New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1907-05-04

vey to the distinguished guests O
the Board of Trade tonight tn
hearty welcome of the city. W
say. to these distinguished gentle
men that we hail them here thi
evening with a great deal of pleas
ure, and appreciate the honor thei
presence confers upon us.
"New Iberia tonight has resolv
ed to dedicate herself to the caus,
of material and moral progress
In the very near future it is New
lberla's purpose to be in the fOrt
front of the upward march. w,
feel that our future is full of hope
and that before we stop the City
shall take its place as the frs
City Of the State. Again | say tC
you on behalf of the City of New
Iberia, Thrice welcome, welcome
welcome"
As the hearty applause filled the
hall the white CARRIED walters filed
in and fitted from place to place
supplying the wants of the one
hundred and twenty seven dinners
while the brilliant throDg in the
galleries looked on approvingly.
Toast Master Kramer was par
ticularly happy in his introduction
of the gentlemen who replied to
the toasts, but none was more ap-
preciated than his brief comment
upon the worthy President of the
Board of Trade, Mr.. Jules Drey-
fus, who replied to the toast the
Board of Trade" whose oratory
he said: "Flowed like water from
a perennial fountain" 1t was
when the applause was at its loud
est that Mr.. Dreyfus arose and said
in brief:
"Mr. Toastmaster, Ladies and
Gentlemen, members of the Board
of Trade, and their distinguished
guests.
"This is the first time in the his
tory of New Iberia that one organ
lzation, representing every profess
sion, trade and human activity of
this community, can with pride
and pleasure, greet guests and
visitors and bid them to the feast
of peace and The glory of peaceful
achievements. 1t is no small task,
no light undertaking, when the
folbles and frailties of human ma
ture have to be trained into chan
nels of peaceful harmony and USE
full energy.
Everybody, whose life is spent
in small community, where local
routine and monotohy engender
custom and habits, knows the in
tensity Of local jealousies, of those
feuds, of those numer-
Gus envies that handicap aud ham
per an orderly, ordained, natural
development of town or little
city. The turmoil of trivialities,
'he agitation of caprice, the spirit
Of calumny, knocks and kicks is
disease to be dreaded and feared |
most by men who know how to
start the chariot of commerce, the
modern juggernaut on its road of
progress and prosperity.
''ln order to evolve intelligent
method and system ont of the
haos of individual initiation, or
,anizations Tabled and baptized
Board of Trade, "Chamber of
Commerce, manufacturers Un-
On, have proved the handiest,
eadiest instrument.
at is by concentration of the
irective powers Of business COM
lunity that most encouraged re-
nlts have been attained.
New Iberia, feeling the sad
eed of such an institution, and as
lring to keep abreast of the
'agnlfcient showing of progress
ld advancement every city in the
tate evidenced in the last census,
rs made many spasmodic efforts
this direction and has, as many
mes failed sigually. Local pre-.
dices and senseless hatreds, like =
e Upas tree, poisoned and stran- =
ed the central object. Common =
nse, justice and right, stripped .
en- of all adjournment and moral :
pport of an IN willing citizenry, =
vored 1.-THE inexorable logic of !;
ne, yAlI always triumph and =
live their majesty, of strength ,
d life in the refulgent light of u
man endeavor, human hope and .
tn. =
1.-THE Board of Trade of New al
sria tonight stands a monument u
the trinity of the rare virtues of W
man nature enumerated above 10
its name Implies, it will De an
|pcy for the encouragement of to
and the development Of re- OF
lfces still slumbering under the pr
tile caress OF nature. all
If my powers of observation N.
n1minr snrYn ne right, she ii