Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1907 — Mr. Roberson’s Lecture. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Roberson’s Lecture.

Mr Roberson’s lecture Saturday night was both pleasing and instructive to the audience and prob tbly everyone who attended it were surprised to learn of the magnificience of some of the cities in ?outh Americ.i. Probably y die “intJßtr valuable feature ot the lectnrewere the of the possibility for a new or greater market for American manufactured goods aod the need or a ship subsidy to give ns greater commercial prestige upon tbe seas. The ship subsides is something that the American people or a great many of them have stood perfectly agasht at be canse they have not understood if. To any extensive traveler, as Mr. Roberson, this means of competing with Germany and England in the matter of ocean liners and the prestige for trade that the using of our Ameriean vessels would give, jjLJ&gily He Mid- Dot dwell upon it, because the ship subsidy snbject would be a lecture by itself, bnthe spoke ol onr failure F> accomplish many matters of effect on trade by its absence. The lecture war illustrated with TahferbslidesinwhatMr.Robereor vouches to be natural colors, and many of the parks and drives and sarpassed in the artistic appoiutmeuta anything iD in this country and the speaker said were grander than anything of the kind in any of the foreign countries of the worldl It wm instructive following the lecture to confirm much of it by readipg an encyclopedoe covering the varied republics, the mighty Amazon and Its tributaries, and everywhere is that country spoken of as a land of promise, with vast arefß of an developed lands where agricultural conditions are unsurpassed and where precious metals abonnd and are nnmined. If Mr. Roberson’s lecture accomplished only the one thing of setting his hearers to studying about the ship subsidy he will have been a benefactor to every industry in the United States.