The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-22
President Of Trans Mississip-
pi Commercial Congress
Makes Address.
CONGRESS IS UNFAIR
To That Section Of Country
Because Of the Actfonof
Manufacturers.


SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Nov. %
An abstract of the annual address
before the twenty4irst session Of the
Trans-AIississippi Commercial Con
gress Mere today by President Ike
T. Pryor is las follows:
This section of the country has never
received the favorable consideration
at the hands OF our national Congress
the section east of the mississippi
river has been accorded Why is this
1t Is because the manufacturing dis
tricts have had and held the relns of
government; dominated and controu-
ed both branches OF our National
Congress: hence the manufacturers
OF this country have received every
possible consideration and protection
Congress could grant. They have
been thoroughly organized and able
to present 70 the National Congress in
united and intelligent manner an
appeal for such protection and meas
nres as they desired.
The organizers and founders OF this
great organization realized these i'm
portant facts and conditions and
brought into existence twenty-one
years ago the Trans4Mississippi Com
nleEcial Consress. thus giving the sec
tion west of the mississippi river an
Organization through which the entire
population of this vast area can speak
and secure proper recognition.
The total areas vest or the Missis-
sippi IS :, i IS, 9 square miles. The
fo{ai areas east Of the Mississippi
is Ssl,476 square miles. A difference
or l.263.S37 square miles.
The area OF the Trans4AIississippi
section is about Is times that section
east of the AdIssissippi river.
The population east of the Mlssis-
sIppt river is S., O5s.74u. The popu=
fIatIon west of the Mississippi river is
2B.540,46S, or a difference of 3s.5lS,-
2TJ. The density of the population
east OF the mississippi is T4.S and
west of the mississippi is II per
square mile.
when the Trans Mississippi Com
nerciaI Congress was organized the
population in that area was about
16,7T5,364. Today we have popu-
latIon of more than 25.54O!46s, gain
OF almost 100000 in the last ten
years and 4 100000 in the last TWEEN
Is years. or 25 per cent. The largest
per cent of this gain was in the last
ten years.
II VIII not DG many SGsN@"' N''AN-'
teemfng millions of the east will rely
almost bsolutely on the west for the
uecessaries of life. This is no idle
drearn, for each year brings us
closer to realization OF such condi-
lions, hence it is our duty to prepare
FOR what seems the inevitable.
we must be conservative and reas-
enable in all demands. and resolu-
lions should be so framed as to elimi-
nate all sectional or local features.
we stand for the upbuilding of the
entire west-no one section as
AGAINST the other. Neither should we
advocate any measure. the adoption
Of which would iniure any other sec
ton of the United States.
The commercial features of this
congress should be given every posi-
nile confederation, especially looking
10 the development Of commerce and
trade with Latin+A4nerican countries
nuke, for example. Mexico. our
next door neiEbbor. Its cotton mills
produce less than one-fifth OF the
cotton goods used by them. pence
sI,o,,t four-fifths of the goods used Is
imnorted into that country largely
from English, French, and German
mills. The banks in all the impor-
tant cities in the Latlh-<N"let'S
nublIcs keep their large balances IN
european business centers. why Is
this? The direct steamship line 10
and from Central and South -A Hil
can ports to European ports ana wee
versa are one of the prime cAuSsS,
Ranking facilities always nave ana
aIways will follow trade
T,,ere were two great conventions
80 a, the west this taII-the consor-
& ts.Ior and irrigation meetings. IT, In
Judgment, these movements and
p ~ !. ,,,sthods OF carrying out the same
-. /. siopted by each, are to he the best
~ II, erests of the Trans-Mississippi sec
ttoh. as a whole, it is your duty 70
S4rs them your unqualified supports
6t6eryvlse you should not
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