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Speech in support of an Appalachian National Park

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  • i t They constitute a most valued element of our citizenship. All these,whether rich or poor,w e hail with a most cordial greeting and stretch out to them the right hand of welcome and brotherly \ love. We esteem their money,but prize theirm manhood more.. The South needs men more than she needs money. To us they are not strangers to the covenant of promise nor aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, The same religion,the same institutions,the same glorious country, the same great ancestry is our common heri*- tage. The new south liberated from the fetters of the old,yet in* spired by her virtues and heroisms,with inexhaustible wealth of timber and mineral and soil,under the just and enlightened reigh of AngaoSaxon law at no distant day must become one of the wealthiest and most populous,as she is now one of the most progressive sections of the Union, How is the oppoitune time for the establishment of this great southern national park. Soon the land will oommand many times its present price and no amount of money can replaoe the magnificent forests that are rapidly disappearing forever. The establishemnt of the park would be the m st effeotive agels* oy in the development of the country. People from the ends of the earth in quest of home and health and pleasure and fortune would pilgrim hither. This land of health and beauty and sunshine,with fertile soil and priceless treasaaaes af her bosom,would beoome known to the people of the world, y/ What shall hinder our getting this park? To the men who have thus far labored so earnestly and diligently for it,is due all game e spirit eJ-xxJWbdtftSS j$jf,with the same zeal and energy,the realization of our hopes is assured. Other sections have their luunufca parks,why not the
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Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America

This digital collection was created to contribute to the public's understanding of the forces and ideas that led to the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1934. The most vi...

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