The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-17
GOV, JELKS WELCOMES
 ALABAMA HOME C0MERS
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 sistible women in the world. We love her because she sustained us in our youth, honored us in our manhood and because when the final summons-dust to dust reaches our unconscious ears, we hope to lie down to rest beneath the hoWers or her sun-kssed fields.
 Wherever Alabamians have transfer red their citizenship and their material interests, they have with wonderful fa- cility identified themselves with their new surroundings, and become actively interested in the promotion of the highest and best endeavors of their new asso- cates. Alabamians are not provincial Breadth of intellect, quick sympathies, sound judgment, high conception of pub lie and private duty, make them welcome an useful citizens of any state In the great and rapidly developing west their wholesome influence is felt in both com mercial and professional life. Alabama has furnished Colorado with some of it's most successful financiers, skillful phy sicians, and ablest lawyers. At the close of the civil war two brothers, who were still in their teens, went from Russell county unheralded and unannounoed, to take up their residence in the Centennial &tate. Their useful ana successful lives are an inspiration to young men every where, and are magnificent commentary on their industry and ability. In 1885 one
 
 democratic governor elected in Colorado. The other, William w. Grant, stands at the head of the medical profession in Denver.
 About 1875 John Taylor went from Huntsville to Coloado, and achieved such distinction at the bar that for many years prior to his death, he was, accord ing 70 the unanimous verdict of the peo- pie the equal of any lawyer in the state.
 Julius c. Gunter, who was born at Guntersville is today one of the supreme court judges of the state, and no abler, pufer man ever lived
 'In his early manhood Sterling B. Toney, knightly gentleman, ripe scholar, able jurist and profound lawyer, sought and found fortune and friends in the commonwealth of Kentucky. Some three years ago Colorado tempted him to re- move his household goods within her bor- ders and he cast his lot with the people Ct Denver. His unflinchlng integrity, his broad culture; his professional excellence, received immediate recognition, and he stanGs in the front rank of one of the ab,est bars in the country.
 Colorado owes much to Alabama. and Alabama must feel grateful to Colorado fer the kindly treatment that she ac- corded Alabamians. Next to Alabama the state of my nativity, l love Colorado, the state of my adoption. And who would not love Colorado? She is a great state, both in her citizenship and her natural resources, and her brief history is full of splendid achievements. Her soil, Eer climate her inspiring scenery and matchless mineral wealth have attracted the best blood and brains of the world. She has restored health to many palld and sunken cheek, and opened the drops O. opportunity to many a broken and dis appointed spirit. She is natures great 41 fartY, ffn1 1xvf.. hopes have been revived and tortured t1inds have found tranquility and peace. B4hold her robed in all the prodigality of nature. with a soil in her valleys richer sthan the fertile loam of the delta, with her very deserts. when touched with the magic wand of irrigation, blooming as the rose and anticipating every desire, e the husbandman; with her mountain streams spreading verdure through all her plains with the exhaustless ore of every metal swelling the granite safety vaults of her mountains, with wealth