The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-10
BEVtRl0GE ON PHILIPPINES,
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mite iiil lI' then? That statesman com
agsirS+ otiine against American trade
ana wheat and tobacco, me A,o 1917,
"aiiuldeturer Of machinery ana cIotbine
Nlo lalls 10 put America where She roa11
''5iiiand mat trade. Germanv's Chinese
Ni"Ne Is increasing like magic. she nos
c9 , apiished ship lines and secured a ton.
sue Ioothold on Chinas very soil Rus-
1.s Chlhese trade is growing beyond he
-, oHe Is spending the revenue of the
itsaiF 10 Hhsh her railroad into Pekin
ana she is IN physical possession
Vi me imperial pevince of Nancb,1ria
D"paIi Chlnese trade is multiplying in
Oiui-le ana value; She is bending her
~ 70 her merchant marine and is 10
o"lep along China's very coast. But Ma
nv, - nearer China than Yokohama is
- i!le hillpplnes command the commercial
i'ua'loh Oh the entire East. Can America
ptsl trade with China from San Eran
cisco or New York? From San Era,aisos
y, course But if San Francisco were
TloSer TO China than New York is TO
i1'9"uIs' what then? And Manila is
uCai eI hong Kong than Havana is TO
Washington And yet American statesmen
pan TO surrender this commercial throne
VI t"e -.l-nt where Providence and our
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- - " "rlte the story OF that Sug-
sesled treason to American supremacy
and therefore to spread of American civ.
lllzatlon, let her in mercy write that those
nothing more ''i-N
resources and Size of Islands
But if they did not command China.
l'uid' the orient. the whole Pacific for
purposes of offense, defense and trade the
in,
thaf we should hold them. I have cruised
more than 1900 miles through the archi-
peidSO every moment a surprise at it's
ioVelness and wealth / have ridden hun
dreds of miles on the islands, every foot
OF the way revelation of vegetable and
mineral riches. No land In America sur
passes IN fertility the plains and valleys
OF Luzon. Rice and coffee, sugar and
cocodnuts, hemp and tobacco, and many
products of the temperate, as well as
tfoplc zone. grow in various sections of
the archipelago. I have seen hundreds of
bushels of Indian corn lying in a road
fringed with banana trees. The forests
of Nesros Mindanao. Mndora, Paluan
and parts of LuZon are invaluable and in
tact. The wood of the Philippines can
supply the furniture of tie world for a
century to come. At Cebu, Rev. Father
Julio Segrera told me that forty miles of
Cebu's mountain chain are practically
mountains of coal Pablo Malta one of
the most reliable men on the islands, con-
firmed the statement. Some declare that
the coal is only Ignite; but ship captains
who have used it, told me that it is better
steamer fuel than the best coal of Japan
1 have a nugget of pure gold picked up in
its present form on the banks of a Phil
ippine creek. I have gold dust washed
out by crude processes of careless natives
from the sands of a Philippine stream
Both indicate great deposits at the source
from which they come. In one of the
islands great deposits of copper exist I'M
touched. The mineral wealth of this en-
pire of the ocean will one day surprise the
world l base this statement partly on
personal observation, but chiefly on the
testimony of foreign merchants in the
Philippines, who have practically inves-
tigated the subject, and upon the unani-
nous opinions of natives and priests. And
the mineral wealth is but a small fraction
of the agricultural wealth of these islands.
And the wood. hemp. copra and other
products of the Philippines supply what
we need and can not ourselves produce.
And the markets they will themselves af-
ford will be immense. SPANS export ana
import trade. with the islands undev elop-
ed. was Sl2175 $40 annually. Our trade
with the islands developed win be $125,-
O0n 900 annuauv. f1l VINO believes that we
c36. not do ten times as well as Spain.
Consider their imperial dimensions. Luz
ION is larger and richer than New York,
Pennsylvania Illinois or Ohio. Mindanao
is larger and richer than all New Eng
land. Manila. as a port of call and eX-
change will. in the time of men now liv-
ing. far surpass Liverpool. Behold the
exhaustless markets they command. 1t is
as if a half dozen of our states We're set
down between Oceana and the Orient, and
states themselves undeVeloped ana
uuspoiled of their primitive wealth and
resources. Nothing is so natural as trade
with ones neighbors; the Philippines
make us the nearest neighbors of al the
East Nothing is more natural than TO
trade with those you know. This is the
nbilosophv of all advertising. The Phil
ippines bring us permanently face to race
with the most sought for customers OF the
world National prestige, national pro-
pinduity, these and commercial activity
are the elements of commercial success
The Philippines give the first; the char
acta- of the American people supply the
last II is a providental conjunction of
all the elements of trade, OF duty and or
rower. If we are willing TO go TO war
rather than let England have a few feet
Of frozen Alaska, which affords no mar
l,et and commands none what should we
moi do rather than let England, Germany,
Russia or Japan have all the Philippines?
And no man on the spot can fan TO see
that this would be their fate if we re-
tired
philippine Climate.
The climate Is the best tropic climate In
the world This is the belief of those who
baya lived in many tropic countries, with
scores of whom l have talked on this point
NV own experience with tropical condi-
tons has not been exhaustive; yet, speak
ing from that experience, / testify that
~ climate of Iloilo. Sulu, Cebu, and even
Of Manila. greatly surpasses that of Hong
Kong. And yet on the bare and burning
rock of Hong Kong our constructing race
has builded one of the noblest cities oil all
the world. and made the harbor II com
nnsnds the focus Of the commerce OF the
East. And the glory of that achievement
illumines with rarer splendor tnan .hh'
20 - W. tarloo the flag that floats above it,
for from Hong Kong's heights civilization
is irradiating all the Orient. If this be I'M
nerialistn its final end will be the empire