The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-13

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Increased our exports and decreased
our imports = sold them more and
bought less.
tries more than Sl00,000.000 worth OF
our products and manufactures per
month
Last year our exports Of agricultural
products were Ss5S,OO0.000, $54,00O,00O
more than any preceding year in our
history, and the exports Of manufac-
tured articles In 1889 were S2s6, 000,-
900 and exceed those OF 1898 by S4s,-
100000, and for the first time exceed
the importation Of manufactured ard-
cles.
Our exports OF domestic manufactures
have increased ITO per cent in ten
years. and are now so per cent more
than In 1896.
They have gone where factories have
long been established, and found sat
isfactory market. and consist Of artt-
Giles in which labor forms the largest
percentage OF value. principally iron
and steel; a just tribute to the skill
and ingenuity Of the American artisan
and mechanic.
Our expectations Of the manufactures
OF Iron and steel have grown from $l4,-
900, 900 in 1880 to more than $90,0OO,OOO In
1899. while lmpOrtations have fell from
S7l ,OOO,O 900 to $4,000, 900. Our total ex-
ports have Increased 81 per cent from
1851 to 1899. and oul imports have only
Increased sc per cent.
The foreign trade Of Great Britain
has not grown any since 1890, and no
other country shows such wonderful
growth In its exports and so small an
Increase in its imports as the United
States Of America.
Last year our exports even doubled
our imports. For every dollars worth
OF foreign merchandise brought into our
ports two dollars worth OF our COM
modiies found a market in other lands,
a record made by no other country save
our own: record that announces the
coming supremacy OF America In the
markets Of the world.
With this Industrial prosperity and
commercial progress has come a flood
Of gold that has overwhelmed the as
sauit made on our currency In 1885.
The net importatIons Of gold for 1898
were a little less than 05,000.OO0, in
cFeaslng our gold circulation for 1897
and 1895 by f205, 900 900 and the money
circulation over S3O0.OO0,0Oa. The very
elements seem to have cOnspired with
the Republican party under Mckinley
to destroy the last argument for dis
honest currency.
The worlds production of gold In
creased from Slls.s4s,70I In 1880 to
S2ST, 504,S00 In 1897, and the production
for 1898 ard 1899 will reach 800 to $50
millions, with strong probabilities that
II will continue to increase rather than
decline during the present generation.
The supplY-1pf primary money for
redemption so ardently commended for
by tho advocates OF free silver in 1895
has been furnished IN gold The stand
ard Is not approaching. but depreclat-
Ing. and the enthusiastic shOuters for
ld to ! are ready to jOln Agulnaldo
and his insurgent bands in the orient
The silver craze passed away under
the benign influence Of normal condl-
lions restored by Republican rule. like
the many other false issues that make
up tho record Of the Democratic party.
and they now seek to make new issues
of the territories that have come 20 Hs
through the fortunes OF n war sought to
be avoided by the PreSiden IN every
honorable way, and attempted to be
forced upon US by them without due
preparation
After Dewey demolished the Spanish
fleet In Manila bay on May Day, no
President would have done anything
but send him relnforcements. The sit
| uatIoR demanded IT, and the wave OF
patriotic feeling that sweiied from Ply
mouth Rock TO Golden Gate would have
bruoked nothing elst. Our soldiers
went to the Philippines then because
Il was the universal demand and their
duty to go. and they Will remain I'LL
peace comes. law and order are re-
stored and life and property are pro.
tected and secure. We stand charged
by the treaty Of peace with intsrna-
| tionai responsibility for the Philip
pines, and we owe duty not only TO
the natives. but to all persons who own
property or have business interests Of
any sort there to quell warning factions
and protect our own and foreign COM
Y1ercial Interests.
Senator Gray, u Democratic member
OF the peace commission, while careful
and conservative and by no means a
land grabber, on his return from Paris
fully advised as TO the situation. paid
a high tribute to the President and en-
dOrsed his position In the matter.
An advisory commission has been In
the Philippines studying the general
situation. That commission Is CONF
posed Of President Schurman, OF Cor
nell: Colonel Chas. DENLY, many years
minister to China: Dean c. Worcester,
| General Otis and Admiral Dewey, men
| who are eminent qualified and thor
oughly competent to advise the practl-
cal administration there. Our pernn-
rent policy then after peace can be
more safely entrusted TO their advice
| than t. Democratic lssue-makers, who
gettIo problems first ana examine them
afterwards We viii continue 10 net rs
| trustees for the general welfare till or
der Is restored and Just system OF I'D
| minIstrntIon Is provided. II they then
\ prove themselves capable OF orderly
| government We can do for them what
| Il for the best interests and the gem
| ernl welfare OF humanity under the
authority Of the stars and stripes.
! II viii be soon enough to determine
that when the situation is fully UNDER
rtdod ana the conditions nre ripe for
! action, We have acquired since 1900
| 2 zoo. 600 square miles OF territory, the
| Aieutinn Islands, stretching 1000 miles
| weEt of Hawaii, thirteen Islands in the
| caribbean SEA and tifty~aeven tn the
Pacific ocean, and yet wo are told that
| under The constitution we cannot. nc
| uuIre any more unless II Joins us some-
where.
Sovereignty implies growth and ex-
| mansion chat has been the law OF onr
| national life. and n we desire COM
| MERGE and market VIC must go into
/ Inc world when duty calls US. "a a
| business proposition the tropical lands
| ihnt have come under our control and
| influence By the events Of the past year
viii furnish new and broad fields for
our commerce and our evcr-growing
market for our products. We have
only been getting an insignificant por-
| tiott of their tFaAe We ran buy the
| SiO0. 900 COO worth Of sugar and coffee
and $50 100000 worth OF troplcnl fruits
| from them, and they In turn can FUR
nlEh market for SlOo'OOOOOO Wofth