The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-09-28
WHAT IS TO BE WILL BE
Growth of the Asiatic Demand for
Producta of the United Staten.

PRODUCTS OF the United Statcos
Fhe Asiactic nations have lived upon
rice-stating things in a general way
and the Teutonic races have for some
generations lived upon -four. 1t has
become standard within the last year or
two, that at least one of the Asiactic
nations has come to live upon -four.
Those desperate little fighters, the Jap
anese, have taken to hard tack, as did
our own American fighters during the
Civil War, as part of their subsistence,
and the same regard as to whatever is
made from our wheat has already ex-
tended, in a measure. to the more vast
Asiatic empire Of China. That clever
correspondent, William e. Curtis, speak
ing of the extent to which our -four is
already used by Japan, says:
While the imports Of -four within the
last year or SO have been much greater
than ever before on account of the prepa-
ratlons for war, nevertheless there is rea-
son to expect continued expansion OF the
market japanese families generally -, are are
beginning to use wheat flour for various
purposes. Nearly every household is now
using 1t to make the little cakes and sweet
eral times day i use large Mn qua e
still larger amount of cheaper quality is
used for paste by the manufacturerss OF, OF
screens, umbrellas, fans and other articles
Of that kind Since the war began hard
bread has been introduced into the army as
an alternate ration with rice The soldiers
handle and carry, the nutritive value of a
pound Of -four is equal to that Of a pound
| export their best rice to France: England
and China, where it brings big prices, being
vast quantities Of cheaper rice for the con
| sumption Of the coolies and the labering
class from Korea. Burmah, China, singa-
and other parts OF the East
| cheap brands Of flour for this low-grade
rice and it viii be easy to do tbs so when
titles for bareback and wheat bread.
Could there be, under any circum-
stances or conditions, expressed vaster
idea Of the enormous trade relations that
| must henceforth exist between America
and the Asiatic countries! America
produces bread. The Asiatics have learn
ed to eat bread with the rest of the
world. We are going to supply them
with it. We have to ship it across the
Pacific Ocean over the commercial path
way which we have made and beneath
which underlies our cable system. There
is nothing in the world that can stop
! the Asiatic demand for the wheat prod
ucts of the United States, and the wheat
products of the United States have made
this country, to a great extent, the ire
mendous power it is.
| 1ney Idlk q DOuI 1ucEe
is no "Imperialism.' This continent is
producing what the rest of the world
needs, and the inhabitants Of this con
tinent, under the rule of Republican ad
ministration. associated with other intel
ligent governments on either side, pro
pose to supply Asia with these prod
ucts that Asia needs. The fact thai
the United States has completed it:
pathway across the vast ocean and ha.
it's intermediate stations, and it's posses
sions close to the Asiatic coasts, is blu
all incident of events which are par
of the industrial history of the world
Does anyone imagine that the presen
majority of the American people are go
ing to neglect their ostensible duty, no
merely to themselves but to another por
ton Of the human race? They will
hardly do it.
This is but talking of the products O.
the wheat fields that Asia now demands
II has nothing TO do with iron and stee
and the thousand and one other prod
ucts of all our fields and all our facto
ries which they will otherwise demand
This is but referring to the simple af
fair of one single product. but it il
enough to afford an illustration.
And yet they talk about Imperial