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sition of the Philippines is to mark an
epoch in the history of this country. The
worlds conflict in the East at this time
is in reality the outgrowth of commercial
| competition. 1t is a question Of markets
and market places
The great effort of the nations this CEN
fury is to dispose of their surplus pro-
auctions. Russia has made an adrob ad-
vance by rail into China to forestau
large measure of supply at her seaports
Germany, in the interests of her trade
has forced China TO relinqush rich prov
inces, and England, France, Italy and ia
pan have acquired weil-developed spheres
l of commercial influence. To-day with
| foothold in the Philippines we hold the
key to the door.
The loss of our Chinese trade would be
! a calamity 40 the American farmer and
manufacturer With outside markets
prices must fail mills shut down and labor
| be thrown out of employment
The South is peculiarly interested in our
| Asiatic markets. From the Orient comes
| continually increasing demand for raw
| and manufactured cotton The outlet
! there for our surplus products seems al
most limitless. In China to-day the most
popular cotton products come from South
ern mills Southern manufacturers have
not yet reached more than one-thirtieth of
! the popula ton of China. 1t is not unrea-
] SOnaDlG 10 say t0dt WntU tle GuflIt Itlu -
covered it win more than require double
the capacity of our mills to supply their
demand, This market presents the as
| tonishing condition of demanding both raw
and manufactured coming from the same
section. 1t is of inestimable Importance to
the entire South that this trade should
| be developed, held and protected. With
millions of capital invested in Southern
factories, dependent as they are upon the
markets of the Orient, the representative
from the South who opposes commercial
expansion with all its results and respon-
siblities. is blinded to the true interests
of his section, and weeded TO mere po-
ltica sentiment
In striving for commercial progress,
commercial expansion and commercial SUI
premacy l would not favor the irfcorpora-
ton into our body polite any semi-bar
barous races totally unable to appreciate
our system of government; but ] do favor
the policy of expansion I will vote for the
retention of those islands in some consti-
tutonal way so as to control markets and
new commercial advantages. IL this be
Imperialism, let them make the most of it.
Commerce in the Far East.
Gen Charles DENLY, ex-Minister to
China, spoke, in part, as follows:
1T is plain mat we should not stand
idly by and see hostile camps esta olished
in China under the plea of leaseholds, If
the lessees intend making us pay their
duties. Russia might lease the whole or
Manchura; England might lease the Yang
Sc valley, China, and France the south
and entirely deprive US of the most prom
ising market of the globe. We nave as
much right to intervene in Chinese mat
ters in behalf Of our missionaries and mer-
chants as we had TO intervene in Venezue-
Ian affairs. We have just as much 20
save our trade representa- lives in China
as England has or Russia, or any other
European Power has 10 protect its own.
"A new era commenced in China In 1898
when Germany, without saying so much
as Good morning, sent battalion of ma
rines to land a Kiao Chou, in the province
of Chang Tung and to take possession of
some 300 miles Of territory in that country
China wanted to resist the invas sion of
these marines, but she was persuaded by
Russia to make no resistance.
Russia herself demanded OF China the
cessation of Port Arthur and Talien Wan
and a large strip of territory France
then demanded cession of the territory on
the mainland south, and England not to
be outdone by her sisters, demanded and
received about 400 miles of territory around
Hong Kong and the fortress Of Wei-Hai-
Wei and nearly 300 miles of adjacent ter
ritory on the mainland. Italy has just put
In q claim for a Ike concession. 1t is to
be presumed that other nations will do
likewise.
1.-The Eldorado Of commerce les before
us in the Far East our own trade mas
recently been going up by leaps and
bounds.
Look at China as she stands to-day.
She has an area of over 100000 square
miles She has population which is es-
timated by competent scholars to be &c.,
100000 Her foreign trade amounts to only
$500 900. or not quite 81 a head This
trade before many years will reach 500
100000. A majority OF the new cotton mills
established in the South are exclusively
helping the Chinese in this direction
When the instruction Is over we will
discover what to do with the Philippines.