The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1910-04-28

natural resources. It's coal beds have
been estimated by the Government
to be worth fifty million dollars and
there are three million acres of ex-
cellent pine forests in the Southeast
part of the state. The cl ina e is
ideal, the soil the best in the world
and the future of Oklahoma is full of
promise.
The possibilities o new things of
great promise for this fair land, the
northern half of this republic, are
enormous, not the least of which will
be the opening up of Central and
South America, Central Africa, China
and the East.
President Mckinley n his last
public Grafton at the Pan American
Exposition at Buffalo in the Fall Of
1901, said: We must encourage our
merchant marine, we must have more
ships. They must be under the Amer
lean flag, built and manned and own
ed by Americans" and in concluding
he said We must build the 18TH
mian canal which will unite the two
oceans and give straight line of wa
ter communication with the western
coasts of Central America, S GU b
America and Mexico"
The exports of cotton to Japan
show steady growth since 1890 and
in the year 1906 were over $4,000
bales.
Reports forthe last census bulletin
show that the cotton exports from the
South to Asia amounted to overtwelve
million dollars or thirtyeight per cent
OF the cotton crop.
This land of the South with its
varied, undeveloped resources and its
millions of acres of the richest land
in the world is backed by a record
from the hour it renewed it's allie.
| glance to this Government and re.
turned to it's war-destroyed homes
every page of which is progress. L
gave to the world during the yeal
just closed crop of eleven million
five hundred and eightytwo thousand
bales of cotton worth seven hundred
4 million dollars and crop of equa
wealth in fruit and grain. This coun
try is constantly expanding and wha
we produce beyond our own con
sumption, must find market abroad
and for that market we must have ;
carrier.
The National Association of Manu-
facturers is today carrying on a yer,
active campaign in behalf of ou
merchant marine. The Association
desires Congress to pass a law pro
viding sufficient postal compensation
to establish swift and regular serv
ice in American built steamships t.
the principal countries in Soutl
America, and the ports of Australia
Japan, China and the Philippines.
The enactment was advocated O
| the Humphrey bill now before Con
| gress which proposes an increase il
e pay to American ships for carrying
| the mails to the countries name
above. bringing it up to four dollar
8 per mile for an outward voyage Q
four thousand miles and more. Th
+ Association believes that if this bi
is passed it will greatly help to kee
+ our flag on the seas.
1 With swift and regular servic
e in American built steamships to th
: principal countries in South Americ
n and the ports of Australia, J .Japa1
|, China and the East, with the CON
e pletion of the Isthmian canal, whic
g will practically place the South alon
Y the line of the greatest trade rout
e in the world, | believe that the Ian
" of Dixie will have touched golde
i dawn and that the fairest half of tn
e country will have commenced ne
!, era, the possibilities of which al
+ limitless and beyond the dream
e man Y. VAN d.
Il l.