Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-12-29

g commercial Activity - Used as
Models by other Countries.
:, making an address before the In
.ornational Commercial Congress re-
'outIv George II. Daniels, General
passenger Agent Of the New York Cen
,,ol and Hudson River Railway and
.,oSident of the American Association
n General Passenger Agents, said:
One of our great writers has said Of
hS closing period Of the nineteenth
century, that it is an age of transporta-
son transportation underlies material
Drosperity in every department Of COM
merce Without transportation COM
mprce would be impossible. Those
States and nations are rich, powerful
and enlightened whose transportation
facilities are best and most extended.
The dying nations are those with little
or no transportation facilities.
Mr. Mulhall, the British statistician,
IN his work on "The Wealth of Ma
tOns," said of the United States in
! 1895: "If we take survey Of mankind,
IN ancient or modern times, as regards
the physical, mechanical and intellec-
/ tual force OF nations, we find nothing TO
compare with the United States"
Mr. Mulhall proved by his statistics
4 that the working power Of single per-
son in the United States was twice that
Of German or Frenchman, more than
three times that Of an Austrian and
five times that of an Italian. He said
the United States was then the richest
country in the world, it's wealth eX-
Ceeding that Of Great Britain by 80
per cent, and added that in the history
Of the human race no nation ever be-
fore possessed forty-one millions of
instructed citizens.
In an address before the New York
Press Association, four years ago, /
referred to the future of our export
trade, as follows: "One of the inevita-
bic results of the war between Japan
and China will be the opening to the
commerce of the world of fields here
tOfOre unknown, perhaps the richest on
the globe" and urged the members of
the New York Press Association to do
everything in their power to assist in
securing to the United States a portion
Of the great commerce to be developed
between the western nations and those
TWO old countries of the world.
AT that time we had no idea that
war between one of the old nations of
Inc earth and our young republic would
Oe fought; at that time we had no idea
mat American manufacturers would be
furnishing locomotives to the English
railroads. as well as to those of nearly
every other country on the globe. No
one thought four years ago that Ameri-
can bridge builders would go into the
open market and successfully compete
lOr the building Of a great steel bridge
ID Egypt; nor that in so brief a time
american engineers would be building
railroads into the interior of China
from her most important sea-ports.
AT that time no one supposed that
me Trans-Siberian Railway would be
hld with steel rails made in Pennsyl-
'ahla, upon cross-ties from the forests
O oregon, and that it's trains would be
nauled by American locomotives: nor
mat this great railway which is to
stretch from ST. Petersburg to Vladi-
'OStok and Port Arthur, a distance of
more than 5000 miles, would be COM
peted two years in advance of the orig
laal expectation, as a result of the use
VI American construction tools and
machinery.
IN letter from a friend in Toxic,
'apan' written only a short time ago,
.aere ,d was this significant. sentence:
lou Will be interested in knowing that
nave hanging on the wall of my Of
W uee framed picture of your Empire
'a'e Express and we expect in the
uear % future to be hauling Japanese
empire Express with an American To-
VOmotlve." They have now in Japan
more than one hundred locomotives
,nat were built In the United States.
III Russia they have nearly one thou
'and American locomotives, and prac-
ucally every railway in Great Britain
uaS ordered locomotives from this coun-
Sy since the beginning of the war with
Spain.
but 1t Is not alone our locomotives
.gat nave attracted the attention OF for
e'sners who have visited our shores,
our O railway equipment generally has
.O.lmanded ~. admiration and is now re-
t,e'Iing the highest compliment. name
~ w. mutation by many of our sister ma
NUS NUS Prince Michael Hilkoff, Imperial
ST. sllniSter of Railways of Russia, has,
t,uce to his visit to the United States a
~" years ago, constructed a train on