The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-14
WHITELAW REID
ON PEACE TREATY
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claims against the country may be
hung.
At the same time they neither neg
lected nor feared the duty of caring
for the material interests of their own
country;-the duty of grasping the
enormous possibilities upon which we
had stumbled. for sharing in the
awakening and development OF the
farther East. That way lies now the
best hope of the American commerce.
There you may command a natural
rather than an artificial trade;-a
trade which pushes itself instead OF
needing to be pushed; trade with
people who can send you things you
want and cannot produce, and take
from you in return things they want
and cannot produce; in other words,
trade largely between different zones,
and largely with less advanced peo-
Dles, comprising nearly one-fourth the
population of the globe, whose wants
promise to be speedily and enormously
developed. -
The Atlantic Ocean carries mainly
u different trade, with people as ad"
yanccd as ourselves who could pro-
ducc or procure elsewhere much OF
what they buy from us, while we coulu
produce, If driven to IT, most OF Wt Wnat
tye need 10 buy from them. 1t is more
or less therefore an artificial traue,
as we'll as a trade in which we nave
lost the first place and will find 1t an
ucult to regain, The ocean carrlaSe
for the Atlantic is in the hands Oh ouf
rivals. ,..,,. ,s
Thn Pacific Ocean, on the contrary, Is
in our hands nov. Practically we OWE
more than half the coast on TINS sluy,
dominate the rest ana nave ii'lun" "s
statinus in the Sandwich and Aleutlail
islands. 70 extend now the authorl!
rr th. United States over the STeHl
philippinc archipelago is to fence III lne
China Sea and secure an almost equa'lJ
commanding position on tn other Slur
Of the Parific-dOuDlinG our cohtrol Oh
if aud of the fabulous trade the IWen-
tfa'h Century will see il bear. KlShtiy
usnd il enables the United states 10
convert the Pacific Ocean almost lht"
an American lake.
rnushv pnntimcntality characteristic
neither of practical nor of responsible
ururle; alike un-AmeriCan and un-
christian, since it would humiliate us
ny showing lack Of nerve to hold What
we are entitled TO, and inCriminate us
hy ontailipg endless bOodshed and an
archy on a people whom we nave al
ready stripped Of the only government
they have known for three hundred
=,
don to civil war and foreign spoliation
BUGBEARS.
Let us free our minds of some bug
bears. one Of them is this notion that
with the retention of the Philippines
our manufacturers will he crushed by
the products Of cheap Eastern labor
But ii does not abolish our custom
houses; ana we can still enforce what
ever protection We desire.
H. IL Iat mo =
men will be swamped under the immi-
grafton of cheap Eastern labor. But
tropical labor does not emigrate tt
colder climates None have ever come.
If we need law to keep them out We
can make it.
1t is bugbear that the Filipinos
would be citizens of the United States
and would therefore have the same
rights of free travel and free entry OF
their own manufactures with Othel
citizens of the United States at all; and
they never will be, unless you neglect
your Congress.
1t is hugbear that anybody living OF
territory or other property helOngins
to the United States must DE a citizen
The Constitution says that person!
born or nauralized in the United States
are citizens of the United States"
while it adds in the same sentence
"and Of the states wherein they re-
side showing plainly that the provi-
sion does not necessarily relate to ter
TitOries.
1t is equally a bushear that the tariff
must necessarily he the same over an!
81 tn" territory or other proper s. of tn,
United states, as ii is in the Nation il
sell The Constitution requires that al
duties, inpuStS and excuses shall be tn
same throughout the United States,