Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-07-25
TRADE WITH OUR DEPENDENCIES


Hawaii, Alaska. Guam. Tutuiia and
the Philippines. The aggregate pop
ulation Of all of these with the ex-
ception Of the last is 100000. The
population of the PHILIPPINE archipel-
ago is supposed to be from 100000 to
100000. During the eleven months
ending May 31st. last we sold to the
100000 inhabitants of the five first
named dependencies merchandise to
the amount of nearly $30,O00,000. To
the eight of nine million people who
inhabit the PHILIPPINES we sold to the
amount of about three and half mil
lion dollars. The cost of governing
The cost of governing-or keeping and
governing the Philippines is what it
is. Without attempting to quote Off
cial figures it is sufficient to say that
it is enormous in money and in the liv-
of American citizens. The probable
tiles are that we are or shall soon be
pdy lhS annually pClioAOAS, oOTSl
ed and undeserved-a larger sum than
the total annual value of our exports
to the archipelago at present, and
more than they ever will be under
our hands. Is there anything
in it" for us? We continue to buy
Manila hemp as we bought it before
most of us never heard of the Philli-
ppines in such a way as to think of
them again. Of the merchandise
which we sell to the Philippines the
the major part of it is consumed by
Americans whom we pay to go there
and consume it.
The appropriateness of our connect
ion with the Philippines is due to our
own blind odstancy in refusing to make
it possible for them to trade with us,
by Incorporating them under our COM
mercial system Three-fOurths of the
enormous cost of governing the is
lands is consequence of the same
wretched policy. A prosperous people
requires no army to maintain peace.
Commercial indignation with the rest
of the United States would give pros
perity to the Filipinos. Whenever the
American people pay penson to sol
der of the Philippine army they pay
fine for their own stupidity or worse
We do not deal justly by the Filipinos
because the sugar and tobacco trusts
desire that we shall deal unjustly
There are some who, at the behest OF
the sugar trust, propose and insist
that we give to the Cubans a market
to which they are not entieled, while
denying that market to those whom
we have compelled to be our fellow
citizens. 1t would be outrageous in
Justice which the American people
would never permits. F. Chronicle
nAIlhIlIIIlIlIII
The Chinese Government, impressed
doubtless, by the determination of tn,
Pennsylvania authorities to throttle tn
Press of the Keystone state, has dc
cided to inflict severe punishment o.
the editors of the Celestial Empir
who publish disagreeable things abou
their rulers. Recently a paper a
Shanghai printed an article reflectin
on the integrity of high officials of tn
imperial Government and even int
mating that the Royal Family was nc
hnnoc% e v~,{Oh& bo Tho a%fov<
ing newspaper is the organ of the r.
form party in China and its utterance
brought down upon it the wrath {
the Government.
A dispatch says that sheep men an
cattle owners in certain sections
Wyoming are preparing to extermina
each other If the bad sheepmen wi
exterminate the bad cattle men al
and the latter will do the same f
the bad sheepmen, Wyoming will
a great deal better off.
Nevertheless the man who kickt
the hardest about the cold wealth
is kicking hardest about the hot weat
er we are having just now. It is il
possible to suit some people.
Two men were fatally shot in
duel in the Kentucky mountains Il
other day. The peculiar feature
the affair IL that q card game and D
= fued was at the bottom Of it.