The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-10-25


migrate to this country and compete
with American labor has no foundation
to support it. Nature marks the line
which laboring migration must follow.
Witness ii own country. The Swedes
and the Norwegians find congenial
homes along the northern lakes and
Canadian borders. Germans follow
along a little farther south. The Irish
prefer the central regions of the United
States as corresponding more nearly to
the climate of their native land. The
Italians generally go farther south and
on the Pacific coast TO find climatic con-
ditions similar to balmy Italy. Never
in all the ages has the population Of the
tropics crossed the isothermal lines to
inhabit and cultivate the soil Of the
temperate zones, nor have 1aborers from
the north succeeded in cultivating trop-
ical lands. Merchants, bankers, traders
and business men readily accommodate
themselves to the climate of the torrid,
temperate or frigid zone. Business and
professional men from the north enjoy
southern chimes and the same is true of
business and professional men Of the
south when they migrate to the north.
But successful labor follows but does
not cross the line separating the tropical
from the temperate zone.
"The Of the United States
in everything found in the temperate
zones are inexhaustible and practically
untouched. Modern machinery and the
genius of American people can always
produce more of the products and man
ufactures of the temperate zone than the
people can use. These islands under
American control and enterprise viii
produce vastly more tropical products
than they can consume. The inter-
change of the products Of the farm, the
mine, and the factory for the sugar,
coffee, tobacco, fruits, and other pro-
ducts Of these islands will give employ
ment to millions in the United States
as we'll as in the islands. The storm of
criticism and vituperation of
disappointed ambition will o pass
away, and when the American people
are in full enjoyment of the new acqui-
s%itions, they will view them as serenely
and with as much satisfaction as they
now contemplate the teeming population
and the wonderful productions of the
countries acquired during the admins
tration of Jefferson, Monroe and Polk,
and posterity will wonder why anybody
could have opposed the rich inheritance
which the war against Spanish cruelty
brought to the United States, as they
now wonder why it was that the acqui-
sitions of territory which we have here
tofore made were opposed by persons
otherwise considered sane and sensible.
"The establishment of self-govemment
and the Inauguration of industry under
the benign influences of the Declaration
of Independence in the gem of the sea,
which good fortune has placed within
the reach of the American people, are
delayed and embarrassed by the timidity
of the friends of expansion and prog
ress. The suggestion that there is some
nebulous open-door policy in the far
east which would prevent the United
States from extending our customs laws
over the Philippines is a dream of folly
which will not disturb the American
people. The idea that the United States
will hold the Philippines and maintain
their ports free to all the world and at
the same time separate them from our
country by a tariff wall which would ex-
clude them from our markets and de-
prive us of the benefit of their trade
cannot be seriously considered.
"The contention that any Of the islands
which we wrested from Spanish rule
would injure American industries on ac-
count of their productions is a pure in
v%ention. Some gentlemen seem to re-
gard it as a matter of no consequence
that the consumers are compelled to pay
$~25o,ooo,ooo a year for tropical products
which these islands will produce, and
that the farmers and manufacturers of
this country would be deprived, by the
loss of these acquisitions, of an annual
market of from three hundred to FIVE
hundred million dollars"
REV. :, A. DONAHOE