The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-03

neither through New England virtue nor southern avarice.
 Welcomes All People.
 The state needed immigration-new blood-and it would welcome all people who might come, provided they brought with them patriotism, loyalty, respect for law, obedience to authority hearts to feel, brains to think and hands to work.
 Alabama offered splendid field to the capitalist for the investment of his money, to the laborer for the investment of his industry and energy, to the artisan and mechanic for the investment of their skill and enterprise. The state needed more of all of them. he said.
 We've got enough doctors and lawyers, and probably enough preachers" said he. Doctors" he added amid applause. live off of the misfortunes of men, lawyers off of their rasoality and preachers off of their fright"
 The governor said that the one thing needful in the state was education. The people of Alabama are turning 30 cents out of every 70 cents ad valorem taxes into the school. Colleges, industrial schools, agricultural colleges are all pros porous. The farmer boy is being taught to operate a farm skilfully. It reauirel as much skill to run a farm successfully as it did to run a sawmill or a brick kiln.
 Honest Citizenship.
 Alabama citizenship was honest, pure and patriotic. Alike in war and in peace, they had rung true metal They had not learned all there was to know in in dpe nd hut learning this fast. Association with the Yankees, said the Governor, was enlight- ening them.
 Alabama was doing justice to the negro. The whites, who paid 95 per cent of the school tax, were providing equally for the education of the black and white children alike.
 "The public sentiment of this state," said he, "belleves that ignorance is no cure for anything. and that while educa- tion isn't cure for everything, it is help full in curing all things"
 In closing, Governor Cunningham spoke of the high rank Alabama had taken in stateeraft, diplomacy, war and the arts of peace-of the states proud record In the civil war-of the spirit of good feel ing manifest throughout the country and of the inspirlting destiny of the old com monwealth.
 As Governor Cunningham ceased speak ing, the audience ardently applauded him, as it had done frequently while he had been talking.
 MT. Gregory.
 M. D. Gregory of Corning, N. Y, re- spending to the toast "Our south," point ed out that there were no longer sections in this country of ours, but that we are all one and wherever one finds himself he realizes that he is an American among Americans He paid discriminating and notable tribute to the southern people, to the peculiar strength and grace of their character. emphasizing especially then courtesy their constancy, their hos pitality and the graciousness of their manner of life. There had been differ ences that were due to mutual misunder- standings but these had passed away the more intimately each section came to know the other
 W. P G. Harding, speaking for the banking interest. drew attention to the fact that Birmingham was born in a brick kiln and that the city was prac- tically built upon brick basis.
 ''The trouble about Birmingham said the speaker, lis that eyer since it was born nothing has ever been large enough for it.n
 He predicted that Birmingham's wealth would double in the next four years.
 President Blair
 J. M Blair of Ohio the president of At ter by referring in his first sentence to Governor Cunningham of Ohio" Con- tinuing he said that the average Ohio man was so proud of his state that he couldn't open his mouth without men, tioning it's name. The laughter was re- newed a moment later when f>r. Blair alluded to that fact that MT. Harding had referred to the Egyptian method of rnak- ing brick with straw Mir. Blair said that there was a bylaw of the association. that punished with a fine of 8 any such reference.
 He closed by commenting the ladies present for the delightful feature their at- tendance contributed to the convention of the association.
 The Rev. Or. Stagg.
 Then me Ddnu icltfS tHJOytu WhdL was pronounced easily the most charming speech of the evening. namely, that made by the Rev. Dr. stagg.
 My fellow countrymen and country women," began Dr. Stagg in his usually sincere and candid style. "I love every thing that is American" To illustrate that the Americans possessed virtues which uniting and cooperating would be inYin- cible. pr. Stagg told three stories charac- ter.stic of each section, the first portray ing the New Englander's faculty of VI ming success and happiness out Of sterile soil and vigorously cold cllm- ate; the second showing the westerner's enterprise and shrewdness; the third pointing out the southerner's pluck. pathos and sense of humor. All three stories were heartily applanded, especially that about the westerner
 An Ohio man. said Dr. Stagg. went west to North Dakota and was on his way home. He met another Ohio man going to North Dakota and leading a calf He traded forty acres of land in North Da- kota for the calf. and when he. found out