The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-01-12

dIOr BeNeTlOBe AROSE W illthe Ills ihhSH
advertised speech. He is considered an
administration mouthpiece and what he
says is from an administration stand
point. During the course of his address
Senator Beveridge said:
Mr.. President:
I address the senate at this time be-
cause senators and members or the
house on both sides have asked that
give to congress and the country my
observations in the Philippines and the
far east, and the conclusions which
those observations compel
The Philippines are ours forever, ter
ritory belonging to the United States"
as the constitution calls them. And
Just beyond the Philippines are China's
illimitable markets. We will not re-
treat from either. We will not repudi-
ate our duty in the Archipelago. We
will not abandon our opportunity in the
Orient. We will not renounce our part
in the mission of our race, trustee, un-
der God, of the civilization of the world.
And we will move forward to our work,
not bowling our regrets like slaves
whipped to their burdens, but with
gratitude for q task worthy OF our
strength, and the Thanksgiving to AL
mighty God that He has marked us as
His chosen people, henceforth to lead
in the regeneration Of the world.
PHILIPPINES COMMAND THE PA
CIFIC.
This island empire is the last land
left in all the oceans. II 1t should
prove a mistake to abandon 1t, the
blunder once made would be irretriev-
able. If 1t proves mistake to hold it,
the error can be corrected when we
will; every other progressive nation
stands ready to relieve us.
But to hold it will be no mistake.
Our largest trade henceforth must be
with Asia. The Pacific is our ocean.
More and more Europe will manufac-
ture all it needs-secure from it's colo
nies the most it consumes. Where shall
we turn for consumers of our pupils? ?
Geography answers the question.
China is our natural customer. She is
nearer to us than to England, Germany
or Russia, the commercial powers Of the
present and the future. They have
moved nearer to China by securing per-
manent bases on her borders. The
Philippines give us base at the door
of all the east. Lines of navigation
from our ports to the Orient and Au-
stralia; from the Isthmian Canal to
Asia; from all oriental ports to Au-
Stralia, converge at and separate from
the Philippines. They are a self-sup-
porting, dividend paying fleet, perma-
nently anchored at spot selected by
the strategy of Providence, command
ing the Pacific. And the Pacific is the
ocean of the commerce of the future
. Most future wars will be conflicts fol
commerce. The power that rules the
Pacific, therefore, is the power thai
rules the world. And, with the Philip.
pines, that power is and will forever
be the American republic.
VALUE OF CHINA'S TRADE.
China's trade is the mightiest com
mercial fact in the future. Her foreign
commerce was 1886, 73S,3OO in 1897, o.
which we, her neighbor, had less thar
Is per cent, of which only little more
than half was merchandise sold t.
China by us. We ought to have SO pei
cent, and we will. And China's foreign
commerce is only beginning. Her re
sources, her possibilities, her wants
all are undeveloped. She has only thre,
hundred and forty miles of railway
/ have seen trains loaded with natives
and all the activities of modern lif
already appearing along the line. Blu
she needs, and in so years will have
10000 miles of railway Germany
Chinese trade is increasing like magic
she has established ship lines and Sc
cured a tangible foothold on China
very SOIL Russia's Chinese trade Il
growing beyond belief; she Is spending
the revenues of the empire to finisl
her railroad into Pekin itself, and she 4
in physical possession of the imperia
province of Muachuria. Japan's Chimes
trade is multiplying in volume an,
value; she is bending her energy to he
merchant marine, and Is located aloni
China's very coast. But Manila
nearer China than Yokohama is. TIL
Philippines command the commercial
situation of the entire east Can Ameri
ca best trade with China from Sal
Francisco or New York? From Sal
Francisco, or course. But If San Fran
cisco were closer to China than New
York is to Pittsburg, what then? An,
Manila is nearer Hong Kong than Ha
vana is to Washington.
RESOURCES AND IMMENSE SIZI
OF THE ISLANDS.
But If they did not command China
India, the Orient, the whole Pacific 70
purposes of offense, defense and trade
the Philippines are so valuable in them
selves that we should hold them
baNS CiuioSu lHdl TWO
miles through the archipelago, ever
moment surprise at it's loveliness am
wealth / have ridden hundreds O
miles on the islands, every foot of tn
way a revelation of vegetable an
mineral riches. No land in Americ
surpasses in fertility the plains an
valleys of Luzon. Rice and, coffee
sugar and cocoanuts. hemp and Tobacco
and many products of the temperate
as we'll as tropic zones, grow in variou
sections of the archipelago. hav
seen hundreds of bushels of Indian cor
lying in road fringed with banan
trees.
The wood of the Philippines can sup
ply the furniture of the world for
century to come. 1 have q nugget O
pure gold picked up in it's present form
on the banks of a Philippine creek
have gold-dust washed out by crud