The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1893-04-22
Gov. Stone in New York.
He Delivers an Address Before the
New York Board OF Trade.
uE CDnAKS ntIm ~ MEETI No
HE SPEAKS OUT in MEETING
And Gives the Doughty Stuck-Ups OF
the Atlantic Sea Board Some
thing to Think About.

III fltttluttt lDtO ot WIN
thing to Think About.
Governor Stone said that the sub
jects of commerce in which the people
of the United States were chiefly con-
cerned, because they constituted the
bulk of their trade, were the products of
manufacture, of agriculture, of mines
and of the forest. All of them were
necessary to the comfort of human life.
They supplied, clothing, food, shelter
and the implements of industry to men
and all of them were in universal use.
1t was the interchange of these materi-
ais and fabrics that made up the chief
part of that thing we call commerce
here in the United States. The Oppor-
tunity to effect these exchanges should
not be hedged about and made difficult
or expensive.
Commerce was not war, but fraternity
the essence of an exalted, refined, hu-
name civilization. Under any wise
policy of government or of trade it
would seem that. the people who supply
the articles of cOmmerce-those who
SOW and reap the fields, who watch and
shear the fiocks, who delve in the mines,
who convert the waving oak and pine
tree into forms fit for use, who weave
the fleece and flax and cotton into gar
m~ents-should not only enjoy, unre-
strained as far as might be, the right of
exchange, but should also be the hap
piest and most prosperous of our people.
They were the producers-the makers
of the things men stand most in need
of, and the things that make up the
body of our commerce. They not only
supplied their own wants, but also those
of the millions who were engaged in
other avocations. He repeated that
these people ought to be the most pros
porous and happy of all Jul country
men, but added that from the Western
point of view this fact was not clearly
established.
A MARVELLOUS COUNTRY.
This is a marvellous country we
have" continued Governor Stone warm
ly, "but in many respects the most mar
velous part of it lies yonder by the crest
of the Alleghanies. All of us are prone
to regard events and to measure policies
from the circumscribed standpoint of
our own environments. We take too
little heed of the world beyond us. If
existing conditions are satisfactory to
us we are apt to think they should be to
all others and accordingly to insist
upon their continuance. New York is
the national metropolis. Here are con
gregated many of the brightest, smart
est, brainiest men OH the continent
Here are located the greatest banks and
financial institutions of the republic.
Here reside the owners and directors
of the great lines of transportation tina
reach out from here and traverse all TIT
states of the union. Here is the grea
distributing point at which the product'
of the union are gathered and sent fortl
into the world and at which the products
of other lands are received for the &C
, commodation of our domestic markets
{ The policies of government and of trad,
over both of which the business men o
. New York exercise ar influence so pc
tential and commanding, have for year
tended in one direction, and that toward
2 IA rapid, and, may l be permitted to say
I in my judgment, an unhealthy concen
tration of wealth in the North Atlantic
states.
Il shall not venture into a discussion
I of this question; l refer to it simply t.
fix your attention upon it. We SHOULD
live and plan not for this day alone, bu'
for the future. Yonder in the West, il
that great basin between the green slopes
of the Alleghanies and the silent peak!
/, that stand like brooding sentinels among
| the Rockies, is a wonderland. From
, the products of this vast region thu
nation is fed and clothed, housed ant
supplied with the comforts and neces
!, saries of life.
SHOULD CULTIVATE THE WEST.
, "YOur W prosperity, the eXactins
, law OF self-preservatiOn, makes it i'm
} portant to the business men of thi!
metropolis to cultivate a commercial
intimacy and to establish a Commercial
reciprocity or alliance with Western
producers. They create, you dispose
they delve and gather, you store ant
distribute. From this vast region comes
pouring in upon you an ever increasing
stream of commerce which, like new
blood, imparts a lusty vigor to YOU
enterprises. This should be a source OF
mutual profit and by reason thereof g
common inducement should lead you tC
cooperate with q view to mutual advan.
tage, and to the end that the just rights
and interests of all shall be conserved
prosperity of all may be fairly equalized
"Instead of hostility there should be
cooperation. l have said we judge the
world too much by u own environ
ments. The people here in New York
and the East are far better satisfied will
existing conditions than are the people
elsewhere, and you W onder at the seem
ing unrest that c%haracteriZes the grea'
, producing populations of the West and
South. Well, products must go t.
the markets. Too much of their value
must not be consumed in transportation
and in the Cost of disposition. The pro
Queer must have a return that compen
4 safes him for his investment, his car,
: and his labor.
5 Eve must get to the seabOard and GU
upon the high seas without paying Thu
entire profits of our labor for the priv
ilege. We want good money and pIent,
! of it-far more, | think, than we have
= We fully appreciate the Importance o
sound finance, of a stable currency, blu
we are not so sensitive as some, to tn,
fear of redundancy. Money enough It
e answer our business requirements ant
to etfectuate easy exchanges is with II
r an increasing necessity. And this
n say with due regard to the importal'
part that credit plays in the great gam
of tine worlds traffic.