Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-09-08

between the east and the Pacific. Scat
ocesns ess the pua Msole Vast area
would serve as an outpost from which to
protect and develop the interests Of Amer
Facing the Pacific and Indian oceans Is
more than half the population of the
foreign commerce of these people already
amounts to s., 500 OO0, 600 year. History
Commerce. e eo m the trade Of the World.
me stake at issue is stupendouS. Moth
ing less than an entire and undivided con-
troll of the Philippines would give us a
base adequate to our needs. Manila
bay, or even Luzon. for a naval and coal
" possession. with all the other is
lands partitioned and garrisoned by Eu-
with India and China be warning. In
dia conquered and governed, has mine
OF wealth. China, exploited through trad
il. We want the Philippines, not Manila:
Just as England to-day needs central Chi
the Philip T s by righs Of Conquest, NO
other nation does; We are in possession,
no other nation is; we can maintain sta
natives are incapable of self-rule. I can
conceive no reason to give away, or sell,
tory. It would be to lessen In that pro-
portion the greatest opportunity Provi-
dence ever placed before the nation. With
across the Pacific, and its commerce will
bound it on two sides; our islands viii dot
ITS surface; and with the ocean and its
trade in our possession, our political pre-
dominance will be assured among the
nationS of the world.
Such is the broad plane of International
relations, upon which alone it is wise to
discuss an Anglo-American alliance.
A formal, articulated alliance in the
European acceptance of the term, and as
represented by it's dreibunds and kaiser
bunds, is an artificial bond, arbitrary in
character and essentially military in pur-
pose. 1t implies COnStrailf. diSraQaFdS a.
tional conscience, eliminatesnationalj udg-
tionai action. If defensive only, England
would defend US, and we would defend
England, against the world, irrespective
fensive, each would be a party to the
of discretion or judgment. Such an alIi-
ance would increase entanglements; inter-
national impartiality would be impossible;
pered; discussions of compensations and
advantages and equivalents would follow:
degenerate into open hostility. It was
against such alliances that Washington
warned us, and his advice is sound to-
day. We want none of them. We need
no alliances offensive and defensive; nor
permanent and comprehensive treaties.
More powerful than formally articulat-
ed alliances and more enduring than writ
ten treaties, is the bond of interest and
of the Anglo-Saxon race. Next to giving
US the Philippines, the greatest blessing
Oh our ldIS war Was 10 T0QlSCOF0T En- |
gland and America to each other. The |
two peoples, now for the first time in a
friendship NeT Is THIS sudden aspfra
ton born of emergencies in the Spanish |
American war, but the result, as we have
forces which have been silently at work |
for centuries. The great unwritten and |
inst . are asserting their suprem-
acy and are drawing the peoples together |
g1h saeH 4ess Ta no is
now more than a theory, it is fast be- |
coming an actually; anr woe betide any
and gets in front of an memorable racial |
movement backed by LIS, 0O0, 900 enlightened |
America contains to-day IS. 600 900 of the |
most ingenious, intelligent and active pro- |
ducers in the world PRODUCTION is Tar ex-1
we must find additional markets or cur
tail our products. Hence our intense and |
merce, to which we gave scarcely a |
thought when the country was young. |
tinn a eenend our trade there we Snd
Great Britain already established, MAIN |
tanning open markets. forcing wide the |
doors of commerce, and developing trade |
interests identical with our own.
The area of England and her colonies |
and 0ao1 half times the Size Of the United
States; and the population is S61, S25, 900.
These possessions, too. are constantly In
gland has acquired $500, 900 square miles,
more than twenty times the combined |
wall; and ali this territory is open to
as to Great Britain. Even into into remote
untold possibilities The African cape
aggregated last year $38, SO 1862; and near
ly three times larger than the imports
stte of
exports to Africa in 1888 were only s., Co.,
600; but for the fiscal year 1898, they were
gland single-handed is opposing Russia,
we pass through the doors she forces
open, and in her own sphere of influence,
their local trade. Our commerce amounts
to one-seventh of all China's foreign
great as in 1895, four times as great as in
1890; so per cent. greater than that of Ger
many, and second only to that of En-
In fact in England's own territory, as
diplomacy and arms, We are her chief
rival. Our trade ranks second to her own,
and often aggregates more than the COM
bined continental imports. And that trade
is rapidly increasing, even more rapidly
than the phenomenal increase in our gen.
twice that of 1888, four times as much
as In 1869. and seven times that of 1865.
And what the startling and incredible
interests? In 1897 our entire exports ag-
gregated Lose, 600 900, and our exports to
the bE1IlSn commons ana spheres OF IN
fuence were alone nearly so per cent. of
that sum, During the same year our ex-
ports to Germany and all German col
all French colonies STA per cent, and to
Russia and her dominions IT of one per
rent, of our export trade. In other words,
our British exports were times great
as our German, 10 times as great our
French, and IS times as great our Rus
sian; 240 per cent. greater than our ex-
ports to Germany, France and Russia
combined; and 80 per cent. more than our
exports to all the rest of the world.
These facts need no comment. These es-
Lablish the corollary, however, that If you
British influence, you necessarily curtail
American commerce. Our trade in the
orient is now So, 00O, 900 per year, and I'M
100, Ooo, 900 CO. Ali along our Pacific coast
this new trade impulse is felt. Our gen.
sral increase of exports last year was ia
per cent; but while our Atlantic ports
increased I7.61, and our gulf ports SO per
cent, the increase OF our Pacific ports
vas no less than 25.7 per cent
All that trade is now seriously men
aced by Russia and her allies in the east.
In the present anxious position of affairs |
nay we not greatly assist England? And
benefit ourselves? What
ct Great Britain fight our trade battles? |
Is 1t just? Is it becoming a great nation?
What if unaided, Great Britain should
'afi? When the trade interests Of the two
nations are identical, in China, and !
hose interests are imperilled, are not tenn
oorary trade alliances both justihable and
Last November Austria's minister of
oreign affairs used this threatening Ian
suage: 1.-The peoples of Europe must |
light shoulder to shoulder against the !
selves for the struggle with all means at I
heir disposal This common danger" .
md struggle refer to the American in
7asion of continental markets. II joint | (
action should follow AuStria'S advice j,