The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-27


in. more land than Italy has and Utmost
as much as France, more than the British
islands, a more numerous people than
dozen of our States; population equal 10
One-Seventh OF our own; nearly two hur-
bred varieties of choice woods; mines
everywhere, sugar and hemp and tobacco
and copra and rice; no snow nor ice. nor
cold: perpetual spring, or autumn or sum-
mer; a commerce that will soon reach $780,.
100000 annually. Manila, the central part
OF the far East. standing at the open door
of China. all the steamship lines leading
for this port, and day by day making 1t a
port of call
"a new era has come upon us. We have
the Hawaiian islands, Guam, Porto Rico.
the Philippines and part of Samoa for our
own and we are holding Cuba in tutelage
to-day. Whether we will these are
accomplished facts The finger OF destiny
has pointed the way 10 commercial great
ness. Our western coast is alive, awake
and Is stretching out its hands for the
trade of hundreds of million of people.
which is to make San Francisco. Tacoma
and Seattle the rivals of New York, Phila-
delphia and Boston. The Southern States
see an illimitable market for their cotton
and for their iron. l know that our skilled
mechanics can beat the world in making
manufactured articles. Let US give them
a worldwide market. Let this great city
take the lead again in the imperial march.
not of monarcheal ideas or royal prop
sgandism, but of a commerce that shall
embrace the universe.
spoke at length of the industrial growth of
the South and its stimulation by trade with
the Orient.
VIEWS OF JOHN BARRETT.
John Barrett said in part: 1.-The para
mount interest of the United States in the
far East, the sentiment to which 1 have
the honor to respond, could be appropriately
changed to read, the interests of the
United States in the far Easc are and ever
will be of paramount Importance to our ma
tional progress
First, we must unwaveringly stand for
our treaty rights of trade in China and
use our good offices for the maintenance
of the integrity of the empire of China,
without even the positive ILLUMINATION of
spheres of influence which is a deceptive
phrase that means eventual areas of &C
tual sovereignty where even the prom
ises recently given by other nations may
prove idle words.
Second. we must keep control of the
Philippines, where we will give the natives
a WISE generous government with as much
autonomy as they shall by trial merit, but
place themselves on a commercially and
equal footing in the limitless Orient with
Great Britain at Singapore, HongK Kong
and WeiHa-Wei; with France in Indo-
China; Germany in Shan-Tung; Russia, in
Manchuria; Japan, in Formosa; the Meth
erlands, in Java, and even Italy possibly in
San Nun.
'Third-In order to fully develop the
commerce of these transpacifc lands and
guard our moral and material interests
in the Philippines, we must lose no time in
laying a Pacific cable and building the
Nicaraguan canal
"Fourth-We must foster the increase
of our merchant marine by all legitimate
means.
"Fifth-We must send to the far East a
commercial commission. as wisely recon-
mended in the Presidents message.
''Sixth-We must in twenty years make
our exports to Asia grow from $50. 000, 900
to $3.50, 0,000. We must open wide markets
in the interior for American manufactured
cotton, where we now sell S10,0 900 annual
ly against $20O0,OOO few years ago; We sell
flour now to the tune of $6000,000 year
against nothing few years ago. Provide
the mills and rolling stock and machinery
for an area greater and five times larger
in population than the United States. where
now there are only $50 miles of railways;
put new life into the rich Philippines and
make our trade with them Sl5O,0O0,0O0 a
year in the near future"
WI Ting Fang, Chinese minister, was
the last speaker. China is a big place, he
said. 1T contains great many million
inhabitants. China needs many things that
are manufactured by the United States
We want your cotton goods and iron and
steel products. But you can't expect us
TO buy your products unless we like you.
China wants the United States TO do fairly
with her. Fair dealing on the part of
Americans would mean the admission of
my countrymenAin the United States as
freely as immigrants from any other ma
ton. l hope the association will call the
attention of Congress TO the injustice of
the Chinese exclusion act with a view to
repeating it. so that ray countrynen may
have the rights of American citizenship
and become your countrymen."
Jutaro Komura, the minister from Japan,
thanked the assemblagc for the interest
taken in the affairs of the Orient
70 Ia
to the toast, 1.-THE Pacific Slope ald Asiatlc
Trade" He was not present.