The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-09-25

ritOry taken Ll1 ASiofIc ItcI must
be enlarged, Cur new dependency gov
erned. We are 6 world power now.
We must aid in maintaining peace if
peace Ee profitable or il waginS more
war if war promises the greater ad-
vantage. We have attained TO national
manhood. We have at last oyertaken
our destiny.
The Philippines were only the step
ping stone i tie march. Our ships
must outnumber u factories If we
would be respectable in the company
we keep and our soldiers outnunber
our voters # we would not have trou-
Bile with our republican institutions.
The taxes arc b~urdensome, the civil
list extrayagant. the pension list the
most liberal IN the world
Farmer and Worker Injured.
"Our army is larger than ever; the
hite squadron is to be seer il every
sea-, our flag IN every zone. What have
we accomplished for III commerce?
We have added Porto Rico, Cuba, the
Philippine Islands, a province or more
in China, and if it W. Russia that sue
ciiIIDtU Ill the COilI1lCL VIC Will take
some OF Der Siberian territory, or il it
was England we shall add islands in
Australasia, or if it was France we
shall take some of her possessions, pref
erably in Africa, and should Germany
be the unfortunate L we will deSpOil
her il the Pacific. This, then, is our
gain for commerce., for our surplus
wheat, cotton, oil, iron and steel and
their manufactures.
but the Wheatfields of China and ST.
IBERIA are nearer than u great west
ern plains, and they are titled by Asiat-
ic labor, with whose low wages our
wheat growers would starve. The cot
ton fields of China are white with Ash
attic staple, and the cotton Of India is
nearer than that of America, and by
the law of cheaper products and
cheaper transportation Keeps American
cotton out. When you have cut the
Nicaragua canal. Indian cotton is still
cheaper in your new possessions IN
China than American.
1.-THE coal and iron Of China, devel-
oped by European and American
ey and skill. are supplying the demand
for iron and steel in our new domain,
Chinese oil is still in the hands Of the
old or a new Standard Oil company,
who finds it cheaper to plug up Ameri-
q wells and supply China from Chi
nese and other nearby wells. And now
for the first time the American farmer,
the American miner and the American
factory hand learn that trade does not
follow the flag, but that capital does,
and leaves dear labor at home to pay
the tax as best it can 20 fly the flag in
a foreign land.
Where "a the T~nperia3ist?
where is the ilnpcrialist now? He
has gone where lie can practice impe-
rialism, where labor is cheap, raw IA
terial abundant and men must work,
but shall not vote. The great valley Of
the Mississippi is l~istless, and the plains
Of the great west seem bare. But they
will reduce the acreage in wheat and
seed to the sugar beet. For what? To
compete with the contract cody labor
Of tropical Hawaii, Porto Rico, Cuba
and the Philippines. The south may
reduce her acreage of cCttCn and SOW
to tobacco FOR What? TO compete
with Cuban and Philippine tobacco.
What, then. does the balance sheet
show? The total import and export
trade CT China tor & year Goes not eX-
coed &23Q. G1O, 600. Now, if the United
States absorbed every dollar CT this
commerce. driving every rival from her
market and every dollar Of this trade
was profit. how does the account stand:
10: the year 1901 recommended ap-
preparations for our array are Sf2S, 0UO,-
coo and for Jul navy $l5,OC0.G00, Z to-
tai OF 500, 03o.G3o. taking 40 account
OF pensions incident to the Spanish and
Philippine war. Add to this sun the
past cost OF the Val, 500, 10000. ana
allow fer the commerce of the Philip
pines and Porto R!co $4,000. eco, which
counts every dollar OF their trade as
profit, and the sheet is balanced against
Us by $l31.OCo.C0O.
The GA Way and the New.
"EcS the army is to be permanently
decreased. ana the navy is to be built
t. proportions commensurate with the
t'|j0i.Slt}iiljlpS OF OEE rev CDilEatiOlS.
Ii yen IoG1le the existing navy. which
Will make us then only 4 fourth rate
naval power. y0u double at least the
present appropriation and double the
present army. and You at least double
the present appropriation to 100000
coo.
In other words, an army and navy
adequate FOR the requirements. with TIE
attendant Increase Of pensions. civil
government ana unforeseen EXPENSES,
Will add to the cost CT running this
government $500. 0GG.000. or twice what
it cost us III 1897. before the war with
Spain, CT twice as much as the agCre.
gate Of all the commerce Of China, the
Philippines. Porto Rico and Hawaii II
every dollar of their was
With Us to the exclusion OF every Other
commercial power IN the world and il
every dollar Of that went in.
to the pockets Of American citizens as
profit.
Contrast the old way with the new
and how s~tUpendous is the folly Of it
During a century Of peace. leading the
national life planned for US by our fa
Tiers. our export trade has reached
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