The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-06-25


victory. In every branch of production.
| they must practice the economies whic!.
| have so effectively contributed to the en-
| richment of Europe. The prosperity of
| our foreign trade largely depends upon
! the initial savings of our productive in
| dustrics. No detail of growth or manu-
| facture is too insignificant for cOnSidera-
| ton Every Improvement in methods O!
| tillage, in choice of seeds and fertilizers
| In farm tools end machines, in processes
! and inventions for manufacturing, IN the
construction OF better -oads for Iesseling
the expense of primary transportation
| from field and mill to rail and river, in
shortening the length and increasing the
| efficiency of railroads, and in facilities
| for cheapening the cost Of expectation
| would materially promote the expansion
| of American commerce. Trade schools
are among the most powerful factors by
which modern civilization advances its
mercantile interests. A thorough study
/ Of the best methods of manufacturing
| and shipping merchandise, a practical
| familiarity with the languages, produc-
| lions, and wants of ether countries,
| business acquaintance with foreign sys-
| TENS of tariff, banking, and commercial
| legislation, ana a comprehensive knoWl-
edge of the principles of international
| law would produce merchants whose
! breadth of view and mastery of detail
would render them dangerous competitors
| for the worlds trade.
Asiatic dealers dislike to buy goods
without seeing them. Therefore through
| cut the Orient warerooms for the exhibit
| ton of American commodities should be
established. The object lessons taught by
such displays would be by far the most
attractive and convincing form of adver-
! tisement.
A cable across the Pacific would be an
! other means of promoting our Oriental
| interests. 1t would not only tend to IN
sure the safety of the Philippines, but it
| would also enable American merchants
quickly to meet the changing wants of
Asiatic markets. Congress ought not to
| camille success.
The appointment to our consulates of
only men of natural aptitude and trained
| skill would be an additional agency for
the extension of our foreign trade. While
| Germany has a consul in every large town
in Brazil the number of American con-
| suls in all that immense country is less
than dozen The greater enterprise OF
! Germany explains its large trade with
Brazil. If Americans would equal Ger
man success, they must equal the eXer-
! tons which have won 1t. Our govern
ment ought to appoint more consuls. The
services of a large corps of able and ex-
! perienced merchants could not fail to ad-
vance the commercial interests of the
! United States.
But perhaps it may be thought that our
national energy, without the aid of pro-
fessional training, will enable Americans
! to acquire a control of Oriental trade.
! Economists who have closely studied the
| industrial development of modern Ger
many and watched the effects of techni-
| cal schools, will decline to accept this
view. They well know that every work
| ingman on the farm, at the forge, and
! in the factory should be trained TO IN
| intelligent and skillful discharge of his
! duties; and that only those men who have
! shown a pre-eminent talent for success
| full management should be chosen to su-
perintend our industries. Then a larger
! volume of American trade will pass
through the opened gateways of the ORR
ent. But of the soldiers who will win
| the hard-fought battles for Asiatic COM
perce, the teachers in trade schools will
be the most effective drill sergeants.
| OF all the agencies for the extension Of
! our Oriental traffic, the Nicaraguan canal
is the most important. The arguments in
! it's favor are supremely conclusive. AS
sured of it's utility as a means of national
! defense and commercial expansion, the
| American people are impatient of con-
| gressional delays In view Of the fact
that the total wealth of the United Sta tes
is now more than SGT, 600 600, the hes
! itancy of congress to incur a debt of $780,
| co., 900 for work that will immensely In
crease our national resources is simply
/ prepoSterous. The reluctance of congress
/ men to vote for large appropriations is
! probably caused by a fear that their &C
ton will not be sustained by their con-
! stituents, but If the whole American peO-
pie demand the immediate construction of
resentatives at Washington will be glad
to comply with their wish. One of the
! United States canal commissioners lately
said that this shipway would annually
save in time, freights wages, fuel and IN
surance a sum larger than its original
| cost. Interests of transcendent impor-
lance urge our Southern states to insist
upon an early completion Of this water
, wav.
This channel opened, the expectation n
the Orient of cotton fiber and cloth
would soon develop to enormous proper
tons Every consideration of INTEL gent
seIf-interest prompts the South to hasten
the construction of this great work For
the naval protection of our shores, fo-
facilitating the traffic of the Pacific coast
with our Eastern states and Europe, for
the development and control of
Oriental trade, the Nicaragua
canal will be an efficient and invaluable
factor. AS every section of our coun 'ry
will share its benefits, all of the states
should unitedly demand the speedy COM
pletion of tn s inter-ocean shipway.
i The civilization OF the Orient will not
be instantaneous. Its renovation will be
effected through the. gradual progress of
reforms. But ultimately the potent
forces of Western refinement will reclaim
the East In China and the Philippines
railroads, telegraphs and fleets III be.
as they already have been in India and
Japan, the missionaries of mode civil
ization. The islands of the Pacific W Il
vet bn peopled by the dominant races of
! Europe and America. The popu atoms
of China, Japan and the Philippines will
be qu!ckened to grelter industrisl activ-
ity by their more intimate intercourse
with Western nations. The developme 1t
of material resources and the inter
| changes Of products will swell VI
ume of Asiatic trade Possibly, In the
coming time, larger fleets may thr ng h
Pacific than those which now ferry the
Atlantic. Our whole country will share
in the greater prosperity which Our ex-
Ta- ding con- me~ce with the Oient viii
create, but our Pacific coast will pc haos
be tie chief beneficiary. The wants and
profits of our Asiat,c trade wi e lily
multiply tie p oducti n, populat on I'd