The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-06-02
STRONG ADDRESS.
By Governor Glenn at Opening OF In.
dustrial Parliament.

By Governor Glenn at Opening OF In
dustrial Parliament.
Denounced Immigration Agents of
Western Roads Who Have Misrep-
resented Conditions I'm South.
On last Tuesday week at Washing.
ton, D. O., the Southern Industrial
Parliament, having for its object the
exchange Of ideas regarding the best
means Of directing attention to the
resources industries and climatic con.
ditions of the South, was formally
opened with delegates from every
Southern, State and New York, Phila.
delphia and Boston. The parliament
was called TO order by Com missioner
West, OF the District of Columbia, who
introduced Commission Mcfarland
through whom the delegates were ex
tended hearty welcome.
Gov. Glenn, OF North Carolina, was
unanimously elected the presiding Off.
Ger and delivered the opening address
After drawing pen picture of the de.
velopments Of the country during the
last hundred years the Governor tonch.
ed upon the devastation wrought In
the South by the conflict between the
States, and said the people of that sec.
tion had gone ahead with will to re
deem, reclaim and build 1t up, He
spoke Of the enormous production Of
cotton, iron, timber and other commod
if, hn nd
it had risen to the place where 1T ought
to stand equal, If not superior, to
any other section in the universe In
which we live" But, he said, while the
harvest Of the South was great labor
erS we're few. Laborers were needed
anywhere and everywhere, and he de
clared that the South held out to them
vast opportunities, and II they would
come there was no reasJn why they
could not have the same returns, the
same wealth and be even greater and
grander than in any other section OF
the country. But while men of brains
and energy we're wanted the South did
not want the riff raft of the country or
Of the world.
The governor then aroused his au-
dience to high pitch when he de-
nounced the methods Of certain immi-
grafton agents of Western railroads to
turn the tide Of settlement from the
South by sending abroad maps show
ing the marvellous prosperity in the
West and picturing the Southern
States in lines of black in order to
show that the negroes have numerical
superiority over the white, that the
South is place where very few, If
any, whites live, where men of money
only can endure and where the whites
aborer can not endure, because it is
the home OF negroes and where the me-
gro Is made an equal partner with the
whites.
THAT assertion" he vehemently
declared, is false, and I herald it
here today. 1t is the duty of every hon
est NAM In the United States, whether
he is Northerner, Southern or West
erner, to remove this calumny from
the best and purest people that this
country has ever known" In the South,
the Governor said, the negro is given
every legal right he is entitled to.
Their children are educated as are
white children. They ale given asy.
lumns for their ueaf and dumb an6
blind, and are every where given a
chance. But" he said, there is one
distinction, one line we draw, ano
that is the line OF social equality
That, he proclaimed, could never be
The races were separated by the Law
of eternity because, he said, the white
man never was intended to be put OF
social equality with the negro. He ap
pealed to every one present to max,
known the truth and thus correct al
error and lie." In vigorously deny
Ing the charge that one Of the potent
reasons for less rapid development
Of the South was the existence of til,
feeling of sectionalism and hate for tn,
North, the Governor bade welcome t.
the people OF the country from ever,
section, saying that they would b.
given the highest chair. In the CUES
chamber. The day bad come whel
names Of Ulysses S. Grant and Rober
E. Lee would be equalled applauded.