Inter-Mountain Republican | 1906-03-13 | Page 4 | Commerce Moves West.

CO CI MOVES MOVIS ViST Previous PIe lous records wei were c exceeded in in both oth imports orts In and La With lh the bigness li of the nations nation's naton's commerce com coin merce maci-cc we se e arc Ie getting pretty familiar But Bui the HIP thing In Iii the figures s si i is the time fact acl hat that the foreign n commerce of this coul county t is rapidly shifting from the ca east l west Upon Uon the time years year's Cas total exports from frum Atlantic ports have ha since ISH 1811 increased G 52 tier per cent from flom gulf ulC ts per CI cent and amid from Pacific Pa Pa- chile ports 64 per eI cent Here I is to think about beyond mere macre bigness This shift hl in inthe inthe inthe the tide u of cc Is pregnant wilh serious meaning foi fUll section every Cr C of f the country It I opens our oum eyes ces to new possibilities and amI puts huts upon l us new re re- re 1 The cum commercial of t the tl past st cent century r are arc ending a n nv v condition Is coming comins upon U us The star of if empire I Is as ever eer tal taking I Its course c tu o Ii the westward and fortunate be he wo Wt I If f we ve have the lie foresight ole ight and e to keep I up with wih It I. I This stupendous e In iii export trade to 11 the lie wC westward Which h has ims come conic with scarcely au any ammy of mit the time or ordinary dl- dl nar nary y aids ahls to commerce is null only an au In- In o of what may b expected In Inthe Inthe the le near neat future when th the thic government go shall shah hal have haLve done cone tot for the Pacific eoa coast t bonn bume shame ie of what whal il it I has lias dune done so su Ib- Ib for fOI that of or the Atlantic Battleships 1 have c been called the time drummers ur of the lie worlds world's commerce I Particularly in iii the unsettled condi lol of the thc far cast a showing of or power Is a tremendous force In iii es establishing es- es trade relations cl tuns at II the time pm pI C e- e enl emit Lm and ald those hose trade relations now nov being beli established hed will wi the time Industrial destinies of for ur decades to come Fortune has haM wondrously favored oret Ca this country but hut there theme Is a point where If Ife e c. c SIC are to tl reap all al out our s. we wt must pui tt the western coast COat tutu Into shape I to tf secure ami ammi to tu protect ct tIm iho vast unmeasured un un- measured commerce that hat is f being ulli de dc d.- d. clope eloped upun milion upon tho the Pacific