Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-06-18


cents ton will bring the same profit In
order to secure this .r
Additional Tonnage
intelligent railway management IS con-
stantly called upon to secure for the
for their productions, and, II possible. a
return load for the car carrying such
product to market. We have on the Pa
saw timber lett IN the United states:
When, first visited that country, with q
view to extending our. lines to the coast.
their lumber to market at a price that
would enable them to manufacture and
ship it with profit, our railroad would
crop of that country is its lumber. We
made a rate Of 40 cents hundred for
two thousand miles. or four mills a ton
might load back the cars that carried out
the merchandise to the West This rate
was necessarily met by other roads and
Der trade Of Washington and Oregon so
that today it is over ten times what it
was nine years ago, and, in place of seek
Ing Ing additional loads for our cars from the
loads for our westbound cars going out
to be loaded with lumber for the great
ire ds;a states Of the Middle West and
lumber traffic will work a greater change
in the Oriental trade Of the country than
an an the e. efforts of all the men engaged in
To enable us to keep pace with the
enormous demand for this lumber. was
the moving cause of our building the
Largest Ships In the World,
through which We will be prepared this
fall to meet not only the rates of other
States and Canada. but we will meet the
rates made by steamer from the Atlantic
ports via the suez canal. Every manu-
United States can ship his goods to the
Orient by rail to the Pacific coast and
thence, by steamer, at rates that will
the Atlantic seaboard to the east by way
Of the Mediterranean and Suez canal
Were it not for the certainty that there
is a carload of lumber waiting for every
Pacific coast. we could not carry the
Oriental business at twice the rates we
Much has been said about the increase
Traffic In the East.
I will use as an illustration what has &C.
foreign trade of Japan was not to exceed
81 per capita OF the population. Today
this trade is equal to Sc or 81 per capita
of its fa Snt mt ny years ago
it amounts to about $780, OOO, 900, of which
the United States share is less than one
fifth H. Ten years ago we exported about
ported from her about $26.OOO,OOO Now,
our exports to Japan amount to $50, OOO,-
900, or six times as much as they were
ten years ago and the in
entire foreign trade with China amount
ed to about 80 cents per capita. With a
good st; stable re government which will pro-
own labor and enterprise, there is no rea-
son why the Chinese trade should not in
Grease as raPdy Is that Of japan has
merchant of the two. Should the Chinese
trade increase to IS or 81 per capita. it
would amount to more than the entire
this trade is worth striving 1or. The
Oriental trade has built up cities Of the
OLD World VIII ch are now in ruins. Its
tory. Byzantine enjoyed this trade for a
time and later on. it built up Venice, the
city OF merchant palaces, which for
y etn rv was the 7 gateway from the East
their ships around the Cape Of Good
tdoE, followed followed by the spaniards, they
their ,galleons. From them it passed I'M
der the control of the Hanseatic league,
ana an r, the cities IL; Of Holland and Belgium.
through a wise and farseeing policy, in
augurated by her ablest statesmen. took
possession of the trade, and has retained
that she furnished the lowest rates Of
TRANSFORMATION to and from these coun-
h tres: " we are now preparing to challenge
b fer sueh share re- Of this business
the United States A country where la
Dor is paid from 10 to IS cents day can
not no indulge nl!ts in many luxuries.. and our
the necessities of life and such articles
as they cannot produce.
we have already built up large de-
Japan. '''>'
an, This SECT cotton mainly goes from Texas
eehhs q It. dUrne the pas dna Yea sev Sas
GSn, e By the way Of Puget Sound ports s
East M MAN fhe h an port in the
built, we should be able to maintain our
serves as nation in the control Of a
large share of this traffic.
Our balance of trade some years has
been double the production of gold and
silver in the whole world and logically.
If it should continue the time would
come when we would have all the gold
and silver and our
Customers Would Be BANKRUPT,
This condition would only be less for
tunate for ourselves than for them. Our
customers must have the means to nav
us and to get this means they must sell
something to somebody. We have en-
joyed all the benefits Of a protective tar
If for many years, and whatever good it
can 90 in the way of building up infant
IN, has already been accomplished.
me growth of our enormous iron and
steel industries, which are pointed out as
the result of our protective tariff, can be
more surely traced to our enormous re-
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Wisconsin and Minnesota than from ali
Nother sources. The cheap production of
the highest grade of ore in these mines
Lake Erie ports have done more to build
up the iron and steel industries of the
INT, United States than all the tariffs that
books; and today: if these mines were
closed our superiority in the iron and
steel trade of the world would be gone
forever.
There Is another subject think will
not be devoid of interest to the manufac-
tur ,s + OF Illinois, and that is the
In a country as large as ours carrying on On
enormous undertakings, large amounts
OF capital are necessary, and this capital
can be more readily furnished by cor
porate ownership than in any other wav
There are few individuals in the coun-
try who might furnish fifty or hundred
oms Of G91ars With which to carry
*AAS ke~A ~A~NAe+A AoACAA u BUSINESS, DOt
there is no certainty that they would fur
nish one dollar. A man with that amount
OF money does not need all the trouble
ness Of any kind, SO that it is necessary
that this work shall be done through cor
porate effort, and no harm is likely to
come to the country growing out Of the
magnitude of the business, Has the
enormous business Of the Krupp COM
pany in Germany injured the German ma
ton, or any of its people? On the con-
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Of the name of Krupp: Can anyone in
this country point out an injury inflicted
on the people which can be traced to the
The only serious objection to trusts has
been the method of creating them moi
1or the purpose of manufacturing any
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