The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-11-16
CHM A.
Proposed Peaceful Invasion of Celestial
Kingdom.
Washington Post.
.',- Kingdom.

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However, the invasion will be peace.
fnl one, Of commercial nature, and
involving no grab of territory. This
governments is determined that the
Bnited States shall obtain share OF
the trade of the middle kingdom, fol
which four great European powers are
now contending. Accordingly, the
department Of State is on the point Of
publishing very important and elab-
orate document, taking the form Of a
volume of 800 pages, which shows
just how this result is to be accom-
plished. The book will afford mighty
interesting reading for every merchant
and manufacturer, big or little, in this
country.
No steps will fail to be taken, no
stone left unturned, in the compe-
tition for fair share Of the trade of
the 5Oo,oOO,ooo people who dwell in
lands washed by the same sea that
leaves the shores Of California, Oregon,
and Washington. It is not merely
China. Russian Siberia, Japan, Korea,
Siam Formosa, the Philippines, Java,
Borneo, and a multitude Of islands,
great and small, constitute vast feld.
which has been termed the Pacific
Opportunity All eastern Asia to-
day is trembling with the oncoming
tread of progress, and when once these
amounted hosts realize that old con-
disions of sloth and iuaetion must
yield to the invasion Of new ideas,
then the movement all along the line
viii astonish the world. Those coun-
tries which have prepared to control
the Asiatie trade will naturally take
the lead in the division of the spoils,
while those who are laggards will be
forever relegated to the rear. Korea,
Java, and the Philippines have as
many accessible inhabitants as Africa,
while Siam has as numerous popula-
ton as Australia and the lesser
islands Of the Pacific.
China, nevertheless, is par excel
lence the field Of future American op-
portunity. With her 35O,oOO.Oo0
people advancing rapidly in civiliza-
tion with. the growth of a new era, she
viii need immense quantities Of ever
SO many kinds of things. which We are
ready to furnish. At present her
exports are only one-seventh of those
OF France. which has one-seventh Of
China population; but the time will
yet arrive when her products will be
proportionate to the number of her
iinhabitants-say, Fifty times as great
for expectation as they are now. The
problem is to make her rich by de-
veloping her resources, and then she
will have means and willingness to
buy sfty times as much. Oh, it is a
wonderful prospect
A century hence the Chinese en-
pire will be gridironed with American
railways, traversed by Yankee loco
motives, drawing trains Of cars built
in United States factories. These
trains will carry rot only pig-tailed
passengers, grown indifferent to the
saerilege Of running over the graves
Of their ancestors, but coal and iron
from Chinese mines. The mines will
be controlled mostly by American
capital, and their machinery will be Of
American make. There will be other
mines, too, Of gold, silver, lead, and
various other valuable metals and
minerals derivable from the bowels of
the earth. For, if the testimo,y Of
many American experts and explorers
is worth anything, China embraces
some Of the richest and most extensive
mineral producing regions in the
world.
Hitherto the development Of China 8
mineral resources has been studiously
discouraged and opposed by the au-
thorities. The first thing required is
permission to the people to avail
themselves freely of their untouched
wealth under ground. The absurdity
of the present situation in this regard
is fairly illustrated by the fact that
steamboats, at Ichang, 1000 miles in
land on the Yangtse river, are COM
PEELED to burn costly imported Japan
ese coal, although Ichapg is situated
on the borders of orc of the richest
coal fields in the world. The coal de-
posits of that region are SO remarka-
BILE as to arrest the attention of casual
travellers, but the government will not
allow them to be worked.
II these mines, with the incidental
iron ores and petroleum springs, were
normitted to he exhibited there would