The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-30
WHAT is TO BE WILL BE
Growth of the Asiatic Demand for
Products of the United States.

Ille -aSldCCIC uatlOLS nave Ifeu upon
rice-stating things in a general way
and the Teutonic races have for some
generations lived upon flour. 1t has
become standard within the last year OF
two. that at least one of the .Asiactic
nations has come to live upon flour.
Those desperate little fighters, the Jap
anese, have taken to hard tack. as did
our own American fighters during the
Civil War, as a part of their subsistence,
and the same regard as to whatever is
made from our wheat has already ex-
tended, in a measure, to the more vast
Asiatic empire OF China. That clever
correspondent. William E. 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 SO have been much greater
than ever before on account of the prepa-
rations for war, nevertheless there Is rea-
son to expect a continued expansion of the
market, Japanese families generally are
purposes Nearly every household is now
using 1t te make the little cakes and sweet
meats which they use with their tea sew
eral times a day in large quantities. A
still larger amount Of Il cheaper quality is
used for paste by the manufacturers of
screens, umbrellas, fans and other articles
bread has been introduced into the army as
an alternate ration with rice The soldiers
relish the variety: bareback is easy to
pound of. flour is equal to that of a pound
of rice, and it costs less. The japanese
export their best rice to France, England
of the very highest grade. They import
vast quantities OF cheaper rice for the con
sumption OF the coolies and the laboring
pore and other parts of the East Indies.
1t is entirely practicable to. substitute
cheap brands Of flour for this low-grade
rice, and it will be easy to do so when
the soldiers come home with their appc-
tites for bareback and wheat bread.
, Could there be, under any circum-
stances or conditions, expressed a vaster
idea of the enormo trade relations that
must henceforth exist between America
and the Asiatic countries! America
produces bread. The .Asiatics have learn
ed 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 tire
mendous power it is.
They talk about "Imperialism!' 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 adj
ministration. associated with other intel.
ligent governments on 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
it's intermediate stations, and its posses
siols close to the Asistic coasts. is but
an incident of events which are part
OF the industrial history of the world
Does anyone imagine that the oresen,
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 wit
hardly do it.
This is but talking of the products OF
the wheat fields that Asia now demands
1t has nothing to do with iron and stee
and the thousand and one other prod
ucts of all our fields and all our facto
ries which they will otherwise demand
This is but referring to the simple af
fair Of one single product. but it j!
enough to afford an Illustration.
And yet they talk about Imperial