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


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] here IS good "Tgur7 F0r afffmpt
at higher problem NJ S"Iu.IOu
of weightier Questions. ibis or.
4 ganlzahon viii strive or "A better
type Of citizenship, fpr character,
1 for morals III It will stand The evils
4 and phi falls Of elm tie and envi
4 rOnmeut. If W. can succeed IL
transmitting The luiaginatiOns OF
the loafer, the Ia,situde OF the
I drone into human utiiity-scrvice
aud refuse healthy occupation fol
the involuntarily suppressed efforts
J Of man we have rendered work
! which will bring happiness, comfort
peace and tranquility into every,
household Of this municipality.
"Our State last year raised over
100000 bales Of cotton represent
ing a value Of over forty millions
of dollars. We manufactured
more sugar from cane than any
State in the Union. We are the
largest cypress lumber producing
State in the United States and
have the most productive salt
mines in our midst. This together
with our manufactures and spIen-
did WATERWAYS aud enormous ex-
port business places US in most
enviabIe pOsitiOn TO procure Our
simple aim to supremacy and the
primacv in the friendly rivalry of
the Atlantic Coast States. Can
the IMAGINATION. in its fancy
flights, picture the enormitv of
power. vitality, and push embodied
in an international trade amount
ing to over three billions Of dol
lars. Nearly seventeen hundred
millions of dollars Of exports and
over thirteen hundred of imports.
"Picture the steamers and rail
roads and other machinery of
transportation necessary to place
these operations under the com
mand of the needs of our civiliza-
ton. Can you guage the number
Of men and women necessary to
systematise these colossal move
mentsF
every advance in and invasion
of new countries and corners of
the world are directed by Boards
of Trade or other embassies to the
pulse Of the national commercial
life. Every Board of Trade repre-
sentS order, method, skill and con-
centratlon of effort, Through |
these boards aud representative
factors, advantage of soil and eli |
mate are placed at lis highest mar
ket value and communities sur
sounded with the surplus comfort
and opulence, the system embodies.
"New Iberia today is proud of |
its visitors and it's Board of Trade.
May it ever infuse new ideas of
progress, of advancement into the
vast fabric of that moving mass of
humanity engaged in business il
our midst. "
Previous to this DR.. Kramer had
read messages of regret at their in
ability to attend from Representa-
tive r. F. Broussard, dated at New
Orleans and urging important bust
ness as the reason, aud from Sen
ator Murphy j. Foster at Franklin.
In introducing the Governor DR..
Kramer said: "Tbe next toast on
the program is our glorious State
of Louisiana, the land of music and
of bounteousness. To reply to this
we have at our Board distin-
guished fellow citizen, one who is
honored throughout the length and
breadth of the land, one who is es-
teemed by every one from
the boundary of Arkansas to the
Gulf and from the Father of Waters {
on the East to the Pine forests on
the West, our Governor the Hon. {
N. G. Blanchard i
SO lond and prolonged were the
cheers that greeted the announce
nent that Governor Blanchard was 8
almost overwhelmed and it was {
some seconds before quiet was I
'eStOfa1 SufficJentIV tO allow him p