The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-12-15

or Tor the western shores OF Europe
would pass In and through the Gulf of
Mexico. All the business from the west
coast of North aud South America for
the eastern coast Of the United States
would also pass through this canal, aud
instead of the er at West transferri e
her production to the eastern shores of
The United States by rail, they would
naturally be conyeye down the western
waterways to ports that could be easily
reached by the mammoth ocean tramps
as they travel from one side of the world
to the other.
The construction of this isthmian
canal would bring with it the develop
ment of merchant marine, and our com
mercial business would increase with
such rapidity that the necessity for a
merchant marine would be the great
incentive for its development. The people
OF the United States abound in resources,
and where proposition demonstrates
clearly the necessity for development,
the development will invariably follow.
Cur country has reached that point
in her development where II steady and
growing expansion of our navy is essen
tai In order to protect our business inter-
ests wherever they may be represented.
The policy Of tile United States govern
ment in deciding to lake into their hands
the control and management of tie
Philippine Islands demands u prompt ex-
pIIisiOn of our navy and the early devel-
oDnient OF our merchant marine.
we heartily approve and fully endorse
the position taken by this government
Upon the great question OIL expansion.
WllhouC expansion along The lines of
l,y e.
.na TIE growing surplus III our agricul-
tnral productions, our country must in
eYitably rseede from being one of tie
world. The Unitel States has in every
line of business surplus productions to
be disposed Of. Now, in order to best
dispose OF those productions, and at the
satne tiIue to increase oui development
aud the productive capacity of our
country, we must have markets, LOW
can we better expect to open up and de-
velop business abroad than tn ough tie
adoption of what might be termed the
expansion policy of our government, in
So Tar as relates to tho creation of colo.
nial possessiaus. England, Germany
and France illustrate far stronger than
words eau depict tho benefits u be de-
IiSCd w ~ CONlpi1 AtohA PAofSt AOfCA~
Op,nent 0f colonial possessions.
The United States, you might say,
has. up to this time, been able within
tS.lf t. consume in measure the
largest share OF its manufactured aLd
agricultural products, but il has now
reached the point where. i'll order 10 more
fully develop its great industries and re-
sources, it must adopt the policy OF the
| f,f d
OPEN up, through policy Of xpansiO ,
markets that Tadep other conditions
could nat be controlled.
s..lt ID true our country has been doiI g
some business with the Oriental cOun-
tries, but our business has been in the
lnain confined to filling in the odds and
ends that the great powers, who are in
cnitrol at those centeEs, could not cor.
veliently supply. Wherever the great
CGIsummg sections Of the world have N
BIZ suppied with both agricultural and
manufactured articles. they are without
exception supplied IN the main by the
great powers under whose protection
they exist.
THE United States J., eminently q
progressive nation. We rs a people are
entirely independent to tho utmost degree
OF all the balance of the world. Such /;
condition also makes US dependent. for iE
the exuberance of our growth as an in.
dependent nation, We must depend in a
great measura upon the outside peopl,
for trade and patronage.
''IIow can this business, then. with
the outside world be best attained is tht
imDortautqucstion now most agitated by
tn peope Of this country. An isthmiaI
canal, large and great merchant maria,
and most powerful navy will make
this country what she should be, tht
greatest of nations"
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