The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-02-01
ALL ARE FOR EXPANSION.
DINNER OF THE BOARD OF TRADE
AND TRANSPORTATION.
Declarations in Favor of UNFOLDING
the National Administration in
the Philippines Heartily Applaud
ed-Future Commerce of Pacific.

NEW YORK, Jan. 3i.-Three hundred
members of the New York board of trade
and transportation sat down TO the twenty
eighth annual dinner of the organization
at the Waldorf-Astoria tonight.
The guests table was perfect bower or
roses and ivy and the balconies and walls
were likewise hung heavily with cut How
ers.
The toasts were as follows:
THE President of the United States"
THE State Of New York. =,
Our Foreign Policy" Senator John NJ.
Thurston, of Nebraska.
"Our Commercial Supremacy" Charles
n. Fowler, OF New York.
'The Coming Century" Senator William
Lindsay. Of Kentucky
California and the Commerce of the Pa
cifc Coast" Senator George c. Perkins,
OF California.
Trade and Transportation in the State
of New York. Gen. Francis V. Greene.
THE Humorous Side of Politics.. Con-
gresham John NJ. Allen, of Mississippi.
The spirit OF commercial expansion per-
vaded all the speeches. The declarations
of Senators Thurston and Lindsay in ia
vor of unfolding the national administra-
ton In the Philippines were heartily ap-
plauded
In the course OF his speech, Senator Per-
kins said in part:
For fifty years California has looked
eastward over the mountains and deserts
OF the interior of the continent, for east
ward ran the lines of trade. In future she
will also look westward over the broad
of trade be run. The battle of Manila
marked the end of one era and the begin
ming OF new one for California and the
whole Pacific coast. But California is not
the only state looking upon the Pacific
which halls with Joy the new era. Oregon
and Washington and the great territory of
Alaska, parts Of territory once under for
eign rule. are ready for the new life.
Gan signs indicate that the Pacific Is to
be the scene of the next period OF the
worlds progress
3ot,
we have points of vantage that will en-
able us to make it practically our own.
There liz great work which must be I'M
dertaken at once in behalf OF Pacific COM
merce-the Nicaragua canal In order
that the United States may be the center
OF the coming trade of the Orient this
canal must be constructed. The Pacific
coast Is now favorably situated to secure
the share which belongs to 1t. But the
great states east of the Rocky mountains
are at very great disadvantage when
compared with their agricultural and in
dustrial competitors in Europe. But with
the opening of the Nicaragua canal the
situation will be Immediately changed. The
distance from New York to Asiatic ports
will be so reduced that the great American
metropolis viii be the center of our Orien-
tai trade. waterway across Nicaragua
will at once transfer the present advantage
of European marts TO this side of the At
lantic. The entire western coast of the
two American continents will be brought
nearer TO the Atlantic ports by over one
tfiIu the circumference Oh lne edrtn.
What kind OF government shall be es-
tablished in the Philippines in place of
that established IL yet to he determined
Justice to both the Filipino and the Ameri-
can must be maintained. Until the Fill
Pine has. through the influence of just
and humane government, advanced in civil
lization to the point reached by American
labor in the field and in the mapufactory
We must and should be contented with
having afforded him the means OF rising
to That standard That means will be given
him In due time and every announcement
will be given him to become capable OF
understanding, approaching and rightly
using the privilege granted to the people
of the United States