The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-12-31

also had worlds committee on commerce
consisting Of $4,000 Of the brightest.
keenest business men this world has
ever produced, TO handle this immense
territory and traffic in the field, and the
records OF ten years, from 1870 TO 1880.
shows that while the manufactures or
France increased s222, $780, 900, those OF
Germany $416,240,0 900, Great Britain $561,-
10000. those OF the United States in
creased 1897 900, and from 1866 to 1890
the increase In our National wealth was
greater than during the entire period in
tervening between the discovery of Column
mus and the close OF the war of the re-
bellion. Our manufacturing interests con-
tinued to increase and multiply with
greater momentum In 1892 than ever be-
| fore. and all that time this wonderful
prosperity was laden with what is now
dubbed by some of the heaviest particle
pants in this marvellous accumulation OF
wealth as that commercial incubus the
drummer, and they are yelling for a Ma
/ tlonal nursing bottle for their commerce,
and smobeless powder to carry forward
\ their missionary work in the Philippines
| If the infant is large enough to tacAle the
earth In a rough and tumble fight for
more territory 1t surely would be sufh
| GENTLY robust TO take care of itself ia
business way. and some of us are OF the
opinion that II should reach n conclusion
in the very near future which one OF the
TWO articles 1t wants worst. a nursing bot
tie or smokeless powder. with the dis
tinct understanding that it can't have
both. The tariff shuts out all foreign COIN
petition or at least, up to the limit OF
duty upon each article. and says to ths
world ut large. stand back this mag
nifcent commerce is for Americans strict
ly.' The trusts shut OH home competi-
ton, aud enumerates how many Ameri.
cans are in on the divide. Here Is an
other place where our Impressions were
misleading We supposed American
markets for Americans was meant to in
ciude the 10O000 0J or more inhabitants OF
the Nation. or at least so many of them
AS have been actively engaged in the up
building OF commercial supremacy" To
summarize, the tlrin is to keep out for
eign competition, the trusts are to shut
of home competition, everybody but stock
holders in the combinations are to bs
turned out on pasture without grass. while
they feed them watered stock with an
occasional stick of tahy in lieu of their
God-glven heritage. The prosperity OF
this Nation is the Joint heritage OF all thH
people engaged In trade and trausporta
ton, in manufacturing and mining in
min and shop. in foundries aud upon
farms, of all who are willing to do fair
Gays work for fair days wages
The philosophy OF the trusts IL. Those
who can live upon the smallest amount
that VIII sustain lifo may live. If We
are willing to accept that as satisfactory
solution of existing economic problems
and just reward for the part We. IA the
commercial ambassadors of the Nation
have earned in our great National pros
perity ii We are also willing to force 1T
upon our friends and neighbors. then let
us stand aloof while the hands OF the
assassin OF our Republic is gripped upon
the throat OF the Nation, for fear some
one might suspicion us of changing our
politics, or even of having such an article
as politics In our makeup. For thirty
five years this country did business
through commercial travellers and enjoyed
a prosperity which stands without a par
allcl in the history of the world. We do
not say the commercial travellers are en-
titled to all the credit. but viii contend
they contributed as much toward it as
any other single cause. aud We insist
without fear of successful contradiction
that they were not stumbling block"
in The way of the commercial progress OF
the country as has been said by so en-
lightennd an apostle OF trusts as the New
York Times. Cooper.