Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-08-26
OUR cHAUMcEY BACK.
NEW YORK'S LOGNACIOUS SENA-
TOR TALKS ABOUT TRADE.
(By Telegraph 70 VtrgInian-P llot.l

~ ANiS6i0Ii W ,
New York. Aug. 25.-Tanned just
enough to look the picture Of health,
Chauncey NJ. Depew returned home to-
day on the American Line steamship
New York. lie had left here on June
zth on his yearly vacation. He said
IN an interview that he would at once
place himself In touch with the Repub-
lican National Committee and arrange
LOT speeches in the campaign. He
asked many questions about what had
been going on in politics since he went
away. In recounting his experience
this year, Mr.. Depew said
Nineteen hundred is n very graft
flying year for America abroad. One of
the phenomenon of the close of the
nineteenth and the opening of the
twentieth century is the position our
country has taken in two years Be
lore 1898 no ruler or minister in Eu-
rope was interested in American opin-
ION or action. Now the situation is
the reverse. Every Cabinet reckons
the attitude of the United States in
formulating plans Every European
nation finds its production enormously
In excess of It's consumption of manu-
iactured articles. Asia and Africa are
me markets. The possession of them
or access to them is the sum of the
old world diplomacy, operations and
armament.
UNCLE SAM IN CHINA.
The excellence and in many cases
the superiority of our goods, the ener-
gy OF our traders and the cheapness
OF. our transportation are exciting won
der. The Powers are so balanced that
our position on Eastern questions Is
Oh vital Importance. The one question
Is what will the United States do in
emma, and afterward in the Orient
There Is no disposition to prevent for
ciply our entrance on an equal foot
ing into China and the East, and
anxiety Tor us not to press the subject
ana especially not push our products
In competition with theirs among the
people of Asia.
THE COAL FAMINE.
THE coal famine threatens serious
times for Great Britain. The govern
mcnt promised to impose an export
duty but Parliament adjourned with
out enacting the law. Coal has gone
up IN prices in England in the last six
months - pen ton. Coal for railway
500 ton delivered It is less than
half that for the same purposes in
the United States. Coal is the life of
industrial nations 1t has enabled
Great britain to support six million
people in far greater comfort than five
million before the discovery of its use
as fuel, we certainly do not want to
prosper because of the misfortune of
others. but fresh sources of supply can
be found in Europe. There are meal
culable possibilities for our product in
the markets of the world"
SALE OF AMERICAN COAL
The opening for the sale of Ameri-
can coal is very great If the ocean
carriage was arranged the market
could be seized -once-aaa- Affes-es--
tablished for permanent occupancy
and growth. The enhanced cost Of
coal has increased household expense
Tor the wage earners and caused much
distress. 1t is leading to a universal
demand for higher wages. This again
VIII Increase the cost OF production.
But with coal at less than half the
price a ton for our manufactures and
transportation lines than 1t is in
Europe the advantages in competition
In railway industry are so enormously
on our side as to upset every calcula-
ton based on previous conditions. The
prospect is startling in it's possibilities
or developments and prosperity for the
United States as in the anxiety 1t is
already causing our friends across the
Atlantic"