The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-01

OF the past casts lght on the future.
Listen we Kansas farmers 10 the facts,
Before these ports were opened the freight
rates TO ocean were 80 cents per nund ed |
on Kansas corn FOR export, today They are |
about 16 cents, and for the last three years /
the Kansas farmer has received In Geld |
cash from 8 TO cents a bushel moro for |
his export corn than heretofore. Nay, |
more, because Of Its position as tne di,.d- |
ing line between the Eastern and South
crn routes, competition here was sharpest
toward the shorter downbil route TO the
gulf and met by their Eastern competitors /
and this rich agricultural state has been |
the beneficiary Hear the otncial record |
from the secretary Of agricultural at
Washington "ln 1896 Nebraska raised |
2as, 59a. 6SS bushels OF corn, or 5i,o00oo0
more than Kansas. ye, FOR that corn crop
CT 1896, Kansas farmers received $4,000
600 mere than dad Nebraska farmers for
51,o00.000 more. and for the crops OF corn,
whsat and oats that year. with $4,000 600
less bushels than Nebraska, Kansas was
paid Si4 600, 900 more than was paid her
sister State. sla,00o,0 600 saved in freight
rates alone 10 rhe farmers OF one state
over those of sister State, because OF tho
system of deep water ports Just in
augurated by the government on the Gulf
of Mexico, When deep water was OBJ
tanned at Galveston, cul was made Of
from so 10 cents per hundred and ms
Velasco, Houston and Port Arthur began
to compete for Tho ocean traffic. another
and vet another cut WAS made, until today
IL is one half the rate charged four years
ago. Let mo say to you business men
and farmers Of the Northwest when the
government work has 50 far progressed
that the largest ocean vessels can ride .ip
Tho 'atm OF The sea-" Buffalo bayou. that
last year shipped SIC, 900 600 worth Of mer-
ohandise from Houston, another lasting
cut will be made in freight rates that viii
again make he Kansaa farmer grin und
stroke tho liacs on his chin as tho cash
rcnes rcllin' In over here IN Kansas No
, legislative power can or viii withstand the
demand OF the people represented here to-
day in this Tmusmiss9sippi Congress and
( " We can rave AT this convention tho
hearty Endorsement that will bring a deep
water port fifty miles nearer your grain
heds we promise that ncNN year when the
TransmiSsisSippl ConRrcss oonvencs IN
4 Houston. we viii With sroamers flying
and bands playing take YOU all, delegates
and visitors on government steamer
down this picturesque river 20 the battle
I held Of san Jacnto where gallant sam
! Houston (whosc name our CITY hearst won
( from Santa Anna the signal victory that
made Texas FREQ and placed her q bright
| star n the galaxy Of free American States
At the evening session Hon. George
/ Maxwell o. san Francisco. represcnting
/ the National irrigation congress SPOKE on
1 the crcNiion OF an inland empire lie
/ urged that the Federal government should
give The West ts share Of river AMI har-
hor approximations for building great stor,
age reservoirs 10 save the waters IN Good
times and that title 90 Fhe public lands
should be cedad 10 individual settlers
only; that the grazing lands ~ he West
should be leased by the smtes Al low
~. a. l.