The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-01
Tenth Annual Session of the
Trans Mississippi Congress.
800 DELEGATES PRESENT
And 200 More Are Expected To-Day
Wichita Welcomes Them Enthusl-
astically - Francis B. Thurber
on "Wider Markets"

| Commercial congress opened here this
morning with 800 delegates in attend
ance Two hundred more are expected
tomorrow. Every state and territory
west of the Mississippi river, with the
exception of Washington, Nevada and
| Idaho, is represented. Governor Muir
ply heads the delegation from Arizona,
| Governor Barnes from Oklahoma, Gov
ernor Stanley from Kansas, ex-Govern-
or Prince from New Mexico and ex-
| Governor Fishback from Arkansas.
Governor Jones of Arkansas and eX-
Governor Francis from Missouri, with
| additional delegates, are expected to-
morrow afternoon. A party of $50 ar
rived from Houston, Tex, this morn
| ing in a special Pullman and the pri-
vate car of Vice President Quinlon of
| the Houston &, Texas Central. They
were met at the depot by Governor
| Stanley and committee of citizens,
| with the Wichita band.
Hon. Hugh Craig of San Francisco,
| president of the congress, failed to
| come, and Vice President Prince of
| New Mexico called the congress to Or
| der. Governor Stanley of Kansas de-
| livered the address of welcome. He
| a primary way to the wealth and pros
perity Of the nation than any other
| state in the Union. That state was
| glad to welcome representatives of the
richest and busiest section in the world
Mayor Ross spoke for the city of Wich-
ita and the Wichita board of trade.
Congressman Elect julius Kahn of San
Francisco and Governor Murphy of Ar
izona responded. After this, Mrs Rosie
Ryan, Mrs. w. J. Bryan and Mrs. Mrs
r. A. Greer of Houston, Tex, present
ed all the speakers with bouquets of
magnolia blossoms. When Mrs. Greer
pinned one of the flowers on Governor
Stanley's coat, the governor said, hold
ing UP a sunf1ower badge, kansas re-
ciprocates with sunflowers." AT this
the audience stood up and cheered for
several minutes.
A sharp contest came up over the
selection of committee on resolutions
1t was named as follows: George K.
Brown, Arkansas; Governor n. o. Muir
ply, Arizona; julius Kahn, California;
T. C. Henry Colorado; ]. r.. Hause,
Commercial Travellers association: j.
e. Humphrey, Indian Territory: G. II.
SayIor, Iowa; J. e. Frost, Kansas;
Judge Pitkin, Louisiana; John Caul-
field, Minnesota; J. d. O'Donnell, Mon
tana; J. NJ. Lowe, Missouri; Henry
Meyer. Nebraska; A. S. Goetz, New
Mexico; H. B. Maxson, Nevada; f. H.
Greer, Oklahoma; G. NJ. Irwin, Ore
gon; Wesley A. Stuart South Dakota;
Presley K. Ewing, Texas; Walter Gra-
ham, Texas: ]. H. Smith, Utah: Col
onel Constant, Wyoming.
The first address of the session was
made by Professor Morrow of the Okla
homa Agricultural college on the In
PRODUCTION of Corn in Europe as
Product
Francis B. Thurber of New York
city, chairman of the American EX-
porters' association, spoke on Wider
Markets and How to Get Them He
said in part:
The Importance of having the policy
of our government supplement and sup
port the efforts of our products cannct
be too strongly emphasized. Every eff
fort of an English manufacturer to
reach new markets finds a ready re-
sponse on the part of the British board
of trade-a department of the govern
ment-to support him. Force is at hand
to protect the rights of traders. Liberal
pay is accorded to steam lines for the
carriage of ocean mails and the entire
national influence is constantly eXerted
in this direction.
"Our government has been making
progress in this direction and our diplo-
matte and consular representatives are
not lacking in patriotic interest; but we
are far behind in organized effort TO
place the merits of our goods before the
consumers of the world Perhaps this
is not surprising, considering that our
home market is the best in the world
and I for one would protect and develop
to the utmost this outlet for our goods.
But nation which controls such re-
sources in field forests, mines and fac
tories as the United States controls,
which has mastered the forces which
now control the world-the steam, cleo
tricity, machinery and publicity-as we
have mastered them, will not be salts
fed to ignore the market which the
other thirteen hundred and seventy
millions of consumers on the globe pre-
sent But to get this market it is nee
| essary to let the people of the world
know the merits of our wares and have
easy access to them. i venture to say
that every dollar expended in publicity
has yielded, and will yield, larger re-
turn than any other No matter how
crude nor how i'll directed, the sum to-
tai of results in the great majority of
instances will be on the right side.
Il do not believe in Imperialism in
volving the annexation and assimilation
of semi-civilized populations, which
would thus be enabled to compete with
American laborers, possessing the
wants of higher civilization, but / do
believe in a policy of expansion which
will give us control of some markets
which will be a stepping stone to others
in a wider zone of influence which such
control will enable us to exercise In
such policy we would have the sup
port of American labor, because it
would mean keeping our factories run
ming and giving American labor con-
tinuous employment. Some of our most
intelligent labor leaders have been in
duced to range themselves against the
cause of expansion and against their
own interests by the bogy of imperial
ism which has been suddenly sprung
upon us. The best horse will shy at an
umbrella If 1t is opened suddenly in
his face. but let him see it and see that
1t is not dangerous and he will go quiet
~ on about his business. I prophesy
that little time will clear the atmos-
phere and show us the way in which we
can press forward, leading the nations
in the march for commercial supremacy.
NO country on the face of the globe has
such resources in field, forest, mines