Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-03-08
State After State Passes Re-
view in General Carr's
Speech
IN RESPONSE TO WELCOME
Second Vice-President of Com
mercial Congress at
Atlanta.

VI NL4IIisI GldI tiuES, tHdHNuEl5 VI
commerce and boards of trade were
present this morning when the open
ing session Of the Southern CONNER
. cial Congress was called to order by
President John Parker OF NV Or,
leans,
Among the northern visitors who
will attend the sessions will be Presi-
dent Taft, Theodore Roosevelt and
several cabinet officers.
Response to Welcome Address.
Atlanta, Ca, March 7-Responding
to Governor Browns address of well
come at the opening of the convention
of the Southern Commercial Congress,
General Julian S. Carr, of Durham, n.
c., second vice-prec!aent Of the Cong
ress. delivered a brirs tribute to each
OF the Southern states.
For Maryland, My Maryland" he
said, 81 speak to you. for the state
which is honored in having been the
first of all the colonies TO grant free
dom of religious worship; the state
which in its infancy gave to the Ma
tion Francis Scott Key and his Star
Spangled Banner
q speak for Virginia. mother OF
Presidents, in whose hallowed soil
rest the ashes OF her great man, the
first Chief Magistrate of the United
States. Within her borders grim
visaged war reaped bloody harvest.
but from her blood-stained field
sprang the seed of a new generation,
one that has placed the dear old State
in the very forefront of thriving com
munities.
81 speak to you for that sturdy state
carved from the loins Of her noble
mother-West Virginia. Wealth be-
yond the dreams of avarice is held
in her mines, her forests, and her
rivers. The railroad mileage of West
Virginia in the rapidity of its growth
challenges comparison, and on her
rivers hundreds OF steamships carry
The prouucts on hef industry s.
For North Carohna, l cry All
Hail. Adversely she has borne with
dignity, and prosperity has not in her
dried up the source of kind sympathy
with all them that struggle painfully
along the pathways of life. Rich In
all that contributes to make state
truly great, she is keeping even stepN
in the grand forward march of our
dear Southland.
Il speak for South Carolina. State
of the Cavaliers, that state which
gave Calhoun to the nation and
could rest her claim to recognition
and fame on that one fact alone, il
there were none other. She has
been steadfast in adversely. In those
dark days of reconstruction when car
pet-baggers and scalawags plundered
her she sat like Patience on monu-
ment smiling at Grief She waited
for the dawn that ushered in the
l. glorious day of her political and eco
nonic regeneration.
t. Il speak of Tennessee, the State of
Old Hickory and numberless others
honor roll of the Naion's 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 lead
ing place in that wonderful progress
which the Southern Commercial Con
gress so fifty represents
- For queenly Alabama, | speak, the
:, development Of whose marvellous
natural resources has proceeded by
: leaps and bounds within this genera
|, ton and is one of the wonders of
~ this wonderful country of ours. In
her leading industries. the output and
"a values have been doubled trebled, and
n quadrupled.
20 From Mississippi, l bring you
fo greetings: from the state of Jefferson
+. federacy, 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
pdyOu SSilhtuS
B. natus Lamar-Representa Senator
Justice of the United States Supreme
Of Court, who adorned with his learning
and eloquence every public station to
which the Nation called him
Next in the roll call is Arkansas
}" whose progress in material wealth
10 has been the wonder of the last de
le cade. Arkansas is shining example
&c of the unquenchable spirit of determi
40 nation to get there which today ami
- mates the whole South and is boun6
-. to make this entire section what
~ Nature intended it should bear
:. earthly paradise
~ The State of fair women, swift
= horses and Marse Henry Wattersor
u, greets you through me. In all thu
of forty-six commonwealth Of the Unior
a there is none that can boast of great
of er glory than Kentucky has shed upol
th the Nation, whether in the men tina
have done the State some service,
ng or in the field Of commerce andfndust
Ior ry.
Al Il speak to you for Missouri, thai
de whom none other of all the. State
un-