The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-19
Wedding of South and West.

I'VE of the south, with pardonabe pride,
can hug the fattering JUNCTION to our
selves, that from a heap of ashes that
we found at the close of the war, all that
was left to us except beautiful remem-
brances of chivalrous deeds, and an I'M
stinted devotion to a cause we believed
to be Just, on the same site we buided an
empire of which we are justly proud.
This is true OF the commercial world.
the industrial world, the arts and the
sciences and the great professions. But
In my humble judgment a more beauti-
full and brighter day is dawning for the
people of the south. 1t lies in a coalition
or union with the west The interests of
the west are almost Identical with ours.
She is an agricultural country, more or
less; she is a producer OF wheat, corn,
oats and hops and other products grown
from the soil. Some years since the pro-
ducers of these commodities said we are
not getting a fair price for that which
we produce. They organized themselves,
as has this cotton association, and said.
it costs so much to raise our products.
and in order for us to live and receive
profit on our labor, we must and sh
have given price. The result was they
got 1t. and have been receiving 1t every
year since. Let there be a union of the
great west with that of the magnificent
south. The bride Is coming from the west;
the sunlight of Heaven CLEANS In her
golden hair with the shine of the diamond
In her eye rivaling the tender blue of the
sky above. with the telltale blush of
love upon her cheek, tall and graceful,
with an elastic step telling that every
fiber of her physical being CLOVIS with
perfect health, and making her know that
1t is glorious to live. with a DISPOSE
ton sweet as summers day, and a soul
as pure as the mountain zalia and the
woodland violet that has been brushed
by the white trail of her wedding gown,
she comes to meet her lover; the BRIDE
groom is the sturdy old south, possess
ing the physical strength of Sandow.
the graces of an Apollo, with a bold brow
indicative of intellect, proud as a Lucifer,
strong as lion, but with heart as ten-
der as that of a woman. He has made
good on many a hard fought battle field
from Sumter to Appomatox, never way
ering once In the discharge OF his duty,
and II great ~ has been In war, equally
50 has he bern sublime in peace.
"In the valley of the south. with her
majestic cloud kissed mountains as an
amphtheatre, her valleys redolent with
the perfume of the magnolia and the
jessamine that grows to the far south.
the wedding march rendered by an orches-
ira composed of the carols of the mock
ing bird and the ripple OF beautiful
streams that flow In eternal melody and
amid the sounds of the deep breathing of
her furnaces and engines, that are MAX
ing good the claims of the south in
fight for Industrial supremacy, and amid
the many heartfelt expressions of God
speed coming from those who live in the
81 cotton growing counties of the south
minglng with those of the chivalrous and
generous citizenship that compose the stu
pendous west the ceremony Is performed.
"These two splendid representative por-
lions of this. the lusty young republic OF
the western hemisphere, are bound to-
gether for veal or woe. From the union
naught but happiness. advancement,
honor and contentment can flow
LAS old time drags himself through
the cycle of years to the union will be
born at least FIVE children. The first IL
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