The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-18


been heard drop during the twenty min
utes he occupied the platform with the ex-
ception of the periods when the hall shiv-
cred with applause. He made splendid
impression.
BUSINESS COMMENCED.
At the conclusion of Colonel Days
Speech the following committee on perma.
rent organization was appointed: Colonel
Roland Day, G. G.. Mou.castle, II. Aus.
till, w. +. West. DC. Imboden aud S. A.
Jones. all of the south and William Grim
es of Eingfisher, George Schouler of Ne
hraska, Howard Soule o. Mt Hope and
w. j. Wilson and c. Z. Potts of this
city.
After a short recess the committee re.
ported the officers of the permanent or
ganiZation rs follows:
PresiGent-G. w. Clement, Wichita.
Nice-PresideCts-S. A. Jones, Florida;
III Austill. Alabama; j. Z. Hall, Louis
lana; William Grimes, Oklahoma; &. E.
Potts, Kansas; George ScOuler. Ne
brsska.
secretaries-w. 7. West, Alabama; a.
Z. Jobes, Kansas,
Treasurer-A. W. Oliver, Wichita.
The following gentlemen We're appointed
as committee on resolutions:
FL. r Gass and 4. G. Blair, Alabama;
ID. & Imboden aud H. Heller, Galveston:
). a. Jones. Florida; A. =. Anderson,
Minnesota; George Secular, Nebraska; DR..
I. l.. Winkier. Oklahoma; A. w. Oliver,
Wichita; a. ID. Butler, Hutchinson; J. II.
Ton,lin. Winfield.
The following telegram from Governor
Lewelling was then read:
TOPEKA. Kan, April IL 1894
Chairman Of South and West Grain Commission
els. W .chita. Kan:
Accept congratulations and earnest
wishes that success may crown your eff
forts. The psople of Kansas and the
great river valleys of the west will rise up
and call you blessed.
IL. ID. LEWELLING, Governor"
MOBILE HEARD FROM.
Hon. Hersckell r. Gass, secretary of
the Mobile Land and improvement COM
being ''oout heru Outlets for the Western
Grain Trade" He said that the farmers
We're the basis of every nations prosperity
and referred to the fact that most of them
were at present in Indifferent circnm-
stances. This he attributed to ex-
brilliant freight and ocean trans
portation rateS on grain To Europe
via Northern Atlantic ports. He stated
that the interest of all the western agri-
cultural states demand that their products
should be taken to the consumer by the
cheapest and most feasible route and IL
Illustrated what could he done along this
line by shipping via Gulf ports. He stat
ed that railroads could carry the products
of the west to Gulf ports cheaper than to
Atlantic ports for the reason that they
would carry full cars both ways as the
traffic north from the Gulf has always been
heavier than the traffic south towards it.
This he accounts for from the increasing
impoi atoms from Sonth American coun-
tries. He also sustains his point that the
roads leading to the Gulf can carry freight
cheaper than those extending towards the
eastern seaboard for the reason that they
cost less to build and operate.
Mr.. Gass concluded by speaking q good
word for tie htrbor of Mobile,
RED HOT SPEECH.
Kos Harris of this city followed with a
red hot speech in favor of commercial rela-
tious between the west and the south. He
said that agriculture had been the Ishmasl-
lite of productions since the world began
against which all classes have been ar
rayed, because with rise in its value the
cost of living rose accordingly. He
blamed this condition to the systems OF
the eastern stock gamblers and said that
this congress was a declaration of war in
the course of equity and justice. After re-
citing the injustice of the prevailing con-
dltlons governing the transportation of
products he said:
The power is yours to wrest the scepter
of sovereignty and plant standard so
rock bottomed that the prosperity you
gain and enjoy may descend TO your chill
dren forever.
Make solemn covenant with each other
TO turn your products to the gull; force
the buyer 20 put his Office nearer the sup
ply point; add a per cent of the freight To
the producers meager and toilsome profits;
free the west from eastern domination
and obtain the option OF going to any point
OF the compass Instead of being, now,
severely punished, if not robbed, for obey
ing the natural impulse of shipping grain
To market which would add millions to
the producers parse instead of paying in
teresG on mortgages, bonds and waiered
stocks, and salaries to Is per cent of the
receivers of railway mileage of the United
States, nation on which prOdigal nature
has showered eXbauStle.s resources. and
yet to temper our possibilities we have the
most luxurious. reckless, eXtravagaut,
wasteful, proGlgal, penny wise and pound
foolish railway 5 stem in the world, even
If we concede honest management in the
interest of saiaried officials, aud that water
stock is the result of clerical error and
not tue consequent of malversation.
"Naught but fertility has prevented
wholesale municipal bankruptcy and indi-
vidual insolvency over the west"
ANOTHER VOICE FROM NEW ORLEANS.
The next speaker was Fred Gardner OF
New Orleans. He said:
''In presenting to the notice of this very
important convention a few of the leadins =
features of the ever increasing export
grain business of the pert of New Or
leans and to prove to you, gentlemen, the
urgent need of hearty united action on
the part of the western states aid the
gulf ports generally, it may be well to
refer at once to the following statistics,
watch SO recently caused some of the
abest business men of the west and
south, assembled in convention in the
city of New Orleans. to urge the neces-
sity of immediate united action on the
part of al commercial bodies, west and
south, to throw off yoke which prom
Ises, if not destroyed quickly, to choke
our business vitality FOR many years TO
come.
The foreign trade of this country more
tbal quadrupieh itself in the - years
from 1866 to 1892, aud the proportion
shared by the west and south in this
growth is shown by the following figures
taken from the bureau of statistics: The
total exports for the fiscal year, ending
June so 1895, amounted TO little less than
sS4S, OO0, 900; of this sum quite 5000 0O0, O00.
or over 20 per cent, was contributed by the
products of the west and south, embrac-
ing grain, provisions, cotton, tobacco and
other products. and exported to clothe and
feed The teemiCg population of Europe
aud the far east. Dsductiug $50, 600. 600
from the total exports as the smount that
passed out OF this country through north
ern and lake ports and Pacific ports we
find that not quite sT62, 0o0. 600 reached the
markets of the world through Atlantic
sni gulf ports.
"Of this sum over so per cent was con-
tributed by the west aud south and il is a
matter of special interest TO this conven-
zion 70 trace its course and note the laws
by which that course was determined.
And here comes a curious array OF
figures. for whilst 80 per cent of these ex-
ports were produced many miles nearer
South Atlantic and gulf ports. yet We find