The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-24
THE DRAGON
 ONLY SLEE China Should Not
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 ~ { DUBOIS ON PHnRf Loss Of Trade VIII ReD1I1f
 from Retention. Idaho Senator Delivers . 1snsss1l and Conservative spssch 1s Y Bsvsridgs of Indiana < .u, Makes Reply. s'
DUBOIS ON PHnR

washington. May 23.--A teinperate eqG carefully prepared speech was del1yacqG in the Senate today on the PhiIipplae by Mir. Dubois udaho). He cs1 himseif almost entirely to . discupltc1 = the commercial and industriaI aspscts - the Philippines question. his purpoes n6s ing to show that 1t would be a disadx11es age to the people of this country to xes tain the islands, a ' A reply to Mir. Dubois was mado ngI Mir. Beveridge lInd.). who contended tbat tie development of China's resourcse would be of advantage in trade and com- merce to the United States, as the indus . trial development of other nations had been.
 Mir. Dubois said he was satisfled that there was great danger to the whtte IF bor of the United States attendant upcn the development of industrial activity px this Government in the Philippines, ap0 declared that the United States could n1s compete with Japan for the orleqt1l trade. <
 The large exportation of flour from thu United States te the Orient he thought. had misled people into believing that wo could establish there & large trade. This was an idle dream. He believed 1t would be but short time ratll all the wheat needed in China would be raised by Chi- nese.
 The Dragon Only Sleeping.
 .'The dragon Is sleeping quietly now. said Mir. Dubois. The monster is inert surrounded with conservatism of cen- tury. Looking to the interest of tho white iaboring race of the world. are we pursuing wise course in awakening this sleeping dvagonr'
 If the islands were nanaGed and ex- plotted as coutenfpIated tn the psndinw' bill he said, feSw Individuals might reap a profit, but 1t would be at an enormous expense to the United States and espe- ciaIly to the iaborers. the manufacturers and the farmers.
 MT. Dubois aaid that under the clause of the bill which permitted corpozatious to take up i've thousand acres of land Tn the Philippines for agricultural purpeeess the richest lands ultimately would xeiL into the hands of great syndicates. thus encouraging . tremendous production ok cane sugar. cotton and tobacco.
 The total trade of the United States with the Philippine Islands, he said. wae about $5O000 900 year. We have spAut. more money in the Philippine war than all the trade of the Islands with tho United States would amount to in hun- remained in the islands our loss would be increased.
 MT. Dubois asserted that within six months after Arizona, New Mextco and Oklahoma were admitted to StatenoodS the profit to the manufacturers of the United States on their trade with any one of the new States would be greater .s.- <xr. uIf trade with the Philippines and other 0re ental countries.
 MT. Bevsridgs Replies
 MT. Beveridge Qnd.) declared that the whole argument of the Idaho Senator had been made for the purpose of frBhte1ng the American people with the dragon oE China. He said our exports had increas- ed most rapidly to those countries m which the internal developments was Inc creasing as thereby the people of thoss countries were the better able to pair- chase from the United States. Japan had had recently q wonderful deveiop- ment and along that development our ex- ports had increased from about &,0 oo0 10 a year to more than S29,0oo,00 years This would be true of China. The Philip pines. he maintained. were door to the Chinese trade. Mir. Beveridge said thai Great Britain sold to her dependencies each year products amounting 70 soVVs- o00. .00o
 arRuraent?" inquired Mr. Carmack that we gre to enter upon poiicy or noioins coienial possessionsT'
 That question is not before the Sen- ate or before the American people, re- piled MT. Beveridge If 1t ever shall pc. the Republican party will answer 1t as effectiveiy and as satisfactorily as tt always has answered important ques- tions."
 spooner-Carmaek Tilt.
 Mi. Carmack having intimated that the treaty with Spain had been rauneo ne- cause the controlling powers had put the dollar above every other interest. NIT. spooner (wiso denied that in ratifying the Paris treaty the Senase had even at tempted to reduce the Philippine situa- tion to the standard of the dollar. Mir. Carmack, he said, was not in the senate at that time.
 q know what Is in the Record retort- ed MT. Carmack. And I know that the then Secretary of the Treasury said that there was good deal or seihshhess IT tnv transactions
 That Is merely the opinion of an in- dividuaL" suggested Mir. Spooner.
 Mr Dubois in his speech having conl- tended that If Governor Taft should die or other members of the present apte Philippines Commission should pass A way, it would be difficult to supply tneir pIaces with equally excellent and patriotic men, MT. Beveridge said: There is another Taft not far away. He VIII be here in a few days. Leonard Wood is another Taft. He meets all the res ouirements of great administrative cf- ficer."
 He mentioned also Luke Wright, mena- ber of the Philippine Commission as ape to take up the work of Governor Taft if the latter should relinquish 1t.