Show A PACIFIC CABLE I Russian orders for United States goods are coming from Vladivostok I They have to be telegraphed clear across Siberia and Europe then across i the Atlantic ocean and finally clear across this continent to the Pacific I coast What an argument in favor of promptly laying a able across the Pacific II Pa-cific with its American end on United States soil too says the New York Tribune What the amount of these orders is is not stated nor what they are for but they are probably not very large The way in which they were sent was roundabout but it does not appear that there was any delay in their transmission Or that they were not placed in very little time It is quite certain that it did riot take more than half aday longer to send them than it would had they been sent by a direct cable There is not a single thing in the whole transaction that is an argument in favor of promptly la ring r-ing a cable across the Pacific with its American ed on United States soil I tco A cable across the Pacific it 1 e business imposition and the oue ion on which it should tur is Is there busines enough between the United States ana the oriental countries to I warrant the laying of one If it were I laid it is by no mans certain that the oriental erd of it woud be laid on I Russian soil it would probably go far I far south of there To lay a cable that it might be said there is one would be < no justification for 010 If the United States annex Hawaii a I cable should be laid from California to Honolulu but this chiefly for political 1 and not commercial reasons Bad as the policy of annexation is it would be I suicidal to annex the islands and leave II them without direct communication I with this country A cable completed to the Hawaiian islands its extension to the Australian colonies > or possibly to China would not be a matter of any great length of time And this is the way we believe that there will finally 1 be laid a cable across the Pacific ocean |