The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-08
WILEY FAV0RS
 COOLlE LABOR
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(Continued from First Pa9e) people but they lack idealism They have
 no sense of abstract justice or abstract
 right.
 Chinese Are lncorruptible. "Commercially they are not trust worthy The Chinese are incorruptibly honest Throughout the great English banking houses of Hong Kong, Canton and Shanghai. the positions of trust are filled by Chinese. There has never been
 single Chinese dedication and to break his word to be dishonest means to the Chinese the loss of his credit and that means that he merits the disfayor of his ancestors. becomes a lost soul, barred from heaven and doomed to fit from planet to planet-an outcast in the
 world.
 Men who handle cash through Japan, treasurers, cashiers, paying tellers all
 these are long-queued celestials. When China begins to devolep and her wants increase a trade will be created across the Pacific like that which now goes
 across the Atlantic. Our economic cry
 ought to be On to the tropics When the
 canal Is completed, as surely 1t will be, connecting two oceans, our route to the
 Orient will be shortened by four thousand miles.
 The Philippine Question. "If we of the south take advantage of our geographical position we will dis cover in this land of ours a fair Eldorado. The Philippines are ours by the fortunes of war. Deweys guns and the treaty of Paris made them ours. And they are ours to have and to hold. Prolonged ap-
 plause) The Philippine question should be elevated from the domain of American
 partisan political contention. I believe they came to us under the providence of
 God and for the uplifting of the nations.
 There should be no embargo on trade
 between the United States and the Phil ippines. We of the south want to get our share of the Oriental trade. We need | cheap. efficient and peaceful labor here and with coolie labor we can undersell | the world in raw material and in the | finished manufactured product. We now make 15,000.000 bales of cotton and when | China's 600O,O0O cease to go naked they alone will consume 15,000, GOO bales. When | China discards the frock and the wooden l shoes, New England will get busy making shoes and the south will get busy rais- l ing cotton and manufacturing it. Then surely will King Cotton sit upon his l f1eecy throne and abundantly sway the | commercial world. Then truly will we of the south be able to say 20 cent cotton or
 no sale. Then, in a word. the south will produce 50.Oo000O bales of cotton a year
 and enter upon career of unexampled material prosperity"
 | MT. Wiley's subject was discussed by l Erister Ashcraft of Florence, William l Whttam of Charlotte, N. C.. and George | F. Anderson United States consul at | Annoy, China. In the course of his talk, Mr. Whittam said:
 Consul Whittam Talks. | 'In spindles Great Britain leads with | 50. 100000 out of world-total of rather | less than 120,0O00O0. We come next with | 24.O00.O00 and no other country has more | than 10,000.000 spindles. This looks like l pretty good progress for us and indeed 1t 1 is a commendable exhibit But looking l into the future I can see no prospect of | like expansion unless we tackle the export problem in the universally acknowledged | American way of going determinedly af- l ter anything we want If we neglect 70 | do this we shall merely keep pace with | the growing demand of our home market and that will mean but a snals gait" 'sWe have in the south today between | eight and ten million spindes and not l enough of an industrial population to keep them all in continuous operation. In passing, I must pause to say that this l labor shortage Is the immediate problem l demanding our attention.
 Between eight and nine million cotton
 spindles were installed within the last