The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-21
PLANS FOR THE FUTURE
Chinese Better Business Men Than Japs.
First Cotton Went to Far East six Years Ago and Now Railroads Cannot Handle the Staple
 Sold There.

St. Paul, Aug 2o.-President J. ]. Hiu of the Northern Securities Company, ad- dr essed the Trans Mississippi Convention this afternoon on Our Trade with the Orient" a topic on which he hes come to be regarded as one of the authorities.
 He sketched briefly the trade of the Orient and the various movements direct cd toward securing 1t in times past. From the opening of Japan to foreign trade. our commerce with that country has increased ten fold. The population of the Orient with which we might trade constitutes about one-haif tho popula- ton of the earth. He discussed the pros pective trade with the Chinese people, whom he regarded as more enterprisfng and better business men than the Japa- nese. He paid high tribute to the Chi- nese, saying no people on earth could drive an intelligent Chinaman out of a commercial proposition.
 Lack of adequate transportation facili- ties greatly flinders trade. Our trade there is capable of infinite development. All the European countries so across two oceans to reach that trade. which they greatly desire while we need to cross but one. He gave briefly an idea of the great development in our trade there in recent years.
 Cotton in the Orient.
 The first American cotton went to Ja- pan and China six years ago, lack of transportation having previously prevent ed It's use. The shipment of cotton has constantly and greatly increased every year since and row his road has been compelled to refuse orders for as much as 20,oo0 bales of cotton in one month, because of the lack of shipping facilities.
 The shortest and cheapest route from antA 4s t.rxx of Puget Sound, He told in some detail of the plans TOW under way to handle this growing traffic. As low rates can he given acroEs tho Pacific from any point in the United States as they now have from New York via the Suez Canal
 SreakinE of the proposed Isthmian ship canal, Mr. Hill declared he would not lay a straw in the way of its construc- ton at an expense of some $500, 0.00O, nut in his opinion s35, 900 to $40,o000o0 spent ir deepening the channel of the Missis- sippi between New Orleans and St. Louis would give far letter results in the end. As to money spent on the improvement of the upper waters of the same river, he thought it would be much better in- vested in irrigating the arid regions of the great West. The railroads were not in the habit of taking into consideration river rates north of St. Louis in fixing their railroad rates. for the reason that the river business in that section was comparatively small and of little value.
 Plan for Irrigation.
 He suggested that for irrigation it would be the best plan for the govern ment to irrigate and develop 1000 acres of land at probable expense of s or SIC an acre. then sell it from SIS to s2o dol lars an acre thereby creating fund from which to carry on further irriga- ton schemes without any expense beyond the first involved
 In discussing the trade which railroad and steamship lines would best be able to carry to the orient he argued that that which brought speediest remuneration would be the most probable investment. insisting that chief attention should be paid to the farm products throughout the entire Western country and that 1t would prove to be very poor policy to depend on the development of slower manufacture ing enterprises or on the less sure min ing wealth of the West. The railroads wanted products which would make haul for them both ways, thereby mak- ing it possible lower rates on what was hauled.
 Norman C. Kittrell. Houston, Tex. fol- lowed with an address on Texas and her deep water ports.
 The trust question was m eVidencS again today in the discussions before the Trans Mississippi Congress and a number of resolution bearing upon it's various phases were introduced and referred to the Committee on Resolutions.
 Colonel Moses C. Wetmore of St. Louis introduced a series of strong ''anti-trust' resolutions which declared that trusts arc a menace to a Republican form of gov ernment and to the hopes and ambition of youths and urged the President to en- force existing laws against illegal conn binations and If those laws are insufh- cient he is asked to urge Congress to supply the legislation. MT. Thurber of New York. introduced a. resolution ask ing the Congress to suspend judgment until it can be learned from experience whether trusts are an evil.
 The following officers were elected: President, John H. Kirby, Houston, Tex: Vice-Presidents at large, Colonel B. T. Montgomery. Cripple Creek, Col; l.. Bradford Prince. Santa Fe, N. M; John Riplinger, Seattle and N. c. Larimore. Larimore N. D. s.-vzss sze