 sion will never again interfere witt
 the harmony of this great country o Iours.
 All on earth that we people of tho South ask is that we be treated alike with Maine and California, with New
 York and Illinois-let us alone in tho administration of our own internal af- fairs. The people of Alabama are pa.
 triotic. brave and courageous. Differ. fnor A Inr Afxr !, i-. A I.,
 bama on many economic questions. the question of the tariff and the standard of values and foreign policy, in this country 1t is largely a matter of diff.
 ference of opinion among individuals
 and not sections, and I am glad tc
 welcome you to a State that Is des- tined to be commercially and industri.
 ally as we have been in energy and
 courage and patriotism the peer Of any State in the United States.
 | Cotton, coal and iron, the. triumvi.
 rate upon which rests the great pros.
 pcrity of this country, we have then
 all. But were 1t not for the enter.
 prise and industry of our people anc the riches of nature might as well bC
 in the bowels of the earth and tho
 success that attends us would not be
 Ladies and gentlemen. again I bic you a hearty and cordial welcome tC
 the State of Alabama. We are one
 people and one country and one blood land I pray Almighty God, and this |. sincere, that the time will come anC
 l believe 1t is here now, when we car truly say in our hearts, in our very
 souls, that we stand as one people fol
 the highest in civilization and the bes
 in ethics, and the most glorious of al
 religions, that recognizes the Father
 hood of God and the Brotherhood ot
 Man"
 MT. ChadbOurne Responds.
 At the conclusion of the Governors
 speech Hon. John V. Smith raised a
 laugh by saying that he wanted to in-
 troduce the biggest" man in the Asso-
 citation, turning and lowing to Benja-
 min F. Chadbourne, Railroad Commis-
 sicner of Maine. and a former Presi- dent of the Association. As Mir. Chad
 bourne got on his feet 1t was readily seen why he had been referred to as the biggest" man in the Association. He is something over six feet in height
 and as large in proportion as he is tall. His reply to Governor Cunningham S welcome was a masterly effort. The people not only of Maine but all the l East and North, he said, were proud
 of the rapid strides that Alabama is making in the march of progress. He said that Alabama had earned the re- | cognton all over the country as one of the banner States of the Union as | regards commercialism and integrity, and that his people were only too glad | to lend helping hands.
 When MT. Chadbourne concluded vitation had been extended by the Commercial and Industrial Association | to reception at S:30 o'clock.
 Several of the ladies of the party | he said, were anxious to see a genuine boil of cotton, and several bolls would