The Red Cloud chief., 1904-09-30
WHAT IS TO BE WILL BE
Growth Of h Asiatic Demand for
Products Of United States.

The Asiactic nations have lived upon
ricc-stating things in a general way
end the Teutonic races have for some
generations lived upon flour. II has
become standard within the last year or
two, that at least one of the Asiactir
nations has come to live upon flour.
Those desperate little fighters, the Jap
nnesc. have taken to hard tack. as did
orr W American fighters during the
Civil War. as a part of their subsistence.
and the same regard rs TO whatever is
made from our wheat has already en-
tended, IN a measure. to the more vast
Asiatic empire of China. That clever
correspondent. William f.. 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 80 have been much greater
than ever before on account Of the prcpa.
rations Tor war, nevertheless there Is rea-
son to expect n continued expansion Of the
market, japanese families generally are
purposes, Nearly every household Is now
using II TO- make the little cakes and sweet.
cral times n day In large quantities. A
still larger amount of "A cheaper quality IL
used for past" by the manufacturYs OF
screens, umbrellas. fans and other aAiclps
of that kind. Since the war began hard
bread has been introduced into the army MS
an alternate ration with rice, The soldiers
handle and carry. the nutritivc value OF u
pound Of -four Is equal Ia that OF a pound
Of rice. and It costs less, THE Japanese
TX" "Nbo rn, ,me'r wh nSs. +, RE nr,n y" f Ira nrice s"E Trins
Of the very highest grade. They import
vast quantities of cheaper rice for the con
class from, Korea, Burmah, China, singn.
pore and other parts Of the East Indies.
II IL entirely practicable to substitute
cheap brands ~ -four for this low grade
rice, and IL will br easy to do So when
the soldiers come home with their appc'
titcs for bareback and wheat bread.
Could there be. under any circum-
stances or conditions, expressed Il vaster
idea OF the enormous trade relations that
must henceforth exist between America
and the Asiatic countries! America
produces bread. The Asiatics have learn
cd 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 n great extent, the ire.
mendous power 1t is.
They talk about "lmperialism!' There
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 OF either side, pro-
pose to supply Asia with these prod.
uCts that Asia needs. The fact that
the United States has completed its
pathway across the vast ocean and has
its intermediate stations, and its posses
sions close TO the Asiatic coasts. is but
an incident of events which are part
of the industrial history OF the world.
Does anyone imagine that the present
majority Of the American people are GO
ing to neglect their ostensible duty, not
merely To themselves but to another por-
ton of the human race? They will
hardly do it.
This is but talking of the products Of
the wheat fields that Asia now demands.
II has nothing To do with iron and steel
aud the Thousand and one other prod
nets Of all our fields and all our facto-
ries which they will otherwise demand.
This IL but referring to the simple af-
fair of one single product, but it is
enough TO afford an illustration.
And yet they talk about Imperial