Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-08

For our exports we get the foreign mar
ket price less the freight.
For our imports pay the foreign mar
ket price plus the freight.
No fine-spun theory of any clustered or
collegiate doctrinaire can wipe out these
facts.
The fact that so long as the freight is
paid to foreign ship-owner, so long will
it be foreign profit on a foreign product,
is fundamental and unanswerable-
The English steamship is a foreign pro-
duct, and its earnings, which we pay, are
a foreign profit
No sane man will argue that foreign
profit on a foreign product can be do
nestle benefit.
Add to this the fact, equally important,
that the carrier of commerce controls its
exchanges and the conditions of CONNER
cial, financial and industrial subjugation is
complete. Such is our condition to-day
Great Britain has many outlying col
onies and dependencies
The greatest two are India and the
United States.
She holds India by force of arms, where
by her control of that country costs her
something. She had to pay something for
her financial and commercial drainage of
India.
She holds the United States by the folly
of it's own people, whereby her control of
this country costs her nothing. She has
to pay nothing for her financial and com
mercial drainage of the United States
But the amount of her annual drainage
of gold from the United States far ex-
ceeds that from India.
Therefore, the United States is by far
the most valuable of all dependencies of
| Great Britain.
In the relation of England to India there
is something pitiable because India is
helpless.
In tho raIa tion of tho Tinted States TO
| England there is nothing that is not con-
| temptible. because it is the willing servi-
i tude of a nation that could help herself
| if she would.
| England is wide awake to these condi-
| tons and keenly appreciates their price
less value to her.
The United States blinks at them half
| dazed, half asleep, insensible of their ire
| mendous damage to her.
| England clearly seeing that. in this age,
more than ever before, ocean-empire is
| world-empire, strains every nerve to per
| petuate her sea power and eXhausts her
resources to double rivet the letters which
it fastens upon mankind.
| Though in 1885 England already had a
| navy superior to those of any two and
| equal to those of any three other powers.
| her new navy, with what remains most
/ available of the old one, overshadows the
| world and makes the sea as much BRITISH
| territory as the county of MiddleSex-
| Since 1885 England has expended So11,
| 900, 900 for new ships of war and their
| armament. During eleven years she has
| built thirty-eight frst-class battleships
| three second-class battleships. nine ar
1 mored cruisers, twenty hrst-class cruis
! ers, fifty-one second-class cruisers; thir-
| ty-three third-class cruisers; thirty gun
| boats; twelve composite sloops, and sew
| enty-four torpedo destroyers, including
| the vessels authorized in the current
| years program.
The aggregate is go vessels of 1,136,
575 tons total displacement, 1,674, roc
| horse power.
OF the navy England already had il
| 1885. there remain available AZ armored
ships. "a cruisers, IL sloops, 10 gunboats
and 90 torpedo boats, which she is re-en
| ginning, rearming and otherwise modern
izing as rapidly as she can
In personnel af1oat she has augmented
her force from %, 500 in 1885 to 1OO,oO(
in the estimates for 1897
In other words, England has doubled
her navy in personnel and material anG
| more than quadrupled it in warlike eff
cheney during eleven years of the pro
foundest peace the world ever saw.
Even greater exertions has England pu1
forth in the augmentation of her mer
chant marine. During the calendar veal
1896 she added 1850, 600 tons of new
steel steam shipping to her merchan
fleet breaking up meantime $4,000 ton.
of old and obsolete shipping which could
no longer be operated proftably; ne
addition of $50, 900 tons to the total of he
merchant marine by the register. but 1