The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-20
THE COLONIES and OUR MARKETS.

THE Home Market Club of Boston has tackle
the expansion question and lines UP against tn
policy unless it be carried out as to pre-
vent extension OF our revenue laws to those pos
sessions The list of for this brings the cuf
| around to the statement that made by he
Call against taking tropical colonies at all.
| If we take them and extend protective system
to Them they stand exact equality III that respect
with our own people. The commerce OF the Philip
pines is in the hands of Chinese merchants. They
will rise to an equality with Our Tropical labor
is very cheap It has always been cheap and will al
ways be- White men cannot perform It, No races
except those there labor there. Their scale
of living is low has always been the case IN the
tropics 1t is low because their wants few, and
these are incapable of increase If we admit the
products OF this cheap labor, sugar tobacco and rce
we admit competition against which American Ia
Dor cannot stand The beet sugar of California and
the cane sugar of Louisiana must be obsoleted lhe
rice fields of Carolina Georgia, the Louisiana low
lands and Eastern Texas must return to swamp The
tobacco fields of North Carolina and Virginia must
go back to scrub pine, and those OF the Housatonle
Valley in Connecticut and around the daIeS OF the
Wisconsin River must be abandoned.
American agriculture must undergo the agony and
bloody sweat of destruction OF three OF its important
objects of profit without any compromising extension
of market for what crops it has LETT The tropics
especially the Philippines don't want wheat lhel1
cereal food rice They not large customers o1
pork products 1t is unsuited to their climate.
If we are to expand and carry protective system
along we must pay the cost the destruction OF these
industries at home AS boundaries expand oul
home opportunities will contract We have given al
these reasons against the imperial policy and the
Home Market Club agrees with
But at the time that club bows to Mammon
by proposing that we may expand and at the same
time keep our protective system for ourselves, by
setting up the same tariff against own colonies
that we oppose to the rest OF the world.
The club then proposes justify expansion by the
good we will do in elevatng educating and energiz
ing those tropical people under the aegs of American
liberty
But is the first letter in protective creed that
protective tariff is necessary to the elevation OF Ia
Dor by assuring to it good wages. Are we going on
mission OF industrial elevation the tropics, leav
ing the gospel of the cause behind us?
The Home Market Club is composed of the
apostles of protection They insist that without it
American labor would be abiect that OF Asia.
Yet they propose lift up tropical labor by display
OF the flag and lecture the constitution.
1t is better to be logical and fight expansion per
We want no such hash and mincemeat government
as Senator Morgan proposes and the Home Market
Club suggests, The flag must stand for absolute
equality wherever it floats and therefore it should
rot float over people who by natural law cannot re-
ceive or appreciate our birthrght OF equality