The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-19
PARRY AGAIN
 IS PRESIDENT Heads e Manufacturers
 Ayr Warm Fight. CE .E OF CONVENTION G. B. Mccormick to Repre-
 sent Alabama. Secretary of Commerce and Labor Met- calf Makes Interesting Address to Members of the Asso- citation.

Atlanta, Ga., May lS.-The tenth an- nual convention of the National As- sociation of Manufacturers came to a close shortly after noon today, after selecting New York as the place for the convention of 1906. re-electing D. M. Parry. of Indiana, as president, and ordering that the association shall be incorporated under the laws of New York State. Vice Presidents. one from each State represented. were named by the States. the Vice Presidents from the twelve States having the largest membership in the association constituting. with the president and secretary. the executive committee. After the election of H. s. Tillman. of New York. as treasurer. the roll call of States for vice presidents resulted as follows:
 Alabama, G. B. Mccormick: Cali fornia, H. D. Morton; Connecticut, A. H. Bullard: Delaware, G. R. Hoffech- CT; Georgia, David Woodward: Illinois, | Elliott Durand; Indiana, E. H. Dean; Kentucky. M. c. Nunemacher; Louis- jana. R. J. Word; Massachusetts. G.. c. Draper; Michigan. B. T. Skinner; Missouri, J. W. vancleave; New Hampshire. E. P. Pike; New Jersey, R. G. Jinkinson; New York. Ludwig | Nissen; North Carolina, D. A. Tomp- kins; Ohio John Kirby. Jr.; Pennsyl- vania, D. c. Ripley; Rhode Island, P. E. Hays; South Carolina, E. A. Smith i; Tennessee. H. l.. Chamberlin; Wiscon- sin. H. s. Smith; Iowa, G. R. Esta- | brook.
 The Executive Committee. The vice presidents who will con stitute the executive committee will
 be those from New York, Pennsyl- vania, Ohio. Massachusetts, Illinois. Michigan, Maryland. New Jersey, Con-
 necticut, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Tennessee.
 The secretary of the association will
 be chosen by the executive committed. The choice of president was the oc- casion for warm fight. The position
 taken by MT. Parry on the labor ques- | tion and on the matter of government control Of railroads. developed oonsid-
 erable opposition among those who
 held views differing from his. Mir. Parry's name was reported by the com
 mittee on nominations for the presi- dency. On the floor of the convention | William McCarroll, of New York, and D. A. Tompkins of North Carolina
 were nominated. MT. McCarroll with
 drew his name and following consid-
 erable discussion, Mir. Tompkins also
 withdrew and upon unanimous vote
 the convention cast the vote for MT Parry.
 The selection of the meeting place
 was between San Francisco and New
 York, although Saratoga, N. Y, and
 Wheeling. w. Va, also sent invita-
 tions.
 Resolutions were adopted opposing
 anti-injunction legislation, denouncing
 the eight hour law, favoring gold leg
 islation with silver using countries
 and the usual vote of thanks to the
 entertainers.
 l. The only formal address of the day
 was by George J. Seabury, of New
 York, who argued for protection. A
 statement in his address to the effect
 that American manufacturers were
 selling their products abroad cheaper
 than at home, was challenged by Ed
 win F. Metcalf, of Auburn, N. Y., and | lively argument followed.
 i The recreation of the day was a
 reception at the Piedmont Driving Park during the afternoon, and num- erous luncheons and drives through the city extended by personal friends to the visitors
 MetcaIf's Address.
 Secretary Victor B. Metcalf of the Department of Commerce and Labor ad- dressed the members of the National Association of Manufacturers here this evening. He was greeted by a large audience of representatives from every part of the land, and although his ad- dress abounded In figures and statisti- cal comparisons, he held the closest Rt- tention throughout. MT. Metcalf be- gan his discussion by declaring, and establishing his statements by figures, that the South within the last decade and at the present time has grown and is growing in commercial importance and manufacturers more rapidly than any other section of the country. Her population and every product of the soil, her iron and coal production show a higher percentage of Increase than the United States as a whole. Turning his attention to the import ance of the United States as a manu- featuring country, Mir. Metcalf said that the United States leads the world as a manufacturing country, the value of her products being equal to that of Great Britain, France and Germany combined, whereas in 1860 the United States was lowest in this respect of the four nations. The total value of her manufacturers in 1900 was approxi- mately $13,OO0. .00O, ,000.
 In spite of this fact, the UnitedStates the greatest manufacturing country, exports but s5OO.O00,OOO of the four billions of dollars of manufactured goods which enter into the worlds in- terstate trade. Since 1898 the United States has led the world In the export of domestic products-the products of our fields, and mines, breadstuffs, meat, coal, cotton, timber. iron, cop per, mineral oil for illumination-and the world takes all we can produce in excess of our own demands. Of our manufactured products only about eight per cent find their way to for eign markets The remaining 92 per cent is consumed by our own popu- alton. The production of our manu- lecturers Is increasing more rapidly than our population. The total value of our manufacturers for 1905 will ap- proach fifteen billion dollars. fifteen times more than in 1850, while the population has hardly more than quad rupled since that year.
 Our Great Competition. MT. Metcalf declared that Europe is the great competitor of the United States in the markets of the world. Germany in particular having an i'm creasing hold on foreign markets. in which Great Britain is a close second. He stated that these markets are found