The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-06-30
Martin-Allen
Drug Co.,
Mailing Corner. First Street

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creant if he didn't lay aside mod
esty to talk to these people Only
few weeks ago be had talked to
a class OF girls as pretty as lived
lin Tennessee. Did we realize the
possibilities at our dcorg Accre,
tiOns for thousands of years had
been making the soil OF this valley
which was destined to produce for
millions. The water swept south
with its freight of fertilizer doing
the work of an American Nile and
building a plain richer than we
ever knew. For such as these the
farmer had left his pillow to rnst in
the furrows of Robertson County
The day has not passed when we
can do some things without hope
of gain. I'VE came to meet and
know you and then ask to exchange
products with you tn an equitable
/ basis "a fair exchange is no
robbery" We have a richer and
more intelligent people year by
| year. Nashville had erected 150
| factories in as many months.
Twenty five years ago Union City
was producing finished furniture.
Obion County had a hundred busy
saw mills and a forest of giant
trees almost as dark as the aisle of
some great cathedral. A forest
cannot last always, unfortunately,
but you are fortunate that you did
not ruthlessly destroy oil the tim
Der. Where these forests stood
you now have beautiful fields of
waving grain. The produce of
these fields should be utilized at
home. 1t was a crying shame that
from Union City to Memphis
there was not a cotton mill. From
Atlanta to DanyiIle, Va, he had
seen from one to five cotton mills
spring up at every station, and
these were owned nearly aItogeth-
oil by the citizens of these local.
ties. If one half the capital in.
vested ia banks in this country
was in cotton mills how much bet
ter off You would be. The Nash
vile tourists didn't 60 to Memphis
to teach the merchants of that
place how to do business, but to
talk heart to heart of how to make
greater Memphis, a greater
Nashville, a greater Union City.
The era Of progress and develop
ment added to the intelligence and
virtue Of the people Of the South
land. No people in the world had
more brains and intelligence than
the people Of Tennessee or the
SoVBh. We were not contaminated
with foreign races. Hence the
opportunity is given us to carry
wealth and virtue to pinnacles we
dream not Of to-day. 1t only re-
mains for you to do your part and
reap your full reward.
The merchants of Nashville in
yite you to their city. They will
treat you in a high and honorable
way. "A patriots duty is to his
home and native heath.
The speakers expressed them
selves freely Of the cordial manner
in which they were entertained
here, and many of the visitors in
conversation volunteered some
very fattering comments upon
band concert. There
we're about thirty in the band, Il
made up entirely of local amateurs
boys and young men and it is
worth while to say that this was
he best concert they have ever
vet given. 1t might have been
hat the presence of strangers
them. The perform H
Ince was smooth and even and the
expression in many Of the pas
ages was very pleasant indeed.
some Of them were extrayagant
,nough to say that the music was
'qual to that Of many large pro-
esslonal organizations. The pro-
ram rendered was as follows:
,hicago Tribune march .........,
................W p. Chambers
Torquato Tasso selection from
opera D0nizetti
of Naples waltzes
,rfnce OF Pilsen selection from
opera ........ .sGustav Luders |
Taritana- selection from opera
- ...... Wallace
Iloria, march ............5....s. Losey
Dahnke's syrnps are the finest.