Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-21

con. umption o. our products thirty
tO'd. In the short - wears since the
d tual annexation OF those islands
their production has cNOrmUuSIv in
creased and Or exports TO them have
more than doubled In the II years
since Porto Rico "amP under the
American flag it has Increased twenty
field its supply of tropical products in
Our markets and correspondence in
crea> ed its consumption OF American
goods. In the II years since the
american flag was hoisted at Manila
our exports 10 the Philippine Islands
have increased fttyfOId and those to
all Asia and Oceania have trehled
Future Of American Commerce.
What of the future? What is the
promise of this tfagnifcent country OF
ours. this land OF plenty. where are
row produced more of the require
Lents Of life than in any other land
and which is 10 become a perfect unit
through this addition Of tropical terri
tory. to give III the one class of mater
ials in which We have been lacking II
the past?
In my minds eye | see a great. a
wonderful development, far beyond
that before which the world now
stands in amazement see our manu-
facturers again doubling and trebling
their already .nagnificent output and
pushing their surplus into every mar
ket Of the world. | see Niagara and
countless smaller waterfalls furnish
ing electricity to be carried by wire
tu every city and hamlet and farm, to
he used for light and heat and power,
in manufacturing and for transporta-
ton on rivers and canals and railways
and roads. | see a great canal con-
meeting the two oceans and putting
our eastern ard western shores in
close water communication and our
great ports in direct touch with the
markets OF the whole world. see an
other ship canal connecting the Great
Lakes with the Atlantic, with ocean
vessels landing at the docks of CleVe-
land and Chicago and Milwaukee and
Duluth, and making that greatest pro
ducing section of the whole world o
great ocean frontage. ! zee another
canal connecting the Lakes with the
Mississippi River, and a great SYSTEM
o. light draft steamers and barges
carrying the products Of that great
valley to the ocean steamship either
upon the Lakes or the Gulf Of Mexico
as convenience of location may deter
mine. see our islands Of the Pacific
Supplying us with hundreds of mil,
lions of dollars worth of their pro-
auctions and taking hundreds of mil,
lions dollars worth of our products in
exchange. l see the islands Of the
Gulf of Mexico one by one knocking at
our doors and coming under the Amer
lean flag and furnishing us through
OPEN doors their tropical products to
mingle with those of the islands Of the
Pacific. l see a great railway line
extending from Alaska at the north
to Argentina at the south, connecting
the railway systems Of the two contin.
ents and bringing the great markets
C that continent into close relation
with our own. | SEGA steady growth
of American influence and a develop
ment of closer commercial relations
with our neighbors Of the north and
on the south. see a magnificent
fleet of steamships, controlled by
American capital and genius, and fly
ing the American flag, penetrating
every sea. carrying American goods
to every continent and every cline.
and sending them to the interior OF
eA erv country by American engines, in
American cars. and upon American
rails. see the product of the Ameri
can farm and factory in every land
throughout the civilized world, and
with this accomplishment, increased
activity for American producers and
manufacturers, and increased pros
rerity among all classes Of American
citizens.