The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-23
STANLEY LEADS IT
Governor Elected President of
Reciprocity League.
Prominent Workers on Board of
Directors.
MCCORMICK AT HEAD.
Wealthy Chicago Manufacturer
to Help in Management.
Interesting Discussion On Stock.
Interesting Discussion On Stock
Det elopment in Mexico.


the head of the great implement manu-
featuring concern which bears his
name Mr.. Mccormick and a number
of the others on the board were not pres
ent in the convention. but they have
been in correspondence with Secretary
T1ulit and have been taking deep in
terest in the reciprocity movement.
Another prominent member is John
A Kasson, of Des Moines, Iowa, who
was appointed by President Mckinley
to negotiate some of the reciprocity
treaties which are now pending.
A. B. Farquhar, third men Der of
the board, is pushing the Cuban reci-
procity movement which is now stirring
UP congress. His home is at York, Pa
L. D. Kingsland, another director IS
one of the great manufacturers of St
Louis, and has a personal interest IN
the development of foreign trade, espe-
cially in the southwest
The other directors are:
Leander Martin, Homestead, OKLA
David B. Kirk, Kansas City.
c. B. Hoffman, Enterprise, kaS.
G.. NJ. Walden, Kansas City.
H. A. Heath, Topeka
James Butler, Topeka
J. T. White, Ada, Kas-
F. c. Maegley, Topeka
NJ. NJ. Sherman, Geneseo, Kas.
Eugene Rust, traffic manager Kan
sas City stock yards.
J. E. Baird, Kansas City
The directors have full control of the
business of the league and elect the
officers
The directors met last night and
elected Governor Stanley president OF
the league; A. B. Hulit- secretary; T.
l. Bonebrake, treasurer; executive COM
mittee c. B. Hoffman, F. G. Maegley,
and James Butler.
c. B. Hoffman, of Enterprise, read an
instructive paper on the milling IN
dustry and its relation to Kansas he
showed of what great value it would
be to the state if the entire wheat crop
could be milled at home and exported
in the shape of flour, instead OF export
ed before it is ground. He protested
against the railroads giving wheat a
better freight rate than flour, because
under present conditions flour is also
Disseminated against in tariffs In for
eign countries. Mr.. Hoffman's figures
also showed that it would employ $4,000
men all the time to grind an average
Kansas wheat crop, which would rep
resent a population of $4,000 people If
the milling industry were fully devel-
oped it would therefore be by far the
great test manufacturing industry in the
state.
STOCK UNEMPLOYMENT IN MEXICO.
One of the practical papers read to
the convention was one by NJ. NJ. Sher
man, of GeneSeo- 1t showed the great
development which has taken place in
Mexico in recent years and the poSSibili-
ties of Mexico market for the
products of Kansas, particularly with
reference to high bred stock. Mr..
Sherman is able to speak with au-
thority on the subject, as he lived for
nine years in Mexico, and now makes
yearly trips down there on business in
terests He said:
During the past quarter of a CEN
fury two great agencies have been at
work in Mexico that have set In oper-
alton progressive changes. the effects
of which are now to be seen, and, pur-
suing the same trend, great results may
confidently be predicted.
These agencies, inter-dependent, have
aided each other. First, the establish
ment of a stable form of government in
the place of chaotic revolutions, has led
the Mexicans to the knowledge that
they could enjoy the fruits of their own
industry. OF what use was 1T to ac-
cumulate any form of property If
band of revolutionists were to come
along and confiscate the accommodations
of labor and thrift? The change OF
condition from revolution to stability of
governn ent has caused and is effect
ing a greater change in the advance
ment of the character of the people or
Mexico than all the wars and vicissf-
tudes through which that people have
passed since the beginning of their life.
In this instance the victories of peace
have been far more renowned than
those of war.
''There is no phase of activity in Mex
leo, be it industrial, intellectual, moral,
or of whatever form it may be, but
has been tremendously affected by
this change. With this change the
name of President Diaz is inseparably
connected. There is no Mexican topic
which can be considered, without ref
erence to the administration of Diaz,
that has led along the path of sta
bility and peace. 1 know of no Mexican
hamlet today without a school The
generation of the common people of
Mexico that has gone by could not
read nor write The generation coming
nd
no more eloquent statement of prog
ress that can be made than this.
1.-THE second great agency of prog
ress in Mexico has been the railway.
factor in giving to Mexico a stable gov
eminent. it is the American that has
entered Mexico and built the railways
It may well be a source OF grat1ncat1 ton
to the people of the United States that
our government was able to extend the
power of our friendship in expelling the
French. AS Juarez welcomed that aid,
so Diaz welcomed the coming of the
railway builder from the republic of
the north The latter has doubtless
been the more potent force in Mexican
development.
while this audience may not have
experienced the retarding effect of rev.
olution, it is hardly necessary for me
to dwell upon the developing force of
the railway Those living between, the
Missouri river and the Pacific ocean
know the meaning of the coming of the
railway. They have witnessed the
magnificent conquest of an empire by
the black horse cavalry of civilization
Sufficient to say that stable government
and the railway have been and are to-
day acting together in making Mexico
a progressive country. The resultant of
both forces is being exerted at the
same time.
THE broad. general condition is that
Mexico is opening up to a new life
This means increased wants. What
ever Mexican subject one nay have to
discuss, to him who saw Mexico twenty