The evening times., 1900-09-26
THE COST OF COLONIES.
Territorial Expnnsien Does Net In
crease Foreign Commerce.

crease Foreign Commerce.
Senator Money of Mississippi in a recent
interview is quoted as having said that
the IMPERIAL policy of the Republican
party has not stimulated the foreign trade
of the South one whit. We make cotton
in the South. and we sell nothing else.
There is not one shirt more worn in the
world on account of this war. The only
way We can advance the price of cotton Is
to increase the use of it. for supply and
demand fix the price of everything. The
South has not been benefited by this war,
! nor has any other part of the country.
Senator Money has said that if we want
to get more trade We have got TO create
more wants and then supply them cheaper
and better than anybody else. He has
said:
I'VE cannot trade unless We produce
something to meet those wants. The citi-
zens of the Orient have been producing
/ enough to meet their wants. They must
| increase their efforts to produce something
| to correspond with our production so that
We may have an exchange or interchange.
| which Is commerce
What do they produce? They produce
cotton, which is produced in the Southern
| States; they produce hemp. that completes
! with the Middle Western States; they pro-
! duce rice and sugar. which compete with
| Louisiana and South Carolina, and they
! produce tobacco which is q staple OF SER
eral States OF this Union They produce
! those things that we produce and desire
| TO sell and 1t is idle 10 talk of BUILDING
up business with the FilipinoS when We
are simply raising UP competitors against
! the farmers of the United States, not only
! the rice farmers. but the wheat farmers.
We find that rice is the food of more than
| half of the human race who never saw nor
| care to see grain OF wheat
IF we ever advance our trade, we have
| got to increase the wants OF the people
| with whom we trade; and the people whom
| we have subjugated to oar control have
/ no wants that amount to anything fhey
are children of nature. Il towel is consid-
/ cred by a gentleman il some parts Of the
Philippine archipelago as complete ward
robe; and there is more cotton stuff made
into nightgowns in the city Of Washington
thar is worn by all the women in the
I whole Of the Philippine Islands They
have material that is better than cotton.
/ which they manufacture and which is as
| beautiful as silk
The United States in 1896 went to the
front of all the nations of the world
! in the matter OF foreign trade. There
/ was not with all the lack Of a navy and
all the lack of insular possessions, a
single market closed to the United
States, nor is there today, that IS open
to Inc other nations Of the world, and
now all civilized nations today advocate
the open door TO commerce, and com
InerciaI exclusion is thing of the past
We have taken the leadership in the
family of nations over Great Britain
that had held supremacy for century
and a half
Colonies do not necessarily mean an
y,f he moi her
country In the last seven years Great
Britain, with more colonies than the
| balance of the world together. has i5st q
per cent of her foreign trade and the Uni
ted States, before she had an island on
the face of the CLONE. had increased heT
/ foreign commerce Is IL per cent in the
! same time.
M Pelletan. Minister of Finance ot
| France stated IN the Chamber of Depu-
ties that France with an array of eSlo-
| MES amounting to 8 coo, coo square miles
| with a population of $4,000, Geo, was pay
| $50 0G0. Geo annually for the pleasure OF
governing other people. whsn the trad
from her colonies amounted to only
S2e. .OeO 060 per aGaum Germany made
an expenditure out of the royal treasury
| OF s., coo coo a year to support her foreign
| colonies, and her trade with th-Se c-fo-
| MES amounted TO 81 eco 900 per annum
IN other words, sn paid two and a hal
times as much for her trade with tn
| colonies as that trade was worth a
, | the same time Germany, in her trade
with the colonies OF other nations, &
which she did not pay one solitary cen
| for protection or security, enjoyed
, | trade of S55. coo, 6e5 per annum.. So i
seems as though foreign conquest va
, unnecessary for the expansion of trad
, | and that trade does not go with the flag
, except in the theory of some politicians