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

tics available yield the following re
suits as to areas in square miles:
Cuba 45,0O
Porto Rico 3,55'
Hawaiian group G,64s
The Philippines 114OO'
The Sulus 1,00|
The Carolines LOU
| Guam in Ladroncs 5O'
Total ILL., ,69'
Cuba is about the size of New York
Ohio or Alabama.
Porto Rico is little smaller thai
Connecticut.
The Hawaiian Islands are somewhat
smaller than New Jersey, the largest
island. Hawaii, being about twice the
size Of Delaware.
The Philippines cover q land space
about as great as New York and the
N ew England States together. Luzon
on which Manila is situated, is not
much smaller than New York.
| All the new dependencies together
are about equal in area to the New
England States, New York, Pennsyl-
vania and New Jersey.
In annexing lands we annex Dopula-
tions also. These are rs follows:
Cuba-1, 500, 900; 65 per cent white.
Porto Rico, 100000; 60 per cent
white.
Hawaii-9O, ,ooo; 25 per cent white.
Phillppincs-S,COO,0 900; mostly Orien-
tails.
Sulus. Carolines and Ladroncs-
Mainly barbarous.
Roughly, we annex about ten million
people, OF whom 30 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 abounding in iron, coal,
copper; marble and precious stones.
The forests and the mines have been
scarcely at all worked.
Only 10 per cent of the arabic lands
are now under full cultivation.s Seven
per cent is wholly unreclaimed, and 4
per cent of the islands area is pnex-
plorcd forest.
The imports of the island were
roughly estimated for 1894 at 5O,CO0,-
600, and the exports at S95,O0O,OO0.
Porto Rico's products are snbstanti-
ally the same as those of Cnba. In
1890 tic island imported S1S,OOO,OOO
worth Of goods and exported S1O,OOO,-
900.
Hawaiian exports consist almost
wholly of sugar. Its exports amount
to S15,OOO,OoO a year; its imports to
S7.OoO,O00.
The Philippines produce sugar. hemp,
tobacco and copra. Imports about
S11, 100000 year; exports about $780,
100000.
The Sulus produce teak and sandal
wood. No statistics of commerce
exist.
The Carolines are inhabited by Malay
fisherman ana produce nothing of
value. The Ladrones are in like con-
dition.
We have also annexed new climates.
The Philippines, as all travellers
agree, have climate in which a man
from the temperate zone can keep alive
only with the greatest difficulty, and
can keep well 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 leprosy, 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 incurablc idle
ness.
or Hawaii we already know mucll-a
gorgeous beauty Of sky and earth, a
paradise in which turks leprosy.
In both these domains the only pos
sible labor that is commercially pro-
ductive is contract labor not distin-
guishablc from the harshest 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 the Cuban cities
and plains is impossible for the white
races. The heat and the diseases ban
the white iaborer.
Porto Rico, called ''thc most health
ful Of the Antillss,H i; !. delightful
winter resort But white men from
the United States will never live there
longer than for the brief winter season
AS Il Who'll the new climates added
to the long-establishcd American vari-
cites are not attractive to the healthy
vigorous white races. These races will
not labor in them, will not thrive il
them, will not voluntarily liv" in them
And they stunt and weaken and ravas(
and render indolent and savage ths
native races.
Yes, it is undoubtedly a bigger, {:
rrcatcr United STATES. But Is i, q bet