The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1910-04-28
Ships for
The South
The w--South Will be Greatly Ben
Gifted by Increased American
Shipping on Seas.
Paper Read Before the Cho,,tauqua Circle.

SnuPPuI6 Oii SVoS'
Paper Read Before the Chautduqua Circle.
From Massachusetts on the East
to the Golden Gate of the West, a
note of optimism has been sounded
and we are informed that the business
outlook for the coming year is excel
lent and that prospects were never
more promising for wave OF con-
tinued prosperity than today.
The mills are everywhere expand
ing, extensive additions to industrial
plants are building in every part of
our country. New trade relations
are developing, commercial activity
is everywhere increasing and manu-
facturers are adjusting themselves to
the new tariff conditions in anticipa-
ton of multiplied markets.
The prosperity of a country, will
not be denied, is due to the general
welfare of it's agriculture, manufact-
uring and commerce and we know
that in advantage to having a
thing for sale is to possess the means
to carry it to the buyer, and one OF
the needs of our times is direct COM
mercial lines from our vast fields OF
production to the fields of consump-
tion that we have but barely touched.
We have the largest ocean front
age of any nation on the globe. w
front all continents. We border the
two great oceans and the greatest of
CULTS on the South. Great Britain
has been our great commercial rival
and she has succeeded a n d is now
mistress of the sea because she has
paid from her treasury over five mil
lion dollars a year to aid her steam
ship lines. She began this policy
with great wisdom at the moment she
foresaw b at the steamship was to
play so important part in the navi-
cation of the great oceans.
Where today is the Amer c a n
Merchant Marine?
Congress has done nothing to up
hold the navigation interests of the
United States. Decay has been OBJ
served from year to year until we are
dependent upon England today fol
such shipping as we may require
Congress has given lands worth thou
sands of million dollars in money il
aid of internal transportation by raj
but it has scarcely extended any f.
nancial aid to build up our foreign
commerce.
Far to the South hes one of the
finest and richest countries on thu
earth. Allthat can please or prosper
man can be found in this domain
an ideal climate above fertile sol
yielding every product of the tenn
perate zone. During the day th'
wheat steals away the sunshine in it
sheaf and the cotton whitens beneatl
the midnight stars. Practically ever.
crop of benefit to man may be foun,
in this fair climate. Every variet.
of productive soil lies within thi
section. The mountains are stores
with exhaustless treasure, forests ar
vast and of the three essential item
of all industries, n, iron an
wood, the South has easy control.
This land of promise has more har
wood, more coal, greater fields of ga
and excepting the lake region, large
deposits of iron ore than any othe
section, and in addition h ere ar
lead, marble and salt without limit
The other sections of our countr
have largely depleted their naturs
supplies, while the coal fields of th
South are practically n t o uc b {
The great forests are limitless, hay
ing scarcely heard the sound of th
ak. 1t has been estimated that in te
years Pennsylvania will not ship
pound of her coal to the South, thu