The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-09-12

tiOnal control which accOmplishes any
thing must develop as the changing
methods of organized industry them
selves develop. Moderation is the word
of wisdom in all human legislation;
and moderation is the word of neces-
sity in all legislation that attempts 10
regulate the business activities of a
nation of S0,00000O of people. No rash
ness. no violence, no revolutionary
methods. Reform means progress, not
destruction. Ruin never yet remedied
an evil, vet humiliation is the only
method the opposition proposes. The
administration and construction-the
opposition and destruction. This is
the situation.
But trusts are not the real ques-
ton of this campaign. How shall the
prosperity of the last FIVE years be con-
tinued? That is the real question of
this campaign. New markets for Amer
lean products-that is the only answer
10 this great question. Ali American
craftsmanship for the next decade is
summed up in these five wOrds-'new
markets for American products How
does the opposition propose to get a
single market for a single pound of
American meat, a single barrel OF
American -four. a single carload OF
American machinery?
Reciprocity With Cuba.
Practical methods for getting new
markets are Americas need. And prac-
teal methods the administration pro-
poses. The administration proposes a
monopoly of the markets of Cuba,
which will buy from the first year reel
procity is established s7O,000.000 worth
OF American products. And this mar
ket viii increase in proportion. as we
give her the opportunity for develop
ment The presidents Cuban policy is
inspired by national honor; but ma
tiOnal honor and national necessity
walk hand in hand, We are respon-
sible for Cuba 10 the world and TO
history That great statesman. Sena-
tor Platt OF Connecticut, framed a law
which congress adopted which forever
binds that island to the fortunes of
the United States. Cuba can contract
no foreign debt without our consent,
no treaty without our approval; and
the moment her government fails to
protect property and life. American
power may enter the island to restore
and maintain a government that can
The prayers OF the American people
are that Cuba. under the protection or
the United States may care for her
self; but. whether she walks erect with
growing strength or whether she tot
ters in weakness and turns to us, ask
ing again a government by American
administrators. our destiny is her des-
tiny and our aid is her right And re-
lief for Cuba is relief for ourselves,
because she win take scores of millions
OF dollars worth of the surplus prod
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yet the opposition resists reciproc-
ity with Cuba. II demands free trade
with Cuba and the world. But will
free trade give US markets In foreign
countries? No; il gives foreign eoun-
tries our markets; il surrenders all 10
our rivals and secures nothing in re-
turn. Free trade does not make the
markets of other nations free to US;
il only makes our markets free TO
them The craftsmanship OF Blaine.
Of Mckinley, Of Roosevelt, is merely
this: Do not lower the American tariff
an inch 10 foreign countries till you
have secured from them new mar
ket for Americans markets in return
Trade With the Orient.
where else shall new markets for
American products be secured? Our
new possessions answer that question:
the orient answers that question; the
geography OF the world answers that
question"
Senator Beveridge then exhaustively
discussed the question of markets IN
our possessions and in the Orient.
From total purchases of less than
s. OO0. 600 before Hawaii. Porto Rico and
the Philippines became American. they
have increased their purchases OF
American products TO nearly S4O.OoO,OOO
every year And the increase mounts
upward as the years advance. Porto
Rico formerly bought practically ev-
erything she consumed from foreign
countries: now she buys everything
she consumes from us. Hawan Tor
merly bought practically everything
she consumed from foreign Countries
now she buys everything she consumes
from ms And lust so the Philippines.
whose purchases from other nations
amount 10 $50 600. 900. viii also buy IN
the course OF time everything her peo-
ME consume from US. Our Oriental
trade i the only remaining outlet on
the globe where we may dispose or
our surplus products. That trade,
which now consumes upwards OF $780,
goo goo worth OF products or English
factories alone every year. must De
captured for the American factory and
farm And 10 capture that trade is
IRE nolicv of the administration. Since
Ne acquired these islands American
axports 10 Asia and Oceania have risen
f-op, S4s COO 600 10 Si20, 000. 900: while OR
exports 10 Europe have fallen IN the
last six months. our exports 10 the
Orient at the same time have rapidly
increased. The surrender Of the Phil
ippines would mean the surrender or
our progressive commercial policy in
the orient. II any EngliShman advO-
catad the abandonment OF England's
commercial fOothOld in the far east.
Won would brand him a traitor 10 Eng
iish prosperity And just so. surren-
der of the Philippines is treason 10 the
commercial supremacy Of the republic
in the countries that border on the
Pacifc ocean. And 20 give them up
yvopld mean. not their abandonment.
htt their surrender 10 our commercial
rivals For how could We prevent
Germany or England or Japan from
taking what we ourselves surrender
And with their policy az acquiring
commercial foothold. who doubts that
the nas % one OF these great powers
would rise over The Philippines the
moment We left them2 In the Ameri-
can dictionary there is no such word
as surrender, We have not yet learned