Show A near contemporary in rejoiced to find that England and Germany have inoro trade with the Philippines than the United States English and German Ger-man merchants have had branch houses in the Philippines for fifty Their years agents know exactly the features of the trade there know the language and the people thoroughly while probably there IB not ono legitimate legiti-mate American business firm on those islands and will not be until peace IH i restored and order and law established I Tho reason the English arid Germans still have that trade Is because they have earned it even a they have the trade of tho South American Statesman A States-man might find a gold and a nickel mine but ho could not take the material ma-terial and make S watch until ho learned the trade I |