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Show PACIFIC OCEAN CABLES AND TRADE The completion of ihe Pacific , cable from Victoria via I-annlng Island (with a alretch of upward, 0f aik) miles the longest cable single ,pn , ,,. world!, to Australia which Is ju.t announced la an e ,,,, ,llt,rna nnn, I Impjrtar I , tt lllIC Of lbie llr,,, , ,, W t llrl. ,h f r . of ,r , i js, ana is an c r . cf - Bh ! on mer al Importance There Is no su h wide stretch of cable frorn one station to another on the proposed t ommerclBl compan) a line from San Prancl-co to the Philippines This lilt ter will he when completed a line of far greater Importance both from a commercial and a liens standpoint than Is the Urillsh line from Ictorli to Australia It will open up the great eastern shore of Asia to the world with n direct and certain line of communl cation that his been much needed es-leciall) es-leciall) since the American acquisition of the Philippines As long hs It was chlefl) a concern of the natives quick communlc itlon did not seem of so mm h Importance hut wherever the American or Luropean establishes himself In fnire he wants to know In the morning morn-ing what has been going on in the world the dav berore and he Is boun 1 to know cost what It mil) We look lo see a commercial growth along both shores and In the Islands of th Poilflc In the next few )ears euch a the world has nevei known an) w her before ln former growths there waa larking the great accumulations of available mon) the tremendous constructive abllltx the mechanical and powerful appliances anl the all-prvading use of ele tri II) that are non at call With all of these entered In the devel npment of the Immense )ct dormint reserves or the i hlnese emplie and of the great and latent mineral riches of the west mountains ot "-oulh America there Is sure to b fields for enterprise and development even greater than the magnificent fences that tan be brought to bear upon them W Ith t hlna opened to Industrv and commerce even to the extent that Jipan I (and her opening should be awlftet than Japans us the means thereto are Immeasurably more Immediate and Irresistible) th tnde of the world with that peoj le ought to be Incrensed tenfold |