Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-05
INTERESTING ADDRESS
BY AMBASSADOR BRYCE
Hon. Hillary A. Herbert and Other
Notsbies Participate in Proceedings
Hon. ]. Hampton Moore Remind6
Delegates Of Importance Of Wat>r
ways Question.

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Farmers National Congress has had
busy day and tonight the report "a
that over thirty states are rcpresenf
ed with an attendance of betve4z
five hundred and six hundred.
The addresses of the morning wef4
heard by an audience OF about 1.5o0 9|
the Agricultural and Mechanical Cot
Iege where following the invocafi9
by Bishop Cheshire of the North CAM
lima diocese there were welcoming a.
dress upon the part OF the city b
President Roster OF the Chembef ~
Commerce. on the part of the c0i{eE
by DIR. ID. II. Hill Its president and &
Gov. w. w. Kitchin for the state.
The responses were by Hon. JoRk4
Sloan of Marion. Ind, and DR.. Ee
Barringer, president OF the vIrSzN
Polytechnic Institute. Then ca<4
the addresses Of Hon. Hillary A. Ho<
bert. of Washington. formerly secf
tary Of the navy and OF Hon. J141
Bryce. British ambassador to
United States.
In the afternoon there was an 81
t.ress by Dr. s. A. Knapp. director
demonstration work United States 81
psrtment OF agriculture, who spoke
the paramount. issues in agricultux
life. setting our Che nsSds Of
farmers and how best they could n
overcome Sc that prosperity might ~
main with them.
]. Hampton Moore Speaks.
Hon. ]. Hampton Moore. menbe1
United States house OF represe7ka
ties from Philadelphia and presided
OF the Atlanta Deeper Waterways AZ
sociaticn spoke on the need OF bed
transportation facilities in this eo@4f
try and showed how the need cod
be met with water transportation. ~
address being plea for more I'll
tention and larger appropriations IT,
water WAYS. The annual address g
Col Ben Cameron. OF RaleIx
president of the Farmers Natioal
congress closed the afternoon I'D
sion. In Il he set out what the co1
gress had done in the past year -
made recommendations for its frtU
work
The congress will on Friday ~
Durham to inspect the tobacco fn&<
tries and to Greensboro TO inspect II
great cotton mills. paying also ~
to Guiifor6 battle-ground, feturu1I
here at 10 o'clock Friday night L.
trip is given by Durham and 0rctu
boro chamber OF commerce. "a
congress vii; be in session ho(
through Tuesday.
Ambassador Bryce.
Mr.. Bryce expressed the rlc&su<
II gave him to inert so large and re
resentsiive gathering Of men ffr1
many parts of the country ana 8
pecialiy from the south The PIKE
ure was all the greater because -
could congratulate them on TIE auoU
ing progress which the south -
been making. He first visited =
twenty Height years ago. Il vss Ill
just beginning to recover from -
effects Of the war and Of the fro81I
ious times that had followed The W.
Since then the recovery had -
Gene far more rapid. and Tow f9(
south was more prosperous and NOR
hcpeful than ST any previous epoch T.
its history. " was beginning e.
wake up 20 the enormors poss:h<Z
ties Of developrnent that lay bcf3<
n. soil. forests. minerals. All CO.
tanned sources OF Material ~<1<<1
which had perhaps hem not ye. >r1l<
realized. even BY Americans rhez-.
selves. Upon these however. ~
wcule not diiste. because he might -
sume that the members Of tie CO..
gress knew them letter than he a.
Bu; a. two things he would vcn;uI4
to speak. because bis Observation =:
ether countries and ether Parts r,
ihe United States Sad cnabies hin to
fsrm some opinion.
labor ard Science Needed
For the fun Development n -.
southern states two things we're 60
pccisl.y needed. One vas az SO
q1aie supply Of effective iaho- IT,
other vas the adequate spriicstfcr -
science to the cultivation Of ne 800
AZ Respects labor. every c1r ~
knew the soufh knew What tt7 Ct
fcUlfics we're Nov be bed ec1r<1I
opportunities 81 sfadyirr IN on
couuiries problems somc<1zf s..1-l1<|