The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-03-10

I
Grief She waited for the dawn that
ushered in the glorious day of her po-
litical and economic regeneration.
Il speak of Tennessee, the state OF
Old Hickory and numberless others
whose names are inscribed ON the
honor roll of the nations records. Her
iron and steel industries, her lumber
trade and other wealth-producing in
terests; above all the energy and
thrift of her people give her leading
place in that wonderful progress
which the Southern Commercial Con-
gress so ftly represents.
For queenly Alabama, | speak, the
development of whose marvellous nat
lural resources has proceeded by leaps
and bounds within this generation and
is one Of the wonders of this wonder
full country of ours. In her leading
Industries, the output and values have
been doubled, trebled and quadrupled.
From Mississippi, bring you greet
ings from the state of Jefferson Davis
the great leader of the Confederacy
the lustre of whose name and fame no
praise can add to nor any cavil can
tarnish Nor can | fail to name that
gracious son of the Bayou state
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
representative, senator, justice of the
United States supreme court who
adorned with his learning and elo-
quence every public station to which
the nation called him.
Next in the roll call is Arkansas
whose progress in material wealth has
been the wonder of the last decade.
Arkansas is a shining example of that
unquenchable spirit of determination
to get there which today animates
the whole south and is bound to make
this entire section what nature intend
ed it should bean earthly paradise.
"The state of fair women, swift
horses and Marse Henry Watterson
greets you through me. In all the
forty-six commonwealths of the Union
there is none that can boast Of great |
er glory than Kentucky has shed upon
the nation whether in the men that |
have done the state some service, or
in the field of commerce and industry. |
Il speak to you for Missouri than
whom none other of all the states |
bears prouder title Her history ever
since the Louisiana Purchase has been |
an uninterrupted procession of civic |
There is not page in our
country's history on which Missouri |
has not stamped her impress.
Let me speed to the state of sunny |
Louisiana. New splen-
dors will come to that state after the
Panama Canal is opened, for, exposi
tion or no exposition, New Orleans is
the port from which the bulk of this
country's commerce with Latin-Amer-
lea Will go tortn.
Again | fare on to the land of |
flowers, to fair Florida Indescribable |
is the charm and the attraction of |
Florida and it need not cause surprise |
that the largest increase in population |
shown by any southern state is dis
closed by the last census taken in that |
state.
I'm perial Texas speaks through me
to you-state of the Lone Star. With
room enough to accommodate a pop
ulation equal to that of the United |
States today what power will she not
yield in the councils of the nation or
in the direction of its commercial and
industrial activities.
Youngest of all the southern states
Oklahoma makes her bow; with an
area as large as that of all New Eng
and with natural resources of great
est variety and unlimited abundance:
ler people as enterprising as any in
he land, she will not long lack a com
place.
81 have saved the best for the last.
low indeed, my friends, shall we ever
,e able to forget the warm hearts of .
ieorgia's people who through their
governors have bid me welcome today.
Magnificent as is the state in every
hing that is grand and imposing, the
hospitality with which
We are received is but a symbol of that
randeur and that magnifieence."