Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-08-18


, nual session of the Mississippi
congress convened in this city thi:
morning under the most favorable aus.
pices. The attendance is unusually
large, there being delegates present
from every state and territory in the
trans Mississippi region, also from
Alaska and the Hawaiian islands. Coy
ernor Mcbride welcomed the delegates
for the state, Mayor Humes for the
city, and Judge Thomas Burke for the
commercial organizations. Addresses
were scheduled for this afternoon on
Immigration and It's Distribution" by
Thomas Richardson of New Orleans,
and Good Roads," by r. w. Richard
son, secretary of the National Good
Roads association.
John r. Kirby, president of the con-
gress, was unavoidably absent during
was read by Thomas Richardson. The
speech, in part is as follows:
Gentlemen of the Congress-The
trans Mississippi Commercial congress
has become a fixed entity among those
great institutions that make for the
progress of the American republic.
1t is true that railroads eliminate
time and distance. but these have been
superseded by that staunch American
sentiment and oneness of commercial
aim which has wiped out all but geo.
divisions of the republic
The trans-Mississippi Commercial
congress was conceived in the fact that
the states on the Atlantic seaboard
were receiving greater share Of bene-
factions from the general government
than those contributory to the Gulf and
The Pacific. Then the Mississippi
But it is not so now. That which is
now the mission Of the trans Mississip-
pi Commercial congress Is as broad, as
1eep and as eternal as the republic it.
self.
The roar of Dewey's guns at Manila
vas the strident voice of evolution.
Destiny directed that voice, and when
t spoke it declared anew the doctrine
If the survival of the fittest and blazed
he way for American supremacy over
he world. The mission of the trans
Commercial congress is
become to insist on opening up the
'outes to the markets of the Orient and
% the Pacific coast states of Latin
America that the surplus products of
he country may find profitable sale. !,
'or by no other policy is it possible to
insure and to maintain the prosperity
md the commercial supremacy of the
United States. j
Already the rapid commercial growth
# the United States has aroused a
and apprehension on the part
f European powers which all their
infinite diplomacy cannot conceal. This
) gratifying to American pride, but it
enius. Whatever dfplomatists may
ell you we stand alone without an
lily in this Titanic struggle for SUI
among the giant nations of the
world. If we win we will win upon.
american initiative and sustained in
ustry. If we fail, we will fail through
he decadence of American statesman
hip. That is not possible.
The International commerce Of the
yorld in manufactures amounted last
ear to $4,000,00O 900, and the United
tates furnished more than 10 per cent
this grand total.
But talk about our commerce and the
rosperity of the country until, trans
orted by the magic of figures Swe ex-
erience the sensation Of personal
iches, and after all the basis of our
rade balance and the foundation Of all
ur wealth is the American farm. 1t is ],
ut of the ground that the wealth OF ,
he surviving nation must come. 1t has
cen said that the population of the
Tnited States doubles every thirty
ears. If so, where thirty years from ,
oday will we care for an added 75,-
0.ooO of people? This suggests no new
roblem. You say we will put them In /
ae mighty west and your answer has {