The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-30

and manusseturers and looking te 6se correspondInG mutual beneat to each. The subject of mutual ire insurance for hardware dealers was interestingly discussed by W. P. Lewis. Secretary of the seven mutual companies in the Uni ted States that allow rebates ranging from 25 to 50 per cent to members of the associations of the thirty Ave afai- lated States.
 During the morning session Secretary Dave of the Montgomery Commercial Club was requested to address the con-
 vention and complied. Mir. Dave among other things. said:
 Tt Is a pleasure to look into the faces of men from all over the State
 and to emphasize to them the fact that
 the Commercial Club of Montgomery
 Is not narrow in its view but is as
 broad in its sympathies as is the VT n ole State. It has been the pleasure of :he
 men of this city to greet in the past
 few months delegates to nearly twenty
 conventions and in every case the dei-
 egates have gone home with a broader
 sense of the States destiny, inspired
 by conversation with men of Montgom- cry.
 Tn the address of welcome to the Southeastern Bill Posters Association
 the point was made that their business was not conducted to attract the atten-
 ton of the birds or the breezes. but
 human beings and therefore from a
 purely selfish motive they ought to
 take part in all local boosting where
 they came from. The same general
 statement holds with you gentlemen.
 Your business would be non-existent
 unless human beings dwelt around you. The more human beings therefore the more business What prospects are there for rapid increase of population in Alabama? Positively the finest pros poets of any State in the Union. We have great resources in this State be- low ground that the world needs and fin one line above we have resource that will make this State great for years and swing to 1t numberiess man ufacturing enterprisess I refer to iron ore-the greatest body of Iron ore in the United States; five times as great as the iron ore of the Lake Superior region. When the bankers were here, ten days ago, we tried to make them realize that this State on any one of it's eight great pre-eminences would be a great State and by the fact of having eight opportunities of great ness. the future was bayend all ques- tion.
 If in each community that you rep resent there grows a. purpose to make that community develop and If the same 8DtftI can De DIOuBHb AhNc in several hundred communities. cap- itaI and men will come to 1t because the combined purpose will make Ala barna better and more favorabiy known. When such a combined purpose takes form, this State will be invincible in its approach towards q great destiny. Go home and from a purely selfish mo- tive. try to boost your own neighbof. hood in order that there may be more hardware business; but beyond that talk to your business neighbors and your farming neishbors regarding the tremendous opportunities that exist in this State urging them also from purely selfish motive to join in boost- ing. Work along such a line and the contemplating men of your community will soon come together to take coun- sel as to the best thing to do and the next thing to do. That means boost ing organization. Let such organiza- tions work intensely and in a short while the whole organized impulse of the State will fuse into one great. de- ternained purpose to open the eyes of the world to what we have and hold. And then7 Our Centennial Year, 1919, will see 100000 or more people in tffs state and Alabama will be nov ing towards it's premiership among the forty-six States that now mako our wonderful Union."