The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-01

hOIo Jilon d uIIIlOu WOMEN nave
been helped by Mrs. Pinkham's advice
and medicine.
products of twenty-five states and terri
tories rSh portion Of our common coun-
try that complies the value Of its prod
ucts by billions only, that feeds the world,
and now as a before breakfast job, is
preparing 10 supply Cuba, Porto Rico and
the Philippines.
And what of Texas?
in size as large as seven average states
Of the union, larger than England, one
county larger than the state of Rhode
Island out of debt, lowest rates of taxa
ton of any state, the largest school fund
to educate her children, the cheapest good
land near gulf ports. Texas raises one
third Of the cotton crop of America, and
one-ffth Of all the cotton produced in
the world IS raised within the territory
between Wichita and Houston, and the
new port of Houston received last year
over 100000 bales of this great staple.
No state has such varied, extensive and
undeveloped resources, inviting men and
capital, and right here let me say, our
Houston delegation has a standing offer
Of corner lot in that thriving city Of
72.000, to any one who can place his finger
on 4 single statute Of Texas that is inim-
zeal to capital or corporations, though a
contrary impression prevails in some local
tiles.
" Kansas and Deep Water Ports is my
subject today. Let us go farther and with
Kansas include the great northwest. Sew
en- of these states. Texas, Arkansas. Mis-
souri,, Kansas, Nebraska, North and South
Dakota, line reaching from the gulf to
Manitoba, raised in 1896, of corn, wheat
and oats alone. 1,U71 $50, OS9 bushels, val
Ued by the agricultural commissioner at
Washington at 1872. 604, $50. It would re-
quire 2302.0fS cars to transport these three
products alone, or 76,7GS trains of thirty
cars each; 14S23 miles Of solid cars to
transport to market these three crops Of
seven states for one year only; a solid
train reaching one-half way around the
earth.
% Freight Rates Make and Unmake
Cities and States This is the most i'm
/ Dortant subject that viii be brought before
this session of the Transmississippi Con-
gress Of 1899, because It affects more than
twenty-five millions of people, rich and
| poor alike being interested. In 1892 con-
gress, at the solicitation OF Texas and the
I northwest, and through the influence of
this same congress that is assembled here
today, gave Sc 200. 000 to make deep water
port at Galveston. and we are here today
to record the success of the beneficent act
Of our national administration, and to
state that twenty-n,ne feet of water has
been obtained across the bar, and the
! largest ocean sailing vessels now sail into
that harbor. At the last session OF con-
gress all the Texas ports received aid
from the nation to continue the good work
only begun at Galveston. Sabine Pass,
/ Port Arthur. Nelasco (at the mouth Of the
I Brazos), Galveston, Arkansas Pass Brock
/ porO, Texas City and last but greatest Of
I al. congress gave to Houston the first in
/ stallment Of the 100000 recommended by
/ the government engineers ($3G7. O00l to con-
/ t1ue a twenty-five foot channel from Gal
/ weston 70 Houston. thus bringing a land
I locked harbor and railroad center fifty
/ miles nearer the great grain fields of which
/ Wichita is the center and metropolis.
/ How are the people Of the mighty west
/ to be benefited by the opening up Of these
/ deep water norts? is asked. The history Of
/ the past casts Eight upon the future. lis
ten, We Kansas farmers to the facts. Be
/ fore these ports were opened the freight
/ rates to ocean were % cents per hundred
/ on Kansas corn for export, today they are
/ about rs cents. and for the last three years
/ the Kansas farmer has received in cold
cash from 3 TO cents bushel more for
his export corn than heretofore. Nav.
more, because Of its position as the d;vid-