Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-08-18

responsible men Of the Pacific coast. The
san Francisco Chamber of Commerce 10
strictly non-parsisan organization, con
t,inins due proportion of Democrats and
tispublicans. Its President Is one Of the
leading Democrats Of California, while the
Vice President is an influential Republican.
There 10 no doubt that all intelligent com
n,ercial men, who have. carefully studied
the future Of the North Pacific and its rela.
ton to future American commerce sub
aantialIy agree with the San Francisco
Chamber. a to the Hawaiian question. No
competent persons who examine the facts
and the probabilities touching the future
interests Of the United States on the North
Pacific. can find reason TO doubt the wis
dom Of the distinguished American states-
men, who have foreseen and sought to pro-
vide for the vast future American develop
ment in the North Pacific, to which the
Hawaiian Islands are a key. Consider,
that from North Alaska TO South
ern California, the United States has a
coast line OF four thousand miles, to
which may be added the seventeen hundred
miles OF shore line on Puget Sound, that
remarkable body Of water for harbors,
ships and commerce, on which already out
let four Of the great sns-eontinental lines
OF railroads tapping vast extent of Amer
lean domain Of immense natural wealth
The enormous resources of land, timber,
minerals, fisheries lying on and directly &C
cessible to the North Pacific, are to give
employment and means of well-being 10
many millions Of men in the near future
While American shipping is extinct OF
struggling for existence in many parts Of
the world, in the North Pacific American
commerce in American bottoms is largely
in the ascendency. OF the treaty millions Of
doiiars II CONNER between Hawaii and the
United States, a very large preponderance
Of il 10 transported in American vessels.
Read the recent report Of the United States
Consul at Vancouver. whose official figures
show that 4 large proportion of the business
of that extensive section of country is
done by vessels bearing the American
flag. There is large accumulation
of facts open to the examination
of those inclined to consider them,
showing that a. to the commerce of
the Atlantic the three hundred and fifty
millions of European people have the start
and the advantage of the United States, and
and capital, and present possession, they
will continue to hold the large preponder-
snce OF the shipping of the Atlantic and its
tributaries. But on the North Pacific the
United States has the facts and circum-
stances so greatly in ito favor that it can
control the future If it will. Hence it is.
Seward, Grant and Blaine came to the con-
clusion that the North Pacific is to be the
great theater Of American commerce and
marine power. The many thousand miles
more distance of the Pacific from Europe
cannot be overcome as against the United
States. Nothing but supreme folly can
lose to the United States her great oppor-
tunities lying directly before her.
Consider that the American child is born
who sill live to see the population of this i'm
mense country two hundred and fifty mil
lions Of people. Consider that on
the opposite shores and islands of
the Pacific there are now four
hundred millions Of people, with their i'm
mense future commercial needs and enter
pri.e.. Consider that air s''y we are much
the largest manufacturing nation in III"
world. In fifty years more the Volume OF
our manufactures will be almost beyond
the measurement of figures. There are
those " no say, Let commerce take care ot
itself" There are those who say. I've
de- not need what all successful CONNER
cial and maritime nations have found
necessary, ocean islsni., ships, coaling
stations. and harbors.
4 sufficient answer to such narrow. IN
r,s-oushle talk is, that people who ignore
tomorrow AMI neglects it's opportunities. is
in tle path of certain decadeace and failure.
All who have the sen'ia,eot and the brain
of = true American, know that this Nation
eaHnnt be bored Up. 1t must and will have
outlets. II must and will have all that is
noe, IS ny to its future development. Those