The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-05-12

We feel that the welfare of the
whole south is our personal concern,
just as truly as our local welfare is
our personal business.
I'VE therefore feel keen interest
in anything affecting the cotton in
terest, upon which. more than on any
other one thing, our southern COM
mercial welfare rests. We naturally
extend this sympathy to the by-inter-
ests, such as yours, whose develop
ment ultimately rebounds to the ad
vantage of the agricultural interests.
And from the agricultural interests
at large, and from manufactures like
yours, SO closely connected with the
farmers, we ask i nreturn, for Pen
sacola and other ports, that degree
of sympathy and active interest
which promote river and harbor i'm
advantage by providing you with
nearby ports and easy and cheap &C
cess to the ports.
You will see while here our spIen-
did harbor, where the navies of the
whole world could ride a storm in
safety, where shipping many times
greater than at present could find
adequate facilities in many square
miles OF deep water and a least depth
or SO feet from anchorage to ocean.
You Will see a fine navy yard, which
| ought TO have much more work than
it now has. In seeing the harbor,
you will see at glance why the
Pensacola yard should be the naval
base for the protection of the traffic
of the gulf. Now second only to the
foreign traffic of the Atlantic coast,
the foreign commerce of the gulf is
greater than the combined foreign
commerce of the Mexican Border,
the Pacific coast, and the Northern
border, and what is very much to
the point, it is growing more rapid
ly than the foreign commerce of any
other customs division. You will
see fine forts, with heavy coast artil-
lery and auxiliary batteries, which
make this harbor safe from a mill
tary viewpoint. You will see many
new buildings, worthy cities of much
greater population and wealth than
Pensacola. You have already seen
our splendid hotel, and want to en-
phasize the fact that the money for
the stock and the construction bonds
was furnished by local pockets, and
that this money represents a local
outlay equal to about S14.50 for every
white man, woman and child in Pen
sacola. You will see marked ex-
tension of residence districts, and
you will see few, if any, rent signs
on any houses worth living in. You
will See many proofs of civic pride
and community progress. l regret
that you can not see our annual fall
fair, which is surprising proof of
the cotton and corn that intelligent
labor produces profitably on lands
which, only a few years ago. were
generally regarded as practically
hopeless. Besides the evidences of
progress that I have cited, and many
others which i have not even limited
at, you will see here abundant op-
portunities for our own people and
for others as undergraduates of
such a nature that development and
prosperity are sure to follow, and
Pensacola become a great winter
capital, and, better still, a great port
in all that the term implies.
again, I thank you in the name OF
the city and the citizens, the bust
ness bodies and the bushes men, for
giving us a chance to be your hosts
We wish you God-speed and success
in your deliberations, and we trust
that you will take away with you
only the pleasantest recollections OF
your visit to the Deep Water City,
Mr.. cAMPBELL'S RESPONSE.
w. w. Campbell, of Tuskegee, re-
sponded as follows:
"Mr. President and gentlemen of
the convention, Mr.. Mayor, pro tenn
and gentlemen If the Chamber 0r