The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-15
Speaks Before Farmers
National Congress.
BUILDING UP DIXIE
Rush for Deep Water Ports in the
South. Deepening the Mississippi,
Building the Panama Canal,
Preparing for the Great In
land Waterway.
1Rv the Associated Press. }

Richmond, Va, Sept. 13.-The sec
ond days session of the Farmers Ma
tional Congress opened with an adj
dress by Representative Livingston, OF
Georgia, who spoke on The tariff as
IL affects agriculture. After iscus-
zion of the paper Representative
Adams, of Wisconsin, spoke on The
Federal government and the farmers.
The meeting adjourned to meet at
$3.50 p. m.
At the afternoon session ]. Bryan
Grimes Secretary of State of North
Carolina made an address on II lie
Agricultural Resources of the South,
and Charles Arthur Carlisle. of South
Bend, Ind, one on Government eX-
penditure in relation to agricultural
interests" After a discussion of the
latter address resolutions were adopt
ed among other things requesting the
President of the United States to rec
ommend legislation of Federal aid to
the building of roads. This evening
w. b. Powell, the millionaire agricul-
turist. of Pennsylvania, delivered a
lecture on s"Climate. Soil Cor Food
and Development" which was on hu-
morous lines and was greatly en-
loved. The attendance of delegates OF
the congress now numbers some five
hundred.
j. Bryan Crimes Address.
The address of Colonel Grimes was
me of the events of the day. lie
thoughtfully traced the history of the
South as the great producing secuon
OF the early colonies and republic
which contributed the means through
which the North. aided by commercial
laws. had waxed rich. He showed py
numerous statistics the great part
llayed by men of Southern birth in
building up the West and the North
in pioneer ventures making for a
greater country, the marvellous deVel-
opment of the section prior to the war
and its more marvellous recovery from
the effects of disaster and misrule.
which, in the absence of immigration.
had been brought about by men OF
pure American strain.
In drawing the line of demarkatlon
between the policy of the North ana
the South he quoted the great Benton,
referring to the South as the pro-
,iucer of national wealth. as saying
in a speech in Congress. Under this
legislation the exports of the South
have been made the basis OF the
Federal revenues. Virginia. the two
-Carolinas and Georgia NAV be said
to defray three-fourths of the annual
expense of supporting the Federai
government, AID of this great sum an
iually furnished by them, nothing or
next to nothing. is returned to them in
the shape of government expendi-
lures"
AS a carefully prepared and accur-
aieIv compiled statistical exposition
Of Southern resources and progress.
the body of the address constitutes q
valuable industrial and agricultural
document.
Looking to the future. Col. Grimes
said in conclusions:
1.-The deepening of the Mississippi
is turning the grain trade to New Or
leans and the next generation will
probably see that city, not only the
greatest cotton port. but the greatest
grain port of the world. The Ameri-
can government will dig the Panama
Canal and this will become the world S
great highway. 1t will put the west
coast of South America nearer to
New York than to San Francisco. In
Asia there are hundreds of millions
OF half naked and half starved peo-
pie to make market for our farms
and factories. The great route of
travel to the North and to Europe
will be along our coast for thousands
OF miles. All the railroads of the
country are seeking deep water ports
on the Southern coast-great cities
will spring up at Galveston. Mobile.
Pensacola, Savannah, Port Royal.
Charleston, Southport. Beaufort and
Norfolk.
Norfolk, at the beginning of the
government had greater shipping
than New York and Charleston