The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-02-02

arc eating nearer and nearer to the
no,nt wnere we viii ourselves con-
s,t,ne nh that Our farms produce.
men We will not have anything "Atn
which to pay our balance, VIII we
es We VIII, because. Whiis oaf GA
20. > of giain nave ueen faiiihs. our
] ....,r,s OF manufactured artIcIes gave
..een increasing ny leaps anu bounus
Ned Leean Iarr,srs.
But unuer what ciicdn'SlaneeS
I.ous agu after we mad TIA. .teh Tie
eAI.ueul tn.nss tnat the act gen
eraN.ul. of s.s,,asniSn had oa4ie to' as
IN sAmeriua, We ueiioefatsie thi"e"'eo
mo merchant marine OF the tni,cu
States t.lu foM IL Is SO eoms,eteiy
tn,u,...d mat you ale moie iAhety W
see me nag III me iillle ninouem ot
fleece u.un the seas tnan ,ne nag
OF me UIuteu states. Anu you hno"
! INA, lie i....lon mat Wants ioieAeh
commerce mast have the arms ot
c.n,n,.r.e II she has me sn,es, ner
ss,liuis aill see 10 II mat ner mer-
chants have Inc make ] am not
al ,u,ng tnis to yod, A am teiiins You,
lor ,nc Iacts, il We look nut niue
ways Ior mem. VIII ausoiuteiy Demon
STATE ms cncums.Ance. tnat we nave
I nole To rear An the comteIton OF
In, Iano. Germany ana rranre, be-
cause of the multitude Of -.hStiah,
, rreAch ana Lel liIhn carriers UPON the
STA tIssau We nave to lear lfoln lhe
/ neena4ty OF the English maiidiac-
tuters or the enterprise of lne Ger =
/ lAa1i merchants
AnyDtuy VINO has dealt with rail-
I soaas KNOWS what 1 am taiAlns about.
7 ttaIlroaus IN America have ntaue ana
| unnl..ue elites ana communities, have
1 hax
/ tnty we're not watched by the inter-
| slate Commerce IolnnIssion. We are
oAilSfmg lleu to NOtk without DIS
/ elimination now, but lbey al one time
| o.scriminateu as they pieaseu. ANA
! tiey determined where cite, were 10
| giow and where cI,ies We're to decay.
| cry well. l.hc same tning is hap
! pening upon the hish seas. Ine tor
! eihn carrier can Tell You where you
cs7rr Etr, amt W here 5tttt cannot CO. ttr
/ can discriminate AGAINST you, and IN
I favor Of his own mel chants and man
| ufacturers. and nes will, because he
| GOES.
| And while all this Is going on, and
we lack the means, We are fairly burst
ing our own jacket. We are making
/ more manufactured soous than we can
consume ourselves. and every manu-
| factm err Is waking up TO the fact that
ii we do not let anybody cllfnD over
our tariff wall TO get in, he has got
/ 10 climb to get out. that We have oe-
iiueralely domesticated ourselves; that
We have deliberately cut our Selves on
sr3zi tbs s-ss--es:;5 OF trade, thar We
| have deliberately divorced ourselves
from world commerce; and now, II
VIC are not seihg to sttHe eeehefni-
cally, we have sot to md Cur way out
into the great International exchanges
Of the Worid. here IL a new Ques-
lion.
Canal for Foreign Nations.
was speaking in Boston the other
evening at a real estate exchange. and
asked those gentlemen what is 60
ing TO keep real estate, values In -Bosto
steady. 4 asked them IL they Realised
what was likely to happen after the
Year 1913. You know that In tnat
rsar II Is likely that the great ditch
in the Isthmus will be open for COM
merce. We are not opening 1t for
America. by the way, because we
haven't any ships to send through 1t;
we are opening 1t or England and
Germany We are pouring out Amer
lean millions in order that German
exporters. English exporters and
French exporters may profit by our
enterprise; and when that Is done. of
course something Is going to happen
to AMERICA. asked those gentlemen
in Boston II. after that was done. the