The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-02

world SIS per cent is from the south.
Cotton is the staple for clothing. We
can no longer wear fig leaves; silk
is unsuitable and iron impossible. Vari-
Gus experiments have proved conclu-
sively that cotton is best grown in the
south In a few years we will have
large factories and will not ship our
raw cotton to the north and abroad,
but will produce the finished product
as we'll as the raw material in this
section.
America predominates in structural
elements. The greater part of the iron
of the world comes from America. At
present the major portion is from
around the Great Lakes, but the geol-
ogists are procaiming that the time
is not far distant when the supply will
come from this district. We have ce-
ment stone and the elements of alum
mum in the south. The nation con-
trolls the elemental articles of the
worlds supplies. The south supplies
one-half of the lumber of America We
have abundant deposits of coal, oil, gas
! is 100000 hores power furnished by
water daily. which is twice as much
as is used in the United States. Here
at the foot of the Appalachian is the
greater part of it, By little en-
cheering the amount of power could
be doubled. We have the material and
elements for the finished product near
err together than any other section of
the country.
America controls the elements to
become the greatest industrial nation
of the world and the south predomi-
mates in every line. The nations will
have to come to us in order to live.
We are or can be Independent of the
rest of the world. This will soon be
realized as we control the great sys-
tenn of distribution. There are $4,000
miles of nayigable water flowing into
tidewater and $4,000 flowing into the
gull. We are closest to the worlds
eehetr and through the Caribbean and
the Panama canal are in direct touch
With the nations of Europe and Asia.
When a nation controls both the
production and commerce 1t begins AT
once to have financial power. When |
we have what the other nations are
oohged to get and have the means |
OF getting 1t to them we are abso- |
luteiy supreme in the financial world |
But we must erect a superstructure |
mink what 1t ought to be- mere IA
no power without responsibility. Whae |
Is the south going to do? There are
TWO broad classes in human life-the |
destroying forces and those that uplift. |
one of the first and greatest of these is
war The great purpose and aim of
America ought to be to hasten the com
ing of universal peace. To have peace
IL Is necessary to have an equilibrium
of power among the nations In Europa
this is almost true but the balance of
power would remain in the hands of
the United States if she would increase
her navy to size where she could saw
to the world powers, Take care" when
they threaten the peace of the world
She could do this without meddling.
In Asia there is no equilibrium. All
the power rests in the hands of one ma
tion-Japan. They are In absolute con-
troll of the far east and the Pacific as
well. Japan is a serious menace to the
United States and the danger is serious
one. The Japanese control the one har-
Dor which means the mastery of the
Pacific. This is Pearl harbor. in the
Hawaiian islands The United States has
a garrison of about 200 men there and
Japan has 100000 men in the city Take
circle with a radius of 200O miles out
of the heart of the Pacific ocean and
the center would be Pearl harbor. This
means that a fleet with Pearl harbor as
a base could control the Pacific. japan
controls this,
THE United States is helpless and the
Japanese government has been in a posi-
ton to forbid the citizens of the Pacific
slope to exercise their right of local
self-government. 1t has said to the
United States, You shall not segregate
the yellow race from the white and the
United States has been unable to help
itself. These conditions are hard to con-
ceive of and 1t behooves the government
to send all of the fleet to the Pacific and
build another for the Atlantic"
Here Captain Hobson dwelt at length
with the question of the liquor traffic
as second destroying agent. He cited
the report of the investigations of the
British government and the nations of
the continent and gave some interesting
figures as to the result of investiga,
tons in the United States 1.-THE death
rate among 61,215 is 1000 per year" he
said. "for the same number of total alb
stainers 1t Is $50 per year. For 1000 total
abstainers the rate is 40 for one year
and 100 for drinkers.
Since the year 900 B. C. 2SOO,0OO men
have been killed in battle, which makes
an average of 700 men every year. In
America alone alcohol kills 30 men every
year.
aside from the effect upon man him
self the effect upon his children Is dread
full. OF the children of total abstainers
10 per cent die in infancy, of moderate
drinkers % per cent. and of heavy drink
ers 80 per cent. There are but II per
cent of the children of heavy drinkers
who are normal and so per cent of the
descendants of total abstainers. There
are 100000 drunkards in America
After a magnificent appeal to the pa
trotism of his hearers to support the
flag for what is good and to aid the
south to greater industrial development
Captain Hobson brought his lecture to q
close amid great applause.
BLEACHED FLOUR CASE
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