OUR COMMERCIAL ANO TERRITORIAL EXPANSION. AMERICA’S GREAT NEED OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. -. - ■■■ - Grouped around Manila as a point of distribution is the most densely popu lated part of the world. More than MM.O»>0,000 people form the population of Japan, Asiatic Pussia, China, French Cochin China, Siam, British India, Aus tralasia, the I>utch Fast Indies, etc., ail of which are nearer to Manila as a point of distribution than to any other great commercial center, while such cities as Shanghai, Canton and others are us near to Muuilu as Havana is to the city of New York. The question, "What will lie the effect upon the commerce of the United States by our possession of the Philippines?" is answered as follows: First—They can supply a large proportion of the $3.V),fK)0,ft00 worth of tropical and sub-tropical products which this country imports annually. The sum can thus lie expended under the American Hug and for the benefit both of the people of the islands and those of our own citizens having investments in the islands. Second They will supply an immediate market for from $30,000,0011 to $r>0, 000,000 of American products und manufactures annually, and twice this sum • later. Third—By far the most important feature of these Island acquisitions in the Pacific is their prospective effect upon our trade with the countries commercially adjacent to them, ami especially to the Philippines. The Imports of the countries commercially adjacent to the Philippines amount to about $1,200, of copprr, cotton, hrrailat n(Ts. tl ° provisions anil maav other 1 ► ' | articles entering Into the dally • ' ( , requirement* of man. •♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ EXPANSION IN TRADE FOR THE PAST NINE MONTHS. Our exports have nearly dou bled since 1H1I5. Our Imports bare slightly In creased In the same time. Hucli Is the record of com mercial expansloa under the fostering care of the present iidm/nDtratioa. The Treasury Department has lust issued a statement of the Imports and exports of the tnllsil Htatss for the inntiiti of Heptemher, together with a stateiiirik| of tho Imports aud exports for the period of nine months ending Heptemher HO, for a series of years. No stronger argument In favor of holding our awn markets by the application of the principle of protection, anti then seeking the world's mar kets, has ever been made. According to the statement Issued the Imports and exports during Heptemher were as fol lows: Heptemher, IflOO. Exports . *1 15.0:14,210 Imports. 50,502,000 Excess of Exports * 50,071,004 For the nine months ending Heptemher HO, I OOO, the show ing Is equally gratifying. Thus: REPUBLICAN. Nine month* ending Septem ber 30, 11*00. Export*.*1,031, OHO, 401 Import*. 024,401,500 bum. Export* * 407,224,803 Compare thi* with the record of the first nine months of lHi*n, when Democratic theo ries of foreign trade were put into practice; when a low tarifT stimulated Imports, and whan the Id loses* of American fac tories was a damper to our ex ports. This record I* as fol lows: DEMOCRATIC. Nine months ending Septem ber 30, IHI15: Import*... *001,043,130 Experts. 557,1*27.400 Excess Import* .. * 43,1 15,073 That, In a nutshell. Is the dif ference between Democratic theory and Hrpuhltcan prac tice. While our exports hits NEARLY DOUBLED, our Im ports are but slightly more than they were In Democratic days, and the Increase la en tirely tlue to the greater de mand for maiiufaclurers' ma terials which are used la our busy mills where American labor Is actively employed at good wage*. '%EXPANSION!MAP»*» UNITED STATES. VALLE OF EXPORTS UNDER TWO TARIFFS Protection Assures Manufacturers Their Heme Market and Exports Follow. The avowed purpose of the free raw material clause of the Wll«on-(»orman tariff law was to “stimulate manufactur ing.'' Instead of “stimulating" it. the law all but strangled it. Millions of wage earn ers were driven out of employment. Soup houses were opened. Free Bread mid Free Clothes were the Itemocratic watch word. With our industries revived hy a pro tective tariff, manufacturing both for home market* and for export ha* attain ed a degree of prosperity never before known in the Foiled States. In proof of thi* the following statement ha* )w*en prepared showing the exports of principal manufactured articles under three >>sr* of low tariff au it nder *11 it'nder I ring Articles sou law i ley law i Total mantifac lures . (MB.3S3.Hlg (t.lMRt.hT*,h*U Iron and steel manufacture* 1 sciVNa,7 Is 'j*.’i,fT7.Y 300 Mineral oil*, re aunt IY4.33K.li4 IN.WI.fN Copper slot luanu fsclure* *f gft.WB.N3 r.'7 oj.', Sj.1 l eather Slot iilSHU rseture* of S3.uts.Bm ft **y,r ».fl Cuttnu Slot lu*H I fa- lure* ..f Jl.fidt la* M.MI.BI 1 Igroulturtl tin jl.UC.'y 13 XJo M* Mi l Vlsr, I Cnyiolcsls and I drugs ftuSi M 31 aftvirt. i W yof mauafse I lures .. . , 8,M|M *** **44 1‘arsBa I. »U '•'! .1 «Ul 1 I’sgey sud leans f*. tales of . KiSi ."BO |T.|*St*<; \\ ho h Is best N An erosn labor 1 Cou*n**rriwl sxpses.su or csmutentsl •iilMiisal lu protect sur bout# markets sud giye man slsclu.ees * r Kanes »s g* lit* the i msrhets sf Iks swd. •» Is tkrow every iking Wide spew by s free trade lift# I sud ksvs Ike msuufsrlursrs «f Ike World guarding sur UXAlksIS With IbSil ikeSp Is I kwl geudsl AS TO ISLAND ABANDONHENT | What American Would Give Up the Fruits of Our Former <> Expansion Which Gave Us Such Big Returns ;; from So Small an Investment ? ;; Carried to their logical conclusion, Mr. Rryan'a ideas about abandon meat of the Philippines would involve the retroeeasion of Florida and our <► domain west of the Mississippi river to the original owners, and presum- ° ably by them bark to the Indians. , , Let us ask u fsir, straight question: < » As an American would you give up one foot of that territory? J J The question scarcely need# the asking, and yet every stage of natural <> growth tvas opposes] a» strenuously as the Uryauites have opposed the JJ retention of the Philippines, < Th«.at of these additions to ttw country and tho value of property now < in the laud so acquired are below; , ’ Coat i1 party Value. < > [ IxxiUiana purchase. . flh.issi.iasi $.Y737,!t4*l,7!M ' j \ I .. 5,«JU UUO 18? 553 218 j | Oregon country as recognised by various <> U • 817,31 fl.tlM J | Texas, Mexican cession, tladsden purclia*e. 41.7 > > Alaska .... T.38W,0»»l •_* • 1' ■ I I n iniilion dollars. * \ ». .«>, a i, f m now when A me »n enterprise has fu it.r%*, I* M imp. .iIimk i.. u I*.n*ni|irap lion that exists in th* minds of Some pco pie concerning the officers an 1 m. ir of ■>ur army and nary Pan si >*t> tw lieic that citizen* who serve under oar gag, and who ate generally known kvrv at Uriine a* peaceable and bo»g ta chang* then whole tin Ian as *uua as they g«I ant of sight of the I it Hr* I gluts*) .• •• *■ «m am*| |ki*i fur «*> IrM of time the as Igb tarring papwiatlows haia tahaw to heart the a till uds of a or uratt toward I ham, a tad hava b**a swift t« •how thatr gratitwda. "Look ut our own country. Has the American Indian ever had any truer friend than the soldier of Uncle Sam? Times innumerable the army officer has stepped in to save the red man from the rapacity of the civilian, and if in the hearts of our Indians there has ever grown up a feeling of loyalty and grati tude to the United States, thnt feeling has been planted there by the American soldier, once his bitterest and most re lentless foe. "The vast majority of the people ore beginning to realize what American ru> means. Once they were suspicious of us. naturally enough, for the Spaniards had lied to them for centuries. Hut they lew know that tile word of an American « ttt cer and of the American President, from whose authority thut word tirst cuttle*, is as good as his bond. "I hate followed my flag iu many coun tries und oti many seas. I have never yet seen it stand for oppression or bad faith with any people, weak or strong. And I know thut it does uot stand for bad faith now." PORTO RICO IS SATISFIED. !>r. J. II. Ilollender, treasurer of ti •* Island of Porto Itiro, and formerly u ciate professor of economics of the John* Hopkins University, delivered >u sddr* -» to graduate students of the univcrsi'V a few evening* sg >, on the conditio) t the i*laiid. After describing the manlier of government and the conditions of m* >al *eif government, he said; "The condition of affairs Is h«pefu . and everywhere the I>e*t element of '-‘'r island Is rallying to the support of Mr \|< Kiuiey’s a.ltninislration The fc. » i* grow u.g attiviig the people that the ministration i* doiug it* bet to l» * 1 the i. and What Port# Wico B»’»d* » au Intel;.g, ut appreciation of the reel • otiitil, mis of A inert, all* I Jo l>"! 11 think that sn ititeiligenl man cuuM k . that th>> Porto Itico tariff »»• suiib'ug hot a n»*v**sry Rscsl device Wv •**• * Itf.iasitaat f„r the island If *» nr* ** *> anything The silvr*»,;'** of the tariff l«w were either s euh» •# from the United Mtatea. or *.■* the pa** perlsalluo of the Uiand At the presest time if the alternatives were greseateJ ! “* aenvtng the aeeeeaary tnoaey ii» •* te>t tatatioa or fr..« the tan® 4* vswatd he ever •heiavlofftp <•» ft*** i »f the tariff The Jiwva'vsl that evicted Was rawed hr the delay last at* | twrsd tn taking soy nation si ad ■A