Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-03-10
PRESIDENT TAFT
At ATLANTA
Prosperous Metropolis of
Georgia Entertains
Executive
WILL ALSO VISIT AUGUSTA
There He viii Rest Up Before
Strenuous Special Session of
Congress.

= Atlanta, March 10.-President Taft
is the guest of Atlanta today This
evening, he addresses the Southern
Commercial Congress on a Greater
Nation Through Greater South"
= This afternoon he delivered an ad-
. dress to the negroes of Atlanta at
= The Central Avenue Methodist church.
He will leave at midnight for Augusta,
: where he will take a rest before as
sembling Congress.
TheodOre's Farewell Tour.
Atlanta, Ga, March l0-Theodore
Roosevelt delivered the first speech
Of what he has announced as his last
speech making tour when he talked
yesterday to the negro population of
the city at the Central Avenue Meth
odist church. The great need of tech.
; nical education among the negroes 5
a move toward the soiution of the race
problem was the keynote of the col
oneFs talk
! Young Manhood of the South.
9AIlhtd, I'd, hdICu u he young
manhood of the South should deter
mine that they will not be character
lied as people with a rich past and
a meagre present" declared Dr.
Clarence ]. Owens, commander-in-
chief of the United Sons of Confeder-
ate Veterans, and commissioner of
immigration of the Southern CONNER
cial Congress, in an address before
the congress here today. DR.. Owens
spoke on the duty of the young men
of the South in aiding in the develop
ment Of the resources of their coun-
try His address in part is as fol-
lows:
This congress dramatically marks
the semicentennial of the birth of
nation. Fifty years ago the South
entered a union, based upon an inter-
pretation Of the constitution, for the
support OF principles and traditions
inherited from the fatherhood of the
past. Today the sons of the men who
contended in the halls of legislation
and who offered their lives amid the
4 storm Of silot and shell gather here
beneath the folds of the Stars and
Stripes, in the presence of the chief
executive of the United States, to
pledge their loyalty to the South's
new union, VII ch, in the providence
! of God, will produce Greater Ma
tion Through a Greater South
In pledging allegiance to "Old
Glory" we are not untrue to our faith
ers. That flag was baptized in South
ern blood and the stars the South
added, in the field of blue, light up
the land with the solemn reliance of
the National glory.
There were two interpretations of
the constitution, each supported with
the most powerful pledge mankind
can offer, that of life, fortune, and sa.
cred honor. The question involved
demanded a solution. 1t was solved
by the clash of arms and the decision
of the age was accepted From the
horrors of the desolation emerged the
TACT that the Union could not be de-
stroyed, neither could the individual
states of the South be blotted out. In
f! the surrender of armies. in the recog.
milton of the states rights by the Fed.
eral government, in the oath of al
legiance of the men of the South to
! the old flag and in the readmission of
the states to the old relation of state
! hood, there Is to be found the tie that
binds the national life of today and
there also, wherever men have failed
to be true to the agreements of that
period, may be found the explanation
OF any delay in the full reconciliation
of the contending parties.
Prior to the war of secession, the
South was represented in the halls of
national legislation by statesmen of
the purest ideals and the loftiest con.
struction methods. There are excep-
tions to the charge | am about to
make the four years out of the ma
tional life left condition into which
smaller men rushed and it is conced-
ed that for the past 45 years many.
both North and South, have held of
flee by fighting ever the questions
that were forever settled and accept
ed, by appealing to the ignorance
and prejudice of the pophlace by re-
sorting to Infamous subterfuge in an
effort to continue discord and misun-
I derStanding The man from the
South who would discriminate
against the man from the North and
the man from the North who would
discriminate against the man from
the South, basing his argument on
the differences of the past, settled as
| they were, by honorable men, should
be branded as traitor to national
strength.
"The thought of this hour is not
one of restoring lost pride of ances.
! try, but rather one of defining our
unworthiness to be sons of such a
line of stalwart men. There are
young men of this period who are
| proud of their fathers and yet have
no sense of the lack in themselves of
the virtues which made their sires
! great Parentage is nothing, unless
We are worthy of that parentage:
the vital question of the moment is,
Who are you?" and the demand is
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