The age-herald., 1901-05-01

General Gaselee was notified of the expe- dition into Shan Si.
 s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s dence and sagacity guided 1t through the storm of panic in 1893 and the years fol- lowing without collapse of the fall of bank. (More applause I am plad to live in country that produces three-fourths of all the cotton that Is produced In the world (applause). and to be the guest of the city that has the greatest interest In tue cotton market anywhere under the sun. (Applause.) I congratulate this city upon its marvellous progress and develop ment In the last decade. No city in the Union of It's size has made greater ad- vance (Applause) From 50.d00 In 1890 you have leaped to more than 10O.eoO in 1900. But l will not call attention to the fact that some of that addition may be accounted for by an extension of your limits (applause1 by an act of the Legis- lature and without the consent of the Governor nanghter and long continued applause1 This city with its magnificent river. with its early history and environ ments, could not fail to have the true in- stinct of commerce.
 Born to Commerce.
 You were born to commerce here in the city of Memphis, (applause). It was your early training You saw the ships go with your products and the ships return with the products of other countries for your use and comfort. Yo, early discern- ed the possibility of this great republic and you have been in the vanguard or advancement and progress and expansion from the earliest years of your history (applause) You early learned that max inns were not as profitable as markets daughter and applause), and that the only way to get markets was to encourage commerce and transportation by sea and by land. The State of Tennessee shares in the sentiment and spirit of the people of Memphis and on the first of December. 1S47, the Legislature of this State. by joint resolution. instructed it's Senators and members in the Congress of the United States to- vote for great trans continental line from the North to the Pacific coast to be aided by the govern ment of the United States tapplause) Tn the preamble of that resolution is the spirit and the purpose of the American people today. 1t has been no where bet ter expressed. and let me read it to you. Transcontinental Railroad. Whereas. The construction hf rail- road across the continent of North Amer ica would make the United States the great highway between Europe and the populous and wealthy empiers of Asia would greatly facilitate our intercourse with those regions; would tender to con- solidate our union; would connect and bind Oregon and the Pacific coast to us and would give fresh impulse to our great agriculture, manufacturing and commercial interests. and
 Whereas. This stupendous work can be accomplished and the public lands con stitute a fund appropriate for defraying the expenses of such an undertaking as a small part of them would furnish the means, and the value of the remainder would be greatly enhanced thereby; (ap- plause). and,
 Whereas. The plan of Mir. Asa Whit ney of New York in it's great outlines is in our opinion the only practicable scheme for the accomplishment of this great iIn- dertaking. which should be commenced as soon as nract ica ble: Therefore. resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, that they approve of MT Whtneys plan as explained by himself to them of con structing railroad from Michigan 10 the Pacific ocean,"
 That was on the first day of Decem- Der, 1s47. fifty-four years ago. Three years afterward. the Legislature. then as sembled. ont approving of this particular route to the Pacific coast. suggested that all of the plans should first he laid before | Congress before any action was taken and that the route that would do the most good for all the interests of the people should be the one that ought to be adopted. tapplause). Let me read you the preamble of the second resolution Second Resolution. "whereas, The attention of the people and the government of the United States Is now being directed to the improvement and practice bility of constructing rail- road across the continent of North America as the means of making the United States the great highway between ur,, tl .14tx empires of Asia, of facilitating our own. intercourse of those regions. of connecting and binding California and the Pacific coast to our union, and of developing our great agriculture. manufacturing and commercial interests; and
 "Whereas. This stupendous work, if accomplished by the aid of the general government ought to be constructed as to confer it's inestimable benefits as equa5sS as possible upon the people of the United States and to consolidate the union of those states as well as that of the states with the Western. territories by making 1t the means of a more intimate and lasting connection of the North and South rem dering >the interests of each dependent upon and tributary to this magnificent thoroughfare of the commerce of the world.' (Applause)
 That was the thought. that was the purpose that was the spirit of the peo-
 
 plause)-no question as to whether 1t was to be the central line or the southern line or the northern line; the real ques- tion was the connection of this great north and south of ours for the Pacific, thus leading us out to the great markets in the Orient (applause). What your Leg islature half century ago resolved should be done has already been accom- plished. We not only have one. but we have five lines connecting the Atlantic with the Pacific (applause)-the Union Pacific. the Southern Pacific the Atchison. the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific making i've great; transcontinen- tai lines connecting the two oceans lap plauseJ
 Government Assisted. s.rhe government of the United States , assisted ii the building of these roads It gua-sEteed away back in the sixties $e4,- GOO. 900 of Pacific Railroad bonds, and be-