Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-04-28

CURING IHk MARKETS OF THE
ORIENT. 1T MAY BE NECESSARY
TO PURSUE ONE COMMERCIAL
POLICY WITH REFERENCE TO
The PHILIPPINES AT ONE PERIOD
AND A DIFFERENT POLICY AT
ANOTHER PERIOD Our govern
msnt in its colonial administration.
therefore. must have that freedom OF
Judgment which every business man
exercises in his daily affairs We must
not be bound Gown to any permanent
policy of government or commerce
We must be free to meet the move
ments of our rivals with counter move
mems. free to meet their propositions
with counter propositions Il follows
that a government of the Philippine
absolutely American is essential 10.
only because the FilipinOs cannot gov
ern themselves. but because Of the
! strategy Of the commercial war upon
which we are en-sring-a war which
involves the world and in which those
nations that hitherto have been the
worlds commercial masters. are now
/ cur opponents No student of present
conditions can deny that a partition Of
China even now IS in progress not bT
force Of arms not even by definite dip
Iomatie negotiations but bY the pIO-
eesses Of commercial occupancy and
/ Industrial development Great Britain
is gradually being confined 70 the
Yang-tse Valley; this is merely the
statement of a fact Germany. with
the TeutOns' commercial instinct. Is
already defining her sphere CT cOmme--
ciai influence sharply, and has secured
a permanent and tangible base. this
is merely the statement of q fact
Russia has already occupied Man
churia which hitherto has consumed
and fol many years Will in any event
still continue to consume the bulk OF
American cotton goods sold in the
Orient: this is merely the statement
of fact
With these facts facing Great Brit
ain. it IS unthinkabIe that she viii con
tinue to leave open to the equal trade
o. the world the commercial OppCrtun-
tiles of Middle ard Southern China In
formed men understand that already
she has in contemplation the devfsfug
of ways and means TO secure 10 her
self as near as may be- the exclusive
trade of those choice commercial prov
inces- Whether the method she
adopts is by a system OF tariffs favor
ing English goods or something else
no student of world conditions today
doubts that it will be effective HIrh-
ertO. EugIand's policy has been EOs
only to open her markets to the world
but to give every other nation equal
advantages with herself in her colonies
and in those countries where her en-
terprise and constructive genius have
made great commerce possible she
could do this because until recently
she was the workshop of TIE wCrId
and needed raw materials On the one
hand and market for her uanufze-
tured goods or the other hand Sac
could do this because hsr greater skill
her greater capital her Industrial de-
velOpment and the uupreParedness
and Industrial immaturitv OF other
nations gave England the monopoly OF
the markets OF the world without any
artificial aids TO project herself But
conditions have changed The poly
teehnie schools OF Germany the in
dustry- system commercial aggre<
siveness of Germany and the skill in
ventivensss. organization wealth Of
America-aI on the one hand- and thz
eOmplaeeut self-satfsfaetiou of tn .
last and present generation OF English Z
and merchants the ger 4
eral resting On their oars which has
occurred throughout Great Brftain7s .
commercial wUrid-aH On the Other .
her commercial supremacy in China .
and South America. sud eTen in her
OWE colonies Germany's trade IN the
Canton district Of China Is tucreasfng-
while Great Britzin-s trade * relative
ly declining American trade thruEgE
out the Orient IS increasing while IN .
comparison Great BritzinTs trade Is
AND so A SYSTEM OF
DEVICES THROUGH
OUT THE ORIENT APPEARS IN
We can look for nothing
Else from Russia we expect this
method from Germany ami we shan 4
have 20 meet it, even az the hznsfz Of
England And II J4ran shaE assert
her influence over that great region Of .
Ehieh Annoy is the capital and chief 1
port she can be depended upon To Sc
sure to Japanese merchants and pro-
lUeers. trade advantages throughout .
tie districts she CONTROLS BIZ effective.