The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-25
Capital City Coal Co.,,
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with which we have Transportation advantages of streams soon to be nads navigahle,"
 You can count upon nay co-oper- ation night and day. will begin or ganizing Centennial Clubs in the Sixth District this fall and next spring. I VIII also try to arrange to carry the propaganda out in my lectures. esps- ctaily during the summer"
 Ladies and gentlemen, +thaPe is al- ready a town ID this State that shows what A slogan can do. Montgonerx. goTnA years age. cried out "f00, ,000 in isio." n will not be reached. but Montgomery. since 1soe. has jumped from so,s4s to population now fg- ured by the local traction company as sS.00o. Who did 1t? Less than 1 per cent. Of the population was on fire with the idea. Three hundred men eonsti- ute the Commercial Club. maintaining in that organization a voice that speaks always for growth and enterprise. Such . voice maintained by the 800 Is what brought the advantages of Montgom- cry to the attention of the world. We elralI not have in Montgomery f00, 900 by 1910, because eonditions have aris- en within the past two years that have made investments ttmid In our State but toward the 4,000, ,00o movement in lslS Montgomery will pledge 1a0. coo, for by that time it's definite shape as manufacturing city will have been Sseured and by that time 300, ,000 horse power from the coosa win be availa bIe towards that development. "of each. according to his gifts shall be required gift" Montgomery pledges i3O, ,00O because it has already a splendid start. In pledging that, however, 1t takes no precedence over the smallest communi. ty that will pledge itself to double; fAN AnFh VarHlI IA a 4 community of twenty-fvs that be- comes fifty by 1913 will have done as much as our great Capital City"
 Ladies and gentleAlen. how shall this cry ring through the State? Sole ly and only through your sympathy and approval. The ears of the people are stopped # you chose to Keep them so; the ears of the people are open if you chose to cry aloud to them this new proposition. They see not unless you choose that they should see. They do not know what is moving in the world of thought unless you choose that they know. Therefore come be- fore you this day and ask you to go home to open the food-sates of . new greatness for Alabama. whose effects shall spread benefit to every person now here. could tell you of dificul- ties; could make list of the things that are in our way; but difficulties are as nothing when the mind Is once made up to accomplish a purpose. There are no dificulties. There are hindrances only,and these will dlsap- pear when our State Is fired with the new purpose.
 I have been careful in this speech to appeal only to your reason and not for moment to appeal to emotion. The emotion will come when reason Is convinced. Emotion based upon rea- son will endure forever as an inspira- tion; while emotion aroused only by fictitious oratory will disappear as soon as the speakers voice has become sil- ent.
 have shown that Alabama will not be crowded by 4.00O.0oo I have shown that Alabama has every reason to sup port such a population; I have shown that such a population must ultimate Iy come here in any event; I have shown that a doubling of population is an easy task in any community in eleven years. It rests with you, ladies and gentlemen. to carry the thought forward.