The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-21
IN THE SAME BOAT.
The Arid West and Cotton Produce
ing south.


Billings, Mont, June 14.-Editor Savan-
nah Morning News; Your section of the
country Is in the same boat with the
arid West. 1t is not a direct beneficiary
of the patent trust prosperity. which is
to-day advocating an American empire,
as an annex to an American republic.
Maybe the white man Of the Southern
states can see how the possession OF the
Chinese market is going to be a god-send
to him, but the Western stockman. ranch
man and miner is an infidel Such horri-
Bile backsliding on our part may be re-
garded as sacrilege to the Great White
Elephant, but we are willing to stake our
eternal and financial salvation on the
conviction. We are like you. We have the
courage of our convictions. Before the
West cane hope to raise enough of a sur
plus of agricultural products to make an
impression on any market, it must OBJ
tain that much TO be desired, and long
promised, subsidy to the farmer. national
aid to irrigation. And by the time home
made expansion is an accomplished facr,
annexation of British America will be in
the air and the markets of South America
will be wide open.
Savannah may some day have a -four
ishing trade with Tsi An and the Tsung
II Yamen, provided the Inter-oceanic
canal cuts the distance in two. But At
present the freight is so high. that COM
petition with European powers in the
Orient is as difficult as the feat of the
snake which could stick his tail in his
mouth, and swallow himself until he was
all gone.
The trusts are anxious for another sub
sidy This time IL Is to go to American
shipping. They have cinch on land
transportation. and a subsidy of $4,000
900 will pay them for the expense and
trouble of acquiring the same thing on
the ocean Notice that word acquiring. II
means more than buying in open market
at fair price. In trust parlance it is
equivalent to:
Sell out at our figures or be frozen
out"
Western people are reminded of the
nursery rhyme which runs thus:
There was a piper had a COW.
And he had nothing TO give her.
So he took out his pipe
And played her a tune;
Consider, Oh cow, consider.
The arid West, after due consideration
of the facts in the case, not the argu-
ments Of the colonial expanders, mark
YOU we'll, but the actual cold-blooded
facts. which stare a man In the face,
when he looks al a business proposition
in broad daylight without corkscrew to
pull his enthusiasm has reached this
conclusion: The best subsidy to
American shipping would be free trans
portation TO American bottoms across an
inter-oceanic ship canal.
Your location on the Atlantic coast
gives YOU a fine viewpoint in this belief
Of ours; and we would like to hear you
EXPRESS an opinion. Let the sea-going
,eople OF the United States set sail for
China with their goods. Let them sell
the heather Chinee everything he will
h,,v from Bibles to playing cards, and
folding beds 70 haystackers and steel
freight cars Everybody will be glad to
welcome home the bold rovers. Of the
main. with their sacks fun of gold. sun
Iet ms souat on that Central American
isthmus TN doomsday II necessary In or
der 70 snatch the rights Of America from
the Jaws OF Europe. England, France
and Germany are In league TO destroy
the Monroe doctrine. Germany might
even welcome a chance. " United
states senator Lodge OF Massachusetts,
n 40 be believed, 10 intervene IN Cuba.
II Is the plain duty OF Uncle Sam 10
cus that canal across the isthmus. and
also 10 build an inter-continental railway
a. a subsidy 70 commerce.
The people know they VIII be held up
by the trusts in the near future' ana
aeked 10 Contribute o subsidy 10 che lat
ter internal Improvement, they. being
sore~arned b. past experience, n indeed
X Il not already too late by making
.ounser proposition Such gigantic eggre-
cations Of capital earning, a. they con-
fsss such iBsge dividends. are well able
10 meet she taN collector and furnish the
fund 10 build any bee1ed internal I'M
,,roveo,aut James z. Pre-.