The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23
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 "To quote Sir Henry Irving, T am chiefly conscious of the debt of gratitude we all owe the press the newspaper, say what you will of it. is the immediate recorder and interpreter of life' be your interests what they may. you cannot open newspaper without the sensation of laying your hand upon the throbbng pulse of the world
 Tt is not then strange that We give you such a hearty welcome to this the youngest and greatest city in the south.' R. F. Johnston.
 Richard F. Johnston of the Birmingham Press club. it's first president, welcomed the delegates on behalf of the local press club. He spoke as follows; As it Is good for all men to occasion ally get back to nature. so is it well for you, of the manufacturing east, and the mining west. to now and then visit Us of the agricultural south. We are more purely American than either of you. For 250 years we and our forefathers have inhabited this country and ruled it with less than per cent of those of foreign birth, either to aid or intepfere. We have had the negro first as save-now as servant. but he has not entered Into our social or political career except ephem- erally and upon coercion, both of hts will and ours, from an unfriendly outside. Srhe coercion removed he has calmly reas- snmed his normal status.
 Essentially agricultural we are home i, making and home-loving race. Fried chicken, rice and gravy. sweet potatoes and cornbread are our faYorlte diet as they have been of our ancestors for cen turies
 Even in our manufactures we are stay at-homes The south now leads in cot
 
 grows nt the factory door. Here we make pig irca and steel because the ore and coal and the limestone Aux lie in sister hills not three miles apart. North Carolina leads the world in the
 manufacture of furniture. because it's mountains are covered with every kind of hardwood. We travel very little and our climate is so baimy that we are not
 forced to lead strenuous lives to keep soul and body together.
 All our natural conditions make us lov- CTS of home jealous of change and impa- tient of federal encroachment. Tt is per haps for you of the east and west to be the turbines that speed the great ship of state, but we are the rudder which keeps 1t in the straight path of thei republic. You may be the driving wheels of the en- zine we the guard rails that keep 1t in the track. With all our conservatism and jealousy of federal encroachment, we are yet as sensitively and spontaneously alive as you to the straightforward, manly. daring strenuous. if you like 1t, yet al- ways true and courageous Amercanship Of President Roosevelt. Nowhere is he more admired than in the south, and no more so at any point in the south than here And this Is because, like us. he Is typically. essentially and wholly Ameri- can
 This particular city owes much to ti tf .Frtr Tvro fx to thirty years ago that veteran editor and far-seeing prophet. A. K Mcclure, of the Philadelphia Times, told tho world of our very simply arranged and ma tchless resources. The friendly gen jus of the true newspaper man, Whlch Is never so well exercised or pleased with itself as when telling the world something new, that it does not, but ought to know, has sung Birmingham so constantly and with such eloquence that perhaps no city in the United States of its size and age, is as well ought to know has sung Birmingham they have been what the highest type of newspaper man always Is, mirror of the truth. Have you never noticed that the bitterest critics of newspapers are those whose actions can least stand publicity? Our best friend the mer- chant who seeks to make an honest living by honest dealing? l bid you welcome to city Where you will be no stranger. The east. west and north and the old world have all contributed to the brain and brawn that has made Birmingham. Pitts burg man Is at the head of our largest industry From Pueblo from Chicago from Cleveland, Baltimore, New York and Philadelphia we have drawn the experts we needed to teach us the Iron mongers art. So you will find your selves our friends upon the first hand shaking. You may even meet with the kin here. May 1t soon be so in every nook and corner of this land of ours The more we see of one another tha more we understand and love one an- other, realizing that our very differ ences of life and thought make us that much more necessary each to the other and all serving in their fraternal ut- ion to make that composite which in- | sures the perpetuity of the best gov ernment on earthg
 Mrs. Rountree's Poem. some people think Birmingham got I the convention through MT. Rountree." said President Heating. Its a mis- | take: 1t was Mrs. Rountree and the | little Rountrees.'
 Mrs. j. A. Rountree then welcomed CONTINUED ON PAGE SJ