The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-09


 ton provinces that the boycott must cease, or with his head he shall pay the penalty. still, I believe, from the best sources of information obtaina- ble. that the duress will continue with unabated fury until Congress makes some modification of the law. so ob- noxious to the coolies.
 China occupies one-tenth of the worlds territory, and contains one fifth of the worlds population. to wit; five hundred million people. To all the leading nations, China has come to be a country of intense commercial in- terest
 "Old Japan is passing away. New Japan has emerged from her chrysaIs has stepped forth from a place or ex- clusiveness and timidity into the ranks of the great powers; henceforth to be the dominant and guiding influence inE the destinies of Asia in gaivaniz- ing into life the effete civilization or the ancient people of the orient.
 We have discovered that Perry Christian opening of Japanese ports has not given us any mortgage on .ne Mikado's commerce. As the industries grow that country will become a great manufacturing center. when the I'm mense natural resources of China pe- gin to be developed. and the haofts and wants of the people become more numerous and complex, as they ai- ways do in proportion to the develop,
 ment of industrial life' rade VIII be created across the Pacific analogous | to the trade that now goes back and forth across the Atlantic. There IS no doubt that Japan will prove equal to her mighty industrial opportunity, and the whole world will profit by the development which she will set m motion. And the law Of commerce will l.. aAnw 1ad IanAneSe and Chinese have cheap labor 10 carry on their industries. cur best custo- mers now are England, France ana Germany; but we would not lost much, in the long run, if we were to lose this European trade. Most Of the things we sell to those continental na-
 tions are goods that will ultimately enter the free gates and the whole world must continue to buy them in increasing quantities as the same are needed
 Much of our so-called political economy has been more political than economic. The Philippine question ought to be put outside the domain or politics. Political agitation over that issue should cease. The scheme or securing foreign markets and the means of extending our trade relations beyond the Pacific should be considered in a non partisan spirit and in business like way by every patriotic citizen who hopes to see North America mistress amongst the commercial powers of the earth. Through the Golden Gate, which shuts out the Mongolian, new light--the light of Asia-is breaking Our economic cry ought to be: on 10 | the Tropics Under proper conditions, a rare opportunity is now offered us l to capture the rich trade of the Orient. Manila, for fifty years during the sixteenth century, was the entre pot the great emporium. through which poured the vast and oppulent trade of | the Eastern world. The capital of the Philippine Islands is TOO miles nearer the Orient than Hongkong. and 1000 | miles nearer than Shanghai Every
 wide-awake. progressive nation On the surface of the globe is trying to capture
 this far-away Eastern trade. Since England has made an alliance with l Japan, offensive and defensive, 1t be-
 hooves us to be up and doing If we dc not want to be shut out from this harvest field of wealth.
 With free trade relations establish | ed between the United States and the Philippine Islands, our progressive and | aggressive business men, transporting raw material in their own bottoms, can erect warehouses, depots and manu- | TacLuTlcS III NdTild anu clSCWhSlC III the | Islands, and by means of cheap coolie | labor weave fabrics at such small cost as will enable them to undersell all ! competitors. Fifteen million bales of cotton at this time seem amply suf- | fcient to supply the world. When | the Chinese people cease going naked and can be induced to wear one kaik
 blouse. per year. per capita, it will re- quire forty million bales of cotton to
 meet necessary demands.
 God. in his infinite wisdom has pleas ed the cotton zone in our Southland
 With proper labor facilities, we can easily raise in the States south of the Potomac and east of the Mississippi, in cluding Texas and Arkansas. all the cotton that the transpacific people will possibly need Then king cotton will
 sit on his white throne; the price oi
 the commodity will never be below 2C
 cents per pound, and the South will
 have entered-upon a career more noble l fruitful and enduring than the tongue
 of man can describe.
 l The question of labor. however. is a serious one No American citizen
 worthy the name. desires to see thu
 United States filled up with unworthy l Asiatics; and I for one do not believe
 there is any danger of such calamity On the Pacific slope I discovered tha the fruit growers this year could no l procure enough hands to save theil
 crops. The cry for help was so grea that the public schools Tn California
 this summer had to be cut short, and
 certificates caused to be issued by loca
 authorities, permitting children unde
 school age to work on the farms. Whit
 children, who ought to have been in tn
 school room. were drafted into tn
 orchards and canneries to prevent tn
 utter loss of fruit and grain crops Flo
 this reason. well informed gentlemen
 in that section in every vocation il
 life, maintain with much earnestnes
 and sincerity that the indutries of tn Pacific coast could easily accommodate quarter of a million Mongolian laborer with advantage to the white population They could be utilized in occupation
 that the white people avoid; and thei employment would create wealth an, make more work in various ways fo Americans. The coolies never vote take no part ip politics, never marr. our women. never own our lands, neve
 assimilate. They take no part in ou
 political or governmental affairs Whei
 their work Is done, their contract ended
 they recross the Pacific: and when the,
 come to die lay their bones amongs
 those of their forefathers. Much nor
 serious to the South is the problem pre-
 sented by Europe's invasion of Ameri
 ca with her surplusage of poverty crime and ignorance.
 While I express no opinion upon tn
 labor question. yet the Chinese boycot
 of American goods and Southern cottoI menaces such serious consequences t.
 our commercial welfare as to reouir