The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-25
HE SAYS THIS STATE
 HAS BEEN TOO MODEST
Urges a Bureau and the Widest
 Publicity.
State Lecturer E Pinegar of Farm CTS Union, Also Speaks on Earn.- ers' Day at vandive- Park -EnormOus Crowd of
 Visitors to Mont-
 gomery.


 Dor to aid in the development of the vast resources of the State Is one Of Alabamas greatest needs. and that systematic effort should be made to encourage immigration to this State, was the message brought by Frank P. Sargent. United States Commission CT of Immigration. who made the ad- dress of the day at the State Fair at vandiver Park yesterday.
 Alabama has been too modest. he de- claSed. It has not let the people of other sections of this country and or other countries know what the State has to offer in inducement to come and settle here. It should go after them and tell them that here Is State for homes. and State where the laborer can thrive and prosper. It should reach after them in every way, In the effort to bring to this State peo- pie who will work and who will con- tribute to the States prosperity.
 A bureau of immigration should be established by the State. he said. to bring the foreign immigrant here. A man-not politician-should De placed at the head of 1t. Literature should be sent to foreign countries, and agents should be sent to dissemi- nate 1t among foreign peoples. Steam ship lines should be established for the purpose of bringing immigrants here. and these lines should have, as their American terminus not the sea ports of the North. but the seaports or Mobile and of Pensacola.
 Advantages of Alabama.
 Literature should also be sent, he said to the farmers of the North. Ala bama has a climate where man can work 365 days of the year. There Is no snow. scarcely any weather which will prevent the man from working in the fields. In the North the farmer is frozen up half of the year. There are thousands of dissat- isfied farmers In the North and West who would come to Alabama. he de- clared, If they knew as much of the resources of the State as he had had the opportunity of learning after hav- ing made a single trip of inspection through the buildings of the State Fair.
 Alabama is a great State. the speaker said, but it needs labor to develop its greatness. This labor is not coming here without invitation and inducement. It must be reached after but the results will more than repay the effort involved.
 The commissioner also made plea for the Alabama boy! He should be encouraged to stay at home and make his way here. The youth of this State as well as the youth of other States in the Union, is held back by an un- wise attitude on the part of his elders. He is, in a measure, restrained at home, and he leaves his home and goes elsewhere. He should be kept where he Is raised. encouraged to progress, and the State would then have the benefit of some of its best blood which. otherwise, goes to make up the pros perity of other sections.
 MT. Pinegar Also Speaks.
 Together with the Commissioner J. E. Pinegar. of Pell City, State Organizer 0: the Farmers Union, shared the hon. or of speakers of the day at the Fair. He spoke of the work which the Far mers Union is carrying on. Of the great warehouse system which Is be- ing perfected. of the plans which the organization was carrying through to help, by means of combination. the ln- dividual farmer to secure the rewards of his labor.
 The speakers were heard by a crowd which. before the conclusion of the speeches. had swelled to several thou sand. The portion of the grandstand around the spot on which they stood was densely packed. The messages of the two men, who spoke for hour and Q half. reached men, women and children from every portion of the State who had come to the big Fair and through them will be car ried to their homes. Both gentlemen spoke with force and both were round- ly applauded,
 But, although close attention was paid to the addresses. an incident oc- cured during the talk of Commission CT Sargent which for a time upset the proceedings of the day. Shortly after he had begun his speech he WAS star tied by a stampede of his hearers for the upper row of seats in the stand. which give an outlook on the north aide of the ground. In crowds the people left him. clambering over the backs of seats in their eagerness to reach the top, and in less than a min ute only q corporals guard remained, the curiosity of the others having overcome their courtesy and interest in the words of the speaker
 Am I drivin gthem away?" he ask ed laughingly of President Vandiver.
 But he was informed that the air ship, scheduled to make it's ascension at o'clock was an hour ahead of time and was about to rise. With all good humor he desisted from his speech for a quarter of an hour. while the airship sailed over the stand, above the race track. and circled about over the grounds.
 That is the first time I have ever been driven out of business by an air ship," he said, laughing. T have nev- CT spoke with an airship accompaniment before" he said
 Largest Crowds of Week.
 The crowds which went to Vandiver Park yesterday to hear Commissioner Sargent and MT. Pinegar speak ,and to