Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-08
HEAR OF PROGRESS after BOY F|REBUGS
Development of South Since
War Topic of Discussion.
OUTLINE NEEDS OF FUTURE
Southern Commercial Congress Opens
Session at Atlanta-Two Thou
sand Present.

ATLANTA. Ga, March S.-Two thou
sand business men of the south-mem-
bers of commercial clubs, chambers OF
commerce and boards of trade-had ar
rived in Atlanta this morning when the
opening session of the Southern Com
mercial Congress was called to order
by President John Parker of New Or
leans.
At the meeting We're northern men,
successful in business and official life
who have come TO this meeting to hear
of the progress the south has made
since the war
Among the northern visitors will be
President Taft. Theodore Roosevelt and
several cabinet officers.
Speaks for All Southern States.
Responding to Gov. Browns address of
welcome at the opening OF the conven-
ton, Gen. Julian S. Carr of Durham.
N. c., second vice president of the con-
gress, delivered brief tribute to each
of the southern states.
For Maryland. my Maryland he said.
II speak to you for the state which -
honored in having been the first of all
the colonies to grant freedom of religious
worship: the state which in its infancy
gave to the naticn Francs Scott Key
Il speak tor Virginia. mother of Presi-
dents. in whose hallowed soil rests the
ashes of her great men.
Il speak to you for that sturdy state
mother-West Virginia. Wealth beyond
the dreams of avarice is led in her
mines. her forests and her rivers.
For North Carolina. 1 cry All haii!'
Adversely she has borne with d On ~
| and prosperity has not in her DIR ed up
the sources of kindly symr athy With all
| them that struggle painfully along the
pathways OF life.
II speak for South Carolina, state OF
| the cavaliers. that state which gave al
houn to the nation and could rest her
claim to recognition and fame on that
| one fact alone. If there were none other.
II speak for Tennessee. TIE state OF
Old Hickory and numberless .thers
whose names are inscribed on the honor
roll of the nations records.
Tribute Paid to Others.
For queenly Alabama 1 speak. the
development of whose marvellous natural
resources has proceeded by leaps and
bounds and is one OF the wonders OF TINS
| wonderful country Of ours.
From Mississippi l bring You greet
ings: from the state of jefferson Davis.
| the great leader of the Ccnfederacy, the
luster of whose name and fame no praise
can add to nor any cavil can tarnish.
| Next in the roll call Is Arkansas,
| whose progress in material wealth has
been the wonder of the last decade.
1.-The state of fair women, swift horses
and Marse Henry Watterson greets you
through me. There is none that can
boast of greater glory than Kentucky;
Il speak TO you for Missouri. than
whom none other of all the states bears
prouder title.
Let me speed to the state OF sunny
| hroezeS-fair Louisiana
| "Asain I fare on to the land of flowers
to fair Florida. Indescribable is the charm
and the attraction of Florida.
| Imperial Texas speaks through me 10
you-state of the Lone Star.
| youngest of all the southern states
! Oklahoma makes her bow, with an area
as large as that of all New England;
| II have saved the best for the last.
| How indeed. my friends, shall We ever
be able to forget the warm hearts OF
! Georgia's people. who through their gov
ernor have bid me welcome today!
Need Money to Develop.
! In his address to the members OF the
congress Secretary Quarles declared that
the organization stands with every edltof
and practical business man VINO preaches
against the futility of congresses ana con.
| ventions that meet with pas! oi
trumpets, accomplish little and ADJOURN
| to lie dormant until future time
| I'VE. do believe, however. he con-
| tinued, that the raw material the wa
| ter power, the mineral deposits and the
| vast acreage Of idle lands In the
south are calling for people and money.
And we further believe that no one
| community. no one state, within this
section, having so many conditions In
common, can do what is needed to con-
| vert the national mind to the truth
about it's health, climatic, social and
educational conditions and its unlimit-
| ed opportunities
However a sane and earnest COM
bination Of the available construct
| forces can work out by the time the
Panama canal has opened destiny for
| the south which will be not only a
| mighty uplift of all conditions affect
| ing our people, but also the return of
| the south to the councils of the ma
| ton in all the potency of statesman
| ship we once enjoyed.