Show XO NO OP CO COMPETITION There has been much said ot of late Inte about tM the lose our farmers would sue sur tam n b by the annexation ot of the tropIcal Islands Island l Particularly would those on to In the sugar beet Industry But suf by y importation ot of sugar The San Chronicle replies to these rumors rumor It points out that the hoc have practically belonged to 10 this country for tor nearly n year yent und and yet et Investments In the sugar Indus Industry tt try continue Factories are going up in nil all States tn in whIch the soil and climate are aro suitable le as freely as It if the PhilIp pines had never been bien heard nL t Fac Factories tories have been built or ore are under construction one orte In Nebraska one In one In Colorado one In Wash WashIngton Ington and eight In Michigan where there Is n a veritable boom Many others art are contemplated The reason for tor thIs is III that those who know most mOlt about the Industry feel teet cun that Philippine competition ot of fern no danger to this country The largest sugar export from tho philip Philippines pines was war tons In But Dut this does not exceed ot of the con conn In thIs country countr alone The sugar product or of those Islands cannot increase largely consIdering the tie de demand round mand on the soil soli for tor the support ot of the population ThIs the paper mentioned says is 19 well understood b by sugar Jugar grow growers ers ere and tho they do donot not fear nay compe titian from the tho 1 Philippine islands at least The argument is 19 only one of many that appeal to popular prejudIces and andIs Is calculated to create nn an opposition to the policy of expansion It will not succeed though Tills This country has hns b been en constantly expanding and It has been found t that r disadvantages the acquisition or of new territory has hns brou brought ht with It the advantages have been SO numerous ns as to more mora than compensate for thorn thom and this experience will trill bo be repeated nt al this time In n a few years no one will be thinking or of abandonIng the tho on any more more than tho they are arc arenow now contemplating the return to the orIgInal ot of Alaska Louisiana Texas or the original colonies |