Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-09-29
WHAT Is TO BE WILL BE
Growth of the Asiatic Demand for
Products of the United States.

The Asactc nations have lived upon
rice-Stating things in II general way
and the TeutOnic races have for some
generations lived upon -four. 1t has
become standard within the last year or
two. that at least one of the Asiactic
nations has come to live upon -four.
Those desperate little fighters. the Jap
anese, have taken to hard tack, as did
our own American fighters during the
Civil War, as 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
Asatc empire Of China. That clever
correspondent, William +. 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 prcpa-
rations for war, nevertheless there is rem
son to expect n continued expansion of the
market. Japanese families generally are
beginning to use wheat -four for various
purposes. Nearly every household Is now
using II to make the little cakes and sweet
meats which they Use with their tea sew
ernl times II day In large quantities.
still larger amount Of cheaper quality Is
used for paste by the m%nmfScturers OF
of that kind. Since the war began hard
bread has been introduced into the army as
an alternate ration with rice The soldiers
relish the variety; bareback Is easy to
handle and carry, the nntritive value of q
pound OF -four is equal to that of a pound
of rice, and it costs less. The japanese
export their best rice to France, England
and China, where IL brings big prices, being
Of the very highest grade. They import
vast quantities OF cheaper rice for the con
sumption of the coolies and the lahoring
class from Korea, Burmah. China, singa-
pore and other parts Of the East Indies.
II is entirely practicable to substitute
cheap brands OF flour for this low-grade
the soldiers come home with their appe-
tites for bareback and wheat bread.
Could there be, under any circum-
stances or conditions, expressed vaster
idea of the enormous trade relations that
must henceforth exist between America
and the Asiatic countries. America
produces bread. The Asiatics have learn
ed 10 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 great extent, the ire
mendOus power it il.
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
tnent, 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 it,
| 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'
I 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
! 1t has nothing to do with iron and steel
! 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 is
enough to afford an illustration.
| And yet they talk about Imperial