The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1900-01-24

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\ year Tor each iDhabitant In those co
onies, and most OF that WAS to suDpI
[ her own army and her 0wr iii ;ehol,
| ers, who wanted English goods. a.
. Trade would have been intinitesti ma
almost absolutely nothing, with he
} tropical colonies, except for her arn,
In India OF 70 600 Englishmen and be
equally great army Of ctliceholder
there. So, such an argumen. is d
} nonsense. Trade docs not follow til
flag.
The United States can only secur
tropical countries as colonies. A
Schurman, our commissioner to to-
Philippines, said, the Sultan Of Su.
and his people would fight, and there
fore it was not well to bother wit
them. SO the people wno inhabit tht
temperate zone will fight, and our onl
place to get people who are easy /,
control, people who will not fight to-
hard, people who are not armed witt
modern implements OF war, peopl,
who can be run over with battalions O
our troops, is In the tropics.
How, then, in the light OF England,
experience, In the light of the fac,
that England has practically no trade
win the Inhabitants OF her tropical
colonies, except the trade that comes
|
| her army, can we expect to have much
| trade with the people Of the Philip
pines How are we going to get rich
keeping standing army in the Philip
pines, so as to mako people whose
wages are not over S cents day trade
with US?
MIR. President, in the Philippines
we do not even supply our own army.
IL trade follows the flag, H. seems to me
that the trade with our own army
ought to follow the flag. So prone Is
trade to seek the best markets that our
army is supplied with potatoes and
oeef and butter and pork from the Ea-
gllsh colonies practically none of II
comes from the United States.
Gu: soldiers are clothed by the Ell
glish contractors at Hong Kong. Only
shoes.aod few canned goods 20 from
the United States, and the reason they
go Is because we export shoes and that
people everywhere can buy shoes
cheaper in this country than anywhere
else, thus proving conclusiyely tha,
trade does not follow the fiag, but goes
to the best markets. The coal that
Propels our ships across the Pacific is
English coal. We do not even patron
lze our own coal mines on the western
coast. Every vessel coming this way
or going that way in passing Nagasaki,
takes on load OF English coal. Our
transports are chartered by the gov
ernment, and, therefore, every trans
port carries goods from the United
States Tree OF cost to the producers
1t seems to me exceedingly strange
why, IL trade will follow the nap il
does not get under the flag and lust
hoat over and supply our own army In
the tropics.
What Is there in the future to war.
rant us to believe that trade will here
alter follow the flag in the Philippines?
| should like to have some body tell me.
We made u treaty with Spain by which
We agreed that the Philippines should
have the open door," 80 that all the
world could trade there through all
time to come. Therefore we broke
down the barriers of protection, aban
doned the policy upon which the r.
publican party has ridden into power
Tor years. We declared that we would
have the open door," thereby destroy
Ing absolutely all hope OF any trade in
the future with the people Of the Pnil-
lppines, for, under the decisions OF our
Supreme Court, We can not impose a
tarih upon their products unless we
amend the constitution.
30 their products will come to US
Tree OF duty. The tobacco made into
into cigars by the nimble fingers OF
those capable Malays will close the to
oacco and cigar fac.o les OF this coun-
try and drive our labor into other chan.
nels OF employment. There is no rea
son why they can not supply unlimit
edly the cigars for American consump-
tion. Labor there Is cheap, labor Is alb
undant, and New England's money
the vast fortunes Of the men who have
accumulated by the control of monopo-
lies In our country-will go there to
exploit this labor, go there to make
cotton goods out Of Chinese cotton to
be sold in the American market.
MIR. President, | saw cotton mill In
China having "a 900 spindles, q modern
mill, with, think, 2,7OO Chinese EN-.
ployees or laborers, every one OF them
men, full grown. There were no chill
dren and no women in that mill, and
just one Euglishman. Every other en-
ployee, every spinner, carder, weaver,
engineer, every man running loom,
was Chinaman, and the average
wages-mark that-amounted to SO so
u month and they board thems ,lves.
besides, they were paid In silver, in
Mexican dollars, equal to $l.75 in our
money. Yet the American laborer Is
In 7itcd to compete with 10000, 900 of
this kind of labor by annexing the
Philippines.
1t seems to me the sum and substance
OF the whole scheme is to find field
where cheap labor can be occurred, la
Dor that will not strike, that does not
belong to union, that does not need
an army to keep 1T in leading strings,
that will make goods for the trusts OF
this country and, as trusts dominated
the st. Louis convention and own the
Republican party, it is d very proper
enterprise for them to engage in.
England has not been enriched by
her conquests. To-day, what is the
happiest country in the world 2 1t is
little Switzerland. Where is there the
best distribution Of wealth, the best
opportunity for man? Where is there
the least poverty, misery, and dlstressH
1t is in Switzerland, without colonies.
1t is not in Eugland. Her conquests have
bestowed no blessings upon her people.
Most Of her people have no property !;
most OF the people OF England own
nothing. Two-thirds OF them-66 per
cent. of them-OHn nothing, while
about 222 600 persons own all the pro-
perty Of Great Britain.
You ask me what | would do with
the Philippines. | would draw our
army back to Manila. | would send to
the Philippine people assurance that
they could set up their own govern
ment-a republic, such as thew have