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The San Francisco call., 1909-03-14

WHITE PALACE HOTEL
SPECIAL NOTICE
15S NEW SINGLE ROOMS, INCLUDING
BATHS; sun AND ELECTRIC LIGHT IN
EVERY ROOM.
Sl0O PER WEEK. CALL AND SEE THEM.
go SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES
FREE OF CHARGE TO GUESTS
500 splenddly furnished rooms. 25c. 55c and
5oc per day; free hath with every room: larg-
est hotel office and clubroom Pacific coast,
facing Van Ness av.; baggage checked and
stored free Of charge, highest grade OF white
help employed
WHITE PALACE H0TEL-NEvER CLOSED.
lith and Market sts-, San Francisco.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-14

CALL DOWN AND READ OUR BULLETIN
BOARDS FOR OTHER JOBS.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-14

FIRST Methodist Episcopal church. corner OF
Clay and Lsrkin sts, Rev; Samuel Quick
1880 D. m. Preaching blythe pastor both
morning and evening Glass meeting at 10
worth league at $50 p. N. Seats free. Every
body welcome.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-09-14
Fl duelo de Ia pPensa
NEMESIO PEREZ morris

Ha fallecidO en- Santander (Espana)
ell distinguido abogado, director del
BOLETIN MERCANTIL Don Nemesio
Perez Morris y Lynn.
Ell Sr. Perez Morris. fue Ell abogado
que generosamente present0 un "ha-
beas corpus" ante la Corte Suprema
para que fuera suspendida la sentencia
de muerte contra los hermanos Acos-
ia. La petici6n de "habeas corpus
fne resuelta favorablemente Y en- tai
virtud la sentencia no fue cumplida,
ofreciendo este hecho francas Oportu-
nidades q los reos para defender su
existencia.
Este y otros rasgos generosos del Sc
nor Perez Morris lie grangearon respe-
to y simpatias en- todas las eIases So
ciales
Su muerte ha sido una sorpresa do
lorosa para sus familiares y amigos.
Enviamos ell tribute de nuestra sen
t;da eondolencia sus atribulados deu-
dos.
fDe "La voz del Obrero-
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-09-14
Numero 223
MI HUMILDb FLOR
A LA MEMORIA DE DON NEMESIO
PEREZ Morris
"Solo la ingratitud olvida".

En- el feo pecado de La ingratitud cae-
ria, 81 en- es1as horas de penas y amar-
guras para la bien estimada famlia Pc
rez- Morris, no concurriese con mi for
pobre y humilde, a la corona del recuer-
do que sus antigiios empleados colocan
sobre la tumba recien alberta del inolvi-
dable v buen caballero, don Nemeso
Perez-Moris, arrebatado por la muerte
al cariilo de los suyos y al afecto y res
peto de los extrahos
Hace muchos amos que conOcl don
Nemesio. En- 1874 entire en- la imprenta
del BOLETIN MERCANTIL como sim
pie aprendiz y cuando en- 1877 esta paso
a propiedad del seilor Perez Morris (pa-
dre) ALI continue, formandome su SOM
bra I'm hombre de trabajo un cudada-
no cumplidor de sus deberes
Ali aprendl amar y respetar a los
hijos de mi principal, sentimientos que
han perdurado en- mi alma a traves del
tempo de las luchas y vicisitudes de
la vida
La noticia de la muerte de don Ne
resio Tue para mi, por estas circunstan-
cias, dolorosa, algo asi como la perdi-"
da de un ser por quien sentia hondo
afectO =. p.
iQue menos puedo hacer. pues, que ex-
presar publicamente mi pena y unirme
en- espiritu al dolor que cubre de duelo
a un, hogar honrado y bien querdo?
Vaya pues con la siempreviva de mi
.recuerdo, la manifestation de mi con-
dolencia para su viuda hijos, para las
estimadas senoras Juana O. Perez Morris
de Cuetara, Belen Perez Morris de Mu-
noz, Rogelio Perez Morris Lynn, Ramon
Perez Morris Lynn, Luis Diaz CaneJa
Lynn, Maria Luisa Dlaz Caneia Lynn
sus hermanos politicos doctor Gustavo
Munoz Eudosio de la Cuetara, mis-
ruegos al Todopoderoso para que conce-
da eterno descanso al alma de don Ne
meso Perez Morris.
CelestinO Lamar,
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-09-14
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La vida de Paris
B RI A N D
sGhGE, Ageute.
Rio Piedras.

Clemenceau, seg1n sus adversarlos,
fue eel Tirano'. Lastima grande que
su sucesorBriand no 10 sea tambien,
pues de serlo, Francia gozaria al fin del
"buen Tirano'' sonado por Renan y
deseado Dor todos los pueblos cuerdos.
Su bondad ,en efecto, es tan grande como
su inteligencia. Y no creais que es una
de esas circunstancias solemnes para ma
nifestarse, nj menos a1n de las que bus
can sus favorecidos con ell mismo cui-
dado con que los basileis bizantinos bus
caban s,ls victimas. mo faltaba mas!
Es una simple bondad algo plebeya y
algo bohemia, que sc mete en- todo, que
q todo ell mundo Sc acerca, que para to-
dos los casos sirve y cue a todas horas
esta despierta. Sus 1ntimos refieren in
finitas anecdotas que 10 prueban. A cada
momento, por haber un servicio, pasa
por encima de t0das las tradiciones, pen
sando, tai vez con raz0n, que ell unico
VtTOduCIU CS u Nuc st udCC a dl-
guien.
isl no fuera por el uniforme-
un gendarme de comedia,-no valdria
la pena tanto trabajo!
isl no fuera por los favores que
uno puede hacer!. ..-debe decir ell
nuevo presidente del Consejo.
POrque, realmente, ell oficio es rudo.
Desde las siete de la mafiana hasta las
doce en- punto hay que recibir a los pre-
fectos, a los ministries, los senadores,
a los alcaldes, a los diputados. q. 8. Lue-
60, hay que almorzar, 10 que no tiene
NADIA de agradable 81 Sc piensa que un
protocolo imperioso exige que en- la me-
sa de su excelencia haya siempre tres 6
cuatro cubiertos para personajes ofcia-
les. Pero, en- fin, pase ell almuerzo, pasen
las visitas, pasen, en- una palabra, todas
las horas de la mafiana. Lo que no pasa
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-09-14

amos, donde Clemenceau lego a los Sc
tenta Por fortuna, delante de el iba 81
coro de las bacantes deshojando coronas
de rosas para hacerle mas sueve ell ca
mino Estas coronas son ahora las que
le hacen soportables las largas luchas del
Congreso. Por desgracia, al salir de la
seance" hay que-regresar al ministero
para voIver recibir ministries y alcal-
des, prefectos y senadores, diputados y
periodistas, durante largas horas.
Mas EN- Paris los ministerios no sc
ahren nunca por la noche. En- cuanto
ell maitre d d'hotel dice: ."Sou excellence
est service, todas las oficinas Sc cierran.
Verdad es que esta hora tan esperada
s;lele sonar muy tarde, y que hay dlas
an que la sopa Sc sirve a las diez de la
nochc. No importa. BRAND sabe aprove-
char SUI soirees, y lejos de acostarse, CO.
mo Clemenceau, al levantarse de la mesa
coge sll baston Sc pone su sombrero, sll-
be en- SUI coche, y al teatro. -. Todas
las nOches va al teatro, y, seg1n dicen.
todas al mismo teatro. Que la pieza no
Gambia nunca, POGO lie importa. Proba-
blemente no la ha visto nunca. Lo que le
interesa no es la inmensa sala donde el
p1blico bosteza oyendo versos de Cor
nellie 9 prosas de Moliere, sino ell TO-
yer". en- ell cual las damas j6venes, y
las damas menos j6venes. y las damas
va no j6venes, Sc reunen para murmurar
gentilmente 10 mismo cue en- tempo del
"eyy del regente. Pues habeis de saber,i OF
vosotros. contemporaries MICS. que os fl
g1rais que un ministro' socialista tiene'
por fuerza que ser I'm descamisado, que
este ilustre BRAND, partidario antaho
lie la huelga general, es hoy, y ha sdo
siempre, ell mas grande galanteador y el
mas aristocratico decidor de malicias.
Entire bastidores, no solo en- su teatro ha-
bitual, sino en- los demas del bulevar, no
hay actriz que no 10 declare adorable.
En- los salones politicos es probable
que los caballeros que odian el radicalis-
mo no piensen del mismo modo. Pero
tambien es SECURE que no hay nadie en-
ning1n partidO nj aun entire los que 10
consideran como un pr6fugo, nj aun
en- Ell seno de sus compafieros de aver
nj aun en- medic de sus victimas, nadie
en- ninguna parte cue Olga: "Briand
es odioso'' FL mismisimo Jaures, que
con tanta safla 10 atac6 hace un par de
amos, ha acabado por dejarse seducir, VI
cilando los terribles unificados del So
cialismo no 10 ven, lie sonrie con UNI
cara de oso....
T.. G6mez Carrill0
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-09-14
Sentido p6same

Sr. Director del BOLET1N:
Antes que otra cosa, me asoclo al do
lor por que pasa la familia Perez Morris
v casa BOLETIN MERCANTIL por la
perdida del ilustre direc-
tor don Nemesio Perez Morris, ocurrida
en- Santander.
ZEREP, Agente.
Rio Piedras.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-09-14

es la tarde A las tres en- puntO hay que
estar en- ell Congreso sonriendO, prone
tiendo, amenazando, colmando, temblan-
do, respondiendo, gritando, gesticulan-
do. E. Ell frio Waldeck-Rousseau llama
ba q estas horas de lucha parlamentaria
el paseo por la jaula de las fieras. Su
modo de gobernar tenia, realmente, al
60 de las escrupulos&s matematicas del
domador. Algunos de sus discursos eran
una Garcia en- ell lomo vibrante de la
peligrosa oposici6n, y otros pareclan un
latigazo en- los fancos de la mayor1a
amenazadora. Pero no todos gobiernan
del mismo mOdO. Asi, Clemenceau era
mas bien un esgrimista docto y temera-
rio Sus discusiones sonaban con ruidos
de espadas que Sc cruzan. Y antes de
Clemenceau habiamos visto al "padre"
COmbes, cuyas maneras eran de inquisi-
dor, de inquisidor sin hogueras, de III
outsider laico, perO siempre de inquis;-
dor. En- cuanto a BRAND, que no tiene nj
lelurezas, nj crueldades, nj pasiones, es,
en- el fondo, un gran diplomatico de la
tribuna. Lejos de querer domar, desea
seducir Nj aun en- sus minutes mas d.
ficiles, ALA cuando Jaures, armada de
tOdas armas, trataba de hacerlo bajar
In arena de la lucha de personali-
dades, perdi6 un solo momento su son
ris 10 1nico que hizo fue cambiarla En-
vaz lie la sonrisa suave, p1sose la SON.
risa. Lo 1nico que hizo fue cambiarla. En-
que, esperanto oirlo gritar lleno de ira,
10 vieron sonreir lIeno de melancolia
Otras veces es grave, y parece que es-
tuviera de luto. Otras veces entorna los
parpados y Sc dirla que duerme en- me-
dio de la tempestad. Otras veces. sin
esfuerzO inguno, hace I'm gesto en- ell que
hay algo de la expression de la Joconda
Y sempre, es insinuante y suave Tres
6 cuatro horas diarias de esta labor Sc
ductOra no deben ser envldlableS, y vol
creo que 81 en- las tribunas no hubiera
tanta linda DANA enthusiastic, ell senior
presidente abandonaria veces las sesio-
mes de puro cansancio. Mas los aplausos|
femeninos lie dan fuerza para todo. Sc
ductor como la mas seductora de las mu-
jeres, es voluptuoso como todas las mu-
jeres juntas. Sus enemigos cuentan, en-
folletos que Sc venden diez centimos,
su aventuras amorosas, Y Green hacerle
un gran dafio. Oh ingenuidad! Yo creo
que esas aventuras, lejos de perjudicarle
10 han ayudado a subir. Solo, en- efecto,
solo con su talento, solo con su elocuen-
cia, solo con su actividad, no es proba-
BILE que hubiese llegado, q los cuarenta
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-09-14
bL DUELQ..DDI Pals
FINCA "POMARROSAS'
MAYAGUEZ p. X.
Sept. II de 1909.
MAYAGUEZ p. X.

OtpI. IL uc lOUJ
Senior don Jose Perez Losada,
San Juan
Mi estimado amigo: Me ha producido
hondisima pena el fallecimiento de Pc
rez Morris, con quien sostuve 1argas y
cordiales relaciones de amistad y compa-
nerismo.
En- los dias azarosos de Ia guerra, des-
pues del bombardeo de San Juan, EN- la
sOledad Y oscuridad nocturnas de la Pla-
"a de Armas, sallamos Perez Morris, Mu-
iioz Rivera y yo, departir hasta h0ra
muy avanzada, acerca del inminente
cambio de soberanfa y del destino in
cierto de nuestra Patria.
Nuestros sentimientos eran los mismos,
tambien nuestras profesias, que el
tempo ha cumplido y seguira cum
pliendo, en- Ell curse indefectib1e de una
evo1uci6n providencial.
Entonces, despues, Ie insinuamos Ca
rinosamente que vinlera con nosotros 4
Ia lucha poIftica Conociamos sus fuerzas
intelectuales, la va1entla de su cOraz6n,
la tenacidad pujanza de su tempera-
mento, y las deseabamos q nuestro 1ado,
t en- la defenSa aetlva y cOnstante del ideal
puertorriqueio. No guerra ingresar en-
los nuevos partidos.-" les ayudare,
desde mi campo''-dec1a reallzo-man-
teniendo siempre, en- sus energicos es-
critos, Ia calsa del pals
" Pero el viva Ell Puerto Rico, miranda
Espana, come 81 tuviera ell PRESENT.
>mIento de morir ALA. iy dichoso e.
que >ha mterto joven, amado, en- el glo-
rioso viejo solar de su fe y de sus pa
dres! Algunas veces pienso 20 tambien
en- una aldea de Asturias, sombreada de
casta1os, baJo la escarpa de una sierra,
Y sueflo con una humilde vida una
serena muerte, en- Ia sagrada TERRA de
mis- progenitores!
Perdone esta nota subjetiva, acepte
Y presente los familIares del buen ami
go, la muy sineera condolences de su
afectisim0, :
Jose de Diego
r. Direction Y Redacc6n del BOLE-
TIN: Eugenio c. de Hostos. Condolen-
cia!
Lieut. Porto Rico Regt of Infantry.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-09-14
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SON ETO
Non plus ultra.

We'd de Colon surcar los galeones,
a Pizarro y Cortes en- pugna fuerte,
Cana y Balboa, tras heroica suerte,
'feles izar. ibtricos pendones.
Surgen ciudades, temples, torreones,
van, por honor, vasallos q la muerte
y de Iberia ell poder sucumbe inerte
para dar vida a pr6speras naciones.
Ell alma de Las Casas inhalada
de Ayacucho y Otumba con la gloria,
para forjar la libertad soiiada.
Legaa unmundo suidioma, ,cual presea
de union VITAL. Ante la sana historic
Espaiia vive, y civiliza y crea.
Elpidio de Mser.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-09-14

= Direction v Redacc0n del BOLE-
TIN: Eugenio G. de Hostos. Condolen-
cia!
Lieut.. Porto Rico Regt. Of Infantry.
T.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-09-14

NOTA:-
Ell anterior "Soneto", fue depositado
en- ell Post Office de Ponce, ell 18 de
Julio de 1909, en- la forma indicada Dor
las "Bases" para ell Certamen literario
del Casino Espahol de San Juan, no
debi6 llegar a su destino, porque no apa-
reci6 en- la lista de composiciones recibi-
das.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-16
SPURNS A RECONCILIATION
Mrs. Brokaw Says overtures for Peace
With Husband Beyond Range
of Possibility.

New York City.-Overtures for a
reconciliation with his wife have been
made by w Gould Brokaw, who is be-
ing sued for divorce and 100000 ali
mony by Mrs. Mary Blair Brokaw in
the court at Mineola, L. l.
After a long conferencne with John
F. Mcintyre, his attorney the latter
declared that his client would well
come the resumption of amicable rela-
tions with Mrs. BTokaw.
"Mr Brokaw," said Mr.. Mcintyre,
cloves his wife dearly, and is willing
to have the suit discontinued, in spite
of all the charges she has made, if she
will only return to him. He believes
his wife has been wrongly advised,
and he is by no means in fear of los.
ing the suit"
Such a thing is beyond the range OF
possibility" declared James A. Blair,
Mrs. Brokaw's father.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-16
GREAT LIVE STOCK SALE
Auction viii Be Feature of Breeders
Associations Meeting That open
To-Day In Enid, Okla.

Enid, Okla.-The annual meeting
of the Oklahoma Improved Breeders
association and four other live stock
associations of this state opened here
and will continue throughout next
week. The stock show is one Of the
largest ever held in America en-
tries from twenty-five states and
fine exhibits from many other shows
being here. 1t is held in a concrete
pavilion that was erected by the citi-
zens of Enid and that is the largest
building of the kind in the world.
In connection with the show there
will be a six days fine stock sale re-
markable for the number and quality
of the animals that will be offered at
auction. Two hundred each Of horses,
cattle and hogs will be sold, the con-
signments coming from Indiana, Ohio.
Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Okla
homa and Texas.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-16

as great a mistake as 1t would have
been to substitute the great trans
continental railroad lines Of the early
days and then have failed to open
public lands for settlement.
"Great nations should and do en-
courage their people to sell goods in
distant lands and far off countries and
secure in return an inflow of foreign
gold. The prosperous and progressive
nation must, like the energetic farmer,
raise and sell more than it buys.
'If we wish to keep pace with the
other top notch nations of the world
and keep our labor employed we must
expand our exports in great variety.
To accomplish this it is absolutely es-
sential that a vast comprehensive sys-
tenn OF improvements of the inland
waterways Of the continent shall be-
laid out and maintained.
"The great source of wealth in the
United States, the great producing Sec
ton, as well in minerals, fuel, timber
and staples of manufacture, is inland
and not on the Atlantic, Pacific or Gulf
Coast. To-day many commodities OF
the Middle West never reach foreign
markets because Of the long mileage
and heavy toll exacted by rail trans
portation to tide-water. The whole
Mississippi watershed, while now prac-
tically producing for export only food
products, raw cotton and petroleum..
will some day be the workshop of the,
world. But this can never come until
this large and fertile area can reach
the sea with its products at the lowest
possible cost. THIS SPELLS RIVER
NAVIGATION.
"Can you estimate the increased ter
ritoTies to which the products of the
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-16

cause their great manufactures are
located either on tidewater, or by
natural and artificial waterways are
enabled to reach the high seas at
minimum rates. These old nations Of
Europe have grown great because of
their being navigators and carriers on
the high seas.
with the early completion of the
Panama Canal, the people Of the Uni
ted States will have increased their
handicap in the chase for worldwide
trade unless we Immediately improve
and navigate our inland waterways
and restore our one time powerful mer-
chant marine. This is clear because
the great ditch, connecting the Atlantic
and the Pacific, designed to be of bene.
fit to the people of the United States
will, under present conditions, more
certainly tighten the grasp Of the sea
faring nations of Europe upon world,
wide traffic, and enable these nations
to still further outstrip us in the race
for international business with cur
very neighbors.
"The United States, IN building this
canal, and upon failing to stimulate in
some way the restoration Of the Amer
lean flag upon the high seas and the
revival Of traffic uBon the mighty
rivers Of the interior, will have made
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-16
FATHER OF ALMA KELLNER SAYS
SHE WAS STOLEN WHILE
LOOKING AT TOYS.
WOMAN IN BLACK SUSPECTED
Child Believed to Have Been Taken
for Helress-Various Clues Traced
by Police Fall to Disclose
Whereabouts of Girl.

Louisville, Ky.-Though story after
story has been investigated by the
Louisville police, the whereabouts Of
s-year-old Alma Kellner, who disap-
peared from her home Wednesday
morning, remains a mystery.
F. L. Kellner, father of Alma, said
that he believed his daughter was
looking at toys in the shop windows
on Walnut street, when, as he express
sed 1t, somebody nailed her." He said
the child made friends with strangers
in quick, responsive way and that
which purpose she left home, she was
wandering among the Christmas dis
plays, when she was kidnapped.
Meanwhile children resembling
Alma Kellner, have been sympatheti
cally reported to have been seen be-
ing forced into covered carriages by
yelled women, roughly dressed, and
the like, observed walking up and
down street-car aisles hurried into
Tell City, Ind, where an allegedly dis
gruntled relative of the Kellners is
supposed to live; while another
story is that Alma was mistaken for
her 11-year-old aunt, Meta Kellner, an
heiress, whom Alma resembles.
The city has distributed 500 cir
culars offering an unspecified reward
for the return of the child and the en-
tire police force of Louisville and
Cou4borr Indiana touypo ara b,,cy Ypop
the case.
Frank Fair, millionaire brewer, and
uncle of the missing child, said Fri
day that F. L. Kellner was not in a
position to pay ransom for Alma,
and that, while F. L. Kellner ST.. had
been a rich man, the juniors share
would not amount to anything con-
siderable. The family specifically
denied a rumor published that a
meeting of Mrs. Kellner and the kid
napers had been arranged.
One of those mysterious women In
black" who usually figure in cases
of the Kellner kind, was discovered
zy reporters in the vicinity of the
home of Mrs. F. L. Kellner ST., and
her actions excited suspicion. The
police who have searched in vain
every vault, empty house and alley in
a readius of half a mile of the Kell-
ner home, devoted their attentions to
watching this woman and to running
down the story of an aged Russsion
peddler, who said he had seen in
Southern Indiana a girl who might
have been Alma, travelling toward
Madison, Ind, and Cincinnati, with a
man in a wagon.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-16
BOOST FOR RIVER NAVIGATION
ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING OF KAN.
sAs CITY BUSINESS MEN.
Marvellous Advance to Come From
Rivers Use Told by President Of
Navigation Company.

Missouri's navigation project has re-
ceived additional impetus from the re-
cent Navigation meeting of the Kan
sas City Commercial Club
Still views and moving pictures
along the Missouri and Mississippi
rivers were shown at the meeting, and
aroused much interest among the sew.
eral hundred business men present,
These pictures were taken on the re.
cent waterway trip of the Kansas City
delegation to New Orleans with the
Presidential feet, and show the scenic
effects of the mighty streams and their
tremendous freight carrying possibil.
tiles.
The meeting was addressed, and the
pictures graphically described, by
Walter s. Dickey, president of the
Kansas City Missouri River Navigation
Company, the million dollar company
being organized by Kansas City mer.
chants and manufacturers. The Com.
mercial Club offered to cooperate with
the navigation company in raising the
capital required to revive river traffic
and this assistance was gratefully ac.
cepted. Mr.. Dickey, in his address to
the club, said in part:
Thine was when the waters of the
Mississippi valley, teeming with activ.
ity, furnished the sole avenue of in.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-16

gress and egress, for both freight and
passengers, to this vast territory of
ours, which has so often been referred
to as the bread basket country and
which I like to think of as the very
abdominal cavity of the North Amer
lean Continent.
"Elihu Root, senator from New York,
once made the statement that 80 per
cent of all human effort is occupied, d.
rectly or indirectly, in the transporta-
ton of articles from the place Of pro-
duction to the place Of consumption.
Direct and indirect charges for
transportation of commodities are, by
far, the greatest contribution every
man makes to the cost of existence
and any movement looking towards
Tightening that burden is of paramount
importance to every American, and in
fact, to all mankind.
Commercially we are utterly unable
to compete in the markets of the world
with the producers, manufacturers and
shippers of such countries as Great
Britain and Germany, as well as many
other European countries, solely be-
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mines, farms and factories of the state,
of Missouri would have access were
transportation charges reduced to a.
water basis? If SO, you can realize
that all the great worlds markets..
now closed to the products of our
state. will be open to us when the
Missouri becomes the great highway Of
the West.
"NOW-Let US take just one quick
look ahead.
Kansas City has taken the initiative.
in reviving river traffic on the Missouri
in a practical manner, and without
waiting for the government to improve
the channel.
1--WE are raising $1,OO0,OOO or more
for the building of modern boats and
barges and the developing Of terminal
facilities for handling freight in large
quantities at small cost. Over $780,
900 is already subscribed.
1.-THE Boats and Barges to be used
will be modelled upon the modern craft
operated successfully in shallow water
ways, instead of the old inefficient type
of packet boat. They will be con-