The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-26

easier from Manila than from Portland;
and we can trade through Manila from San
Francisco Seattle, Tacoma, Portland and
the harbors of the West easier than from
New Orleans, because II is nearer-thfs Is
seif-evident. And If we have Santiago.
Havana. San Juan. Hawaii Manila, APP
pari, Iloilo and Cuba. We will have trading
points with those regions TO which even
now our increasing production is driving
us.
NoNEURoPEAN MARKETS NEEDED.
To-day our trade in manufactured ar
ticles, as we'll as I'm the products OF the
farm. is chiefly with Europe. Our agri-
cultural trade will always continue to DOM
mate old world markets, although IL viii
not absorb all our surplus. But our man.
ufactured trade with them is nearly at its
zenith. Why? England is making more
than she can consume. and seeking foreign
markets for her surplus France is max
ing more than she can consume, and seek
ing foreign markets for her surplus. Ger
many is making more than she can con-
sumo, and seeking foreign markets for her
surplus. Russia, alone, for decades will
be necessarily devoted TO territorial de-
velopment. We, too, are manufacturing
more than We can consume. and more than
We sell 10 Europe. We are raising more
than we can consume, and soon more than
we can sell to Europe; and We, too. must
secure new foreign markets for our sur
plus. We cannot so TO Europe for a mar
ket for much more than we now sell there.
for that market VIII soon be glutted.
Where shall we turn? Ask. rather. where
have events turned us? To India, with
her 3O0,o00.000 consumers, 10 which the
Philippines give almost equal access
with England herself: to China. with her
40o,0O0,000 consumers, to which the Philip
pines give us quicker access than even
Japan; to South America, TO which Cuba
and Porto Rico give us easier access than
any nation in the world: to Australia and
all Oceanica, to which again the Philip
pines give us easier access than England
herself
The canal is a future certainty. That
canal. too. will be ours; but whether ours,
or whether the lofty conception OF Secre-
tary Hay be realized, and il be made
neutral waterway, Porto Rico, HAWAII ana
the Philippines will, nevertheless, give US
almost commercial control of the worlds
chief ocean highway of trade-with CUBA
we should have more complete control.
The commerce from Europe to Asia Will
pass through that canal. When an English
ship. laden with English goods, bound for
the Orient, sails westward, her first sight
or land will be Porto Rico-and Cuba, also.
as hope-with the stars and stripes above
them. As it passes through the welded
waters of the isthmian sea, still the stars
and stripes above them.
Half way across that great American
ocean, known as the Pacific. the first port
or call and exchange will be the Islands
of Hawaii with the stars and stripes
above them. And farther west, as the
land or sunrise and sunset lifts before
the eyes of the crew OF that merchant
man. they will behold glowing in the
heavens of the East still again, and still
forever, those stars and stripes of glory.
And III that ship set sail from Australia
Tor japan, IL must stop and trade in ports
OF that greatest commercial stronghold i'm
the world, the Philippine islands, with
the stars and stripes above each one Of
them Lay ruler on the worlds map and
no
ocean highways TO the markets of the
Orient or TO the markets of the south
are dominated by American possessions
by Porto Rico, by the canal, by Hawaii,
by the Philippines, ours now, and ours
forever-aye, and, through the choice Of
her own people, by Cuba, too, ours in the
future. and when once ours, then ours
forever, with the stars and stripes above
them.
DIRECT BENEFIT TO TOILERS.
England's annual exports are over 81. 43O
100000 in value. Over s42OOO0,OoO of these
exports are purchased by England's col
onies. And those colonies command a
market for several hundred millions more
of Englands exports. What would Eng
lish workingmen do without those mar
kets? And what, if better markets than
these were buying the surplus products of
the American laboringmen and calling still
kets are only examples. Consider, on the
other hand, what we consume. Every year
we buy s500,0O0,O00 of tropical products.
To-day we pay much of this vast amount
in money. Suppose paid for this in
products which our artisans and mechanics
make and our farmers raise? Think of the
markets that would mean for every Amer
lean factory and farm! And remember
that wages and prices depend on markets,
not money; and prosperity depends on
wages and prices. And consider the incai-
culable benefit TO both if this tremendous
trade is between the American people and
their own possessions. And then contem-
plate the magnitude of the markets which
those possessions command in addition 10
their own markets.
But while all this means employment to
every American workingman, on farm. in
factory, shop, store and mine, on rail-
road and in ship while it means plenty
In the American home for hundred years
ana maybe centuries TO come; while IL
means the commercial and industrial lord
ship of the world by American labor and
capital, and while these are mighty ar
guments, L waive them all as insignifi-
cant, compared with the master argument
OF the progress of civilization, which under
God the American people are henceforth
10 lead until our day is done. For hence
forward in the trooping of the colors of
the nations they shall cluster around and
follow the Republics banner of the stars
the master flag of all the flags on earth
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