El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-03-11
sOUTH's PROGRESS
IS PRAISED BY
PRESIDENT
President and Secretary Of
War Address Southern
Congress.


Atlanta, Ca, March 11.-President
Taft addressed the Southern Commercial
congress on a Greater Nation Through
| a. Greater South. He said in part:
Gentlemen of the Southern CONNER
ciaI congress: he commercial and in
/ dustrial development ofs this country
for the last 20 years has been so rapid
that the statistics startle us.0 An ex-
+ animation shows that proportlonately
the commercial and business growth
Of the south is greater than that OF
any other part of the country.
For years after the war the south
| was poor and was engaged in long
and bitter struggle to recover from the
! disastrous condition in which she was
left.
! But with the coming of prosperity,
with the resumption of comfort in their
lives, with growing sympathy of the
/ north in their working out of the Sc
4 rious problems confronting them, and
| with the sense of triumph in their sue
cess in overcoming their great difficult
ties the southern people have mellow
ed The northern people have met them
half way and never in the history Of
the country have the two sections been
so friendly and so near, in such com
pIete union as they are today.
Has Many Serious Questions.
You have the race question in the
south, you have the question of ef-
ficient labor. Both are most serious
problems, but I believe strongly as I
/ can believe anything that the solu-
ton is to be found in a system of pri-
mary and industrial education offered
! to every youth, male and female, white
\ and black.
THE growth of the south in wealth.
| in education, in civil order and in civiii
zation has contributed greatly to the
growth of the country. By making q
! greater south you have made a greater
country With what is almost monopoly
| in the growth OF cotton, you have
! swelIed our exports TO point never
reached before.
In the spirit of proper exultation
over your industrial successes you rep
resentatives of the southern states
/ gather in convention like this to deyel-
/ op new ways and means for the devel-
/ opment of your commerce. for the in
crease of your manufactures and for
the promotion OF better farming"
| Regrets Tariff Board Defeat.
+! In regard to the recent congress the
president said:
"A great disappointment of the ses-
sion was the final defeat Of a per-
manent tariff board of I've to be ap
pointed by the president whose duty
/ it should be to acquire through impair.
! tial investigation all possible informa
ton as to the cost of production Of ar
! ticles at home and abroad and all other
/ facts relevant in the fixing of a tariff
While this bill failed, however, pro-
vision was made by appropriation in
the sundry civil bill for the continuance
of board which had already created
TO make the same kind Of inyestiga-
tion and to an accumulation Of the same
kind of information.
Until now the board consisted of
three and in order to shape the board
+ so as to be as near as possible that
provided for in the defeated bill have
added two Democrats TO it,"
In conclusion he said:
Il earnestly appeal to the young men
of the south to take up these and other
political issues from broad and lib
eral standpoint to eliminate from their
i consideration narrow partisanship and
sectionalism and TO come fully into our
national communion with the patriotic
purpose of stimulating the progress Of
our civilization in every right direction.
maintaining our countrys prosperity
and accommodating its wealth, but al
ways in subordination to higher ethical
standards and to the promotion OF
} righteousness and justice"
Stop Lynehing says Dickinson.
The commercial development of the
+; south can follow only on the suppress
sion of mob violence in the opinion of
Jacob w. Dickinson, the secretary Of
/ war.
/ Mr.. Dickinson declared that be-
cause OF frequent lawIess outbreaks,
an unjustifiabIe prejudice against the
( southern states existed not only in
( the north but in foreign countries.
such outbreaks he declared. were the
result of abnormal conditions pro0uced
by the Civil war. Broadly viewed. how
ever ne added, the south would be
/ found to be land of order, and he
emphatically urged the immediate en-
forcement of the law as primary step
to the future greatness of the south.
AS an ultimate solution of the race
problem in the south. Mr.. Dickinson
suggested. the possibility of the volun-
tary removal Of the mass of young ne
groes to a country of their own, fos-
tered and guarded by the United
States.
when they grow in wealth and ed
ucation.'' said Mr.. Dickinson, and still
find themselves confined in their as
pirations by insurmountable barriers
which bar their social and political
progress and deny them the opportuni-
ties of citizenship open to all others.
an ambition to free themselves from
such conditions may, if sustained by
liberal governmental policy. lead to
such a movement"
Secretary Dickinson called attention
at the outset of his address to the
fact that a parallel to his subject.
''The Enforcement of Law in the
South" hardly would find a place at
a commercial congress in the north,
or in Great Britain, but declared that
every informed person knows, that
the south through a widespread though
not general lawlessness and the non
enforcement of law, is suffering in
jury-direct, at home and indirect, on
account of its reputation abroad"
''The tremendous and steady strides
being made generally in the south for
successive decades. in education, com
merce manufactures, mines, bank cap
ital, railroad. agriculture indeed. in
all that indicates steady progress.
demonstrate that the people Of the
south taken generally, are peaceable
and law abiding. The great accumuia-
ton of property by the negroes. the
most helpless politically and socially
of all her people. so widely heralded
as evidence of the industry thrift and
progress of the race shows a general
stable security under the law" said
the speaker. Therefore, we may con-