The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-19

from Galveston stating that the steamship
Carolina had just cleared the harbor draw
ing 1615 feet OF water. This was the occa
sion for cheers by the Galveston delega
ton.
Judge Anstell Of Mobile read a paper OF
the subject of trade relations between tn
south and west that was well received
! He recited the shipping advantages o
| Mobile and showed charts and maps t
illustrate its geographical location.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
| The business of the afternoon opene,
| with the reading of paper by S. A. Jone
| OF Tampa. Fla. 1t was the intention o
the EAGLE TO publish this paper in today
issue, but 1t was necessarily postponed TO
| few days. 1t was probably the ablest doc
ument read before the congress, and GOV
cred the subject OF Gulf transportation
most thoroughly. He opened by saying:
| 'ir. President and Gentlemen Of the Southern
Trade and Grain Congress:
Il bring you glad tidings and fraterna
greeting from the far distant sunny south
rom tie parent state OF this great union
| from that state where began the whit'
| mans struggle. where he first shed hi.
| blood to water the perennial plant from
which has grown and bloomed this grea
| nation OF freedom aud liberty. II is befit
ting that Florida with her sweet, allurins
name, her parental ances:rage should
reach out her hand to welcome this move
That Is to open the grand harDOrs ovel
! which she so many years has stood seutl
mel, and today, with her snow storm OIL
orange blossoms, intermingled with your
storm of apple blossoms, she will weave
garlands of sweet scented flowers around
the brow OF Kansas and the far west, the
| sweet perfume of which we hope shall Sc
1ntoxicate the great arteries of commerce.
that ere many long years we will reaiize
The full measure Of our hopes.
1.-The question of better trade facilities
and relations between the south and west
! has long agtated the minds of many oil
our people. IL Is matter that involves
questions local ana national and reaches
Tar out on the lines of political economy.
w hatever measure of success may result
from 1t depends on the size aud scope oil
the union you embrace When you say
union OF the south and west. if you mean
south of the Mason and Dixon line and
west of Pennsylvania you then embraces
the union thst We of the SOU understand
you mean, because all of that portion OF
tue United States IS heart and soul with
you, and has cried out long since against
the calling yoke of the east aud has APP
peaied to congress time after time to open
the gulf harOors that the west aud south
might be free from paying heavy tribute
to the east"
He spoke of the effort that had been
previously made for the purpose of di-
verting the trade of the west towards the
gulf ports and then entered into a local
discussion of the problem Of cheaper and
more rapid transportation. He said that
the government had spent millions of dol
lars substituting steam ships between
New York and South America while they
could Garry the mails from gulf ports 10
South America for half the cost and in
half the length of time. He gave facts
and figures showing the unjust discrim-
ports and in favor of north Atlantic ports
that constituted terrible arraignment of
administration methods.
There is depth of thought" said Mr.
Jones, CONNECTED with the union of the
south and west in their trade relations
bearing on the financial policy of this
country. that it may not be out of order to
direct your attention to. Europe today is
an armed camp. America is base for its
supplies. Asia and Africa are the fields of
its rivairies. Nations may rise and fall,
but it is said the domination of Europe
over the continents is assured for another
twenty-five years. How far will America
participate in THESE changes that are com
ing. Another writer says that the welfare
of the United States is bound up with the
maintenance of the British empire. | say
Dpuuu IL d1 tii, DcCHUSo laio Is Oc-
pending Oh US for her war supplies and
through her, to us ali British domain
must look. Close the door of America to
Europe today. say the ports of England
alone, and she would be able to subjugaJe
other countries to her domineering power.
Some say let Us break commercial rela-
tiOns with Europe if only We can estab-
lisb such relations with that vast part of
the world where manufacturers are either
M and
if at all, with difficulty; and let us create
for those reeming millions all their manu-
featured goods, and take from them in re-
turn those things they can produce so
much more easily than We Before the
first quarter of the next century rolls
around the United States will have no
more territories. but will have become "A
consolidated nation. What then will he our
position in the face of Europe and its polit-
lcal combinations? VINO will be the great
colonial power2 In whose hands will rest
the supremacy OF the seas? Ii Great Brit
ain maintains her empire and with il her
naval supremacy the United States with
out colonies of her own and without a
navy equal TO that of any Europeal power
will have TO take back seat in the coun-
sells of the world, and may be great
trading community at the sufferance of
Europe. What i our remedya Aud what
Is necessary to assert our Independence?
The very text of this meeting involves a
stepping stone to the greatness OF the
United States First, by placing herself in
shape to control the commerce of the three
Americas. Europs's trade five years ago
with only four of the South American re-
publics was S240. 0J0, 900 annually. Every
dollar of which should have been
with the United States They did this
trade over haul of 1000 6,000 and
l., 900 miles against the possibility of the
I'm ted States reaching this trade within
2, 400 mites of every port from which it
went. Ia 1890 her trade in Iudia was Sal, :
000,00). Europe not only does this, but
she dictates the policy that says what kind
and character OF money the United Stat s
shall transact her foreign trade with, and
| nj ght say largely her local trade. This
policy is confined more especially to Eng
land As she Is the financial head that rule,
Europe. II is England that stands be-
tween the United States and the establish
IN mt of a fixed ratio between silver aud
gold on basis that We can use our mouey
in all the markets of the world at its home
face value. There Is no money in the
world but gold and silver that represents
within itself the intrinsic values of its
face, nor has there been since the dawn OF
creation, and the difference between the
value of the two metals was established in
Abraham's time, and the American ratio
today is very near the same rs at that date.
All other monies or mediums of circula-
ton are promises to pay. With the inscrip
ton gone from the face of the promise to
pay it becomes worthless, but an honest
gold dollar may pass through the fufnace
of fire aud come out melted lump; place
it on the scale aud il is still a dollar less
the ii tie dross it may have lost. This
is the dollar tae American people want
and the world wants. If you are in China
with no Interpreter to read the superscripr-
ion place your dollar on the scale and il
will reveal its value. Can we reach a UNI
versat doilarf Certainly not by any pro-
position we are nearing these days. Our
rich silver mines can make dollars nearly
as cheap as lead aud run gold high as dia
mouds, so far as doing foreign trade with
them is concerned unless an agreement Is