The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-10-17

Milwaukee, Oct. 17.-Declaring that
the diversion Of American emigration
into Canada back into the United
States. and the establishment of a
National Board of Health were among
the paramount issues in the platform
OF progressive nationaism, and that
the fertilization of the Panama Canal
was absolutely essential to peaceful
occupancy of the new trade route OF
the world. NJ. B. Trezevant, of New
Orleans. president OF the Southern
Commercial Secretaries association,
made profound impression in an
address on The New South" deliver
ed before the convention of the Gen.
trail Association of Commercial Ex-
ecutives here.
In five years time" said President
Trezevant, "the United States has lost
$50, GOO of her best citizens to Can
ada-residents, principally OF this
Central West, carrying with them in
telligence, experience and money in
10 foreign country, the lure of which
is but ephemeral, while the vast un-
tenanted acres of the United States
are open to them. II they must leave
at all, let them go. not to an alien
north, where the winters are long
and unproductive. and the summer
heat nearly as torrid as at the equa-
tor, but to the south, where land is
cheap and soil is rich and cultivable
twelve months of the year; where the
climate is equible and the health is
equal to if not better than in any Civ
en- section of the United States"
In this latter connection Mr.. Treze-
want urged the establishment of a
National Board of Health. mo sec
ton than the south has suffered more
and deserved it less, by the totally
false impressions of her health and
climate. due to lack of information"
he said. For that reason the south
will ask for a national supervision of
health, just as, five years ago, it de-
manded and secured national control
of quarantine. And what will help
the south will help every other Sec
| ton of the Union. That the south is
healthy and desirable from an invest
ment and settlement standpoint is
demonstrated by the millions of dol
lars and thousands of settlers now
making their way thither. Louisiana
is a striking example. Foreign invest
and today hundreds of thousands OF
dollars are being poured into the COM
monwealth from Illinois, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Michigan and other Sec
tons, largely for the most profitable
| of all investments-the reclamation
of wet prairies. These deep and hith-
erto unused soils are now producing
corn-the crop of the northwest
bearing 40 to 60 bushels. to an acre
on land that cost from $25 to SIS per
acre. Today the nine cotton-growing
states of the south are producing more
corn than Wisconsin, Michigan, Min
nesota, South Dakota, Kansas, Colo
RADIO and Pennsylvania.
! Those of the northwest who are
sufficiently interested to know more
of this great work of reclamation can
find practical information at the forth.
coming United States Land and Irri-
cation congress, in Chicago, November
10 to December T."
! In speaking of the fortification of
the Panama Canal, he said the admin
istration policy should be upheld by
every loyal American. "a few weeks
ago saw that great work for the Sec
ond time, and 1t would fire the heart
and Imagination of any red-blooded
American to observe the vim, the de-
termination, the intensely patriotic
enthusiasm of the men on the job
from highest to lowest. 1t is silly
twaddle to say that the United States
must build the canal and then observe
no means of preventing it falling into
alien or hostile hands. Not only the
patriotism, but the cold commercial
sense Of the nation demands it, and
that it will be done is beyond ques.
ton"
New Orleans, he said, is preparing
for the greatest demonstration of
modern America in celebration of the
opening of the canal. THE World s
Panama Exposition will be held at
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