Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-04-04
STRAUS GUEST
Of HONOR At
SAVANNAH
SECRETARY GIVEN WARM
OVATION IN NATIVE STATE
Address Deals With County'S
Development and The Immi-
grafton Question Especially
As 1t Affects The South,

lBS Morning Journal Special Leased Wire,l
Savannah, Ca, April 3.-Secretary
Suaus, of the department Of COM
merce and labor, was the guest of
honor at the annual banquet of the
savannah board of trade here to-
night The secretary, who is a ma
tive of Georgia, was given a rousing
ovation when he arose to speak Mr..
StrauS said:
Secretary Straus' Address.
Fellow Georgians l come among
You not as a stranger but as a return
ing son, and as such | deem it rare
privilege and a great pleasure to be
with you tonight to take part in this
anniversary celebration. MY first
recollectons and fondest affections
are Georgian. Here | formed my
earliest friendships, learned my A B
C's and drew in those inspirations
that have ever been my guide and
guardian. l shared with the older
among you those sad and painful eX-
perienCes the civil war entaied, and
rose up and out of them, as you have
done, with the consciousness that the
wisdom of God surpasses human un-
Outstanding, and that we and the
generations that follow us should
never cease to be grateful to Him for
preserving our country one and indi-
visible
Georgia'S Foundation Philanthropic.
Georgia was founded in a military
age, and no colony in ancient or in
modern times had a nobler beginning
or more philathropc founder than
the colony of Georgia. 1t was the
tlrst great effort to alleviate the So
cial and economic condition of the
poorer classes The people the great
Oglethorpe brought with him, and
those who followed in his path, had
been racked and crushed-sOme by
economic oppression, others by reli-
2ious persecution. The eolouists,
though coming from different coun-
tries of the Old World--Britons, Mo-
raVlans, and Salzburgers-Wer weld
ed together by a common heritage of
suffering. BY the direction of Ogle-
thorpe, both slavery and rum We're
prohibited. savannah began as a dry
town, and | understand you have re-
comfy reverted, in honor of the prin-
ciples of your founder, to its primeval
dryness. So history repeats itself.
OH what woes unnumbered might
have been spared the whole SOUTH
land if the cardinal principles of Ogle-
thorpe could have been preserved and
extended. file knew, aside from all
humanitarian considerations, what
slavery and militarism meant They
dignified idlencss and degraded pro-
N'"NNt " "l't't''''''' ~ W ''i' r 't''
est blessings Of our Industrial and
commercial age is the fact that it has
unlocked the handspring of personal
initiative, energy ana enterprise,
which lie at the basis Of our wonder
iul growth ana prosperity.
me example OF the people o. the
United states, not only IN the liberty
they enjoy, but in enfranchising the
workinEman and giving him the ma
terial rewards of labor. as wei as the
hohofs that true merit deserves mas
welded z powerful influence IN every
civilized lana. BafuHS, counts dukes,
and lords come TO us from foreign
Janus, ana crave the hahds OF inc ialf
daughters OF our captains Oh industry,
and 90 not even reject the millions
that Their fathers, the horhy-handcd
sons OF toll, nave accumulated
Our Age commercial
Our age ana generation Is pft-elni-
ncntiy commercial and the people of
the United states are IN the forefront
Doth IN the rewards li"N reap ana IN
the prosperity they ENJOY. Ine spirit
OF commerce has cohtributed more
than all other causes toward bringing
together the various sections OF this
great nation which, IN ltS growth ana
development, in IT'S necessities ana eH-
panSiOn, has wiped out Sectionailsn
ad made US one united people,
Inc cldSSea tnGdSeu III INDUSTRY anu
commerce, said the great historian,
Lecky, have been the steady sup
porters Of English liberty Yes, COM
merce in its modern development is
based upon mutually ana every ship
that carries It's products to foreign
climes Is messenger Of peace and
good VIII Commerce thflVes along
the highways of peace and 1t speaks
the universal language OF peace. NO
agency is working more steadily to-
ward the ideals Of international peace
than the agencies of commerce. APP
preCiating all this as ! do, and APP
preciating also that the ideal condi-
ton for all nations would be to save
the millions that we now are spending
on armies and navies and use them IN
promoting the economic welfare Of
the masses, yet so long as other ma
ttons, though progressing toward that
ideal, are far from its realization. a
great country such as ours win such
tremendous seacoast and with great
international interests, can pest serve
the cause Of peace ana hasten the
ideal condition by a navy adequate
IN strength and efficiency TO give II
the proper weight IN the pI4hlellou
of peace, in the council Of nations
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