The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-04-06
THE LUzON INSURGENTS.


Oakland Enquirer: 1t is a widely
prevalent idea that while the mass OF
the insurgents are patriotic, Aguinalde
and the other leaders are mercenary
and could be bought off, as they have
been on former occasions. Were the
| Spaniards in our place they would stor
the fighting at this time long enough
ta try the effect of gold, but we suppose
| that not even the most ardent advo-
cate of peace to be found in the United
| States would desire to see our Govern
nlent resort to such methods as these
Should the war. however, give signs OF
continuing indefinitely. by !degeneratins
| into guerrilla struggle of externina.
ton, our Government might be com
PEELED to take the hint thrown out the
other day by an English officer, VIII.
said that the RICH. way to conquer Lu.
| zon is to set one race Of natives agains
another. This is not a very Christian
| like proceeding. but it is very effective
and if we raise the question Of Chris
| tan principles we very likely have M
| business to be fighting the F'ilipinos
at all.
WHAT EXPANSION MEANS.
San Jose Mercury: What the pos
session of the Philippine Islands, tn.
commercial control of Cuba, and tn.
| ownership Of Porto Rico and Hawai-
means to the United States, expressed
! IN terms of dollars, may be gathered
| from the annual report of the Chief 0.
| the Bureau of Statistics, in which i:
discussed from a strictly business
standpoint the nearer relations between
this country and those islands which
have developed during the past year
The subject, as presented in the re.
port. divides itself into three distinc
propositions: First, how much can al
| these islands supply of the class of arti
| cles for which we have in the past beer
compelled to send money abroad; sec.
ond, how large market they can them
selves offer for our products; third, the
! introduction to other markets which
! their control may offer to our own pro.
ducers and manufacturers.
AS to the first, our annual fnrorta
| tons of the classes of articles pro.
duced in those islands have for year:
averaged fully $3.50, 100000 annually
and it is not unreasonable to presume
| that with the introduction of America
capital, energy and ingenuity, they car
supply, with the exception of sugar, the
production of which in the United
States is rapidly increasing, all of thess
productions which we have been com.
PEELED to buy abroad, and all of thai
money will be saved for distribution
among those having interests identica
with our own and representing Ameri-
can capital and enterprise. Again, these
islands offer a market of S100.0W 900 a
year for American products, and this
market will be immensely Increased
with increased production and business
activity. And finally, the marllas Of
fereG by the countries commercially adj
jacent to the Philippines, amounting to
S! ,2UO,O00,OOO annually, and whose
chief points of distribution lie, many OF
them. as near to Manila as does Havana
to the city of New York. will be worth
millions more to us under the new con-
ditions than they formerly were. These
figures are suggestive of what expan-
sion means to the United States, and
aSnecia 11v fo tho P9rif1c Coast