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The Dawn of a New Constructive Era 



edge — has, within a very remarkably short period of time, made 

 a remarkable progress in agricultural development. We are very 

 fortunate in having w^ith us the Chief Executive of that state, a 

 man who has done a great work towards the accomplishment of 

 the end I refer to. I have great pleasure, gentlemen, in intro- 

 ducing to you, His Excellency, Governor Charles H. Brough, of 

 Arkansas. (Applause.) 



Arkansas of 

 the Past and 

 of Today 



Natural Resources of the 



South — Arkansas as a 



Developing Factor 



By Hon. Charles H. Brough 



Governor of Arkansas 



Gentlemen of the Cut-Over Land Conference : I deeply ap- 

 preciate the honor of the invitation extended to me by my 

 friend, Mr. Putman, of the Southern Pine Association, to be 

 present and deliver an address before this representative body 

 of the captains of industry of the South ; men who are building 

 more wisely than they know, 



"Men who are broad-backed, brown-handed, upright as the pines. 

 And by the scale of a hemisphere shape their designs." 



You have heard a great deal, my friends, about the Arkansas 

 of the past — the Arkansas traveler, wearing his coonskin cap 

 and coming to the forked roads, not knowing which fork to 

 take. I want to tell you gentlemen from Louisiana and Missis- 

 sippi and the other Southern states that there is a new Arkansas 

 at the present time — an Arkansas with an empire of vision in 

 her brain. New York has been called the Empire State of the 

 American Union because New York is the richest state in the 

 American Union. New York can boast of the roseate hue of 

 her apples and the amber of her fields of wheat; Arkansas can 

 boast that her apples have captured the First Prize at the 

 last six International Expositions, and the largest apple ever 

 placed on exhibition in the world was an apple raised by a 



