Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-14
TENNESSEE AND Exp.,s,ox
ferunent Suggestion to Ambit;ou,
Politicians of the state,

from the Memphis Commercial Appeal
A Few days ago a ship chartered nv
Japanese firm left Galveston with large
amount or cotton. square and round haIes
ana going to New Orleans added another
large amount OF cotton. This did not COM
piete the cargo, and to fill it out an amount
Oh phosphate was. added until the vessel
was loaded to its capacity. This cargo is
destined for Japan, but whether it goes via
the Suez around the Horn is NOT stated
nor does it matter much What ia sfpnifi
cant. however. is that while Alabama ia
furnishing Japan with iron goods Of va
rious manufacture. and while the cotton
states are furnishing that country with raw
and manufactured cotton Maury county
Tenn. ts furnishing phosphate from her in
exhaustible stores
All this Is merely a. straw to show which
way the wind blows. 1t shows that in spite
OF the roundabout and expensive way of
reaching there the trade of the south with
the east is increasing, and that it is not
coniileo 10 cotton and iron products alone.
but extending TO all southern products
"hen the Nicaragua canal Is dug and the
useless waste of time and coal in steaming
II. 700 miles around the Horn is done AWAY
with. the south will be the nearest manu-
featuring point of any nation In the world
to Japan and the nearest of any nation in
the world to China, with the exception of
Japan. -
The amount of business we will then do
cannot be easily estimated Cotton goods
manufactured in the South outstrip ali 9TH
ers IN emma, where the people prefer them
southern mills is new, and il is possible 70
make for the Chinese trade lust what is
wanted: while the English and eastern
ti I,l are running with antiquated machin-
w c+,Sy,, c
goods. T'ennessees- interest in coal and
iron is great in the SECTION governed bv the
republicans but THIS enormous phosphate
interest Is in middle Tennessee and the cot
ton and commercial interests are in west
Tennessee.
Candidates for the Senate might do well
70 consider these things. If the Jap or
other orientalist is willing to buy pbos-
phate or cotton, the Tennesseean who has
these things to sell will be apt to look with
oisIaVor upon any one seeking office who
seeks to shut him out of these markets by
RAISING up the ghost of Imperialism or in
dulglng in other such nonsense There is
sncn tnlng as common sense view to
take of things which should NOT te o,..r
looked " 0
1t is well enough to talk sentiment and IN
mlsquote Jefferson when there is nothing
but getting into Office at stake; but when
east tennessee sends iron products, and
west tennessee sends cotton and hardwood
products. and when middle Tennessee sends
mineral products to the seashore in search
OF markets, the man who says he is in IA
Vor OF holding these products here and op-
posed TO letting them leave this continent
wiz have to do some wonderfully persua-
| sive explanatory talking to convince voters
| mat he Is wiser than they, and that his
erection to office will be of more value to
elIein tilan wall be market for their goods
livery one who has been in the east and
VINO has inteiligently observed conditions,
| ana every one who has thoroughly advised
| himself OF the conditions existing is an ex-
pdIlSlOulSl ana IN favor of holding "a
! lppines for their own good for their stra-
tesic value. and for the purpose of putting
| US IN position to maintain the open door
IN emma Those who most vehemently on
pose expansion and who most vocferousy
cry out against imperialism are those who
nave given the question study, who are
swayed by political sentiment, or who are
assigning self-seekers in search of a So
phstlcal issue. One thing Is certain ex-
pansion is Of interest to every section of
Tennessee,