The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-11-30

about equal in area to the New England
States. New York. Pennsylvania and
New Jersey.
THE POPULATION.
In annexlng lands We annex populations
also These are as follows:
Cuba-l,50O COO 65 per cent. white.
Porto Rico, 600 600; 60 per cent. white.
Hawaii-9OOoO; 25 per cent. white.
Philippines 900 600: mostly Orientals
Sulus, Carolines and Ladr0nes-Mainly
barbarous
Roughly we annex about ten million
people, OF whom ~ per cent. belong to
more or less inferior races.
Tho resources of our annexed terri
tory, like their area and population. have
never been calculated with accuracy
cuba produces sugar coffee. tobacco.
cacoa. cotton. indigo, rice and fruits. she
has forests rich in rare woods and noun
tains Astounding in iron, coal, copper
marble and precious stones. The forests
and the mines have been scarcely at all
worked
Only 10 per cent. Of the arrable lands
are now under full cultivation. Seven
per cent. is wholly unreclalmed ana 4
per cent. Of the Islands area IS uneX-
plored forest.
The imports OF the island were roughly
estimated for 1884, a $5O000,0oO and the
exports at $95.OO0Oo0.
Porto Rico's products are substantially
the same as those Of Cuba. In 1890 the
islands imported 100000 worth of goods
and exported 10000 600.
Hawaiian exports consist almost wholly
OF sugar. It's exports amount 20 $lj
100000 n year; It's imports 20 100000.
The Philippines produce sugar hemp.
tobacco and copra. Imports, about ST.
100000 a year; exports. about S20.W0000.
The Sulus p-o1uce teak and sandal
wood. No statistics OF commerce exist.
The Carolines are inhabited by Malay
fishermen and produce nothing Of value.
Tho Ladrones are in llko-condition.
OUR NEW CLIMATES.
We have also annexed new climates.
The Philippines as all travellers agree,
have climate in which a man from the
temperate zone can keep alive only with
the greatest difficulty. and can keep well
only by never forgetting for an instant
TO guard his health.
Malaria IS the lot Of all who dwell
there. Tropical fevers. tropical plaques
such as smallpox and lept So. thrive
and prey upon natives and newcomers.
The air Is hot as well as moist ard
only the most rigid Corners from tenn
perate climates are able 20 rests, the uni
versal. innate and incurable idleness.
or Hawaii we already know much-a
gorgeous beauty OF sky and earth. a
paradise In which turks leprosy
In both these domains the only posi-
BILE labor that is commercially productive
IS contract labor not distinguishable from
the harshest slavery. This fact Is due
chiefly 70 the climate.
In Cuba the semi-tropical climate
makes conditions tolerable only by the
acclimated by inheritance. Residence all
tho year round In Cuban cities and plains
is impossible for the white races. The
heat and the diseases bar the white la
borer
Porto Rico called "the most healthful
Of the Antilles" Is A delightful winter
resort. But white men from the United
states will never live there longer than
for the brief winter season.
As a whole. the new climates added ~
the long-estabished American varieties
are not attractive 70 the healthy. vig0r-
Gus white races These races will not
labor in them will not thrive IN them.
will not voluntarily live in them And
they stunt and weaken and ravage and
render indolent and savage the native
races.
Yes. II Is undoubtedly bigger,
greater United States. But is it d better
United States?
with these areas I'm the Asiatic hemi-
sphere come 100000 ~ Asiatics-yellow
brown and black. with all these areas
near and far come peoples allen I'm blood
alien in thought. allen in habits. Gus
toms, manners A few Of them In the
West Indies are somewhat akin 20 our
homs negroes who constitute such
menacing race problem. But even that
knshlp Is slight. remote.-New York
World.