The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-19
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very Quick, and ,he weaker ones cannot G
otherwise. and ln1ia that IS trying to
break the bonds of England that have a
heavy trade with South America will JOIN.
India in 1889 sent China lOl billion pounds
of cotton warn, valued at over S14 million
dollars. Open the Nicaragua canal to
America and China is easily reached. and
it will not be long until England, and all
Europe will be wanting TO convene ma
rionaI monetary conference. and this time
they will find that they can afford to come
10 America to hold it. You ask what this
has to do with better trade relations be-
tween the south and west. 1t has this: SO
long as the east and New York rules the
money policies of this country. so long
will England largely dictate the policy
and character of our foreign exchange and
local money in order to control the lines OF
hands of the south and west and gulf
hopes. The New York financier is most
generally the descendent of the London
and Liverpool financier, and has never
been far enough south or west to yet lind
put that he is on the edge OF country pig
ger and broader than all Europe SO far as
their business capacity is concerned, ana
that the smallest little state of our great
sisterhood of the south and west is larger
Than England before whose financial
policy the American people through their
eastern financial agent mas bowed Tor
pver hundred years.
DIR. Jones then went on to illustrate
what other countries have done for their
harbors, and concluded as follows:
In conclusion will say for the fair
state of Florida, to which we invite you to
come and spend your cold winters, that
she is honestly what she looked to me 10
be few weeks ago at railroad picnic
was attending on one OF her beautiful
lakes where every fruit and flower and
delicacy imaginable, with the good SUBJ
stantials of life, were piled up in delicious
profusion. It looked TO me like she was
the American cornucopla, the horn or
plenty. the sanitarlum or the world, the
heliotrope in the Eden of nations the balm
of Gilead to the tired and wearied mind, the
Beau Ideal of the lover of nature. God
has made her beautiful lakes like the eyes
of the fair maiden, flashing back from
their crystal depth the reflection of the
deep blue canopy of heaven, frightened by
smiling lips, tinged with the red of the
pomegranate. Her cheeks are dimpled with
valleys of water lillies-biushed with the
pink of the sea shell-her breath perfumed
with the sweet odor of the orange-bossom
and the jessamine, cooled with the arc
matte fragrance of the camphor aud bay
tree-she is shaded with the graceful Pine,
the fan-crested palm, the sturdy oak
draped with her sombre moss, the rich
green magnolia, the sweet scented cedar,
lemon and Day. From her bosom she is
yielding forth rich food for the languish-
ing soils of the earth. lis thus
in her majestic beauty she floats
between two oceans-coollng her brow III
midsummer with the cold waters of the
Misunderstanding herself in mid-winter
in the warm and placid waters of tine gulf
could God and nature have done more
for man in the creation of an ideal home
this side the apearly gates of Paradise?
Not only has he made her the recipient of
suoh freely lavished charms, but beneath
the kisses of a genial sun her soil yields
fourth the richest reward for mans toll
of any section of the known world. and
numerous resources are like the prism
lights flashing from the diamond stone
q The brighter the light under which she is
thrown
Tie greater the treas lres it reveals she
owns"
Mr.tSmythe of South Carolina, followed
with q fine speech in behalf of his city and
seaport
A resolution was passed, thanking the !
local committee for the fine reception &C
corded the visiting delegates.
On motion it was ordered that a special |
meeting be held at New Orleans on the |
second Tuesday in June aud that it Was |
the sense of the convention chat the next |
annual meeting be held at Mobile.
The meeting concluded with flow of |
soul participated in by Colonel Day and |
MIR. Gardner of New Orleans, and Mr. !
Clement and Mr.. Oliver of this city aud |
other gentlemen.