Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 506, 25 January 1902 — COMMERCIAL EXPANSION. [ARTICLE]

COMMERCIAL EXPANSION.

The H-publc an pollrjr of expansion differs widely from that which control* th.- Democrats in th*-ir ambitions for adding territory and 'tally tropical territory. What they desired. e.-pecfally in the case of Cuba. »as additional slave territory and additional power in Congress through an in< reased number of slave state- The Republican policy of ex pansion is to secure footholds by which our commerce will be protected and extended. The territory which has come under the control of the Government In the Gulf of Mexico is of supreme ini l»" -in •• ;i> guarding that approach to the mouth <>f the Mississippi river un.l to the great Isthmian canal which the Kepublii an pattv is pledged to bring into existence The Hawaiian and Samoan islands are of eijual import ance in relation to the commerce of that Pacific ocean which is now attracting so much attention as a highway of transportation between tl> Orient ami the Occident. The Hawk-.ian Islands form the only way station ami satisfactory harbors in the ••nlral Pacific, while the harbor of Tutulla in the Samoan group, is recognized as the finest in the southern Pacific, and probably the finest in the entire Pacific Ocean. With these two islands as way stations for coaling, watering, repairing, and receiving telegraphic orders vessels can satisfactorily engage in com men e between the United Slates and the Orient and by making the Philippine Islands a great entrepot for American products, can command the trade of the Orient as Great Britain commanded it in former years, and much more successfully than she nowdoc- by reason of greater proximity and greater fa* iiities for producing articles which the people of that conn try desire. The countries lying within easy reach of Manila a.s a point of distri hutlon China Japan. Asiatic Russia. French Indo-Ohina, Siam India and Australia—contain half the populfction of tin- earth and have an annual commerce if more than $2 000.000.000. Their pun bases alone amount to $1.200.000.000 annually, or an average of $100,000,000 per month ami at th- ptesent time the United States supplies luit six per <ent of their purchases Yet their wants include all the articles which we have to sell Not only i> this the > asc but th« v are rapidly coming to recognize the fact that they < an obtain more satisfactorily from th* United Sates the article? 1 they desire than from any other part ; of the world American flour, provisions tobac»-o, cotton and cotton ( goods and manufactures of all kinds are rapidly making their way Into the , Orient and are as rapidly excluding : those which the European countries 1 have been supplying them. Thi- opportunity for expansion af- '

fects every producer every individ ual enjrag»*d in any fi’ftn in ture. in mining. in manufacture, in transportation: and in commerce the people of the Orient demand flour, meats, and dairy products, cotton and cotton goods. and manufactures of all kinds and they have rlearty shown in recent years a preference for the 1 products o? the United States, a preference which will (five to ns a large share of their enormous market, with the control of Hawaii and Manila the , opening of the Nicaragua Canal, and the establishment of American ship- i pine with which to carry American > products | »