Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-28
Secretary Of the Treasury De.
livers an Address Before Ma
tional Business League.
He Shows the Wonderful Strides
Made In the Western
States.
Goes On Record AS Favoring
Ship subsidy..To Aid
Trade.

| Chicago, Feb. 2S.-Secretary of the
Treasury Shaw was the principal
lspeaker at the banquet of the National
business, League held last night at the
| Auditorium. His subject was Com
! mercial Industries of the West and
This utterances were received with much
lIattention, it being one of the first pub
Illic speeches made by him since his ap-
|, pointment to his present Office.
The first set speech upon the pro-
gram was by John w. Ella, of Chicago,
who spoke upon The League" He de-
Escribed at length the objects which the
| league sought to attain, declaring that
Its purpose to keep the business men
thruout the country informed as to leg
| islation affecting them and to concen-
| trate their influence in the promotion OF
measures favoring business generally.
as distinguished from special interests.
and, as far as possible. to take business
questions out of politics. 1t seeks to so
systematic the machinery of the ma
tional government as to put the coun-
| try on at least an equal footing with
other countries IN the race to capture
the worlds trade.
Secretary Shaw's Speech.
Following Mr.. Ella came Secretary
Shaw, who spoke as follows:
Arbitrary tho it be, l assume. for
theiconvenience of the hour and for the
hour only that the west includes
Michigan, Indiana, Missouri Oklaho-
ma, Indian Territory and all west OF
these and all north and west of Texas
Probably majority of the people Of
the United States speak of Ohio as q
western commonwealth, While those
who live in states washed by the Mis-.
sissippi realize that they must travel
some miles toward the setting sun to
reach the line that would bisect the
great republic. The eleventh census
credited these states with as per cent
OF the farm area, but gave them over
n per cent of the cultivated lands. The
twelfth census, not yet completed. will
probably show much larger proper
ton of titled lands. These states pro-
ouce fore than 2,500.000,000 bussels.
more than 20 per cent of the nations
cereals. and so per cent of the nations
hay. They contain so per cent of the
mich COWS and 60 per cent of all other
cattle, SO per cent of the swine, 75 per
cent of the sheep, and where gentle
men, except in the west. would you look
for so per cent of the wool?
1.-THE west not only grows food prod
ucts, but her people have become no
men competitors In their preparation.
alone, manufactures 16.-
car load 100000 pounds) every ten min
utes day and night. S65 days in the
year. A branch factory in a prairie
town of Iowa of less than 1000 popula-
ton produces 100000 cans of con-
densed milk per annum, while the par
ent plant in Wisconsin makes more
than double this amount, n portion of
which helps to feed the standing armies
of Europe and to supply the belliger-
ents in South Africa. The Elgin But
ter Company consumes the cream from
70,0o0,00o pounds of milk, manufac
lures 100000 pounds of butter G,50O
tons) and exports its product to China,
Japan, Cuba. Mexico, South American
countries and to Alaska. A single un-
firm in southwestern Iowa
handled last year 100000 pounds 125
tons) of butter, and 100000 pounds
(nore than 100 car loads) of poultry.
firm in the same state mar
keted, in a single year. 100000 dozen
eggs. sending them to the Atlantic, the
gulf and the Pacific coast. while third
firm ships dressed poultry. not by car
load only. but by train load.
The product of packing houses west
of the Missouri river sells on the mar
ket for an amount in excess of the post
al receipts of the United States. while a
single institution, engaged in the prep
aration of animal products, whose par
ent plant is in this city, produced last
year more than 10000 carloads, 500 tons
per day, of manufactured products in
addition to its meats. The packing |
houses represented in Chicago yield u
larger gross income than all the GUS
tom houses and international revenue
collectors of the United States. While
the live animals sold on a square mile !
Of ground within the limits of this city /
IS only 10 per cent less than the gross
of all the railroads that enter /
Chicago. Either of two packers within
the territory l represent pays more for
i've animals to the enrichment of the
ranchman and the farmer than is paid
in dividends and officers salaries by all
the railroads in the United States, OPP |
Grating 10000 miles, transporting more I
than half billion tons of freight and |
capitalized at 100000, 900.
California Is known as a gold pro-
iucing state, and she well deserves her
nave yielded up to date in excess of ST.
$50. 100000, but her orchards and vine
Yards are now close second. Califor-
MA produced in 1900, 100000, 00e pounds
1f cured fruits and 100000 cases of
emons and oranges. Her farms re-
;ponedd with 32,00o.000 bushels of
wheat. 25,000,000 pounds of butter, 81
100000 pounds of cheese and 100000
pounds OF hops She manufactured 65,-
100000 pounds of sugar and sent thru
he Golden Gate more than 100000
barrels of flour, and exported $15,000,000
Worth of other agricultural products,
while her forests yielded 500,000000 feet
If lumber.
washington has fame worldwide
or her fisheries, and her forests cut
900. 600. 600 feet of lumber, and 3,000,-
100000 shingles The fisheries of Ore
ron yield $3,000,000, her mines $4,000,00O
md her farms and orchards $50,000.000.
Her manufactures, Including lumber.
ire worth $60.000,0o0. California, Ore
ron and Washington estimate more