Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-11


ing, so that no county, state, or the
general government, longer grants aid
to new roads. We not only have the
largest and best railroad system in the
world but the cheapest rates in the
world.
1.-The United States imports a million
dollars worth per day of tropical and
semi tropical products. 1t sends t.
Europe, in excess of everything we
receive from Europe, a million dollars
day in raw materials and food pro-
ducts such as I have described; and
Europe jim turn sends million day to
the ports of South America, South
Africa, and the islands adjacent do
not need to tell YOU of the great num-
Der of ships that sail the triangle. They
start from home with a cargo of fin
ished products which they leave in
those southern ports, then load with
coffee, rubber, hemp, tsisal. mahogany.
dye woods and fruits for the United
States, then take load of our raw
materials, cotton, copper, petroleum.
and food product, back to Europe.
Senator Proctor once told me that
his company had a large Australian
trade in marble, but he said it was thru
no skill or foresight of the company.
A line of steamships had begged that
instead of going back empty after hav-
ing brought southern products to the
United States, or of going to Europe
for cargo, they might be permitted to.
carry some marble to Australia. Thus,
thru the skill and enterprise OF for
eign transportation company, so large
a. trade in marble was established that
the company is now compelled to nave
representatives down there. l have
never heard of any manufacturers OF
cotton goods or of household utensils,
or of anything else produced In compe-
tition with Europe to whom the owners
Of European steamship lines have Of
fered any special advice or encourage
ment.
"Doss anyone doubt that an Ameri-
can line of steamships making regular
trips to Rio de Janeiro, the govern
ment paying the loss until the trade is
established, would knock at the door
Of every factory in the United States,
submit samples of the goods consum-
ed by the people, and beg their pro-
duction and the privilege of carrying
them
Z 1--WE. occupy the best position on the.
map. We have the safest and the most
convenient form of money in the world.
We speak the language of commerce.
Our farms produce more than one
farms of any other country. our
mines yield gold literally by the car
load. silver by the train load, ara
there is unloaded on the shores OF
single commonwealth more iron ore
than any other country produces. Our
forests yield one hundred million feet
OF lumber for every day of the cal-
Bendar year. Ouf factories turn out
more finished products than all the
factories Of Great Britain and Ger
many combined by more than three
thousand millions every twelve
months. We. transport this matchless
nroduct Of farm and factory, forest
and mine, from the interior to the sea,
a one-third what similar services cost
anywhere else beneath the skies. We
carry it from point to point along the
coast in better vessels. on quicker
time, and at cheaper rates than others.
But at our coast line we are broughs
to an abrupt halt. Here we are no
longer Independent. Our foreign cont-
merce is four times as large as forty
years ago, but we carry In our OWE
ships only one third as many gross
tons as forty years ago. We have pro-
tected and encouraged every interest
but our merchant marine, and every
protected interest has fourished. we
have every facility for international
commerce except international lmer-
chants international bankers, and an
international merchant marine. Shall
we not have these? I am not urging
ship subsidies. am speaking of re-
suits. not of methods. If we will but
take advantage of our opportunities
we will send these products of farm
and factory under every sky and into
every port, and make our financial
centers the clearing houses of at least
a fraction Of the worlds trade"