The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-01-20

of population of the United States is
near Cincinnati and five hundred mics F.!
from New Orleans, while San F'ranclco |
is two thous and five hundred miles |
from this center Within nine hundred
miles of New Orleans, it is said, there
are seventy cities with a combined /
population of twenty millions, while
within nine hundred miles of San
Francisco are only eight cities and
their comb led population is one
million. With Washington as start
ing point, it is said that it takes four
DAYS to reach San Francisco and only
a little more than one day to reach New
Orleans, while the cost including sleep
ing berth to San Franciso is S93, and
to New Orleans $33. All these argu-
ments to the pocket are important
but apply with still greater force TO
the selection of Washington, which IS
closer to the population of the United
States and to the world than either
New Orleans or San Francisco. 10
those who have followed the social,
industrial and political tendencies Of the
Pacific slope for the last five years,
serious objection to holding an inter
national exposition in San Francisco is
| that that city is rantakerously opposed
to the Japanese, Chinese and other
| Orientals who necessarily make such
large part of every international sx-
| position and that should the exposition
be held there, there would be perpetual
danger of artificial earthquakes more
serious in their ultimate effects than
the catastrophe which destroyed San
| Francisco few years ago.
Statistics show that our exports to
China have declined from fifty-eight
millions five years ago to fifteen aE1
one-half millions in 1910. The China
man is frequently referred to as an
enigmatical creature, but those who
have studied him in his own habitat
realize that there is a great deal OF
human nature in him and that he has
abundant shrewd common sense. The
| Chinaman in not a frst-class fighting
| man, but he is not unresentful of wrong.
| He has been outrageously treated in this
country and especially on the Pacific
coast and organized into unions as
European army is into regiments, the
word has gone forth to boycott Amerci-
| &c nnfhincr 70 the
average Chinaman or to the Chinaman
much above the average, that this
country RENTED some millions of the
Boxer indemnity. That was a state
affair, and the average Chinaman
knows nothing of state affairs, and
there is no word in the Chinese language
for patriotism because the idea is
totally non-existent in the Celestial
Kingdom.
1t is beginning to be realized that we
are building the Panama Canal for
| Germany, Great Britain, Japan and
other nations that carry freight by sea.
1t is evident that the trading ships of
other nations will use the waterway to
| a much greater extent than will the
people of this country. How can it be
other wise? Our ships, owing to the
tariff and the high price of labor, cost
50 per cent. more than the ships of any
ether country Our sailors cost twice
a much az those of any European
country and five times as much as the
wonderfully seasoned and competent
sailers of Japan and China We ceas-
ed suddenly to be maritime country
fifty years ago and we will never again
be a maritime country until we can
compete on a financial basis in ships
and men with European and Asiatic
peoples.
| The President has sent message to
Congress urging fortifcation of the
| Panama Canal. He wants five millions
of dollars to start the work. Nothing
will more quickly enlist sentiment in
| favor of earthWorks and guns for the
Canal than the opposition which is ap-
| pearing in the British and Japanese
papers.