ADDRESS OF C. H. SHERRILL IN ACCEPTING OFFICE 



OF TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN AT MANUFACTURERS' 



MEETING, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, 



JUNE 15th, 1922. 



I assure you that I appreciate this honor very deeply. 

 I do not know how to express it other than to use the fol- 

 lowing words: From the depth of my heart my mouth 

 speaketh. To have the endorsement of my fellow workers, 

 those with whom I break bread at the table of industry in 

 which I am interested is worth far more to me than to be 

 crowned with the jeweled crown of public service. 



We have gone through the valley of the shadow of un- 

 certainty and distress during the past several months and 

 we have stood shoulder to shoulder to meet the issues 

 which were unpleasant, and unprofitable to us from a finan- 

 cial standpoint; but we have come through those periods of 

 distress and uncertainty to an era which today I think 

 points to a consumation second to none that has ever come to 

 the lumber industry of the United States. 



It is needless to say that I tremble as I approach the 

 responsibility that goes with this position in which you have 

 placed me because in a measure it is expected from a Tem- 

 porary Chairman that he shall offer some remarks dealing 

 with principles that may or may not be endorsed and it is 

 not without fear and trembling that I offer my own express- 

 ions because I am democratic enough in principles to accept 

 the edict of the majority of those with whom I labor. 



But I believe that you endorse the principles which I 

 am going to give you in just a few brief words, that the 

 hour has arrived in the lumber industry in this country when 

 we have to recognize the fact that we must build on the 

 principle of equal rights to all the special privileges to none. 

 I think I express your sentiments in those words and I be- 

 lieve they will have the unanimous endorsement of this 

 body, because from these conferences will come a true his- 

 tory of the state of affairs that reflect to us as never re- 

 flected before the undeveloped thought that has been ne- 

 glected in the hardwood industry during the years that have 

 gone by. 



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