Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-08-12
NARROW VIEWS KEEP
SOUTH AWAY BEHIND
Instead Of Making Progress ds Did
Their Fathers the Young Men Of
the Southern States Listen
10 Rdbid Leaders and Ne
gleCt Their Interests.

Chattanooga, Tenn, Aug. 12.-The
principal event of the convention II
southern Commercial Secretaries
which is being held here was today
the address of G.. G.. Dawes, secretary
of the Commercial club of Montgom-
cry, Ala, on why Commercial Bod
ies Distrust Demagogues." The ad-
dress treated of the needs of the
south. Mr.. Dawes said
In view of the wondrous heritage Of
the south In minerals and in vegeta-
ton, whose distribution to a waiting
world will benefit all and enrich the
south, the greatest need of the south
IS development. 1t has been roughly
stated that the south needs 100000
coo additional capital at the present
time to lead to its predestined growth.
1 might say that Alabama alone needs
such an amount, because of its enor-
nous undeveloped resources above
| and under ground, because of Its un-
| controlled water power and because
o, its dock necessities when the min
erals begin to move. The south with
such a clamorous need is nevertha-
less afflicted with men who try to
make it appear that capital should
be hindered in every conceivable way.
| These are binding the people to the
| very best friend of the southern
st.tes. Nothing is better for COM
munity or state than rush of ac-
| tive money. a dollar held Ia a stock
| ing or in some other place OF con-
| cealment does absolutely no good.
| The owner merely has the sense ef
| possession withou1 the sense to use.
| 1t Is as absolutely withdrawn from
| useful partIc patton in the world as
| il thrown away. Should the owner
| spend 1t he is doing good, because he
| puts 1t in motion. He can do still
| more good with it by investing 1t and
lraking it work. Now demagoguss
| have tried to mislead our people ana
| make the working dollar as almost
| criminal in its intent. The inconsist-
ency of such an attitude, embodied IN
various laws passed with malice afore-
thought is that the very men who
passed these laws condemning active
} money to k,ear unfair burdens merely
} because Oh It's activities are men wno
ould not \hink of investingNa dollar
unll ss 90 make it profitable to them
selves. Their working dollars are not
criminals but benefactors; neither are
the dollars in massed enterpris -
criminal, for every one of these COM
ing from without, or invested by our
selves, makes more business and
leaves behind year by year, in wages
and development more than II can
possibly carry away. They inveigh
against massed capital when nothins
but massed capital can handle the
) vast opportunities awaiting develop
men right where we live
Commercial bodies of the southern
states distrust demagogues and charge
} them with the crime of misleading
| our young men and some of our un-
| thinking men of older years SO that
they look upon the friend of the south
as the enemy of the south. They also
charge demagogues with scattering
wrong impressions of the south and
of its men and thus producing we'll
founded timidity elsewhere in relati IN
to our enterprises here.
In one of the southern states Is a
man who is supposed to have designs
upon the goyernorship of his state.
Under proper conditions of excitement
this man will shout at the top of his
voice, 81 am unreconstructed.' The
demagogic character of this shout is
found in the fact that this man was
not born during the Civil war and
yet would rise to power by keeping
alive the passions that resulted from
the most dreadful calamity in all
southern history. the death of Lincoln.
Such demagogues reduce the moral
and political stature of our young
men by constantly compelling their
thoughts to live in the past. So far
as the south In its relation to the
United States is concerned, the queS-
tion involved was settled for all time
fifty years ago by the Civil war. II
was settled just as the order of The
solar system was settled, by the de-
cree OF almighty God. Commercial
bodies OF the southern states distrust
demagogues and charge them with 80
constantly emphasizing and reiter At
ing the issues of 6l-65 that our young
men settle back with a feeling that
the heroic age is past and that there
Is naught for them to do worthy Of
the history of their long lineage In
stead OF these men pointing the finger
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