Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-03

though they have denied more evident
facts than that. (~Laughter.) I wan to
talk business here for a moment, and
this school geography is the basis of It.
Take the map of Asia, the western part
of the United States and the country sur
rounding the Pacific Ocean, if you please.
You will find that on the east of the At
"Ah, mark. Let us now in the fe wmo-
lantic ocean there are only about $50
millions of people, all told. THAI includes
the population of Russia in Europe. Now,
to the west of the Pacific ocean, within
two thousand miles, is the American city
of Manila, a city that is destined under
our flag to became the great clearing,
house of the Orient. Within two thous-
and miles of that city more than one-half
the population of this entire globe resides
over seven hundred millions of people.
AFTER FLOUR AND MEAT.
But our democratic friends will say
that they don't eat anything over there
but rice and rats. (Laughter.) l say that
the fellow who said that the country
west of the Mississippi was only fit for
the nome of the cactus and jack rabbit
Will make little over this new proposition.
But, my friends, within the last three
years every bushel of surplus wheat in
California. in Oregon, in Montana, has
been going west instead of east. Going
where? Going into the hungry mouths
OF the mighty hordes of the Orient; and
II every acre of irrigab,e land were culti-
waited to its utmost; if every drop of
water that runs waste We're stored and
utilized during the irrigation season, you
would still be unable to produce a bushel
to the acre of wheat in all the country
for every family in the Orient that may
become our customers. AS my friend,
Colonel Guild of Massachusetts, says,
they have quit eating birds nest soup
over there, and are getting after our
flour. They are getting after our canned
beef; they are using our cotton. Let
me state to you a fact that the trans
portation men here assembled will verify.
Cotton has been going at better prices for
the last few years. Why? Because the
cotton of Texas and Louisiana and Mis-
sissippi is being shipped to China and
Japan instead of the OVERLOADED mar
ket of England.
This is the material side of this propo-
sition; but let no man, howsoever en-
thusiastic in behalf of civilization and
the Christian religion, underestimate the
value of the commercial world as a civil
izing force. Now, my friends, why have
these things come about? We need some
thing in addition to what we have in or
der to gather in the full fruits of this
harvest. We need more ships upon the
ocean, and these ships must fly the Amer
lean flag (App,ause), and the republican
party stands for American shipping. CAP
plause. We ant your state, Colonel
Guild to participate in this m
feast also, and therefore we want the Nj
carasua canal built. and the republican
party believes in that. (Applause.)
AMERICAN RIGHTS UPHELD.
More important than ships and canals.
we want it understood tina wherever an
American merchant makes a contract,
wherever an American ship owner enters
into an agreement, that agreement will
be carried out, whether it be with the
Chinese, or Japanese, or Koreans, or any
other peoples of the earth. One Of the
difficulties heretofore encountered by our
American merchants abroad has been
that more or less contempt existed in sd
far as our government was concerned.
Everywhere let lis admit it, let us blush
With each other in shame-time without
number all around this globe American
sailors, American merchants and Ameri-
can travellers have been compelled to pass
by the American consul and go to a Brit
ish, a German, a Russian or a French
consul to get ordinary justice in the
courts. But during the administra-
ton of William Mckinley, the word
of the American consul is received with
the same prompt consideration and pro-
found respect as is shown the consuls of
any other country. ~(Applause.)
WHAT EXPANSION MEANS,
but people will say there is expansion
and Imperialism. My dear friends. LET me-
say to you that in my humble Judgment
the victorious. enterprising, conquerins
spirit OF the American people cannot be
confined to a reservation. You cannot
make Chlnamen or a band of ndian out
ol the average American. (Applause.)
we VIII not stop upon the shore of any
sea, but we will insist that the Young
aggressive, progressive, intelligent, in
dustrious American boy shall have as
gooh a chance anywhere on this earth as
is afforded to any one else. That is all
that expansion means. If you want to
herd the people into a reservation. if Won
want 20 stand shaking upon the western
shore and say. We have got far enough.
W. may SCI Hufl IL we go farther all
you Fave to do is to throw your vote
away and leave fer the next generation
the work from which you shrink, because
some generation will do it. We NAV h.
subject to censure and blame by the
men who do the work. Let us do the
work ourselves. tApplause).
During McKinley's Administered ton we
have gone far to supplement- what VIII
liam II. Seward did. Seward got hold ,f
Alaska, bought it for 81. 200, 900. The 5000
900 was added to the purchase price for
the purpose of paying fer coal that been
consumed by the British fleet in coming
over into New York harbor at the time
when the British were about to attack
us when Mason and Slidell were seized.
The purchase price was 81. 900, 900. That
carried with 1t Alaska anl TIE -