Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-27

OuS kluuS OI SOOuS, dUu III duuAtiOu lO this, as a fitting climax to her other
 accomplishments, she added $2,65O,-
 0OO,O0O to the value of her real
 wealth, making in all grand total
 that is most gratifying to the people
 of the South, and which speaks in a language more potent than any 1 can command and which speaks in lan- guage more potent than any I can command and which presents an argument unanswerable, that if she has wrought so wondrously well along these lines, and has measured up so completely in making a success of that which she undertakes, the man who essays to predict dismal failure as a crown to the efforts of the South ern brains that stand back of this cotton association is either a Bene- dict Arnold to his country, a madman, a fool or an idiot.
 Also allow me to say in this con- nection that from subsidized press and a pernicious influence that is traceable directly to the bucketshops with it's train of truculent devotees, it has nevertheless been predicted that the efforts of the Southern Cotton as- sociation would result in naught but failure This could not be the ut- terance of a Southern man, for any man living south of the Mason and Dixon's line that would prophecy thus is worse than a Benedict Arnold. The people of the South in the very near future will write a complete and eternal traverse on the prophecies made by the people who have under taken to doom the efforts of the Southern Cotton association by proph- esying the ignominious failure of it's efforts.
 T care not from where he may come, what his position may be, or how he may be environed, any man living in the South and who under stands it all the end for which this association is striving, and does not give to it his aid, comfort, words of encoura gment and financial assistance, insofar as he can, in the language of one of the South's greatest sons, Is counterfeit upon humanity's baser metal and should be sent back to na- ture's mint to be remoulded.'
 Wedding of South and West.
 We of the South, with pardonable pride, can hug the flattering unction to ourselves, that from heap of ashes that We found at the close of the war, all that was left to us ex- cept beautiful remembrances of chi valrous deeds, and an unstinted de- votion to cause we believed to be just, and on the same site we builded 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 pro- fessions. But in my humble judg- ment a more beautiful and brighter day is dawning for the people of the South. It lies in a coalition or union with, the West The interests of the West are almost idential with ours. She is an agricultural country, more or less; she is a producer of wheat, corn, oats and hops and other pro- ducts grown from the soil. Some years since the producers 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 a profit on our labor, we must and shall have given price. The result was they got 1t, and have been receiving it 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 gleams 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 grace full, with an elastic step telling that every fiber of her physical being glows with perfect health, and making her know that it is glorious to live, with a disposition sweet as a summers day, and a soul as pure as the mountain