The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-28
|TTRAcT INVESTORS
bvICE OF TRENTON. N. T., ChAM- BER OF COMMERCE..
|ufh Has Many Proposifions To In- terest Capital But Must Fight To show Its
 Hands.


 *commercial interest in the Southern
 mmercial Congress to be held in Bashington December 2 and 8, is
 readfng from the Southern States to
 D rest of the country. MT. c. C.. kwe, chairman of the arrangements
 mmittee, has received letters from hde boards. chambers of commerce. d similar institutions from almost cry state in the union within the St few days.
 fThe most typical of all the letters
 ceived comes from the Chamber of bmmerce of Trenton, N. J.. and con- zys the general business sentiment
 the country toward the congress * no uncertain terms. It Is as fol 5ws:
 bffice of Secretary. Chamber Com
 merce.
 .. Trenton. N. J.. Nov, 2i. 1908. Mir. c. Grosvenor Dave. Montgom-
 cry. Ala.
 4Dear sir--seYour note of the 20th
 ncerning the Southern Commercial bngress Is at hand, and I am going
 giye-myse1f the great pleasure of
 Joking for the boys over on The Ith &d Sth of December.
 "We had the pleasure of meeting bur able representative, Ed. Quarles, Petersburg. Va. in our convention October at Atlantic City, and he &htlined the purposes and aims or bur organization. We of the north Be interested in your progress in the buth and there is no reason, as far
 can see, why we cannot work to- 2sther, and to our mutual advantage "You are chiefly interested in draw northern capital toward the South $r the development of its resources ke in the North are endeavoring to Rtain within our bounds all our capi- \ for tho further development iDf our 4dustries. But this is not an age or Eminent, it is an age of practical kmonstration. I know the South well hough to see that she can present an svestment proposition in the develop { ent of the wonderful resources that ar exceeds the more stereotype chan eIs of industrial progress in the zorth. @
 "The man who can produce the ost interesting proposition is the an who gets the money. You know
 well as I that if an investor can
 reasonably assEed of ten per cent terest in Alabama against seven per Ant in New Jersey he Is going to snd his money South.
 aSo after all 1t is up to you folks produce the goods. And when 1t bmes to that, we of the North will Eght each other 36t days In thea year. Fe go to these conventions, enjoy SutuaI friendships. have heart-to- bart talks. tell each other our trou- es and swear fealty to the day of Sdkment. We go home enthused and saxious to do greater things for our sspective communities. But when any he gets on the tracks of an industry hat is on the market for new loca- On. friendship ceases and we put up he argument of our respective towns sith all the ardor and enthusiasm bat we can rake up or scrape to- |eti1er in the hope of defeating the hort of some other member of our ssociation. "So you see 1t is the same old story X the survivor of the Attest. and lust you have provided in your pro- ram for a word of greeting from this ksociation of ours. In any event l sn going to take the liberty of shak- Ag your hand personally and assur- hg you that while we have our in- kviduaI line of activity there is a bmmon ground upon which we may land to our mutual advantage.
 "At Atlantic City we had a discus lon with Quarles as to the proper bcation of the Mason and Dixon line. liter an argument that lasted until he early hours of morning, We placed "a few miles north of Montreal. It hay be some time later we can shove Iae line up into the Arctic Sea. Let's let together and trye to.
 ''Very truly yours, "Woodworth Cum, "S'ecretarv"