The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-11

The San win MS Hat in EsIs Ea1as-
Fson The New York Sun.
Before the Indepel.aent Club, Of
Ba.falo, last week, the Hon. Clal1lee
Howell, of the Atlanta Constitution.
Democratic journal that has been
trying to smother It's own liking for
expansiecl with the gas Of ..anti-irn-
perialism,' spoke not as a Democrat
but as an American on the United
States and the Philippines He took
as the title of bis address 1.-THE
Man With His Hat in His Hand,
meaning thereby an attitude of re-
spect and reverence for American
institutions and achievements. the
figure being suggested to his mind
by picture of NIillet's not The
Man With the Hoe" but sThe An
gelus.'' Mr. Howell took for his
text the prophetic words of Thomas
il. Benton:
.sThere is the East. there is India
Mr.. Howell traced the territorial
and commercial Development Of the
attained without much protest from
the same narrow views that the anti
imperialists are now emitting So
loudly. To day Benton's phrase
should be changed to read:
.tThere is the East. there are the Philippines,
the gateway to Asia
The immense reasons of self-in-
terest that should prompt the South
to insist upon American possession
of the Philippines have never been
stated more clearly than they were
by Mr.. Howell. The South is now
manufacturing cotton products as
well as raising cotton. She is no
longer at the merry Of outsiders
Actually, she has reached such
point of Independence that this year
the price of her cotton was not fixed
in Liverpool, but in the fields. The
dollars ard cents that expansion
means to the South in the future are
computed by Mr.. Howell in a pass
age, the clear common sense Of
which is a sharp contrast TO the vapor-
ings of the anti-expansionists
GA 100000 bale crop Of cotton
at only cents a pound means $780,
900, 900 in cash for the raw material;
and this year the farmer who got
less than cents for his cotton had
only himself to blame for selling it
too early. Ten million bales of cot
ton in the manufactured state means
a cash equivalent Of from one and
one half to two billion dollars We
T. ~ a mt wi he.
even a larger per cent Of the crop is
manufactured in the vicinity of the
cotton field; but with the enormous
development of Asiatic demand f or
cotton goods, and the steadily in
creasing facilities of the South to
supply it, we can reasonably expect
an outcome which. at no distant day.
will fall but little short of the weay-
ing by the factories of our country of
practically the total output of Ameri-
can bales; and figuring only upon the
increased dem and sufficient to justify
a modest wardrobe of not more than
one cotton suit to each Filipino, we
have in this item alone a return
which would very soon meet the cash
cost of the islands and in addition,
an investment of incalcu1able wealth
to the cotton industry of our coun-
try"
In letter to the Atlanta Constitu
ton Mr.. William W. Landrum says
that Mr. Howell is himself 'sThe
Man With His Hat in His Hand,
preaching gospel the South needs
to hear It ID gospel of common
sense. Expansion will benefit the
South; therefore the South should
adhere to expansion. In spite of Mr.
Bryan, that gospel is gaining South
ern converts every day
"The Man With His Hat in His
Hand" is getting the better of .sThe
Nan XE1,c, Talks ThronUh His Hat ,,