The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-01

little better. for in 1896 she bought So %. 426
and sold only 81, $685. But Spain-Spain.
the paralytic of commerce-Spain bought
only $i,slS.siA and sold $is7s,5Ss.
To America BelOnGss the Trade.
Fellow citizens. from this day on that
proportion OF trade, increased and multi
piled. must belong 10 the American repub-
lie. l repeat, increased and multiplied, for
with American brains and energy, with
American methods and American govern
meni does any one here tonight DOUBT that
American exports will exceed SPANS i'm
ports twenty times overg Does any one of
you doubt that $i0o. QUO, 900 OF food and cloth
ing and tools and implements and machin-
cry viii ultimately be shipped every year
from the United States to that archipelago
OF tremendous possibilities? And vet.
against the conditions that give US all that
trade. the opposition is arrayed
What lesson does Cuba teach? Cuba can
raise no cereal@-no wheat no corn, no
oats. no barley and no rye. What We make
and raise, Cuba consumes; and what she
makes and raises, we consume. This order
OF commerce Is fixed forever by the unal-
terable decree of nature. And she is at our
doors, too--only an ocean river between us
Yet In 1895 we bought $i0.0l7.703 of her
products; while Spain bought only 81. $3.50.
ana sold Sc, las. st0-and that proportion ex-
listed before the insurrecuon Fellow citi-
zens- from this day on that order must be
reversed and Increased. Calba's present
population is about 100000. Tens of mil
by enterprise. If Spain sells to Cuba ST.
10000 In 1921. and SIS 900 600 In 1897, America
viii sell Cuba $3o. o0c go in 1905. In 1896 VIC
bought of Porto Rico Sc, 2s6 65s. and sold her
s.. asss go and sold 7.sas. $50 William McKn-
ley proposes that those figures shall be in
creased and reversed, and the question is.
whether you vii. lndorse him and tina; res
olution OF prosperity. The practical Ques-
tion for each one OF us ,s whether We had
better leave the developments OF ali this
tremendous commerce to the administration
which liberated these island continents and
now has the settlement of their government
under way, or risk the future in the hands
OF those who oppose the government at
Washin gton and the commercial suprem-
acy Of the republic.
Our trade with Porto Rico and Hawaii will
be as free as between the states OF the
Union. because they ara American sol.
while every other nation must pay our
tariff before they can compete with US.
Our trade with Cuba and the Philippines
~ill at the very least, be Ike the prefer.
trade which VIII give the republic the pref
erence over the rest OF the world-a trade
which WI apply the principle OF protec-
ton 10 colonial commerce. Tina: and the
excellence OF our goods and products VIII
give the monopoly OF these markets TO the
hearts NJ FIRE the workingmen of the re-
public. 20 receive once more the wages
ana Oak Once fHoTe BErstu OF prosperous
times: then the farmer Will find az his door
once more the golden market OF those who
work In factory and mill and who want
-four, and meat. and butter, and eggs, and
garments OF WOOL and who have once
more the money 10 pay for II ali.
1t means new employment and
better wages for every laboring
man In the Union. II means
higher prices for every item
the farmers OF this republic pro-
duce. IL means active faycss-
ment for every dollar OF moldy
capital In the land. IL means
nu this TOMORROW, and all this
forever. because IT means not
only the trade Of these prise
provinces. hut the beginning Of
the commercial empire of the re.
public.
The commercial empire Of the republic,
That Is the greatest fact OF the future
And fhAe IS why these Islands involve con-
zs.eraga2as larger than their own com
Mere The commercial supremacy OF the
Republic means - as this nation Ia 20 he
the sovereign factor IN the peace of the
20 be conflicts % srasae--siraggses fer mar
ks.s-comneyelai wars sor existence
Guarded by the RepubIicss Cans.
Ard the goSaen rule - peace Is srnprer-
inability 90 position and irvEunihsissy Of
ssg SsraEsstSf If history pant her nag and
lssr cannon ~. Gibraltar az Liebsc the
begMGaas, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS here until
from every rel2S OF vantage her royal bar