The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-28


our country together in fraternal har-
mony. He will be as much himself
in guiding our industries to CONNER
cial supremacy and TO better things
for the worker In every calling in
life.
I'VE have been giving exclusive at
tention to the development of our in
ternal resources. Our competitors
abroad attest how thoroughly that
has been done. Crops grown beyond
the Missouri affect the value of land
on the Rhine and the Danube. Our
coastwise trade exceeds that upon
the high seas. We are the most ex-
tcnsive manufacturers ON earth. our
reoplc are so highly educated that
Christendom might be challenged to
match them with like i0,000,00O. We
have been quite exclusive in our deal
ings with the outside world. The
eighteen hundred million dollars worth
OF goods imported and exported In the
last fiscal year were fetched and car
ried almost exclusively in foreign vcs-
sells When the sun rose over the
China sea on May l We die not own
hitching post in those waters TO
which to moor an American warship.
When the sun set on May American
sailors had enlarged our borders, our
horizon our ambitions, our privileges
and our responsibilities.
we have passed beyond exclusive
attention to internal affairs. We have
graduated, as it were. Our commence"
rnpnt exercises, which were held III
Manila and Santiago, were uncommon
! IN interesting. We will have foreign
! policy very soon. and it will divide at
| tention with homo affairs, and the
student of agricultural science will
! have a wider field and the farmer more
markets. The islands of the Caribbean
| sea ana the Pacific ocean, lying near
! the twentieth parallel of north latitude,
| will offer outlets and make markets for
| the farm products of more northern
| latitudes. our grains. meats and dairy
products will find markets there. They
| produce nothing protitaby that We
! produce; We produce very little that
| they grow with profit. These islands
| will feet the q,ickenng influence OF
| contact with the United States. The
| scientist viii experiment for them and
crops that have never been selected or
s-fertili2ed Will get attention and
| be grown at an advantage in these
| islands over similar crops elsewhere
! in the tropics.
"These islands will make us indie
| pendent of the world. They complete
our latitudes of production. our flag
! floats from Point Barrow in the Arctic
zone and over islands near the equator
in the Philippine archipelago, and in
PRODUCES American commerce 10 new
| peoples. That is the scope of our jur-
isdction, and it clevates and expands
the mind to contemplate 1t. Vt is not
of so much Importance what the total
area is as the use to which we put it.
We will give lessons of many kinds
to the Asiatics. We will cross fertil-
ize their pineapples, select their coffee
plants and study the>diseases to which
they are subject. We will improve
their sugar and find better rice seed.
We will discover the principles that
underlie the production of fine tobacco
and give them reasons for the methods
that have been handed from father to
son for generations. We will teach the
Asiatics better ways of producing and
upon that as a basis civilization may
be forwarded. The Far East Will learn
that the American is as potent behind
education, commerce ard agricultural
science as he is behind the gum
1t is altogether so great and unique
an opportunity that it ought to bring
out the best that is in the American
character, as we believe it will.