The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-06-01
WE Will GET
THE | ! TRADE:
England Had 1t, Germany Has
1t and America Will Have
1t in Ten Years.
CHEAP FRElGHTs TO DO 1T
Samuel Hill, Nephew Of Great
est Of Railroad Managers, Tells
Solne Interesting Facts.

Especial to The Times-D ispatch0
GREENSBORO. NJ q. May 31,--At Gull
ford College last night the baccalaureate
commencement address was delivered by
Mr.. Samuel Hill, Of Seattle Washing
ton, a native Of Randolph county this
State, an alumn,is Of Gutlford College
a son-in-law of james j. HILL the ceie-s
brated railroad niagnate, and himself for
twelve years president of several OF that
system Of railroads in the West. There
was large and intelligent audience
present to hear the address, and 1t was
a mastery presentation Of the science o
TRANSPORTATION. Promising his address
with the statement tina for several years
he had been the attorney for the knights
of Labor and for the Farmers Alliance
in the days when those organizations
were in the height Of their Influence Mr.
Hill made plain that he had cause to as
sert that he was competent by both study
and experience to understand all sides OF
the question, and said that when he
stated that Successful transportation
and monopoly were Synonymous terms,
he but stated a scientific fact,
INVENTED TRANSPORTATION.
| with the declaration that James j.
| Fill invented transportation as a science
In this country fifteen years ago. with
the basic principle that railroads had
only one thing to sell, to-wit. Transport
tatlon, freight and passenger, and that
proceeding from that axiom ne was care
full not to make more Transportation than
lie could sell, he proceeded to elucldate
the principle and illustrate the subject
| in a manner that held the strict atten-
| ton of the Immature minds, and proved
a verltable feast of information and
knowledge to the many experienced think
ers and business actors who heard him.
In prosaic term. but with delightful III
rectness. Mr.. Hill demonstrated the fact
! that the whole commercial future Of the
i United States depended upon the one
/ question of the application of the true
principles Of transportation.
TRADE OF THE ORIENT,
1 With a mop Of the world before him,
| he traced the rise and fall OF great in.
terests and industries. from prehistorical
/ ages to the present day. based on the
| proposition that the trade OF the Orient
! was the secret of commercial prosper
| ty in that nation or city, securing 1t. and
| the downfall OF those losing it. s sts f
i He showed how and why the shoe in
| dustry had been transferred from New
| England to St. Louis and the cotton
i mill business from New England to the
South, and how and why the wealth Of
the South was to-day increasing mt the
marvellous frate Of ten millions dollars a
month ft 4 aS
Els Illustration OF the Importance OF,
the lumber trade OF the Pacific coast
and on Puget Sound, with the question
| OF bread and meat to a factory opera
tive in Greensboro, all growing out Of
the question ofscheap transportation by
return loads Of freight, on the one hand,
| bound for Asia, and on the O Their, bound
| for the lumberess regions of the Middle
West Of the United States. opened UP
avenues OF thought and meditation,swhich
made his assertion that:
Will BE OURS.
| III our government will wisely do moth
| ing for the next ten years we will get
| the trade OF the Orient, which England
! possessed. Germany now has" scent less
unreasonable than would be supposed
Comparing freight rates of the United
States with those of other countries Mr.
| Hill said that based on a ton for every
hundred miles, they were as follows
! demonstrating the truth of his assertion
that the science Of transportation had
been discovered and put in practice In
America: In England 1t was $3.50; In Ger
many 81: IN France. sl.S5; while in the
| United States 1t was only 72 cents
| True suctess In the modern method
Il transportation" he concluded 'lies In
the practice of absolute honesty in all
| matters relating thereto. with the pubic
and the stockllolders.'' q