The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-25
Organizing For
 Four Million in I9I9''

iron and the coal is the duxfng iirns stone. so that at no other point in America is it possible to assemble ma teriais as cheaply as they can be as. nothing to speak of but coal and iron and limestone. you men of Hessemer, Ensley, Birmingham, Gadsden and An niston already show us what devel- opment must come to the State simply
 from the crudest handling of it's
 wealth. Your furnaces and convert
 CTS also show something which you
 men will soon realize; thst the manu- featuring development of this State has
 hardly begun. The time Is coming
 when all the finer forms of manufac-
 turing. based upon iron and steel. must
 be carried on in this State: just as the
 time is coming when all the finer forms
 of manufacturing of cotton must be
 carried on in this State, thus leaving
 within the State the wages and Inc
 fullest ultimate profts that are ours.
 because of the crude material lying
 within the limits of the State. Not
 forever will the dauntless energy of New England be able to overcome the
 inertia of distance; not forever shall
 we make pig-iron and then ship tt away to take on it's valuable forms, 7,
 Far south of Bsssemer. and all through this region, multiplied industries are EQNAlnH DaAtW upon tH0 raw PttQQltG VI this part of the State- You will see by 1919. Tuscaloosa, Demopolis, Selma and Montgomery growing to be great manufacturing centres. dependent upon the iron industry in large measure; for they He directly between the iron and the coal fields and the sea. Out through the sea Is the hope Of the State and not northward as some men seem to think. Southward Hes the cas- w,aa Af A hS world and southward. long before 1919. will lie a cleft between two continents, the wide-open door to. the trade of the Pacific. awaiting conquest by Ala bama's natural gifts.
 But iron and steel are mere triftng clements of our wealth. We have pure marble. of the equal of carrara. run- hing uninterruptedly distance of hf, ty miles through the Eastern counties of the State. We have hake- graphite running an equally marvellous jour nsy in the same region. We have bapx- ite. the second largest body of 1t in the United States. From Alabama this crude rock is now taken all the way to Niagara Falls. in order to become aluminium. We have a body of cement
 material almost incomprehensible in its mass; we have between 76O,000 and 100000 million horse power, waiting to be developed in this State. the sep- ond greatest horse power of any State in the Union. New York transcends Alabama in this regard and then solely because every horse power of Niagara Falls-is counted as if 1t were chained.
 What do these facts of simple matssr ty, foretall? They foretell a develop ment of Alabama that shall be on two ly dependent. These lines are manu- featuring and agriculture. The gifts we have in my judgment foretell an Alabama Rush" that shall be greater than any preceding State rush in the history of the Union. for the Alabama rush will bring consumers as well aa producers and in equal measure. The men that manufacture must be fed; the men that raise food stuffa will
 and much of their market within the limits of the State.
 have now briefly indicated to you. first that 100000 population for Ala bama would not crowd us; second. that we contrast favorably with regIpna maintaining over 1000. 900 people and that we have the goods ito tempt such an increase in population" Now let me take you one step farther and on this point ask the concentration of your every reasoning power.
 The existence of such opportunities in the State of Alabama predicatee that at some time in the future. since the manufacturing world is alwaya straintng after economy of motion, the leading manufacturers in industries re- lated to our great possessions muat come here and will bring with them an increase of population. Alabama must some day lead the world in cement manufacturing. in the transformation of iron into every form. including the making of enormous war ships. must some day throb with electric power. All of this development almost i'm. measurable in its scope must come at some time; for we have here what the world needs and we have it in more accessible form than 1t can be found in any other part of the world. Let me repeat! This development posat- lively must come. Then why not work to accelerate it and make it come while the feet of the present genera ton move in life?
 It would be an impertinence for me to stand before you and talk on this subject unless had already given it long and serious thought. There are others in this audience who have prob- ably been thinking along the same line. To them and to all of you wha are thinking of 4,000.000 for the first time, let me say that the realization Of such an ideal is easy. The only dita- culty is to stir each community with this one thought: We win work for a doubling population by making our ad- vantages known, by welcoming the stranger. by urging the working doI- lar to come among us. by raising our educational standards" Let every lit. tie or great town throughout the state get on fire with such an ideal for 1919 and the 4.000.000 will be easily at tained. Take a town of 800 as . basis for showing the ease of the proposi- ton. Its contribution towards the 4,- 00O.0 idea merely means that the population shall show an increase of eighty-one year. Take a rural commu- nifty of twenty-two or forty-four, or stxty-six poulation, that gets enthused with the 100000 idea. all that is re- Qulred to bring the great result Is that a community of twenty.two shall gain two in population each year; a commit ntty of forty.four. four, a community of sixty-six. six. That is all there is to It. It is seasy if the State Is on fire: It is difficut if only few spots are on fire.
 Each community stirred with this dea must bring together its leading men and women to confirm in their own hearts the faith you each hold; that there Is no greater State than Ala oana; that there is no better State to home to bring the stranger to; that there Is nothing to apologize for in urging Alabama upon the attention of -he stranger; in other words, each lit- He community must became a boost Ing organization. The 4.000. 900 ob- lective Is great; while the doubling of ocal populations Is small. Each com