New-York tribune., 1911-12-17
SOUTHERN SOCIETY Dimes
Champ Clark Predicts Wonderful
Growth in South.
TELLS or TARIFF DANGERS
Underwood Says Period of Ex-
clusion Has Made Way for Era
of Honest Competition.


was held at the Waldorf last night and
was marked by all the enthusiasm that
usually attends these gatherings, when
both Dixie" and The Star spdhgled Ban
ncr" are played and ars cheered impartial
ly BY native and professional Southerners.
" hat does IT matter that Dixie" is received
q little more vociferously? The hall Is
draped with the Stars and Stripes. and the
speakers assure their hearers frequently
that there is no longer a North or South
and that Mason and pixons lire has long
ago become a legend, while national topics
are chosen for the toasts and the guest
table includes Rriton and Canadian, North
erner and Southerner. fastener and West
erner.
Those az the guest table at last night
were William G. McAdoo. president Of the
society; Oscar ". Underwood. chairman OF
the Ways and Means Committee; Judson c.
Clements, chairman Of the Interstate Com
nerce Commission; Champ Clark Speaker OF
the House OF Representatives; William +.
McCombs. jr.; George Austin Morrison, Jr.'
president OF 81 Andrews Society; Lloyd b.
Sanderson, president OF St. Georges 60
ciety; William Alexander, president OF The
Virginians; Barr Ferree, secretary OF the
Pennsylvania Society; John j. pelany.
president of the Friendly Sons Of ST. Pat
rick; Henderson VI. Somerville, president
Of the Alabama Society; William Hodges
Mann, Governor OF Virginia, Richard Reid
Rogers, president OF The kentucklansi
Robert ". Gwathmey, commander or the
Confederate Veteran Camp; William :.
Hawk, president OF the Ohio Society;
George Gordon Battle. president Of the
North Carolina Society; the Rev. j. Nevett
Steele, president Of the Maryland Society;
Roland r, conklin, president Of the Mis-
souri, Society; Or. Alexander c. Humphreys
president Of the Canadian Society; Angus
tus Van Wyck, president OF The South Car
ollnians; James T. Allen. president of the
Georgia Society; Jacob II. SehiA, Bishop
+. Courtney, president Of the British
Schools and Universities Club; Henry ..
CLAYTON, chairman OF the Committee on Ju-
dietary: Nathan Straus, Luke Lea, United
States Senator from Tennessee; q. Gros-
venor Dave. William De Hertburn Wash
ington, president Of the West Virginia So
ciety; Barron c. Collier, president Of the
Tennessee Society. and Frederick E. Farms
worth, president of the Michigan Society,"
Predicts Great Growth in South
In his address Speaker Clark predicted
that the South scme day would Be the
most thickly settled portion Of the United
States. He said, in part:
No region ever was 80 lavishly lowered
by nature. Her physical resources, scarce
ly touched az Yet are practically *,
haUstibie. The most sparsely populalel
portion Cf our country, II VIII one DAY ue
the most thickly settled. The j ast Wea.ln y
portion per capita, she bias tdlr ultlihdlSis
10 be among the wealthiesL
The stream Of immigration SOUTHWARK
which Las been rapidly increasing III tl1
last decade will become as great as that
which has poured into the West during the
last half century. For instance. during the
last 1--WE years there has been as mucn I'M
migration from Iowa into Missouri, the
northernmost of the Southern states, az
from the East
citizen of North Dakota just as the size
OF the wheat crop concerns the cltlZeh OF
Florida The size of the fish catch OF New
England fishermen concerns the denlZens OF
California Just a. the output or orane :
concerns the residents OF New England.
Speaking generally. the prosperity II one
is the prosperity of all, for we are all sur
rounded by substantially the same circum-
stances, travelling IN the same boat head
ed FOR the same destiny.
That homogeneity OF population 50 neces-
sary TO national spirit, % unity Of purpose
and action, never in the history Of the
world existed on so wide a scale as II does
here our dssimilative faculties have been
nut 10 a severe test m the last seventy
years by the Immense army OF foreigners
who have sought cur shores. But we have
proved equal 10 that emergency, as we have
proved equal 20 every emergency In which
we have found ourselves.
r,---...z,,+f, T-rdo,-.y,p1 Oh Of
the Ways and Means Committee, talked on
a subject akin 10 MS work at the national
capital Protection OF Profits He de-
clared FOR a tariff for revenue only and en-
larged at length on the difference between
proht making tarin and a competitive
tariff. saying that the danger TO the coun-
try from a high protective tartn was not
so great forty years ago as It was to-day,
when many OF the industries OF the country
were concentrated IN a few hands.