Show 1 S C L' L I L SOME SOIE Pl PERTINENT POINTS Anaconda Sta Standard In 11 ii his I ot ut It a banquet given I In iii Chicago o Saturday Satur cia day cay night Pre President J. J J. J i made madean an flit al argument in iii favor ol a of v ith wih Canada In Illustration of or hi hU contention in iii fare favOl Of f more open oel 10 rc- lations with wih the lie Dominion Iw ho said kaid that the tho trade ado which will ill j be o opened to tolie the lie United States Stales as the thc result of o th tho lie building of tho lie Panama canal Js Is a total of legs hess than live fifty n e millions a acar year car whereas the trade of the tha United States with Canada Is ful fully four times that amount That Is Important If true trIte the Ito pos nos of trade as the lie result of or the tho thE building of the Panama canal have boon placed by statistics moro more or less less official at nt a much higher total than that the one named b by President Jill However How hour cr c ever be that hat as ns It ray may the tho n lt rH o of Iho tho lie case caso certainly is lar largely cl on ott the ho side side advocated b by Mr Hill I tho ho presumption presumption pre pre- being that it U w win take a avery nr very long lonh time t td to persuade e the tariff tariff- bound a agencies in control of congress to 0 sec see it I in that light Us In Iii another bit bil bi of pertinent talk lalk President huh Hill HI remarked that the lie country is suffering from the want of transportation facilities that tho ho public public pub pub- lic lIe assumes that tho lie trouble is due tIne to the lack Jack of cars ii In railway service hut but that In fact tact It I largely due Que ue to a shOta short short- shOt a ago o of tracks anti and at terminals In Montana Mon Momi- Ion Ion- tana the tho has been hecl that lint th the ho railroads operating in this region Ion where the service J Is woefully bad had Is due chiefly to lo th the lack of ot f motive power J Alon Along the traversing this lila state has been ba badly ly cons e congested Per Per- haps the thai moving of trains Is as rapid as can be in imi view Ie o of available track track- age that had not been the popularly accepted theol theory Meanwhile tho lie Northern Pacific Is Js progressing construction construction con con- work which will wit In Increase increase In- In crease creaso tho the available miles of or track But here a again aln vexing delays delas in iii the thc ease case o of the tho Northern Pacific th the Milwaukee fir 8 SL St S1 Paul and in fact all al tl the tW roads result from coma the Ire sn shortage of labor laborThe rhe Ihie r roads ads have not been able to get Jet half hal tho ho help they urgently need for or construction construction construction con con- work |