The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-02-02

Guard and school trustees are exempt
from paying poll tax, under the state
laws. Voters over 45 years of age are
not liable for poll tax.
hand and destruction of the country on
the other; the development of the whites
ingenuity, as well as often the total de-
struction of his virtues but he had great
faith that all things would work together
for ultimate good. that injustice would
be wiped out, and that the rule of the
Great Spirit would finally be supreme. He
spoke of Alabama and how he wished he
could have, when a little boy, carried
away with him to his western home the
name
''I have watched the white man., said
he. Not satisfied with cotton and corn,
potatoes and sugar the fruits of the trees
and the grass of the fields and the fiocks
on hill sides and mountains, the whites
have doubled UP as if by leaps and
bounds In thirty years they are two mill
lion instead of one. Not satisfied with
this, the pines of the north, the oak and
cypress are being mown and cured like
grass. The oanebrakes and cedar of the
, south are being thrown into the sea. Not
satisfied with this they are now fearing
down the mountains and splitting the
hills, producing yearly 1l,Qo000O tons OF
coal, $780, 900 tons of iron ore, 100000 gal
Ions of amona 100000 gallons of tar. 49,
900 cubic feet of gas, $S,OeC,00 worth Of
| coke. not to say anything of the vast
Quantities of cement, graphite, marble,
, limestone, paints, phosphate stone. cop
per, lead, gold, silver and clay goods to
the value of S1500,000
I'VE may say we are here to gather
strength many of us feel a kinship not
unlike that of the Creek Indian; but we
would have you keep your name, 1t brings
nearer to you what you dc. Parents and
grandparents of many of us in years gone
by passed over the lower end of yonder
mountains seeking better and richer
things in the northwest"
Presidents Address.
w. s. Purington the retiring president
was absent by reason of illness in his
family. This address that had been pre-
pared by him, was read to the conven-
ton by w. A. Eudaly of Gin matt:
Gentlemen of the Convention:
II greatly enjoy the privilege of call
ing to order the Nineteenth Annual con-
vention of the National Association of
Brick Manufacturers. / also enjoy be-
ing able to call it to order in this city,
which has become one of the wonders
OF this country--a city that twenty years
ago had a population of 5000 but now
has 10000 according to the last census,
| (and I believe they claim at least 1O0-
00G) 1t is one of the industrial conlmu-
mites of the United States, and why
| should it not be so, as for years the
Golfers of Birmingham banks have been
largely filled with surplus funds of our
association.
But prosperity is abroad not only in
| your city but elsewhere The year Of
my service happened to be that in which
| another President was elected-and past
| experience has taught us that we might
| reasonably expect poor market, low
| prices and small margins of profit. Con-
trary to our fears, the year has been one
| OF those cases where the unexpected
| happened Not only have we had good
year, but indications are that 1908 will,
| in all respects, be profitable. The
| great pulse of trade-the steel and iron
! industry-reports bright prospects. NILS
| that have been idle starting up. The
prosperity vouchsafed to MS as a nation
| knows no section, nor has 1t singled out
for its benefits any individual class OF
| our citizens. The Bountlful Giver OF
good things has neither north south,
east nor west in his vocabulary.
The South's Prosperity.
From the desolation Of four years Of
civil war the recuperation of this beau
tiful southland has been necessarily
/
| its fertile fields, it's orchards, its gar
| dens and fruit farms, and its overflow
, ing warehouses filled with tobacco, cot
| ten and other products of its soil-as we
| see its thousands of miles of well built
| finely equipped and well managed rail-
roads, with train load after train load
| of lumber and iron in all its varied
forms-as we see its enormous rolling
| mills and machine shops and It's won
derful deposits of coal, iron ana other
minerals, it is difficult to realize thar
+! forty years ago, all that is now given
| the political designation of solid south,
| was a barren waste and its people des'
| titute of even the necessities of life
Through the energy and enterprise OF
| the south we have seen during the past
year one of the grandest fairs TINS or
| any other country ever saw. | am glad
| to welcome You to this enterprislhg CITY
The members of orr association cannot
fan 10 he IMPRESSED with the results Of
the earnest enterprise and industry or our
| southern brethren. or to leave theh WIN
| out a spirit of thankfulness That there
were not more northern members OF tine
! executive committee at the midsummer
meeting in St Louis, else we might nave
| been freezing in some northern city. we
congratulate them on their choice
Proud of Their Progress.
..As a class Of manufacturers, we have
reason IN he proud of our progress. The
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