The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-21
CONVENTION MEANS
 MUCH FOR SOUTH
Parliament 10 Gather in Wash
 ington May 23
WILL ADVERTISE SECTION
Worlds Attention Will Be Called to Railroad Building, Manufacturing, Mining, Lumber, Commerce
 and Agriculture.

Washington. April 20-(Special)-Dr. Walter C. Murphy of this city, who has been designated to answer the correspon- dence and to arrange the details for the meeting of the Southern Industrial Parlia- ment in Washington. D. C., on the 2sd day of May next. in an interview said today:
 NO assemblage of southern representa- tives since the adjournment of the seces- sion convention in Charleston, s. C., in 1861. is fraught with greater interest to the people in the south than the Southern Industrial Parliament which will con- vene at 10 o'clock forenoon in the city of Washington, D. C., on the 23d day of May, 1905.
 'The results of the Charleston conven- tion was secession, disunion, fraternal strife and war. The object of the coming parliament is commercial fellowship, in- dustrial growth, American supremacy one language. one country and one flag
 "rhe parliament had it's conception in the brains of number of southern con- gressmen, who felt that the time had come for an official announcement, that in the south, laws were favorable to the investor and that public order and private rights were firmly upheld and maintained.
 At first, it was contemplated to have a few representative men from the south assemble in Washington and publish an address upon the industrial conditions ex- isting there which in railroad building manufacturing, mining, numbering. com merce and agriculture will be shown by the official records of the Department of Commerce and Labor to be in the most gratifying condition.
 "The announcement was most favorably received Not only did it meet with a cordial reception from the business men in the south, but the governors of eight states answered that they would send delegations from Virginia, North Caro- lima, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Louisiana.
 There has heretofore been a wide mis- apprehension on two subjects which has done the south great injustice. They are that the sanitary conditions are un- salubrious and that vested rights were not held as sacred as elsewhere. As a matter of fact. there was some repudia- ton in the south after the war, but these debts were contracted by men not hay ing the best interest of the south at heart and the tax payers felt that the indebt- edness was unjust and their states never received value
 Northern capitalists who have in- vested in southern railway bonds mining enterprises and manufacturing industries are now perfectly satisfied with their in- vestments and their dividends. Medical men of recognized authority in their re- spective localities realize that the health fitness and sanitary conditions in the south is not inferior to those in other states. These facts will reach the ponu- lar ear by the session of this parliament [" In discussing the Southern Industrial Parliament, F. P. Sargent. commission CT general of immigration for the United States of America, who will be one of the orators in the parliament. said today. Tn the centuries to some, the ereat Mississippi valley will be the center of the worlds greatest achievement, and New Orleans is it's gateway. The wave chart of immigration, thus far shows an inadequate flow to the southern states. which Is not due to soil or climate and must be attributed to artificial condi. 1 tions which the southern people can con trol. The assured early completion of mo Panama canal will give gratifying i'm pulse to the commercial prosperity of the southern states, and Galveston. New Or leans and Mobile; and even Savannah Charleston and Wilmington will derive great benefit"