The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-06


posits. 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
machines. from those harnessed to
Niagara Falls to those which dress a
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, and ASST
duty of labor, perfect liberty and
equality of all the citizens. If these
are not the elements of peoples pro-
gress and prosperity, what are? Here
there is a vast army armed to teeth
for the arts of peace, and even for the
arts of war, lifting itself beyond the
oceans, not month from the ports of
the Old World, but week. If one
considers the question of freight, the
United States is nearer to the Mediter-
ranean than Liverpool is to Marseille.
Tomorrow this colossal empire mas
ter of the Panama Canal, will inter-
fere in some way between Europe and
Asia. 1t will control the commerce of
the West and the East. for 1t will hold
the principal way. Such, then, Is it's
power
In the matter of organization the
Republic rules by me ans of a voluntary
discipline which watches over all the
large Industries, which subordinates
them to very careful calculation and to
ripe reflection. 1t follows the mater
ials of commerce from their origin up
to the very last step in their manipu-
lation or preparation for the worlds
markets. 1t combines the efforts of
all, and II concentrates all the forces
of domestic products for the purpose
-. III. IA
BILE impulse upon the markets of the
world.
This is the discipline that organized
the trusts, that created the enormous
fortunes always associated with the
labor whence they 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
created a still more inteligently
welded and terrible weapon, the
graduated tariff. continually changed
to meet changed conditions, and modi-
fed to coincide with the progress Of
the country. Sheltered behind this for
fifteen years the American Republic
has been forging ahead with astonIsh-
ing rapidity and success 1t Is well
posted as to its resources and as to
the resources of its adversarfes. 1t
opens and closes its gates as the
full; in other words, treaties of recipro-
city must really be the means of re-
ciprocal trade.
The admission of immigrants. or. IN
other words the importation of labof,
Is as carefully watched as is the i'm
portation of goods. On tho battle
fields of international trade clever
strategists have organized a trust vast
er than any heretofore conceived.
which binds the different States and
the different Industries therein. I re-
fer to the great national trust, the tar.
in. Thus. at the beginning of the
twentieth century, the United States
faces the world as most desirable
market, on the one hand. and as an
awful menace to manufacturing ma
lions, on the other. The nation or
to establish vast commercial relations
in the future must be prepared to
measure forces with the two great Gle
ments of the Unions power--its
strength. based on Its resources. and
its organization. To- what conclusion
will careful study OF those two faa-
tors lead us? Is Europe in general
and each particular power, doomed t.
Inevitable and irremediable defeat? Is
the battle that is to be fought hope
less? VIII the prosperity and prog
ress that have marked the American
Republics movements during the last
decade or two continue until they OBJ
scure all else? In other words are
we to be COMPOUNDED by an American
peril more terrible and more pressing
than the yellow" peril. one that is t.
WELD against the Old World the weap.
on before which that Old World Is to go
down to irretrievable defeat?
The peril exists. OF this there Is no
doubt Everybody win remember tn
ty years ago when the first shipments
of American wheat menaced the farm
ers of the north and center of France.
The only way we were able then to r..
sist the invasion was by Keeping step
with its progress by the imposition
of tariffs. At the present time IL is
hardly certain that French agriculture
can hold It's own or keep up the com
petition.
Germany has passed at different times
through similar perils. notably when
American pork. invading the Empires
markets, threatened by its abundance
and cheapness a great public daener
The Empire defended itself as best It
could, but not without exciting con.
siderable resentment on the other side
or the Atlantic.
Finally England has had her hours
Of doubt and difficulty with the sam,
or similar dangers. Thenk Of what
she had to endure when she saw her
self attacked and beaten in her own
markets. Think OF what she must
have felt when she saw the first shin