The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-02-12
Southern Commercial Con-
gress, Which Meets at At
lanta in March, Of Interest
to the Nation.
PRESIDENT TAFT is
TO BE HONOR GUEST
Some of the Most Distin-
guished Men in the Coun-
try Will Be Speakers at Gil
gantic Meeting.

BY G. GRosvENoR DAVE.
Managing Director, Southern CONNER.
ciaI Congress.
Washington, ID. c., Feb. 1l--Since
President Lincoln was called fifty
years ago to preside over the destin-
les of a disrupted country ten other
men have occupied the presidential
chair. The tenth. President Taft, will.
on March 10th, spend the entire day in
Atlanta, Georgia, as the guest of the
Southern Commercial Congress and
there take part in meetings that, by
reason of their contrast with condi-
tions in 1861, will be historic in their
setting and historic in their effects.
In fifty years of our history no more
striking eveidence Of the transition Of
| thought and Of n new and stronger
| union will have been presented to the
country than that involved in the three
days sessions of the Southern Com
mercial Congress.
Before in any way touching upon the
features of the program it is well to
understand that the Southern Com
| mercial Congress is not the name OF
an annual meeting, but is the name Of
a movement born in 1908 from the con-
viction that whereas, a message, sent
out from the South in 1861, led to
struggle and immeasurable misery and
national agony the time had come for
a new message to go out of the South
to the nation couched in the language
of commerce, which is the language
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resources of the South and their sig
nificance in increasing national
strength.
1t is not necessary to detail the
work of the past three years. but day
after day. the men of the present gen.
Grafton who set to themselves the
task of framing up this message to the
nation and to the world have quietly
worked forward towards a moment
when, in a day, the South and its
meaning to the nation might reach ev,
cry thinking mind in the United
States, and thus sweep away forever
the barrier Of misunderstanding that
was created by the war between the
states.
! Why if 10 Important.
II viii now be seen why the third
anual convention OF the Southern
Commercial Congress is natianal
event and it will also be easy to un.
derstand why President Taft and two
Of his cabinet officers. Governor
Woodrow Wilson, twho by the way, Is
a Virginian.) the Governors of all the
$ Southern States. and more than hun.
dred speakers distinguished in the bus
mess affairs of the nation will be in
Atlanta to witness the new union OF
the South along the lines of construc.
tive craftsmanship.
The program is perhaps the most
! imposing ever brought together in the
. history OF the nation. 1t is divided
into eight main divisions.
1st Welcome and General State
! ment.
Y End External Views Of the South.
3rd The solid South of Business.
4th. The World as a Market for the
South.
9Th. Making the New South Under.
stand.
9Th A Review Of the Business
;, Forces.
7th. Section Meetings
sth. The Souths Highest Thought.
!. Dealing with the eighth division
= first, an idea of the weight and char
acter fthe whole program can be OBJ
,, tanned. The South's higher thought
in business will be described by VIII
: liam G. McAdoo, of New York. born in
,, Georgia, under the topic Corporations
~ 1t
thought in education will be described
!. by Chancellor Houston. tbofn In North
y Carolina. educated In South Carolina.
for long the head Of the University OF
Texas and nov heading Washington
University, Of st. Louis, Missouri,) un-
! der the topic The Sonth's Education.
al Obligation" The South's higher
thought in politics will be described
by Governor Woodrow Wilson, under
the topic "Tke Citizen and the State. :
Y The South's higher thought in law
will be described by Secretary Of War
Dickinson, OF Tennessee, under the
topic "The Enforcement of Law in the
South. The South's higher thought in
). the nation will be described by Presi-
q dent Taft. whose words will come as
,e the capstone of the three DAYS ses-
" sion under the topic "A Greater Ma,
al tion through Greater South. Z
Ell In Seventh Division.
u In the seventh division there will be
fourteen section meetings, held con.
n currently, embracing agriculture, com.
d merce, commercial organizations. tdu.
u cation. forests. good. roads, health. inn
d migration, insurance. land reclama.
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