A Remarkable Southerner 



By JOHN TROTWOOD Mm IKK 



Col. T. T. Wright, of Nashville, is referred to this 

 known as the father of the Columbia it certainly 

 arsenal. He first suggested it to Sen- 

 ator Whitthorne, enthused him and stood 

 by him until the bill was passed and 

 signed by the President 



Colonel Wright is also known as the 

 founder of the Scotch-Irish Congress, 

 which assembled at Columbia, Tenn., its 

 object being to gather data for a his- 

 tory of the race which gave us a Pat- 

 rick Henry and the real founders of this 

 government. 



.-rnor Bloxham, of Florida, refers to 

 Colonel Wright as the most aggressive 

 creative intellect in America. 



\ K McClure, the Nestor of 



lean Journalism, states: "I cannot 



a single important advancement 



made in the South during the last quar- 



a century that was not of Colonel 



Wright's conception and largely of his 



exectr 



Governor Johnston, of Alabama. 

 "Colonel Wright did more educational 

 work for the 

 ragua Canal than 

 any living man. 

 His great National 

 Nicaraguan Canal 

 Convention, held at 

 New Orleans, was 

 designed to aid the 

 noble Alabama Sen- 

 ator, John T. Mor- 

 gan, in his 1 

 work for this canal. 



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remarkable feat, as 

 Morgan spoke 



for three b^Ts h was a n Delation to 

 the Neyrffjfk and Califon.. es, 



who pronounced it the KIV ch 



they had has sent that 



canai ia, yet but for the lifework 



of Senator Morgan and the loyal educa- 

 tional aid given him by the National 

 Nicaraguan Canal Convention, which 

 first awakened the masses for Senator 

 Morgan's inter-ocean canal, the Panama 

 scheme never would have materialized. 



We regret our inability to note all of 

 Colonel Wright's prominent works. We 

 will name but a few of his creations: 



He assembled the first forestry con- 

 gress in the world in Florida twenty-two 



Also the National Harbor Defense Con- 

 gress, which resulted in placing many of 

 our se;i;ort cities in a proper state of 



nse. 



The National Military Congress also 

 ;ied. its object being to reor- 

 /e the National Guard and place it 

 on a modern, up-to-date plane. The na- 

 tional government has adopted the me. 



lormulated by this congress for the 

 government of the National C.uard. A 

 feature of this National Military Con- 

 gress was the-Wtdvocacy of compulsory 

 military drill in our public schools to 

 turn our city boys from cigarettes and 

 M to muscle and stamina. To dem- 

 onstrate what the military drill will do 

 for boys, Colonel Wright brought a com^J 



That memorable convention first awai < lets from Toronto. Canada. . 



ened the masses to the importance of 

 Senator Morgan's plea for a canal to 

 unite the Atlantic with the Pacific. Pos- 

 sibly that convention represent* 

 most i * body of strict! 



'hat has erer assembled in the 



South *n f Com- 



tod by a liberal del- 



ranciaco Cham 



thirty-one delegates ev- 



in the Union sent represents* 



and two delegates 



1 in thirty-one days from 



date of the call The New York Herald 



Chancellor McCi-acK-n, of the New York 

 delivered 'the leading address 

 .pulsory military drill in 

 < to check the cigarette habit. 

 ,g moral and physical 



The Covernors of thir- 

 offlcers to this mil- 

 l President Diaz, of 



Possibly one of Colonel \\ i 

 impor ih. Intel-nation 



al Fishery Congress, which he assemble. i 

 at Tampa. The leading internments ot 

 the world, including China, sent dele- 





