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Show V SOUTH GETS A SLAP " : PR01I WESTERN RAILROADS, j 'V ' . - - . - , WASHINGTON, May,24. The Southern - Industrial Parliament, having for its ob-' ob-' ' jftct the exchange of Ideas regarding the . best means of directing attention to tbe .":'' resources, industries and climatic condi- i '.. Hons of the South, waa formally opened here today.' - Delegates were in attend-' attend-' , - ance from every Southern State. Gov.-Robert Glenn-of North Carolina ' was elected presiding officer. . Jn the opening addrees he aroused his audience ."-.'. to a high pitch of enthusiasm when he - denounced the metlfoda of certain Imml-. Imml-. gratlon agents of Western railroads to turn the tide' of. settlement from the Bouth by picturing the Southern States in lines of black in order to show that : the negroes have superiority -over the whites. He said there was a great de- I f . - rnand in the South for laborers. . ' , ' in the South, the Governor stated, the 1 J ; negroes are given every legal right they are entitled to. "but," he added, "there is - - one distinction, one line we draw, and that is the line of social equality." . That, he proclaimed, could never be. ... (, |