The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-15

He recalled the fact that years ago
Edward Atkinson, Of Massachusetts
and David Wells OF Connecticut had
warned the New England legislatures
of the injurious consequences of the en-
actment of laws similar to those which
have been introduced into the Southern
LEGISLATURES within recent years.
Their warnings had not been needed,
and he qhoted the president of the New
England Cotton Manufacturers Assoc
citation in his address at the recent an
nual meeting OF that Association as
saying that the Massachusetts, laws
must be changed or the New England
cotton insust-y would be destroyed
The on. ~t..-r ;l.sTastive was to
secure a constitutions amendment
enabling Congress to tapply similar
I....s 10 the other States so that labor
conditions should be uniform through
out the country.
"a famous son Of Georgia is quoted
as saying he would yet call the roll
Of. his slaves on Bunker HILL" con-
tinued Mr. Davenport. II say the roll
of white slaves Is called every day
in the city Of Boston within the shadow
of that monument. A young man
recently sought marriage license in
that city He was given an appliea-
tion bearing a union label With his
pen-knife he cut off the label and de-
manded his license. After considera-
BILE hesitation the clerk issued the
license, hut that too bore the union
label I don't want a license with
that label said the applicant. I want
license printed by q free man You
viii take that or none was the
response. If you want TO get mar
risd In Boston you will be married UNI
der the unionzlabel or not at all"
Mr.. Davenport spoke of the indus
trial conditions prevailing in New Eng
land, New York, Philadelphia. Chicago,
and of the Bloody turmoil the ferce
rioting ana lawless revolution in
Colorado" Men of the Industrial
South, guard well your portals" he
said In the North 1t is no longer
how we can preserve the right OF an
Individual to operate his business or TO
work. but how that right can be re-
gained. The North. East and West.
look to the South to take determined
stand against such legislation as that
from which we are suffering; against
the domination OF unionism."
In closing Mr.. Davenport lightly
touched upon the political phases of
the problem and appealed to his audi
ence not only to resist the tendency to-
ward such. legislation before Congress
and the state Legislatures. but to use
every means to prevent the political
parties from adopting platforms favor-
ing such principles. Il ask you not
onl yto press these matters not only
before your legislatures" he said, but
to request your delegations to St
Louis, to the convention of that great
party of which am an humble mem
Der, to oppose the Introduction into Its
platform of declarations favorable to
auch legislation. Set your faces
against any legislation of a sacialistic
or paternalistie character. You need
our capital in the South and we will
ask for an accounting, The manu-
facturer and capitalist of the North look
to the South to see to IL that the con-
stitution Is protected and the laws en-
forced In SO far as they guarantee this
liberty of employer and employe."
Mr.. Bancroft followed with an ad.
dress In which he detailed the strug-
giles of the Massachusetts, manufacture
ers against restrictive legislation tend
Ing to render the operations OF the
mills in competition with the South an
impossibility, and pleaded with the
Georgia millowners to use every effort
to prevent their interests from being
so endangered. Mr. Bancroft paid Mr.
Davenport a high compliment by say
ing that he was deing more to spread
the seeds of good advice In such mat,
tiers than had been done before in many
years.
After the convention adjourned
Messrs Davenport and Bancroft left or
trip through the South TO further an
terest Southern manufacturers In thi'
subject