The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-24

themselves Is this not the method Of rea-
son? First find the facts and then fit our
action TO these facts. And while these facts
are being gathered, American administra-
ton In the Philippines is extending self
government in town and village as rapidly
as the Filipinos themselves can manage 1t.
We are teaching them by practice; we are
training them by education. If we can
make them self-gOverning, none Will hail
that consummation with such delight as
we who are instructing them. But We VIII
not turn them back 10 barbarism. We will
not abandon them to rival powers We will
not haul down the flag. We will do our
work like Americans and men until all the
East shall bless the name of the great Re
public and all mankind cheer American
Deneficence.
EXPENSES AND ORIENTAL MARKETS
DO they tell us OF expense? Every dollar
of expense of Philippine civil administra-
ton is paid out of the revenues of the
archipelago. And the opposition admits the
necessity of our military expense because
it proposes to keep army there till
stable government is established, and we
do not propose to keep it longer. Our army
has steadily been reduced and we are now
creating a native constabulary TO take its
place. Spain had only 1.5OO Spanish soldiers
there when war broke Out-Americans can
finally do with fewer still. Unless American
interests in the Orient require a large force
stationed in the Philippines, we will not in
five years have 1900 American soldiers
there. If our Oriental interests demand
otherwise, it is as cheap TO keep our sol
diers stationed there IS here. And they
must be stationed somewhere because they
are regular troops; and no one proposes to
abolish our regular army. Expense of an
enterprise is not measured by the first out
lay. What would be said of man who
bought farm stocked iG, built barns
erected houses and then abandoned 1T be-
cause thus far all had been outlay without
income?
When highways in Luzon join every plan
tation now separated by wilderness; when
wilderness itself shall be plantation, when
railroads carry the archipelago's timber,
agricultural products and mineral wealth
to its ocean ports; when every Filipino Is
educated to modern methods, and thus his
consuming capacity is lifted from the little
ness Of barbarism to the fullnesS of civil
ents hundreds of millions consumers is
won to American factories and farms what
mind cannot see the resulting profit?
America sells China S25,OO0.OO0 worth of
American flour, cottons, machinery. The
whole world sells China $3.50 900 worth.
Two-thirds of this trade naturally belongs
TO the United states; and this, with the
Philippines we will control. IL the OppOs-
ton asks how the Philippines will help us
control Oriental trade. ask them how Chi
cago controls the trade OF the central
West; or Kansas City that of the great
Southwest: San Francisco that of the
Pacific slope. 1t is the simple philosophy OF
lOCdbIOllt Northumberland WHEN applied 10
commerce with alien races through de-
tendencies. by the whole history of trade.
And the Philippines are contiguous to an
area of trade that consumes s. 900 900 600
worth of products every year.
And thus to America the archipelago will
give markets within itself and markets be-
yond itself Since we took the Philippines
our exports to them have increased nearly
1000 per cent. Under Spain they bought
from all the world nearly $50. coo. 900 worth
of products every year Under the United
tot fharr MILL hNNwr -,
lowest estimate. not less than 800. 900 900
worth of products annually. And the most
OF these immense purchases we will sell TO
them; because before we took the Ha-
waiian islands they bought from all the
world $1500O.0O0 worth of products annu-
ally of which we sold them only a little
more than &.5OO.0O0 worth; and since they
have come under the American flag nearly
the whole of the SIS, 100000 which before
they bought from the world they now buy
from the United States exclusively. What
will be the effect upon the prosperity of
the American manufacturer and farmer
when that market for their surplus deveI-
ops?
What will be the effect on the prosperity
of the American manufacturer and farmer
when we sell twO-thirds of the $3.50 900 900
which other nations now sell to China?
And this vast amount Is sold to-day TO
less than 5000 600 Of the Chinese people
When China is opened to the commerce of
the world. and her 400000,000 begin to buy
China alone will purchase a thousand mil
lions every year. Think of what that will
mean to every producer in the Republic.
And when our population is denser, fac
tories more numerous, agriculture more
productive. what will the American people
do without such market? Shall we take
no thought of the morrow? That is the
counsel of insolvency To preserve present
prosperity. American statesmen must care
for the future.
WHO BEARS THE BURDEN?
Philippine expenses. Who feels their bur-
den? Is it you. farmer who are more pros
porous than you have been for a quarter
of a century? Your farms alone are worth
$1,22O,OOOOOO more to-day than before the
war with Spain. Is it you. manufacturer.
whose plants are running with double
shifts? You have increased your productive
investments over 5OO.OOO,OOO Stree the war
with Spain began. Is it you, workingman.
who in factories alone are earning $500 OOO.-
600 more wages every year than before our
period of expansion? In spite OF the hum
dreds of millions OF war expenses i'm spite
OF other millions expended in laying the
foundation OF future wealth in our de-
tendencies. Republican administration has
paid IL all. and, in addition. and at the
same time actually, reduced the Nation
debt 80. GOO 600. and so refunded the remain
der that to-day the American peonIe nav
SO00.0OO less interest annually than we paid
before the war with Spain began: and in
adultlOn. still ana AT the same time. ac-
cumulated the heaviest surplus in orr
treasury OF any nation in the world Think
of the contrast Eight years ago peace
Democracy, disaster and deficit To-day
in spite of war RepublicanSm, prosperifv
and a surplus, More still. During the peri-
cd from March l. 1897, the Inauguration of
William Mckinley, until March l. 1902 a
period of just five years. the American
people sold To the rest or the world Sc go =
1884 462, and bought 50 S22. 923 $50. In these five
years the balance of trade in favor of the
United States reached g. 7OS. Ol0. sos In these
five years Of Republican rule in spite of
war, the favorable balance Of trade was
more than I'm the entire history OF the Re-
public before. More2 Yes. 800 per cent
more. From the foundation OF the govern
ment to the beginning OF the present Re
publican regime. March l. 1897, the balance
Of trade in favor OF the United States was
only 1888 O2s. 497; and consider il again
since Mckinley was inaugurated the bal
ance of trade In favor of the American Re
public has reached the unthinkable sum OF
g. 70S .0lO9O6. Will the American people re-
jet a party which administered the bust
ness of the Nation with such results even
under conditions OF peace? Welli This is
the Republican record under conditions of
war