Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-17
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raw product here as extract oil from
cotton-seed and as our Birmingham
vOuches in new and costly plants for her
determination to dismiss her iron re-
solved to steel and steel appliances. And,
sir, the south will never genuinely vim
dictate cotton as king till she rallies more
machinery in it's defense and sends it
forth from more of her own Manches-
tered in fleets waiting now in her forests
and Mines
Capt. William w. Bates of Denver.
Colo, delivered an address entitled "Pol-
icy and Measures for Shipping Restora-
ton" He said in part:
After an agitation of the shipping
question. beginning more than thirty
years ago. our people have concluded
that an ample marine for our foreign
trade is prime necessity. We suffer for
it and must have it. How to get and to
keep the marine which we need is the
next consideration. Our government met
these questions in our early national life.
We have. therefore, stock of experi-
ence on creating and maintaining ma
rine, and another stock of wrecking and
destroying it,"
He then dwelt upon what he called an
experiment in suDsidizing under the
Frye Hanna Payne bill.
| F. B. Thurber president of the United
States Export association, said in part:
Power and machinery brought to bear
| have so increased production that wider
| markets are necessary if we would es-
cape in the future more frequent Pc
RODS of overstocked home markets, idle
mills and commercial crises.
| Hon. Carroll d. Wright United States
! commissioner of labor. and one of our
| most conservative statisticians, recently
stated the result of his Investigations Of
| the relative productive power of hand
! and machine labor.
| One horse power is equivalent to the
| power of six men. Thus, if the work of
| g. 4s1 men in the -four mills of the Unit
| ed States is supplemented with the use
of 752, 1865 porse power, the power is equiv
alent to the work of 4514,19O additional
! men. In other words the power does
seventyone times as much work as the
employees. The ratio differs radically in
different industries
| And still more striking illustration is
found in our transportation system. In
| 1880 there We're over 10000 locomotives
/ in this country. 1t would take 500
horses to do their work, or SAT ,425,92O
men. In countries like China nearly all
the work of transportation is actually
done by man power and no further ex-
planation of the difference between
America and Asia is required BY the
use of steam we are evoking aid from
the stored up heat in our coal beds
equivalent to the population of the
whole earth. While the Chinaman let's
his coal lie underground. packs his load
on his back and does his manufacture
ing largely by hand
This exhibit furnishes the answer to
the inquiry of one of our statesmen:
What do we care for abroad?"
There are 1440O00O 900 people on the
earth, Of which we have 76,00O,000, but
they are the most ingenious, energetic
and progressive people on the face Of the
earth. We make literally thousands of
i articles much nSafn1 and
venient for the purposes of mankind
than those which they have been using
that all we have to do is to show our
goods and the world will buy them.
AS rule the same methods which are
successful in developing a home market
will be successful abroad Show your
goods and advertise them. First catch
the eye, then appeal to the reason OF
course, this must be done by competent
representatives in the language of the
country.
On land our unequaled railway service
has given us a great advantage. Our
railways carry our products 1000 miles
to our seaboard for less than foreign
railways carry them two hundred miles
inland from their seaboard and, as a
whole, our rates in this country are only
about one-half those of other countries.
while in safety, speed and coffort we
. are immeasureably superior: and yet in
legislative halls and in the jury box
we find a considerable element of hos
tility to our railroad interests They are
, looked upon by some as the original
trusts, but they have done more to de-
. velop the United States than any other
. single agency, and the great need of
large sections of country is more rail-
, roads. In our foreign commerce the
. large organizations of capital known as
trusts are doing a work in extending
!, American markets that it would be in-
possible for smaller units of capital to
accomplish. On the sea the lack of ap.
. probation of transportation service has
been even more pronounced. We have
subsidized our transportation service on
land by grants of land and otherwise.
, We have paid for the carriage of the
, mails what the service was worth with
/ out regard to the amount of postage coll
lected. We have protected our coast
wise trade by ruling out foreign ships.
but our foreign shipping has been left.
like Topsy, to Just grow" without any
, cultivation.
) Secretary Gage, in alluding to this ex-
hibit says: 1.-The only spot on this rec
ord of the nations progress is our fall
ure in the carrying trade upon the high
seas This record must. and will be, inn
prived Political considerations compel
a solution of the shipping question.
"In the prosecution of the policy OF
commercial expansion. the next great
step is the development of our merchant
marine. If we would successfully carry
on the work upon which we have entered.
we must carry our products in our own
ships We have achieved industrial in.
dependence, and we must. in like mans
ner, gain commercial independence.
1.-The requirements of our industrial
position compel US to enter upon come
= mercial expansion. Either we must halt
our growth, limit our production. bank
our fires. stop our spindles. and restrict
, our capital. with all that this involves.
9 or we must find broader markets and
e expanded consumption. There may ba