The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-08-14

Cullom. the chairman of the FOREIGN
Relations Committee of the Senate. is
seventyIfour. while Allison and Hoar
are each seventy-five. All these men
are more efiicient than they have ever
been. The length of a mans work.
ing life is largely a matter of individual
constitution. Some are older at thirty
than others are at sixty. II the Lord
should give me threescore or even four
score years OF working life shall be
glad / should like to remain upon
this earth as long, as I can be useful
to myself and my fellows and no longer.
When re TN ~ fall / want to retire
dent w>-..- = c...iDcr the ground"
Uncle Sam and His Hemisphere.
Tia conversation here turned TO mir
IL questions, and asked Speaker
Cannon his opinions as to the future of
the United States. He replied
The future of this country is the
future of the worlds civilization. This
IL the great breeding ground for the
best of the human race 1t is the
source of that element which does
things. controls things, creates things
We have eighty million people now.
Within another hundred years we shall
haye Three hundred millions, and will
have spread beyond our borders on the
north and south. BY the close of this
century we Americans will dominate
this continent and this hemisphere. We
will have passed beyond Mexico, Cen.
tral America and the Isthmus of Pan.
anna, and will have inclosed all South
America In the grasp of our influence"
BY this do not mean that we will
undertake the political government OF
the South American republics. do
not mean that we will hold them as we
now hold our colonies. nor even as Gu.
ba, which, is to some extent a depen.
dency of ours But do mean that
American capital and Americans will
have so settled themselves in our sis
ter continent that the day of revolu.
lions and non-progress will have pass
ed away. In the Monroe doctrine we
have established the fact that no Eu.
ropean power shall ever acquire any
new territory in South America That
doctrine will always prevail There
may be European immigration; but
those Europeans who go to South Amer.
lea must become South Americans and
this. with the great overflow of our
people to that country. means that
they will become a part of the world
dominated by our ideas and the spirit
OF our civilization
The Canada of the Future.
How about Canada, Mr.. Speaker
CANDIDA is already almost a part of
the United States. 1t may remain still
tied to England in q normal way, but
as time goes on 1t will become Ameri-
can in sympathy and more and more
American in population and industry.
Canada Is one of the growing countries
of this time. I look for an enormous
emigration there from the United
States. 1t. is a land of vast undevel-
oped resources, which are to be opened
up by our people"
The United States Abroad.
Il suppose that the future of the
United States will be confined to this
continent" said /.
Yes, to a great extent" said Mr..
Cannon. but we are now world ma
tion and we are reaching out in every
direction and across every sea. The
earth is old, but 1t Is hardly touched
as far as modern development Is con-
cerned. There are vast areas of new
country in South America; Africa Is
still an unknown continent, and SO is
almost the whole of Northern Asia. The
world is said to have fifteen hundred
million people. There is room upon 1t
OF 1t will support ten which now sup
port one"
Then you do not believe in the NAL
thusian theory7"
mo. IL will be long time before
wars or pestilences will be needed to
restrict the worlds population" ;
The Greatest Factory ON Earth. q
Il suppose you look upon the United
States as pretty well filled now?''
Not at all. We have only eighty
millions and by intensive cultivation
we could support ten times that num-
Der 1t is said that Texas alone would
feed the United States. And then our
mineral resources. The country has
not been scratched and we do not know
what we have under the sou. We are
already the greatest manufacturing
nation of the world. producing more
than Germany. France and England.
our three greatest competitors. We
send only per cent. of what we mako
abroad, but that per cent. forms 20
per cent. of our exports, and we ere
now the greatest exporting nation OF
earth. Indeed. we make one-fourth of
all the factory goods made by the
world"
The basis of our manufactures IA our
home market" continued the Speaxer
Il want to see this protected in evsry
possible way. for It is the foundation
of our prosperity and of our enormous
possibilities. There is no market like
this. We have more wants than ,nv
other people. and spend three times ne
much per capita as the people of E,I-
rope. Our eighty millions in that re-
spect are equal to any other two hun
dred millions. We are equal as con-
to two-thirds of all the people
Of Europe. This market we must keep
artfp T.