The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-11-29

tn effect. and from effect TO cause again,
strengthen the republic Expansion ef-
fected by the accident or design OF war
and tina. must be sustained by standing
armies and battleships, Is costly expert
ment from whence 1t is vastly moro proba-
hle that proftless than profitable COM
meroe will ensue.
The commercial expansion that Is won by
superior manufacture. better business
methods and robust competition Is the kind
of expansion that brings profit. honor and
strength to our trade.
whatever cause seiAshness shall indorse
is always strong. Commerce is selfish.
1t fights ever to control, to dictate, to
master. More nea are engaged In It in
this country than in any other pursuit
save agriculture. II represents more en-
ergy, more skill. more brains and more
active money than all the res. Of the
things to which the human family de-
votes itself. Statesmen, tubllcists. poll
ticians all know this. Imperialism. above
all other factors OF government born OF
a recent regime, new and foreign to the
republic. understands marvelousy we'll
what tremendous auxiliary force Il can
command II 1t can but harness to its evil
designs this great potentiality known az
the endless selishness OF commerce.
can commerce.: Don't interfere with my
intent TO violate ante bellum promises and
to create dependencies where / obligated
myself TO encourage and sustain republics,
and l will hand over to your control and
manipulation the trade OF the West In
all the Asiatic country
While commerce is selfish, nearly cruel,
Il is not idiotic. American commerce
takes up the pleasing record of its an
nually enlarging export trade, and peril
nently asks wherein 1t has been benefited
by Imperialism and how 1t could have been
benefited had Imperialism been an OLD ard
not new fad of a political organization
that, unmindfud of it's obligations 80 pco-
pie and country, seeks this unnatural and
unwarranted route to perpetual power.
Consular reports, to all men who will
study them with sufficient capacity 10 I'M
derstand the lessons they teach. convey
the information that American wares have
been pushed to profitable marketage be-
yond every sea known to the worlds car
rying trade. and amongst every people
who have felt the quickening touch OF
modern progress. These reports teach an
other thing to thoughtful minds and tina;
Is that spheres OF influence nre not de-
fined by battleships nor by iiverging mil
itary lines, but by the memorable lavs OF
supply and demand where rules and de-
termines the genius of competitive trade.
IT our foreign trade, however, 70 take
the imperialist view. can not be augmented
or sustained except by vast military IS
Enlistment TO be paid for ard supported
by taxes upon the people, the sole resources
of the government under the present in
iquitous tariff system that fosters and
maintains combines, while producing no
revenue, 1t were far better economies that
We had no foreign trade.
Add TO system that promotes the trust
and authorizes it to eat up the substance
OF the taxpayer, by compelling the do
nestle consumer to pay for The manufac-
lures Of the combine higher price than
does the consumer beyond the seas, G,e
burden Of caring for a constantly growing
army TO be deployed in distant lands ia
quest Of new fields for Amerioln ocia-
MERGE, and this self-same taxpayer must
soon become either deaf to the slrel song
OF an export trade that must iurnisl the
pretext for marching armies and naras'ng
warshps, or, Disguised with all this con,
scienceless sham and vulgar pretepse, ho
must feel the poison of anarchy iuyadt
his thought or the fever of revolution FIRE
up his blood.