The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-07

The first appeal to the people for | Greater Birmingham was made in a
 call issued yesterday by Jere c. King.
 chairman of the campaign committee. The appeal is made to the patriotism and civic pride of the citizens of Great CT Birmingham, and every voter is
 urged to go to the polls on January 6 and vote In favor of population of 140,0O0 for the great imperial city of Alabama and the south.
 The following is the call:
 To the Qualified Voters of Greater Bir- mingham:
 The Mayor of Birmingham has called the Greater Birmingham election for
 January 6. This is the most important election ever held in this city, and ev-
 cry qualified voter in all Greater Bir-
 mingham should turn out on election day and help make this the imperial
 city of the south. When the last cen sus was taken, Birmingham showed
 up with only SS,4l5 population and ev- cry citizen here was keenly disappoint-
 ed at our rating. Birmingham stood fifteenth among southern cities in pop
 
 mond. The following cities outranked her in population, viz: Mobile, Au-
 gusta, Dallas, Norfolk Houston, San Antonio, Charleston, Savannah Atlanta, Richmond Nashville, Memphis Louis- vile and New Orleans. This is the
 first opportunity Birmingham has ever had to stand up and be counted and show the world what she really had how large she really is.
 Every Alabamian should be interest ed in the ratification of this law as it means the making of the metropolis for Alabama, and will do more to at tract people to come here to invest their money and build homes than any other agency could possibly do. Bir- mingham should stand second in the next census to New Orleans first. It would stir the pride of every citizen of Greater Birmingham IS well as ev- cry citizen of the state, to see us leap 100. 900 in population additional to the l last census. We ought to have 10000 people in 1910, and will do 1t, if every body will work and pull for Greater Birmingham from now until January 6. We have money furries in New York, but they are only temporary. We have local disturbances in city politics and
 matters of social and political economy, but these differences are quickly ad- justed and forgotten. But our standing l in the next census and in the eyes of the world is permanent. We have claim ed much for our population, but the | careful stranger always looks up the census report for his final opinion. We must not keep him in doubt any longer. l We must make good our boasted num- bers We have already proven our matchless resources. But our wealth and numbers should go together. It has been the dream of the optim- ! ist for many years that we are to have 1 8 great city here in Jones valley Our ] civic bodies have petitioned the legis- 1 lature for many years for an expansion of our city limits. But this is your first 1 golden opportunity to come into your own, and you are expected to make good.
 We already have the imperial county | of the state, but we should also have the great Imperial city of the state, and | of all this great section as well. Let | us catch some of the enthusiasm Of Gates and Hoadley and make it the first l city of the south by 1920.
 Our primacy in the Iron. steel and } coal markets is admitted. Our open