Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-06-02
NEEDS OF SOUTH STATED
Paliament Adopts a Number Of RssO'
lutiOnS.
AN OPEN DOOR FOR IMMIGRANTS.
Inc Last Day Of the Parllaments Sessions
Was Devoted Largely to the Consideration
of Resolutlons-Ask That Tobacco Tax
pc Reduced and Wider Markets Found For
Cotton Goods.

washington, D. C. Especially Mem
bers of the Southern Industrial Parlia-
ment called upon President Roosevelt in
body, and each delegate was presented
Individually to the President.
Mr.. w. A. Erwin, of Durham, N. G.,
leading otton-manufacturer, in an adj
dress to the parliament, mentioned the
President in laudatory terms and was
loudly applauded.
The last day Of the parliamentS ses-
sions was devoted largely to the con-
sideration of resolutions Some of the
resolutions were sent to the table, but
some of them were tabled without dis
cussion as being outside the jurisdiction
of the work of the parliament Finally,
before adjournment was taken, it was
decided that all tabled resolutions be
acted upon when the parliament again
assemblies some months hence
Prof. Clifford Pinchot, chief OF the
Bureau of Forestry, addressed the par
lament on the Importance of caring for
the timber lands of the South Moth
ing" he said, is more vital to the con-
tinuance Of the industrial prosperity OF
the South than the question of forest
preservation, and no question is more
pressing at the present time. A large
part of the natural wealth OF the South
is in its forests. In the market value
of the product lumber in the South
stands next to cotton. The census OF
1886 found the Southern States furnish
ing less than IL per cent. OF the total
lumber products of the country. That
of 1000 found the South furnishing rs
per cent. The South, in yellow pine
alone, in 1000 furnished over one-fourth
of the total sawed lumber of the United
States and over one third of the total
cut or soft wood. The market value OF
the product of Southern lumber in 1000,
| including Kentucky and Tennessee, was
nearly $I8o,ooo,ooo. The value Of the
cotton crop in the same year, including
seed, was only little short of S5ooooo,-
900.
"The plain and simple question which
lies before the people of the South today
| is. Shall the forests remain continuous
power for the production of wealth, or
shall they be destroyed in harvesting the
present stand? By the first method their
resources will be available for successive
generations. By the second method,
which is now commonly practiced, the
permanent impoverishment of the South
through the obligation of what should
be one of its leading industrial resources
will be brought about"
The Bureau of Forestry, he said,
stands ready to cooperate with States
in forest preservation.
Col. J. S. Cunningham, of North Car
DINA, president of the North Carolina
Tobacco Growers Association, offered a
resolution favoring the removal OF the
tobacco tax. He declared that tobacco
sells so low in the South that small
growers cannot earn enough to support
themselves growing it, and that many
negroes were abandoning their small to-
bacco farms and going to the cities IN
search of work.
Representative Bankhead, of Alabama,
suggested that there was no possibility
of the tobacco tax being removed by
Congress, although he thought it might
be reduced. AT the suggestion OF Sena-
tor Simmons, of North Carolina, the
resolution was amended and unanimous
| ly adopted in the following form:
Resolved, That as tobacco is the only,
AGRICULTURAL crop taxed in the United
States we urge Our Representatives in
Congress to reduce the tax on tobacco,
A committee of which Governor Rob
ert B. Glenn, of North Carolina, will
be chairman will, by direction of the par
lament, be appointed by Governor Glenn
| for the purpose of preparing a statement
of the resources, needs and advantages
| of the South.