Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-12-14
WILL BUILD 4
GREATER II NATION
ss.,s ~
Plans Of Southern CONNER
cial Congress Outlined
by Speakers .
THE GREATER SOUTH
THE GREATER SOUTH
John Barrett Makes Plea For Closer
Understanding Between All Amefi-
can Republics. :.


Southern C0mUleTcal SoHs S"S ~
it's seventh annual convention mere
Yesterday with addresses on the
south's and the nations commercial
and industrial problems by Secretary
of the Treasury McAdoo, Governor
Henry C. Stuart, OF Virginia; John
Barrett, director-general of the Fan
American Union; Dr.. Nicholas Mur-
raw Butler, of Columbia University;
Senator Duncan U. Fletcher, OF Flor
ida, president of the Congress, sno
John Temple Graves, of New YORK
Plans of the congress to build
"preater nation through a greater
South" were outlined by the speakers.
ur. Butler, addressing the night ses-
sion, declared that international prop
lens of the United States now over
shallow domestic policies, though the
latter have not diminished in import
snc,. He urged that the United States
urerare to aid Europe at the. end OF
the war in setting up its overturned
polieical fabric" upon democratic
principles. Governor Stuart. who also
addressed the congress tonight, DIS
cussed agricultural and commercial
problems of the South.
Senator Fletcher, in his opening 2o-
dress, told vi rat the congress aireaay
had accomplished in developing tue
south's resources. a suggestion by
Dr. Charles w. Eliot. that the South
err Commercial Congress drop the
WORT Southern" from its title was
presented by Senator Fletcher. 10
the suggestion the Senator replied
that the congress sought to ald tue
nation through developing one Of its
sections, and declared the Tsrd
Southern" had no more limited the
,cooe of the congress to the South
than had the word Commercial in
its title.
John Temple Graves, speaking on
th4 Victories of Peace" traced the
South's development since 1868 anu
referred to peace "as the spirit which
has wrought this modern miracie."
Secretary McAdoo told the cong
re.s that "an obvious duty confronts
The nation" The first necessity, ne
said. was to provide for the nations
physical safety, and the second TO Sc
cure its economic safety. te assert
cd, that both could be secured by es-
.ablishment of q merchant marine.
Mr.. McAdoo brought to the. congress
The personal greetings of President
Wilson. The President also Expressed
his good wishes forathe congress IN .
telegram. & ::
Msling a plea for closer anaeHr-
standing between 'all American re-
publics, Mr.. Barrett declared after the
European war the United States
would find itself "unbeleved by all the
present helliserents."
"The victor will say. we won de;
spite the United States, Will. the
losers will say we lost because OF
.he limited States,'" Barrett declar-
ed.
He added that the leading men a"s
,he leading newspapers Of all twenty
I,atin-American republics, stood with
the United States in it's attitude to-
wards the European belligerents and
declared that the Pan-A American doc"
trine will some day supersele tue
Monroe Doctrine. and the great south
American republics will stand 5e-
. mind .his country in its relations sil'
foreign nations across the ocean a.
the United States, under its Nonros
Doctrine, today Would back up it'
southern neighbors.
The afternoon session was glVer
1ver to the woman's auxiliary. In :
plea for equal suffrage for women
Miss Kate Gordon, Of New Orleans
declared that it pleased her that tn
men. Of the Southern Counmercia
Congress had recognized the need O