The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-25

I lSt Jr.. J. c. F. Moritz. R. M. Henderson, M. Loeb. l. Levystein, w. c. Hunter, l J. J. Stephens and W. M. Wood. Captain Forbes welcomed the guests in a brief address. He pointed out what the visitors had already observed | and talked about on their trip, the | growing prosperity of the South, Ala bama and Montgomery. He said that
 the hopes of the city. he felt sure, were for better trade relation between the
 business intersts of Chicago and of Montgomery. He told his hearers that
 never has Montgomery had more well come guests.
 | Mir. Byrne Speaks.
 J. P. Byrne was the first of the party
 to respond to the welcome He com
 mended the hospitality of Montgomery
 people and the remarkable strides in
 prosperity that has marked Montgom- ery's history in the last three or four years.
 MT. Byrne said:
 Gentlemen, wish to take your time
 for moment in extending a word of thanks and appreciation for the courte-
 sy you have shown in meeting us in a
 body at the depot, and escorting us to
 the rooms of the Commercial and Indus
 trial Association and then proferring us
 an ample sufficiency Of the beer which
 has made Milwaukee famous and of
 which we have not had drop since we left Chicago. lLaughter.)
 Before doing so however, I wish
 to say that have come to no city in
 the South where have felt so much at
 home and so proud to be a member of
 the trade follow as in Montgomery. I
 was met here by Mr. Forbes. the Presi-
 dent of your local and state association,
 and learn that he Is in the music busi-
 ness, which is one of luxury and it's
 representatives are not associated as a
 rule in ordinary sized cities with the more active and direct affairs of com
 mercial life. It has been a great treat to me to find some one who takes a ! larger view of affairs than mere trade } interests
 Tn addition to that found my very ) dear friend. Rev. pr. Hodge. your Epis- tcoplian clergyman. who met me at the ! depot. and I do not know what more I , could expect than those two friendly and personal greetings.
 COngratulates Montgomery. As to your city let me congratulate you on the immense strides which we learn have taken place in Montgomery
 and it's environments during the past eight or ten years. and more especial . ly during the past three or four years. We have heard so much of your pros . perity. that we decided to send a com s mittee down here to investigate. We ] have not investigated Montgomery yet, } but We have investigated other places, 7 east of you and north of you, and find 7 cotton, cotton. cotton, everywhere. and 3 not bale to spare. And gentlemen, 5 when the cotton blossoms in such pro- : fusion we expect to find the smile on the faces of you Southern men that ] won't come off,' and we have found 1t. Speaking of your Southern hospitali 7 ty let me assure you that the hospitali- l ty we have received in every city and 5 section we have visited beggars descrip-
 tion. Your commercial men have laid
 aside important matters and have giv- l en up their time to us. escorting us here . and there. caring for us most assiduous- . ly, and we shall carry back with us to :, Chicago and to the West lasting inn . pressions of appreciation and gratitude r courtesies so universally accorded us !; But gentlemen, I will detain you no = longer except to propose to the Chair f man of our delegation, MT. Barlow, a e vote of thanks in appreciation of the !; many kindnesses received at your hands 8 and which we may receive during our n stay in Montgomery"
 d Chairman H. c. Barlow of the visit 5, ing delegation. then put the motion in l. the breezy style characteristic of the y Windy City" He said:
 c You suckers who say aye stand up 3, That's all there Is to it." Daughter /. and applause).
 S 'Finished Product" Introduced. - Continuing, Chairman Barlow said II Before you go, gentlemen, I would |. like to introduce Mir. Jenkins, our dis
 tinguished Southern representative l. Having been born in Mississippi he n came to Chicago barefooted, and we n clothed him, fed him and took him in L. generally, and you now see the finished ' product
 t' MT. Jenkins showed sure enough that
 he had shorn little of the Southern = attributes. both in the matter of speech
 nA AAlre
 glad, he said, before the club quarters
 had been reached in the morning, to
 come back to Montgomery because 1t
 reminded him of the olden times when
 he used to travel through this city
 This was several years ago, but since
 he has been in Chicago he has had
 business calls to this section, and four
 years ago he visited Montgomery. His
 home is in Mississippi where all his relatives except his own family. live.
 He owns a plantation in Mississippi.
 He is holding several hundred bales of cotton for better prices.
 And you can say I have held this H cotton ever since last year. and am # ready to hold it another year if I see
 things coming more the way of the # farmers" said he in a conversation
 He spoke as follows at the club # quarters:
 # "Gentlemen-With such an introduce M tion from our chairman, what would & you expect of me. Uaughter). Hav-
 ing gone to Chicago barefooted, and, as ~ our chairman just mtimated, almost # naked, l come to you today we'll shod & and fairly well clothed. It gives me # great pleasure to say that it is a mat H ter of pride and joy to me, personally, # to visit you, being an old Southern
 boy, as you have been told, born and z reared in Mississippi, and the first dol $ lar I ever earned after leaving home ' and starting my commercial career in ~ New Orleans, having been in the hand & ling of Alabama coal which is rapidly W becoming one of your greatest prod z, ucas.
 Cotton in the South. '- The sections contiguous to Mont
 gomery are devoted largely to cotton
 and cotton industries, and, with tho
 annual value of the cotton crop of the |, South reaching the enormous aggregate
 of $500. 000.000, and the rapid develop D, ment of your cotton factories and kin a, as dred industries, securing for you th' 1- full benefit of it's by-products. we cal O. look forward to q continued and per nS .n manent prosperity in the South (Ap
 plausc). And, gentlemen. if you car
 have Decent cotton for the next hV'
 years, there is no section of this grea - common country of ours, the Unitet
 States, from Maine to California, anC # the Great Lakes to the Gulf, as ricf E and prosperous as this magnificent em " pire of the South. (Applausel.