El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-20
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atically before legislative bodies durin.
the interim between meetings.
|
| The next speaker was Hon. 81. r
| Pitkin, postmaster of New Orleaus
ex-miuister to the Argentine Repub
| lie, and one OF the abiest public men il
the south. Mr.. Pitkin's speech con
| tanned such a wealth OF terse, meaty
statements and convincing argument
that 1t will be quite impossible here tC
do more than note down, disconnected
ly, few salient points he brought for.
ward. Mr.. Pitkin's subject was the
i'm pOr lance to the nation OF improved
water transportation. Houston, he
said, must bs her own Galveston, as
railroads of Houston are so many
spokes to the great capstan thet shsll
draw sea trade to Houston.
We are selling our locomo-
tives in every country in the
world-selline motive power TO
foreign soil aud hiring motive power
to carry our goods over there (refer-
ring TO foreiga ships). The speaker
quoted Jefferson aud Jackson freely to
sustain his point. He urged coopera-
ton among all the interests affected.
Abiding 10 Health Officer Blunt's re-
cent quarantine against other states,
Louisiana especially, Nj. Pitkin used q
particularly happy PHRASE, Let US be
CAREFUL" said he, that we do not
cultivate agues in order - keep
COOL
The American ship should
carry American goods, said the
speaker, to the port where
they are to be laid down-"until
American labor has got all that can
be got" Think OF the position in
which we are placed by our depen-
deuce on foreign owned ships; con-
hict between nations, like that of
South Africa, may withdraw from our
carrying trade many OF the most neces-
sary ships, leaving our goods stranded,
the home market overstocked, and the
laborer in danger of going begging
all because we can't get what we
have to sell in the hands of those who
waotto buy.
ID edge your barbors as deep as you
please, spend your millions, clear the
channels and open the door-it IL
nevertheless so much Europe up to your
very wbarves and und er them, unless
it il our ships aud our men who are 20
get the benefit, not foreign carriers.
All through his address Mr.. Pitkin
was warmly and frequently applauded,
and "American shipping for American
goods" proved to be apopular program.
In the civil war, continued the speak
C use she had banished the loom to old
and New England. The south was
content to pay freight both ways out
On her raw product and In on manufac
ures-to foreign carriers. Now the ban
ished spindles have been recalled to the
to wiring values out of cotton as we
squeeze the Oil from the cotton seed.
Cotton will never be king In the south
save with an American spindle as his
soepter and an American ship as his
royal throne.
Let none despond that the south
grows too much cotton, but rather
quicken the worlds demand and in.
crease your manufactures"
The speaker spoke at length upon
the desirability of extending our trade
In to the orient. There is westward,
oy.1 oh ha
west resist? japan last year put 80
per cent more mmodities into China
than did we. We do not study the
Oriental. We are too prone to judge
all by the stray individual who washes
our clothes. Let Us strive to outgrow
our parochial egotism."
Under present conditions, said the
speaker, to build the Nicaragua caral
would be to n axe England and the rest
Of Europe a gift of the amount of it's
cost Why don't we get some ships
drst? We bolt ourselves in and ar
terms of our commercial enemy"
1--WE disregard the centrifugal force of
our productive energy at full play
Mr.. Pitkin's address WAS closely fol
lowed, and his calculation of the sub
ject was mastery. Following his ad-
dress number OF resolutions were in
trod and referred to committee.
F.. B. Thurber, president of the
United States Export association of
New York, then spoke.
1t was noticeable that Industrial and
expansion. though touched