Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-04
THE FUTURE AND POWER OF
THE UNITED STATES.

"The Future and Power of the United
States" is the title of an article just
published by M. Hanotaux, member of
the French Academy, which the Journal
de st. Petersburg, an influential Russian
newspaper, reprints and reviews. The
Russian estimate of the article is today
made public by the Department of Com
merce and Labor. ''The great Ameri-
can Republic" says the Journal, 'fs
already high above the horizon Of the
commercial world. Its attitude is men,
acing. All eyes are turned toward it..
One word will express its position,
"power," and one word will justify it,
organization. Power is shown nowhere
so much as in a mere enumeration OF the
elements which make up the present and
future greatness of the United States.
It's territory is as large as that of Eu-
rope. 1t has 80, 900, 600 inhabitants,
1t touches the worlds two great oceans.
Its climstic conditions range from troLi-
cal to arctic. All kinds of minerals
from gold to coal are found in its mines,
along its rivers and in alluyial deposits.
All kinds of plants from the cedar to
the hyssop, are there; so, too, are all
kinds OF animal wealth from the whale
to the bird of paradise. The articles
of primary importance, iron, coal,
cotton, cereals, all kinds of ma
chimes, from those harnessed TO Nj
agara Falls to those which dress a
hog in five minutes are there. Above
and all over, permeating the life of the
people, is an active and fertile genius,
spirit of enterprise, an assiduity OF
labor, perfect liberty and equality of all
the citizens. If these are not the ele-
ments of peoples progress and pros
perity, what are? Here there is vast
army armed to the teeth for the arts of
peace, and even for the arts of war, lift
ing itself beyond the oceans, nota month
from the ports of the old world, but
week. If one considers the question of
of freight the United States is nearer to
the Mediterranean than Liverpool is to
Marseille. Tomorrow this colossal EN-
pire, master of the Panama canal, will
interfere in some way between Europe
and Asia. 1t will control the commerce
of the West and East, for it will hold
the principal way"
Here are few striking sentences from
the French h-Russian estimate of our i'm
portance: at concentrates all the fore
es Of domestic production for the pur-
pose of pushing the products with an ir-
resistible impulse upon the markets of
the world. On the battlefelds of inter-
national trade, clever strategists have
organized trust vaster than any hereto
fore conceived, which binds the different
States and the different industries there
in. l refer to the great national trust,
the tariff. Thus, at the beginning of
the twentieth century, the United States
faces the world as a most desirable
market, on the one hand, and
as an awful menace to manufacturing
nations on the other. Will the pros
perity and progress that have marked
the American republics movements dur
ing the last decade or two continue until
they obscure us all? In other words,
are we to be confronted by an American
peril more terrible and more pressing
than the yellow peril? Theperil exists.
OF this there is no doubt"
The author concludes his resume of
the conditions in France and the United
States by advising his countrymen to
look to their new possessions in Algiers,
Tunis and Indo-China for the future
prosperity of the nation. 'Let me tell
them simple story" he says. '1n 1923
the commander of Fort Dearborn, a
pessimist of that time, wrote to the Sec
retary of War Of the United States as
follows: Il have the honor to inform
you that this post should be abandoned,
because the country surrounding it is
such that it is impossible for a popula-
ton to live here sufficient to justify the
expense of keeping fort at this place.
In 1908, seventy years later, the place
where that fort stood had population
of million and a half, and q, 900, 600
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