The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-12-07

Cuuh f),UUU
Porto Rico $3.50
Hawaiian group G,64O
The Philippines 114,OOO
| The Sulus 1000
The CarOlines 1000
Guam in LadrOncs 500
Total III $500
Cuba is about the size of New York,
Ohio or Alabama.
Porto Rico is Il little smaller than
Connecticut.
The Hawaiian Islands ar" somewhat
smaller than New Jersey, Nte largest
island. Hawaii, being about twice the
size of Delaware.
The Philippines cover Il land space
| about as great as New York and, the
n cw England States together. Luzon,
OIL which Manila is situated, is not
much smaller than New York.
All the now dependencies together
| are about equal in area To the New
England States, New York, pcnnsyl-
vania and New Jersey.
In nnnexing lands we annex popu!a-
tions also. These are us follows:
Cuba-1 5000 G5 per cent white.
Porto RicO-1, 100000; GO per cent
white.
Hawaii--?0, OC0; % per cent white.
Philippines-S,G ,G0G, 600: mostly Oricn-
tails.
Sulus. Carolincs. and Ladrones-
Mainly barbarous.
Roughly, we annex about ten million
people, Of whom so per cent belong to
more or less inferior races.
The resources of our annexed terri
tory, like their area and population,
have never been calculated with accu-
racy.
Cuba produces sugar, coffee, tobacco,
cocoa, cotton, indigo, rice and fruits
She has forests rich in rare woods, and
mountains Astounding in iron, coal,
copper; marble and precious stones.
The forests and the mines have been
scarcely ut all worked.
Only 10 per cent of the arabic lands
arc now under full cultivation. Seven
per cent is wholly unrcclaimcd, and 4
per cent of the islands area is uncx-
plorcd forest.
The imports of the island we're
roughly estimated for 1894 at $50, ,00O,-
600, and the exports at 800 100000
Porto Rico's products are substanti-
ally the same as those of Cnba. In
1890 tho island imported $4,000, 900
worth of goods and exported S10,OO0,-
600.
Hawaiian exports consist almost
wholly of sugar. It's exports amount
to $15,000,0OO year; its imports to
$7.OOO,OO
The Philippines produce sugar. hemp,
tobacco and copra. Imports about
81 ,000,0C0 Il year; exports about $780,
100000.
The Sulus produce teal. and sandal
wood. No statistics of commerce
exist.
The Carolines are inhabited by Malay
fisherman and produce nothing of
value. The LadrOncs are in like con-
ditiOn.
We have also annexed new climates.
The Philippines, as all travellers
agree, have IL climate in which a man
from the temperate zone can keep alive
only with the greatest difficulty, and
can keep we'll 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 lcprosy, thrive
and prey upon natives and newcomers.
The air is hot as well as moist, and
only the most rigid comers from tenn
perate climates are able to resist the
universal, innate and incurable idle
ness.
OF Hawaii we already know much-a
gorgeous beauty of sky and earth, Il
paradise in which turks leprosy.
In both these domains the only DOS
sible labor that is commercially pro-
ductive is contract labor not distin-
guishab1e from the harshcst slavery.
This fact is due chiefly to the climate.
In Cuba the semi-tropical climate
makes conditions tolcrablc only by the
acclimated by inheritance. Residence
all the year round in tho Cuban cities
and plains is impossible for tho white
races. The heat and the diseases bar
tho white laborer.
Porto Rico, called .'the most health
full 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 Who'll @ tho new climates added
to the l0ng-established American vnri-
cites are not attractive to tho healthy,
vigorous 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 tho
native races.
Yes, it is undoubtedly bigger, q
greater United States. But is it bet
J ter United States.
! With these areas in the Asiatic hem
| isphere como 5000, 600 of Asiatics-ycl-