The Red Cloud chief., 1897-12-24

ex-minister from Hawaii. In the fol-
lowing forclble language:
II submit to you that no one In this
country has a more direct interest la
annexation than the manufacturers.
Up to five years ago the United States
developed and progressed while paying
very little attention tn It's foreign &C.
lations and its foreign commerce. II
prosperity and development are to OH
tinue. you must find markets beyond
the present boundaries Of the union
for both your agricultural and your
manufactured products. Where are
you to find these markets? In England
and Europe? Perhaps. tn a limited ex-
tent: but they produce the same
fractures that you do. They are your
natural competitors, no your natural
customers. The one great undevcl-
oped natural market of the world For
the products of the United States are
the islands in. and the countries Dor
dering upon the Pacific Ocean. Near
ly fifty years ago William II. Seward
said, on the floor OF the United States
Senate. that the Pacific Ocean, its is
lands. Its shores and the vast regions
beyond. will be the chief theater Of
events In the worlds great hereafter"
This prophecy Is being rapidly full
hlled; but ten years ago the Pacific
coast OF Siberia was an Ice bound will
derness. and Vladivostock an unknown
village. Today V~ladivostock Ia a city
nj An nnn ,AA,Nl, ..tsl .Nu- I...
docks and warehouses. and with forth
fications equal to any port In the
world. The Pacific terminus OF the
Trans-Siberian railroad to st. Peters,
burg, 1t Is the growing center Of a
commerce, the variety and volume OF
which can not be foretold. This rail-
road n being pushed by all the mighty
power OF the Russian government, and
Is opening vast forests, mineral. coal
n agricultural lands. while the
country Is being systematically settled
up by the transplanting of whole VII
lagos Of Russians to favorable locali-
ties along the line. For a hundred
years Russia has vainly sought an
open road to the sea by way of the
Dardanelles. She Is now achieving
that object by way Of the Pacific.
Within the past year she has obtained
the right OF way from China for a
second terminus to her railroad at Port
Arthur. a port that Is never frozen up.
Therein Is foreshadowed the Absorb
ton of Northern China, for the Rus
sian bear never let's go It's grip. Three
years & Japan was a comparatively
unimportant group Of islands, with but
little foreign power or trade. Today
1t is an international nation. with an
already strong navy, which Is being
added to at a rate second only to that
OF England, while her lines OF subsi-
died steamers are running to the four
quarters of the globe. her Ia
increasing by geometrical progression.
and her $4,000, 900 OF people have
awakened to the possibilities OF the
future. With the shaking up which
China has received from Japan It's
300, 200. 900 OF people must soon open
to western methods and commerce.
The Australian colonies and the hun
dreds Of Southern Pacific islands, now
all under European control, are rapidly
developing into international power
and greatness. These and the South
American republics are the great un-
developed and unoccupied markets of
the world to which Americans must
send their products II this country Is
to progress and prosper. Nearly all
Of this commerce must cross the Pa
cifc. What has all this 10 do with
Hawaiian annexation? IL has Just
this to do with 1t. From Hong Kong
to the isthmus OF Darien 1t is $500
miles; as far as from San Francisco
across the continent, the Atlantic, the
Mediterranean and Turkey to the
boundary of Persia; from the Aleutlan
colony Of Tahiti, a thousand mils
south OF the equator, the distance is
4,500 miles; as far as from Greenland
to 500 miles south Of the Amazon rly-
er. In all this vast area there is but
one spot where food, fuel and water
can be obtained. and that Is Hawaii.
II has this to do with II, that the Pa
VIM 10 oo ~ thdt ~ HdllOH HAS n
naval station near enough to the Pa
clfc coast to be available as a ma al
base of operations against It or its
commerce. 1t means that no battle
ship now built or building, In either
the American or japanese navy, can
cross the Pacific between Yokohama
and San Francisco without ~recoaling,
because they cannot carry fuel enough
to get across. 1t means that with Ha-
wall In the possession of any hostile
power there would be established a
naval base OF supply and repair with
In five days steaming distance Of the
Pacific coast. 1t means that with
nations shut out Of Hawaii, they
are pushed back the entire length OF
the Pacific, a distance so great as to
pro!ibitive Of hostile naval opera
lions and thereby securing immunity to
the Pacific coast and its