The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-15
SHOULD BE ON GUARD
DANIEL DAVENPORT WARNS THE
SOUTHERN MANUFACTURERS.


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Atlanta. Ga, June 14.--(SpeciaL)--
As the apostles Of Individual freedom
for employer and employee. Daniel Da-
venport OF Bridgeport Conn. address,
ed the annual convention of the Geor-
gia Industrial Association at Warm
Springs. Ca, last week. The address
was most timely. Alarmed at the la
Dor trouble in New England. New YoI <,
Philadelphia, Chicago and California.
the Southern manufacturers are on the
| qui vive and this alarm was heighthen-
ed by the struggle now in progress in
Colorado. The Georgia Association
was one of the first in the South to
recognize the depressing effect of re-
strictive labor legislation upon cotton
manufacturing In New England and
fearing that similar laws in the South
| would be followed by even more dis
| astreus consequences, 1t invited Mr..
| Davenport. the well-kncwn executive
| agent of the Anti-Boycott Association,
| to deliver the annual address on the
subject: Shall the South Protect
Herself Against Extreme Labor Legis-
| lation7v
Mr.. Davenport was selected. as being
probably the most prominent speaker OF
New England on such subjects from
| the standpoint of the employer. On
his way to Warm Springs, Mr.. Daven-
port fell in with c, q, Bancroft Of Bos-
| ton, the Massachusetts, legislative
| Agent of the famous Arkwright Club.
and the two journeyed together to- tell
| the Georgia mill owners of the diff
| ieulties under which the New England
manufacturers labored and to warn
them Of the perils which would shortly
confront them.
| That Mr., Davenport's eloquent and
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shown by the fact that at its conclu7
sion the Association passed resolu-
tion endorsing the anti-boyectt law re-
tcently enacted by the Alabama Legis-
| lature and as the Georgia Legislature
| will meet in few days ii is expected
an attempt will be made to have 4
similar law enacted by II. A legisla-
tive committee was appointed 10 assist
the Executive Committee on matters Of
| legislation in Georgia and at Washing
| ton. The executive Committee was
also directed to invite every manu-
| facturer in the State TO become q mem
Der of the Association, membership in
which has hitherto been confined to
lcotton mills.
| In opening his address, Mr.. Daven-
| port briefly reviewed the historical
bleod-ties between the people of New
England ana the South from the time
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| Georgia, to the present day.
~ am told" he said, that q larger
proportion of the people of some of
your counties can trace their ancestry
| to New England sires. than similar
number at random on the Boston Com
| men.v
/ In delieAtely complimentary terms he
expressed his amusement on this, his
| first trip through the south, at the
| evidences Of activity and prosperity on
every hand, and in glowing language
paid tribute to the immense and COM
paratively undeveloped natural re-
sources of the South. sharply contract
| ing the situation of the Southern farm
| err and manufacturer with that of his
Northern competitor.
"You are surrounded by your raw
materials" he said; your cotton In
| your fields. your iron and coal in your
miness you are blessed with q fertile
soil. peculiarly adapted to the produe-
ton Of your principal and kingiy'
crop, for which the demand ever in
creases more rapidly than the supply
But above all you, have q magnificent
people who have demonstrated their
stalwart patriotism and martial valoH
on q Thousand bloody battlefields; who
have evinced their splendid moral couF-
age by regenerating and re-upbutfding
their country.
mo other section of eur broad and
common land has 80 suffered or has
been SO magniicently Fejuvenated. The
purest Anglo-Saxon blood in the world
courses through the veins Of your peo-
pie and say that the character, the
| stamina OF the Southern people is such
that all these magnificent natural ad-
| vantages and all these great forces Of
nature at your hand will be supple
mented and directed by the activity,
the enel gy and courage, and the de-
termination and public spirit of the
finest raae of men on earth. On the
other hand. the New Highlander wrestS
a living from q sterile soil in a risor-
Gus climate. The manufacturer is far
from his base of supplies and with re-
strioted market"
Continuing on this line. Mr.. Daven-
port warned his hearers that they had
but one danger to fear--restricted leg
islation. 1t had laid its paFalyzing
hand upon the industries OF New Eng
land which were now hampered and
bound down until almost helpless.
| Il sometimes think as look upon
the unusual trend of events in this
country" he said, that the hour OF
iirrevocable decline has struck New
England; that the limit of manufactur-
ing and commercial supremacy has
about been reached and the falling
| scepter Is to be seiEed by you gentle
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