The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-02
Il is moro noble to make yourself
great than to be born SO.
The Unreprcsented South.

ate very forcibly to the extent to which
the South is excluded from all oppor-
tunity for participation or e1nolument
In the work Of the national government
The occasion OF Senator Daniels remarks
was the debate on n bill to appropriate
$4,000 for the expense Of the commits
s!oners to be sent by the United states
government to the Congress at Rio Ja-
metro this July. The government OF
Brazil has appropriated $4,000 for this
Congress, and 1t will be made Il <,otable
gathering of South American repuplics
and those nations who are by trade, az
filiations or politics interested IN that
territory.
The United states government through
its Secretary of state had, at the time
when Mr.. Daniel rose to address the SEN
ate nominated five delegates Two OF
them we're from Chicago; one was from
Pennsylvania; another was the late MN
lister to Panama, who now resides III
New York, and the last was Porto III
can. and as such expressly declared not
3 to be citizen Of the United States. Com
,nentins on these appointments senator
Daniel said that while he had no obJec-
ton TO any Of these gentlemen, who were
all doubtless we'll fitted for the work
they had to do, he thought 1t not IN
important to observe that no representa-
tion whatever was given to the country
& wing West of the Mississippi, and not
a single delegate was appointed from al
that territory lying South of the Poto-
mac and Ohio. and East of the Allsiis-
sippi. Not long afterwards, 1t Will be
recalled, the size Of tho commission to
the Rio Congress was Increased. ana
Southern men received appointments 70
II The principle for which the virginia
Senator commended had, In short received
congressional recognition.
This principle. regardless OF it's more
o.. less nnmportant application in the
caso al issue, is a vital and fundamental
one. In the course Of his remarks Sena-
TOR Daniel said:
81 "ci,ies and towns Of my own State,
as we'll as those Of other southern states
II you could have looked at them twenty
five or thirty years ago and were to look
al them to-day, you would not recognize
the same communities or conditions and
everywhere modern Ideas and individual
thrift are prevalent, IN all Of these
4 Southern States the people from all sec
lions are minglinS together, attracted by
the af!initics of occupation and industry
which are opening up to them, and there
nre unfolding boundless resources and
opportunities nowhere on earth slrpass-
cd. There was never day In the his
tory of what we sometimes call the Anglo
Saxon peoplc--E,n gllsh-speaking people,
+. rifar1
assimilation of the whole body polite
was proceeding either 80 rapidly or so
wholesomely as now. There was never
day in the history OF this country when
there was less impeachment to the fun
rcprescntatsitn ST every part OF the;
United States In anything that concerns
a7 A canal across the Is.hnus OF PAN
ana is in process. Centuries of contem-
pla ton preceded the effort: decades may
walt upon III success. That We cannot
tell DC It so or not, Galveston, New
Orleans, Mobile. Tampa, Savannah,
Charleston, Wilmington, Norfolk, Ports
mouth. Newport News, Richmond, Peters
burg, Atlanta, Vicksburs, Memphis, st.
I.ouis-l name almost at random somc
of the Southern elites along the seaboard
or trade lines south OF us-~havc vast com
munities behind them. Thcy have their
faces turned to tNe Gulf or Mexico, to
the canal. and TO South America and the
future. 1t !s timely, therefore that
while we Are looking TO the widening of
our commercial and social relations and
to the CIVILIZATIONS of better political un-
4 derstandings with our ncishborng repub-
lies, we should also turn our eyes In
wardly to the people Of our own states
md our own homes and have this Il
republic In representative unison in
al, our contcmplations.'
Senator Dane!l Is right. II is the part
OF wise craftsmanship and true public
spirit to point out the folly of seeking
TO aggregate the South from the fullest
opportunity for participation In the ma
t!onal life of our country, We OF the
South can succeed and from all cxter-
nal evidence, have succeeded beyond the
widest dreams of imagination, without
any direct help. counlenance or support
from the Federal government We have
been taxed by a protective tariff for tho
benefit OF the North and West; we have
paid our proportionate share TO the UNI
considerable pension graft which Is spent
in the central West and North and in
spite OF this we have Increased in wealth
and prosperity proportonately faster
than any other section of the country
The future Of the South Is assured. anG
the appointment OF one or two dele
gates to Rio Janeiro or a few minister.
10 foreign courts viii really add no NOR,
u the prestige and power Of the South
than the failure 10 appoint them woul(
take away. But is II wise for the govern
ment OF united country TO adopt polio.
that really treats the South as an aller
province, no matter what its protesta
tons Of reunteduess and election?
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Wolvsrhanlpton's Experience.