The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-24
WORTH READING.

In a review of a new book just issued among the. AnnaIes Politiques ct Lit teraires of the Academic Francaise, NJ. Hanotaux, member of the academy, has a remarkable article on "The Future and the Power of the United States"
 The publication of the present volume and of the work of which it is a part, says M. Hanotaux, is one of the signs of the times. It is veritable and prac- tical encyclopedia of commerce. Who would have dreamed, twenty years ago, of a work of such proportions? And yet publicists as well as men of affairs have known, for a long time, in what point works of this kind are weak and how very hard it is to combine the most parliamentary notions involved in international relations. To whom shall we turn? Where shall we knock?
 On this point have my own opinion. I have given expression to it as often and as loudly as I could. The great evil in France is the desire to stay at home, or perhaps better expressed, the indifference to travel. The French do. not travel, hence everything surprises them. The only cure for insularity and Inarrowness is travel. Traveli Go outsider I say again and again to my fellow citizens. The reward you will reap will be rich indeed" This is my way of initiating the elder Cato's cry, Carthage delenda est Go outside, travelI' Now, the book under review would dispense with travel, were that possible. It puts facts before us just as they are. In reading it one lives among realities. It is not only com- pilation of statistics. facts and figures to be carefully considered, it is life it. self. Each branch of commerce, each industry is reviewed. The origin, cause for existence progress, methods, strength and weakness of each one of these is recorded. One is made to un- derstand why one nation or man suc- ceeds and the other fails. Here are the names of sellers, buyers, banking houses, and even in certain cases the Imethods of procedure. To know is not lall that is needed; it is necessary to act and to know how to act. Such ought to be the motto of the authors of this work. They have created an au7 thority, living book-one that speaks to the man of business in a business Hike way. It teaches two nations that (which above all things it is important for both of them to know; not only what they are, but what they may be. Having to discuss their interests, thty engage in a carefully werded and con else dialogue. having facts and figures T 2 na1,a +3y,s,, puts forth his besa efforts, shows what the situation actually Is and makes his offers Tn the first volume of this work France and Italy are coupled together. In the last it is France and the United States which appear hand in hand. Is there more important or a nobler sub lject? The great American republic is all ready high above the horizon of the commercial world Its attitude is mem acing. All eyes are turned toward it. One word will express it's position, power and one word will justify it, Organization" Power is shown ra- where so much as in mere enumera- tion of the clements which make up the present and future greatness of the United States. It's territory is as large as that of Europe. It has eighty mill lion inhabitants. It touches the worlds s two great oceans. Its climatic condi- tions range from tropical to arctic. All kinds of minerals, from gold to coal, are found in it's mines, along its rivers, and in alluvial deposits. All kinds of plants, from the cedar to the hyssop, are there; so, too, are all kinds of ani- maj wealth from the whale to the bird Iof paradise. The articles of primary iron, coal, cotton, cereals, all kinds of machines, from those har- messed to Niagara Falls, to those which dress hog in five minutes, are there. Above and over all, permeating the life of the people, is an active and fertile genius, a spirit of enterprise, an assid- uity of labor, perfect liberty and equal ity of all the citizens If these are not the clements of a peoples progress and prosperity, what are? Here there is a vast army armed to the teeth for the arts of peace, and even for the arts of
 war, lifting itself beyond the oceans, not a month from the ports of the old
 
 question of freight, the United States is nearer to the Mediterranean than Liv- erpoo1 is to Marseilles. To-morroW this colossal empire, master of the Pan- anna canal will interfere in some way
 between Europe and Asia. It will con- trol the commerce of the west and the east, for it will hold the principal way. Such then is its power -' ....
 In the matter of organization the re- public rules by means of a voluntary discipline which watches over all the larger industries, which subordinates
 them to very careful calculation and to ripe reflection. It follows the materials
 of commerce from their origin up to the very last step in their manipulation of preparation for the worlds markets. It combines the efforts of all, and it
 concentrates all the forces of domestic production for the purpose of pushing | it's products with an irresistible impulse
 upon the markets of the world.
 This is the discipline that organized lthe trusts, that created the enormous
 fortunes always associated with the la- Dor whencethey are derived, that is only one, weapon more in the hands of
 the men of genius who know how to create them. This discipline has cre- lated a still more intelligently yielded land terrible weapon, the graduated ta-
 riff continually changed to meet
 changed conditions, and modified to CO., inclde with the progress of the country. T. tnI, syzI cL'-