The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-07

been talking and writing about Mont gomery for the last twenty years"
 Mir. Glass, in response to hearty greeting, spoke as follows: 4
 I am sure that speak for all Mont
 gomery when I extend the heartiest of
 welcomes to the distinguished citizen
 of our country's metropolis, who is our
 guest tonight. It is a pleasure and
 privilege to entertain man whose
 brain and character have elevated him
 to several of the most honorable posi- tions in this great country. The man who before the prime of life has been placed at the head of one of the greatest universities in the land, who has been
 chosen chief executive of one of the
 greatest cities on eaFth, who has been
 representative of his Government at
 the peace tribunal of the world, pos
 sesses a rare combination of talents
 and an unusual force of character.
 Montgomery honofs herself in honor
 ing him. We can profit much ip asso-
 citation with a man of such parts, even
 though the association be short.
 But, in speaking for Montgomery,
 am constrained to say that trust our
 distinguished guest may learn some
 thing from Montgomery. The country
 generally understands that the average
 New Yorker Is the most ignorant Of
 men: in his pride and satisfaction, too
 often he knows~little of the rest of the
 country The barbarians of the West
 and the 'provincials of the South are
 unknown to him, and too frequently
 not worthy of his investigation as his
 cousins across the water. This should
 not be the case. and l am glad that
 New Workers of large calibre, like our
 guest, are of recent years broadening
 their view and studying the American
 ism of the real America. am sure
 they, as well as we, will be the gain
 CTS.
 It is very probable that many an Eastern man has rubbed his eyes re- gently where he has seen Montgomerys name in big type stretching cross the pages of popular periodicals He may have remembered from his school days that 1t was the Capital of Ala .bama and possibly that lt was the Cradle of the Confederaey. But he had not kept pace with its growth and de- veIopment into a modern, enterprising, pushing city. And yet there l. nothing remarkable about this, when we study causes. The same forces Of ain and spirit and resource that made Mont gomery the Cradle of the ConfedeTacy have for the past forty years been moulding her into an uptodate city Of 5O OO00 and have set for her goal ot 100 900 in 1910. We have heard much of the old SOutn anu kHe new 0outH- There is more of an antithesis in the phrase than in the fact. The truth Is that the situation today is the spirit Of the old South working in the condi- tions of the new South, and l boldly assert that there is not a happier illus tration of the composite result than here in our beloved city. We are as regardful of social amenities and of constitutional rights as were our fath- CTS and grandfathers, but we have learned the dignity of labor as thor oughlY and are as lively m the pursuit of the almighty dollar as the keenest Yankee. We of the white race have been those re- ally emancipated from the industrial shackles of slavery, and with our eyes looking across the great Gulf to the Greater South, we are dreaming of planning and striving for, an industrial which in its realization will exceed anything in the record of New England or the East. In this Alabama Is rapidly taking the forward step. Her unequalled va riety of resources in mine, forest and field, her unsurpassed salubrity of cH mate, her proximity to the Gulf and the future canal, warrant this bold l ness. We are making millions every year, and the good Lord is thrusting millions more from the rich East Into the hands or those Who are hslpll6 And Montgomery stands in | the very centre of all these advant- l ages and opportunities. The mines are above us the forests below us, the i richness of Egypt about us. great river to the Gulf at our feet. There | is nothing lacking to make the dream come true, except an abundance Of ca ! nabIe ana willingtSabor. That we will | have. even if wo o'have to send to China | for it.
 Have I drawn too rosy q picture? The signs of the times bear me out. believe there are men at this table who will look back from l93o' and say will he greater than the Pennsylvania of today. the Gulf harbors more busy than those of the Atlantic, the com merce with Central and South America and the orient. through the Panama