The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-26
DEDUCED BY DEPEW.
now HE FIGURES THE UNITED
STATES ADVANTAGES.
HIS OBSERVATIONS ABROAD.
FOREIGN CABINETS RECOGNIZE
THIS COUNTRY.

Excellence of American Goods Ex-
citing Wonder and European Ma
tionS Fear for Their Trade-Rise
I'm Prices of Coal in England Of
fers Great Opportunities 10 Amer
lean Producers of the FueI-Pros-
pect for the United states Is Start
ling.
New York. Aug. 25.-Tanned Just
enough to look the picture of health
Cauncey M Depew returned home to-day
on the American Line steamship New
York. He had left here on June 27 on his
yearly vacation. He said in an interview
that he would at once place himself in
touch with the Republican National Com
mittee and arrange for speeches in the
campaign. He asked many questions
about what had been going on in politics
since he went away. In recounting his
experiences this year Mr.. Depew said:
Nineteen hundred is a very gratifying
year for America abroad. one of the
phenomena of the close of the nineteenth
and the opening of the twentieth century
is the position our country has taken IN
ter in Europe was interested in American
opinion or action.
Now the situa ion is the reverse
Every cabinet reckons the attitude of the
United States in formulating plans. Every
European nation finds its production
enormously in excess of its consumption
of manufactured articles. Asia end Afri-
them or access to them is the sum of the
old world diplomacy, operations and arm
aments. The excellence, ard in many
cases the superiority of our goods, the
energy of our traders, and the cheapness
of our transportati- IL are exciting won
der.
The Powers are so nicely balanced that
our position on Eastern questions is of
vital Importance. The one question is
what will the United States do in China.
and afterward in the Orient? There is TO
disposition to prevent forcibly our en-
trance on an equal footing into China
and the East, but tremendous anxiety
for us not to press the subject and, es-
pecially, not to push our products in Com
petition with theirs among the people Of
Asia.
THE coal famine threatens serious
times for Great Britain. The govern
ment promised to impose an export duty,
but Parliament adjourned without enact
ing the law. Coal has gone up in price
in England in the last six months 81 per
ton. Coal for railway and manufactur-
ing purposes is now S6.75 ton delivered
II is less than half that for the same
purposes in the United States. Coal is
the life of Industrial nations 1t has en-
abled Great Britain to support 100000
people in far greater comfort than 100000
before the discovery of its use fuel.
We certainly do not want 90 prosper be-
cause of the misfortune Of others, but,
if fresh sources of coal supply cannot be
found in Europe, there are incalculable
possibilities for our product in the mar
kets of the world.
THE opening for the sale of American
coal is very great. If the ocean carriage
was arranged, the market could be seized
at once and lines established for perma-
nent occupancy and growth. The en-
hanced cost of coal has increased house
hold expenses for the wage earners and
caused much distress. 1t is leading to q
universal demand for higher wages This
again will increase the cost of production
But with coal at less than half the price
a ton for our manufactures and transpor-
totion lines than it IS in Europe the adj
vantages in competition in railway indus
try are so enormously on our side as 20
upset every calculation based on previ-
Gus conditions. The prospect is as start
ling in its possibilities of development AMI
prosperity for the United States, as in
the anxiety il is already causing our
friends across the Atlantic" "