The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24


have boon prepared for the Mes
I. sage of Peace I Would the stor!
of the cross have been told beyonc
the mountains around about Jeru
salem
Should you seek liberty in Eu
rope today, would you 60 to Rus
STA There we have an empire
that is compact, mo maddenine
sea to separate its parts" Ant
yet it is, as some one has said,
can autocracy limited only by
assassination"
The history Of our own race as
/ read it points US Enthusiastically
to the sea, and must utterly put
to fight this bogy man-Imper'
ialism.
It was under the tyranny OF
Bloody Mary that our fathers suf-
fered, and her dominion was con-
fined to the original limits of the
island.
The war of the Spanish Success
sion left England mistress of the
sea, and whatever be our opinion
as to the manner In which she has
used this power. we are all agreed,
that beyond the limits of our own
country, there is no spot upon
the earth where the civil liberties
of the citizen are SO zealously
guarded as under the English flag.
Holland has a colonial popula-
ton seven times larger than the
population of the Neither lands, and
yet no student of the history of
the Dutch, whether at home or in
the Transvaal, will say they have
lost their love of liberty. The
true lesson to be gathered from
all history is that good govern
ment is dependent upon the CHAR
AcrER of the people and their
FOR FREEDOM, and not
upon the extent or variety of its
domain. This is also true as to
"Militarism."
England, with more colonies
than any other country, has the
standing army of any
first class power in the world,
ourselves excepted. The Neither
lands, with colonial population
seven hundred per cent larger
than the population Of the home
government, have standing
army but little larger than our
own and not one tenth as large as
he Republic of France.
While we are considering this
question from a standpoint of self |
interest, let us inquire what are
The benefits to be derived from it. |
IL we are ever to have permanent
prosperity in the South, we must i
make the raising of cotton profit
able. In order to do this, we
must develop new markets for 1t.
We cannot curtail the production
because we must either allow the
'orcst to stand untouched or plant
he land in cotton when the trees
re felled. The latter, of course,
will be done, and in q few years,
he annual crop will be doubled.
When all of the commercial ma
ions of the earth are snarling and
mapping at each other over the
rade of the Pacific, we naturally
urn our eyes in that direction. The
-ade OF those countries reached by
be Pacific Ocean exceeds In value
nnually Three Billion Dollars.
Mr.. Edward Atkins, one of the ,
lost prominent anti expansionlsts ,
] the country, IN the current
amber of the North American 9
'bview, says there are eight hun :
red million people to be reached /
Y the Pacific, who buy less than a
IN cents each from us annually :,
|ne long tailed shirt around, and
bandanna handkerchief for the +
dies, would consume the entire =
,tton crop of Mississippi and n
labama annually. q
Only four per cent of our ex- i
Drts go to the Far East, accord a
e to the same authority, yet, in a
,97. CHINA ALONE TOOK NEARLY
ALF OF THE COTTON GOODS Ex- II
,RTED FROM THIS COUNTRY. Such II
Is our interest in that ''only +,
ur per cent" n
1t is idle to say this trade can y
It be developed, that these peo- +
Q will never wear cotton. +,
Lord Charles Beresford was n
Mt to China by the Associated +;
lambers of Commerce of Eng y
I'd in 1898 to examine into the G
lding and commercial questions. Il
his report, he states, that at If
) single Port of New Chwang, IS
llch is the port of entry for te
actically the whole of Man m
uria, in 1882 there. were one m
ndred and twenty picuIs Q334
unds) of cotton yarn imported. W
lat was the first ever received at ar
at port. Of this, twenty-four ,s
,uls were returned, as there was
demand for it. In 1897, the o,
portation of yarn at this same q
n A