L D TER L EXPA
111 IBB u
of distribution IB the most densely populated
Mnnlln ns a point
nronnd
Grouped of
population
form tin-
thitn 800,000,000 people
world. More *
the
of
lated pnrt China Slain , Hrltlxh India , Aus
Cochin ,
Kronen
IlusHla , China ,
Japan , Asiatic Manila UK a
all of which an- nearer to
IndicH etc. ,
tin- Dutch Kant ,
tralasia , eom'merelnl center , while Hiich cities
other grunt
point of diNtrlbntion than to any Manila OH Havana in to the city
us Shanghai , Canton and othero arc aH near to
of New York. of the United
"What will bo the effect upon the commerce
The qnoHtlon ,
" follows :
? IH aimwered OH
Philippines
of the
States hy our possession
law proportion of the ! ? ; tr > 0,000,000 worth of tropical
First They can supply a annunlly. The sum can
and sub-tropical product * which thin corn-try HUB and Imports for the benefit both of the people
thus be expended under the American Investments in the islands.
of the Islands and UIOKP of our immediate own citizens market bavins for from .fltO.OOO.OtiO to $ .r 0-
will supply an
Second They annually , and twice this sum
manufactures
and
000,000 of American proilnutH
later. these lilnnil acquisitions In the
later.Third feature of
Third Hy far the most Important trade with the countries commercially
our
1'nclfic Is their prospective effect upon Philippines. The imports of the countries
to the
adjacent to them , nml especially the Philippines amount to about $1,200.000,000 annually
to
commercially adjacent all of the e Importations me
month. Nearly
ally , or practically $100,000,000 for which per the people of the United States are now attempting -
of the classes of articles
tempting to find a market. be
' of which Manila may
of this half of the world's population ,
The commerce center now amounts to more than $2,000,000,000 per
made the great commercial , annum , or , as above
$1,200,000,000 per
Its annual purchahcs to about $ , ,
annum , and month. Practically all of tills vast sum
Indicated , practically $100,000,000 of the per world than the United States is expended for
which is bent to other parts seeking a market.
which the people of this country are now
the class of goods for manufactures of
products ,
dairy
provisions ,
hrcadstnffs ,
cotton goods ,
and
Cotton demanded by
of the farm and factory , are
the products
Iron and steel ami wood ,
the people of that pnrt of the world.
Iteferrlng to the need of supplying our
tropical products It may be well to
own call attention to the value of such Im
ports in the years 1805 and 11)00. They
were :
Value.
Year. 1605 ' $3ir.,707n 8
ariiarw.MO
moo
Included In this are Indigo , rice , sugar ,
Etplccs , hemp , coffee , tea , rubber , fruits ,
certain woods and such products which
can only come from the tropics. They
the Philippines in
cnn be produced in
all American
fiufllclent quantities to supply
ican requirement ! * .
has
Within the lust fifty years there
been an awakening in the Orient. Japan
has become modernized and China is certain
in large degree to west-
tain to be opened
em enterprise. The total trade of the
the Ulnndn
Tar Kast , Australasia and
of the Pacific last year was as follows :
. Imports. Exports.
Count rr.
' f30ri.217.000
UrltUli Kant Indies SUiil.firt'J.aon
llrltlth Australasia 277,870,000 278,708,000
China . IIKWOH.OOO U2t)23,000 )
npnn . 110,200,000 107 50,000
RtralU Settlement ! ! 10ltir ! f > ,000 07,822,000
Dutch Kant Inillrs. tUMliK.OOO 80,081.000
IlitSRln , Anlntlc . 21r,7t,000 ) 20.4ri ,000
BlnmJK . I , : i84,000 2S.280.OW
Philippine iHlnmlB. SO.UOO.OOO 10,270,000
Unwallnn Inlands. . 15,200.000 23,000,000
Mauritius . ir.,010.000 IB.GM.OOO
25,470.000 15,054,000
- > rt , < H\.i no
Hongkong . . , . 20,000,000 10,000,000
H.OBB.OW )
Vr nck Knut Indies 101,000
Korea .IT. . 8,088,000 2,482,000
Asia ami
Total
1 Ocoanlcn . . . . $ llir > , SGQ,000 $ lMO,12t,000
Most of the American export trade
with Asia Is with countries bordering on
the Pacific. The shipments of American
merchandise to these countries has In
creased enormously. How much the bub-
joined figures show :
EXPORTS TO ASIA .
isnn. inoo.
Japan ? 4W4,717 ( $2,087 ! , < 542
Chinese Empire. . : ti03,8lO ir > ,2r > 8,7-lS
Hongkong ( Ur ) . . . 4,2r > U,040 8,485,088
B. East Indies. . . 2,8r > ; UMl 4 , ) im ! :
Dutch Kant 1ml. . 1,147U5 ! l.KM.VII )
French East 1ml. ( Wl 0 207,587
Asiatic iiuRHin. . , soi.im aor , > oio'.j
llusslan China S : 7.UO :
12ll(5r ( >
Corea
German China 29,202
But it is not alone to Asia that our ex
ports arc expanding. The same Is equal
ly true us to Oceanlca.- Our esports to
Australasia are nearly three times as
large as they were. In 1805 ; to Havana ,
four times us large ; to the Philippines ,
The details of
twenty times as large.
these exports follow :
EXPORTS TO OCBANICA.
Brit. Australasia.$0,014,2(18 ( ? 2 < ) ,72r ,702
Hawaiian Islands 3,72:5,0. : > 7 13ri01),148
Philippines 110,255 2 , < ! 40,44
French Oceanlca. 2r > 2U51 , 2iit8 :
Tonga , Samoa , etc 1411,2117
Figl , etc 22,281
Ounm 13,247
Germ. Oceanlca 10tU)5 )
Total $18,109.2:11 : SJW.MO.VW"
We are using more and more of the
products of our Island possessions every
year. Hawaii , which was developed by
American capital , shows an amazing in
crease In exports to the United States ,
When quiet Is fully restored in the Phil
ippines and when Porto Uico is fully re
covered from the linnl times incident to
Spanish rule , there will certainly be a
corresponding growth in what those Isl
ands buy from Americans , the products
both of our farms and factories. Our
Imports from these three possessions In
1805 and 1000 were :
Imports from 1805. 1000.
Porto Rico $1,510,511 ! f 3,078,4111
Hawaii 7,888.1)111 20,707,00:1
Philippines 4,731,300 5,1)71,201 !
Total $14.iiO,8iO $20,757,5211
The Philippines have never been developed -
oped and not only can they produce any
thing and everything in abundance whlcl
grows in the tropics , but they are Icnowi :
to hare deposits of coal , Iron ore , copper ,
gold , silver and other minerals.
The acquisition of the islands In a fact
accomplished. Wo have not to ask
whether we shall expand we have only
to expand the possibilities of the islands.
THE RECORD IH 6 NUTSHELL
Here Is the record of the three years
under the Dingley law , compared with
the three preceding yeara under the Wil
son law :
Decrease In Importation of
manufactures $120,880,700
Increase In importation of
manufacturers' materials. . 113,410,200
Increase In exportation of
manufactures 373,201,000
WHERE WE LEAD.
The United Htnten In now the
world's greatest producer of
Iron , stool and conl , as well us
of copper , cotton , brcadstufFs ,
provisions and many other
articles entering Into the dally
requirement * of mail.
U
VALUE ' OF EXPORTS
IIXDE11 TWO TARIFFS
Protection Assures Manufacturers Their
Home Market and Exports Follow.
The avowed purpose of the free raw
material clause of the Wilson-Gorman
tariff law was to "stimulate manufactur
ing. "
Instead of "stimulating" it , the law nil
but strangled it. Millions of wage earn
ers were driven out of employment. Boup
houses were opened. Free Bread oud
Kree Clothett were the Democratic watch
word.
word.With our Industries revived by a pro
tective tariff , manufacturing both for
home markets and for export has attain
ed a degree of prosperity never before
known in the United States ,
In proof of this the following statement
has been prepared showing the exports
of principal manufactured articles under
three yearn of low tariff and protection ,
respectively :
Our exports linvo nonrly Uou-
. ' tiled clnco IHDK.
' tii-
have slightly
, Our Imports
oroaHtxl In the naiuo time.
Htioh In the record of com-
| tnorulnl expansion under the
. liMturliif ; onro of the present
| itdministrntlon.
' Tlio Treasury Department
I ImH lust iNstied a Htntomoiit of
the Imports nnd nxporis of the
, ' United Htnten Tor the month of
' Keptomhor , together \vltli n
. Htntemcnt of the iniportn and
1 cxportH for the period of nlno
, tiiiHithd ondinv : September < IO ,
' for n ncrlcH ot'years.
No stronger nr-umo t In
favor of holding our own
[ markets hy the application of
the principle oTprotcctlon , niul
then BcokliiK the world's mar
kets , IIUH over boon made.
According to the statement
Indued the ImportB and exports
dnrin | { September wcro an fol
lows :
September , 1000.
KxportB $ lint4,21O
Imports r 0,5U ( > , ( > OU
Kxcess of KxporU $ 5lO71Ht :
For the nlno months ending
September 310 , 1OOO , the allow
ing in equally gratifying. Thnu :
Nine months ending Septem
ber HO , 11XH ) .
KzporU' $1,0U,080,401 ;
( t'Jt.tU,5 ( ) ( (
ItntiortH . _ . _ , - _ _ - _ . . J
Kxceti ) ExnortH107 , -1,81)5
Compare this with the record
of the first nlno months of
1805 , whan Dqinocratlo theo
ries ot foreign trade were ptit
Into prnutico ; when a low tariff
stimulated importH , and when
the lllono H ot American fac
tories wan a damper to our ex
ports. Tills record Is as fol
lows :
DKMOCKATIC.-
Nina months cinline Fcptcui-
bcr . ' 10,1805 :
Import $001,043,130
KxporU 557,027.400
Kxcess Imports . . . . $ 43,115,073
That , In a nutshell , IB the dif
ference between Democratic
theory and Republican prac
tice. While our exports have
NKAHLjY DOUBLED , our im
ports are but slightly more
than they were in Democratic
days , and the increase is en
tirely duo to the greater de
mand for manufacturers' ma
terials which are used la our
busy mills' where American
labor is actively employed at
good wages.
Srjr s.\ >
( Area 521,652,000 acres }
> , ,
Without rtg3rd to CotiS nt ofqortrnc : >
AMERICAN EXPORTS.
FUcnl years Klucnl years
1S05 , 1800 IbOS. 1800
and 1807. niul 1000.
( Under WIIUiuler Ding-
Articles. sou law. ) ley law. )
Total manufac
tures $ GSO,252U2 ! ? 1,002,573,8GO
Iron niul steel
manufactures. . . 1150,059,7:18 285,075,200
Mlnt-rul olla , re-
fulfil 154,223,124 170,502,008
Copper and manu
factures of 05,800,032 127,025,300
Leathernnd manu
factures of 03,018,000 71,809,433
Cotton and maim-
fneturen of . . . . 01.004,834 01,511.007
Agricultural Im
plements 15,830,530 80,130,815
I'beuilcals and
drugs 24,001,008 31,805,032
Wood manufac
tures 22.203.008 30.044.482
I'arunm 12,033,551 21,437,091)
1'nper and manu
factures of 8,232,203 17,188,007
Which Is best for American labor ?
Commercial expansion or commercial
stagnation ?
To protect our home markets and give
manufacturers a chance to go into the
markets of the world , or to throw every
thing wide open by a free trade tariff
and have the manufacturers of the world
flooding our markets with their cheap la
bor goods ? . . .
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. Urynn'n ideas about abandonment
would involve the retrocession of Florida and our
ment of the Philippines
domain west of the Mississippi river to the original owners , and presum
ably by them back to the Indians.
Let iw auk a fair , straight question :
American would give up one foot of that territory ?
A * an you
The question scarcely needs the asking , and jet every stage of natural
have opposed the
the Hryanites
growth wan opposed as strenuously as
retention of the Philippine * .
The eost of these additions to the country and the value of property now
in the land so acquired are below :
Cost. Property Value.
$15,000,000 $3,737,010,701
Louisiana Florida cesodon purchase 5,000,000 182,553,238
recognized by various
Oregon country as
, 817,310,088
treaties ' ' ' " 3'Jn',724i507
1 Me.\'lcan'ce'sVion"Gadsden purchase. 41,000,000 , ( ,
,
Texas , \
- . . 7,200,000 liOO,000,000
; Alaska
' 5G8.liOO.000 $10,100,5-11,204
pioduced by.
| Property
Investment of sixty-eight
> There Is ten billion dollars and more from an
| million dollars. American enterprise has full sway In the
| A few years from now when
restored and property is safe , n similar
when is wholly
,
Philippines peace
will be
and the idea of abandonment
era of development will follow there ,
ridiculed even by the Hrynnites.
"NOT IMPERIftLISM. " SAYS A DEMOCRAT.
"Men who use their brains to think with are not to be bullied by phrases.
'Imperialism , ' for Instance. The Philippines are In point. A splendid naval
which means tug
victory has made us masters there. That Imperialism
is not
bapplness ,
human
spreading of American power , free Institutions ,
faith In the vitality of this
Imperialism to be feared by anybody who has '
principle's on which It Is found-
republic , and confidence In the Democratic
2 od. " Hearst's New York Journal , Democratic , July 1 , 1808.
to the people of
Kntlsfnntlon
full to Rlvn
" bnlanccn can not
tratlo
"Our
than
noltl abroad $015-1J2O7O of producta more
. In 1808 wo
the country. and In 10OO $5-14,471,701 ,
nUOH74,81 ,
abroad In 181M > $ ,
bouRht ;
wo total balance i our faror of $1,08 , -
the three years a
making during whole
the
for
favor
in
of trade our
times the balanc *
five
7JO,1HO nearly Inclusive. " William
110 1807 ,
Juno
from 170O to ,
period of 108 years
McUUley. of the United.
the foreign commerce
Four proat facts characterize
States in the year 100O :
of
that
U 17,7UO.UGO
by $ ,
the HurpasBea
of year
1. The total commerce
$2OOO-
exceeds ,
any preceding year , and for the llrst time in our history
OOO.OOO. and have been
of preceding year ,
2. The exports exceed those any
distributed throughout the world thn" ever before.
more widely before -
than over
Manufacturcra' materials wcro moru freely Imported
23.
share of the total imports than on any former
fore , and formed a larger
occasion.
than ever before ,
freely exported
1. Manufactured articles wnro more
and formed a much larger Him re of the total exports than on any former
occasion.
with that of 1HO-1 as follows :
Our trade in 10OO compares
Vuliic lOOt ) . Value 1804.
$ l"U,18im ( : $05-1WH,022
Kxports Hll > ,7Mno 802,140,372
ImportH
Total trade . $ 'J,2-l ! > , t > tI.H-U " $ lB-t7,135lUt "
In 1000 $514,471,701
of Export *
KXCCBS
$237,145,050
KXCCSB of Imports lit 1801
Right in these two tables IN the story of the commercial expansion of
benefit of protecting our own industries.
the United States and of the
decreased and our exports
have
As compared with 18O4 , our Imports
have doublet ! .
affected all clauses of producers farmers ,
The increase in export * has
manufacturers , lumbermen and miners have all had n share in building
trade of the United States. The increase by
up th.s marvelous export
classes Is shown in the following table :
' 1804. 100O.
1 xporta. i028Hiaa : S $835,012,052
Acricnlture 183,728,808 432,284,300
Manufactures 20,440,508 38,007,530
MlnluK 28,000,020 52,300,484
Forest 4,2(51,020 0,280,004
FUhcrlei 4,400,044 4,082,142
MlBCcUancoiiH
has with every largo and small
The trade of the United States grown
ot the world. Europe la still our heaviest buyer , but Asia and
country
of trade expansion. South American
the greatest percentage
Oceania show
can business has developed the least of all. The exports to the grand di
visions in 1804 and 10OO wore :
1804 1000
Export * . $700,870,822 $1,04O,1O7,312
Europe 110,003,212 187,200,310
North America 33,212,310 38,045,721
South America 20,872,701 04,013,084
Aala 11,014,182 43,300,027
Oceania 4,023,830 10,400,1UO
Africa
grand divisions in the two years named compare
Imports from these same
as follows :
pare
1804. 1000
Imports. $205,077,385 $44O,500,48O
Europe 100,0(12,550 ' 120,030,875
. - .
North America ' , 1OO,147,1O7 03,035,134
. . .
B utu America. ' 00,180,307 130,817,023
Asia 21,457,023 34,500,042
Oceania 3,407,338 11,217,110
Africa
of American foreign trade during the past throe yearn
The expansion . American goods ,
the of all other nations.
rlso mid envy
num >
the
has been onotijy , American enterprise are usable in every part of the
American
food to Europe , locomotive *
world. Whether It be in supplying
civilized electrical goods and machinery to Australia , mining machinery
to Liberia , American genius and push
or bridging the Nile at Atbara ,
to South Africa ,
to bo seen.
Is everywhere policies.
Commercial expansion was begun under Republican
encouragement.
under Republican
It thrives
manufacturers and cmyloyerd generally to give opportunities
It enables homo
hundreds of thousands of men.
tunities to classes to llnd better and wider markets.
It enables the producing
Do you want it to continue ?
develop still more ?
want it to
Do
you and Roosevelt next month will be an answer that
A vote for BlcKinley
you do.
ADMIRAL WATSON
DENOUNCES BRYAN.
Filipinos Would Be Quiet but
for This Election.
AH that Remain Under Arms Arc but
Guerillas and Bandits and Only a
Fraction of the Whole.
Rear Admiral Watson , late commander
naval squadron in oriental
of the American
this conn-
ban returned to
ental waters ,
from bis last cruise. He
probably
try ,
thinks the time has come for blm to
citizen than as a naval
sneak more as a
olllcer , and his opinion of the conditions
in the Philippines is well worth reading.
He says :
"I am looking forward to the result of
the presidential contest with anxiety r.iul
deep Interest , for I know what it menus ,
not only to the future of our country ns >
among the nations of the world ,
but a power to hundreds of thousands of people
who wonder
Philippines ,
In the far-away
if we are going to step aside and watch
their throats being cut by the Tagalog
tribes now in arms against us.
"The grent majority of the people of
those islands look upon Aguinaldo and
his party as enemies. The cry only serves
to give them the thought of what will
happen if American protection of Iheit
homes and lives Is withdrawn.
"I would like to correct a misconcep
tion that exists in the minds of some people
ple concerning the otllcers and men ti (
our army and navy. Can anybody be
lieve that citizens who serve under our
ilag , and who are generally known here
and big-hearted
at borne as peaceable
men , are going to change their whole na
ture as soon ns they get out of sight of
the United States ?
"Wherever In those islands an army
post has been established for any length
of time the neighboring populations have
taken to heart the attitude of our men
toward them , and have been swift tc
show their gratitude.
"Look nt our own country. Has the
American Indian ever had any truer
friend than the soldier of Uncle Sam ?
Times innumerable the army ofllcer has
stepped in to stive the red man from the
'
rapacity of the civilian , and'if in the
hearts of our Indians there has ever
and gratitude
grown up a feeling of loyalty
tude to the United States , that feeling
has been planted there by the American
soldier , once his bitterest and most re
lentless foe.
"The vast majority of the people are
beginning to realize what American rule
means. Once they were suspicious of us ,
naturally enough , for the Spaniards had
lied to them for centuries. But they now
know that the word of an American otll-
ecr and of the American President , from
whose authority that word first comes , is
as good as his bond.
" 1 have followed my flag In many coun
tries and on many sens. I have never
yet seen it stand for oppression or bad
faith with any people , weak or strong.
And I know that it does not fatand for
bud faith now. "
PORTO RICO IS SATISFIED.
Dr. T. H. Ilollender , treasurer of the
Island of Porto Hico , and formerly nsso-
. into professor of economics of the Johns
Hopkins University , delivered an address
to graduate students' of the university
i few evenings ago , on the condition of
the island. After describing the manner
if government and the conditions of lo-
i-al self-government , he said :
"The condition of affairs is hopeful ,
ind everywhere the best element of the
island is rallying to the support of Mr.
McKinley's administration. The feeling
is growing among the people that the administration -
ministration is doing its best to benefit
the island. What Porto Rico needs is
: ui intelligent appreciation of the real
conditions of Americans. I do not now
think that an intelligent man could feel
that the Porto Hico tariff wan anything
but a necessary fiscal device. We need
$ -,000,000 for the island If we are to
accomplish anything. The alternatives
of the tariff law were either a subsidy
from the United States , or elw > the pau-
I > crl7.ation of the island. At the present
time If the alternatives were presented
of deriving the necessary money from di
rect taxation or from the tariff , the de
cision would be overwhelmingly in favor
af the tariff. The discontent that once
existed was caused by the delay that oc
curred In taking any action at all. "
