The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-10-07

rdon-Ope-Fcurth tie Population
of the Globe Now Accessible to
Modern IntercOurse-Crisis That
May Determine the Supremacy of
Races In the Next Period of
World History.
a One showery Gay in February. 1895 j
stood on the Puget sound docks at Ia
coma and watched the Chinese liner
steam into Commencement bay and tie up
to the dock. Hardly was she made fast
when an army of stevedores attacked her
cargo and began to unload it into the
long strings of cars of several special
trains that had been made up and were
waiting to receive their loads on receipt
of a telegram from Cape Flattery that
signaled the coming Of the China steam
'er. The load from China consisted of
,mattings, thousands ssof chests of tea,
curios, bamboo work and those strange
and to US. uninvit;ng Chinese table del.-
cacies which imported to this coun-
Try for the benefit OF the Chinese con-
,ttne,ent sojourning here.
Thds~one vessel loaded six trains Of
'twenty'fvescars each, and within twenty
four hours these special freights were
speeding across the continent to St. Paul,
the Eastern terminal Of the Northern Pa
cifc, to be thence distributed over con-
meeting lines to all parts of the country.
No sooner was the incoming cargo out
Of the steamer than the stevedores began
to load the vessel, with all expedition, for
her return trip to Japan and China; and
this Is what the United States contributed
to this great steamer for freight: First,
1000 tons of thirty-foot steel rails Of sixty
pounds to the yard, to be laid on the rail-
road then building from Tientsin to
Picking. forty miles away At the same
time that the steel rails were changing
through the hatchWays to the hold great
clumsy barges, laden with tinbers twelve
to eighteen inches square and sixteen to
forty feet long, were t1oated around to
the bay side of the steamer and their
burden of ti1nbers quickly, found a pace
in the hold through another hatchWay,s
and these timbers were also for railway
construction in China. ,- ...-. .-
Then, at still another ehatchway, thou
sands and thousands Of bales Of cotton
from the Southern states were unladen
from the dock warehouses into the hold
of the steamer. 1t appears that these
Three Great Staples
ufacturing and mineral, the forestry and
agricultural interests, formed the chief
items Of the return load. Then dozens
and dozens cases Of condensed milk found
a place in the capacious NAV of this
steamer, which seemed to have no limit
to its engulfbng capacity for freight. 1t
seems that as the COW is scarce in China,
the Chinese have taken very readily to
the "tin cow" and that condensed milk
has become one of the great export COM
mcdties from this country to both Japan
and China
1t seemed as if that one vessel could
take about all the railroad iron and tim
Der that twenty whole trains could get
to 1T. why, bless yOu," answered the
supercargo to that suggestion, .'the great
trouble is that we can't find room on
this line for the freight that's offered. If
we had twice the number of vessels on
this line we would still be obliged to re-
fuse freight
The next day the same process was I'M
de- way with one of the freight steamers
o. tas stneee 1e Or Roy
Japanese Steamship line This is a line
Of steamers designed principally for
freight carrying which has been placed
in commission under a heavy subsidy be-
tween Japan and the United States now
for several years. Their supercargo had
this same tale to tell as the one at Ia
coma-far more freight was offered than
they could handle. The Japanese line
manned by Japanese-sturdy, stout
little fellows. capable Of any amount of
endurance and, to use Western phrase
short, but Quilt from the ground up
But what a commentary is this on the
boasted enterprise of the United States
that Japan, hardly risen from semi bar-
barism within twenty-five years, should
patronze the United States by carrying
her freight for her.
off
from the United States to China and
Japan Is so vast, while our trade inter-
ests in the Orient at the present time are
by no means imaginary, but are very
real in magnitude, nevertheless they are
not developed to within one-tenth of /
per cent of what they will certainly be-
come If handled properly, and fostered
by wise regulations and laws, and fur
thered by ordinary business aggressive
ness on the part of the merchants ana
manufacturers of the United States
China's exports to all countries are
:$1O5, GOO, COO yearly; of this, s.5 per cent
comes to the United States. China's i'm
ports from all countries are $171,00O,O00
yearly; of this SIS per cent is drawn from
the United States. In ten years.. under
the open door policy, this trade will run
Nup to $1,OO0,OO0,O0O a year. Whatever
policy is adopted it must increase at an
mnexampled rate.
The present year and the first year of
the new century are therefore fraught
with the most momentOus consequences
as to which will be the
Future Dominant Nations
of THE world. The influence Of the Steam
ship, the telegraph and the railroad,
In sixty or seventy years have proved
cumulative; they have made the whole
world to all practical purposes, only one
tenth of it's former size. There can be and
is but one Inevitable result from these
new conditions of communication
teenling millions of the semi-civilized
{ peoples, in Africa and Asia, must become,
whether they will or not, Nassal to that
potential Anglo-Saxon race, which.
nourished to vigor of mind and body amid
the uncongenial SHOWS and bleak winds
OF Northern Europe, has become by force
Of circumstances, responsible for imp. ant,
ing civilization among the savage and
semi-civilized races. As.
Thus, England, Germany and France
and, to a lesser extent, the weaker nations
OF Europe are deliberately parcelling out
the 11,OOo, OOO square miles of Africa with
ont so much ais asking the leave of the
tribes and natives states of the Dark Con-
tinent It means law and order, and Sc
ctlrtty to property rights; it means all
those things appurtenant to high civ1i1-
cation, that have been SO painfully Wo ked
out through two Thousand years Of effort
by the peoples of the continent of Europe.
England already governs the zoo, 600
people Of India: France has absorbed
practically all that part OF Further India
not belonging to England; Little Holland
4 rules the "a COO people of Java for
the mutual benefit Of herself and the
governed. It is but a question OF years
when Persia will meet the same fate: abe
will be absorbed by more civilized peoples.