The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-10

veloped. was s12175,549 annually. Our
trade with the islands developed will be
SIZE. 1000 annually; for who believes that
we cannot do ten times as well as Spain?
Consider their imperial dimensions.
Luzon is larger and richer than New
York. Pennsylvania, Illinois and Ohio.
Mindanao is larger and richer than all
New England. Manila, as a port of call
and exchange will, in the time Of men
now living. far surpass Liverpool. Be
hold the exhaustless markets they COM
mand 1t Is as If half dozen of our
states were set down between Oceania
and the Orient and those states them
selves undeyeloped and unspoiled of their
primitive wealth and resources. Nothing
is so natural as trade with ones neigh
bors; the Philippines makes us the near
est neighbors OF all the East. Nothing
is more natural than TO trade with those
you know. This is the philosophy Of all
advertising.
Multitude of Advantages.
'The Philippines bring us permanently
face to face with the most sought-for
customers Of the world. National pres
tige. national propinquity, these and COM
mercial activity, are the elements OF COM
mercial success The Philippines give
the first the character of the American
people supply the last 1t is providen-
tial conjunction of all the elements of
willing to go to war rather than lose
few feet of frozen Alaska, which affords
no market and commands none, what
should we not do rather than let England,
Germany, Russia or Japan have all the
Philippines? And no man on the spot
can fail to see that this would be their
fate if we retired"
Climate Rest i'm the Tropics.
Continuing. he declared the climate was
the best tropic climate in the world.
People a Race of Barbarians.
As to the people, he said they are a
barbarous race, modified by three centur-
les of contact with a decadent race. Ag-
uinaldo he characterized as a clever, pop
ular leader, able, brave, ambitious, I'M
scrupulous and masterfuI, a Malay Sylla,
not Filipino Washington.
Tribute to the Military.
1.-THE military situation. past. present
and prospective, Is no reason for aban-
donment," the senator stated. "Our cam
paign has been as perfect as possible with
the force at hand. We have been delay
ed. first by a failure to comprehend the
immensely of our acquisition, and second,
insufficient force; and third. by our ef-
forts for peace. In February. after the
treaty of peace, Otis had only 3,7o2 off,
GERS and men whom he had a legal right
to order into battle. The terms of en-
listment of the rest of his troops had ex-
pired. and they fought voluntarily and
not on legal military compulsion. Those
who complain do so in ignorance of tho
real situation
No Pause Should he Made.
I'VE attempted great task with insult
ficieht means; we became impa-
tient that 1t was not finished be-
fore 1t could fairly be commenced
and l pray we may not add that other
element OF disaster, pausing in the work
before II is thoroughly and forever done.
That is the gravest mistake we could pos
sbly make, and that Is the only danger
before us. Our Indian wars would have
been shortened, the lives of soldiers and
settlers saved and the Indians themselves
benefited, had we made continuous and
decisive war; and any other kind OF war
is criminal because Ineffective. We acted
toward the Indians as though we feared
them. loved them, hated them-a mingling
of foolish sentiment, inaccurate thought
and paralytic purpose. Let US now be in
structed by our own experience"
Chief Factor in Pro1onging the War.
AS to peace. Mr.. Beverage said
1.-The friendly methods of peace have
been thoroughly tried, only to make peace