Show ThE TIDE OF EMPIRE Occasionally a gentleman In the East Gees things as they arc Tho Philadelphia Phila-delphia Record recalls the fuel that Lhere lIt < 100000000 of people In time Chinese Empire 10000000 In Japan and 300000000 In I India thut this HUI11 illS Asiatic hive faces tile Pacific Pa-cific coast of the United Stales with an open highway between them Then besides there is the Russian Asiatic territory to the north and the rapidly developing Australasian slates to tho south and the Accord says with our position on the hither side of the Pa cHic and our established foothold in the Philippines Hawaii and the South Seas there Is opened up to ua wonderful won-derful political Industrial and commercial com-mercial possibilities And the final conclusion of the Record is I It Is not beyond the rango of probability 1timaL i tho end of the coming century will find the American continent the controlling con-trolling center of the trade of the world doing as large a business with the population of Asia URWC now do 1 with the population of Europe The Record may reduce that time f 0 percent 1 I per-cent ir not CG2 per cent The men I t L or the East do not realize tho change I that has taken place In the trade I of I j the Paclilc In i the last two years It I 1 I Is a forward march and is Increasing with arithmetical If not geometrical II ratio The Record forgets that on our I I own coast Ala lta Is oC itsair building I I ui for un our Pacific States a great I trade Thon Mexico thrills with commercial com-mercial life and the trade of the coast J Is J Gomcthlng marvelous According to i present promises the gold yield of time sands of the Pacific shore will after this coming year amount to probably 525000000 annually and that 5 3000 000 In wages and in dividends will almost al-most all ilnd Investment In tho Pacific States Very swiftly too a magnificent magnifi-cent merchant marine Is growing up on thc Pacific ami tho 1 shipping Jntcr cuts on time Wont coast nro liable In the next fifteen years to equal those of the Atlantic I our own country J men would stop their growls would I stop their I political squabbles would stop dishonoring their native land for no higher pui pose than the hope of gaining some petty partisan points in the I coming campaign and taking what has come to us In I good faith and undertake to help make of our new possessions all that they promise to make it would bo vastly boiler for our own cuimtry and Infinitely i I boiler for lt races beyond time sea When Admiral Dewy without time loss of a life or a ship at one blow broke the arm of Spain In time Philippines Philip-pines that was a notice to he I niPn of time United States that there was a power directing thc guns higher than the men who stood behind thorn that there was a power directing the fleet I higher than thc Admiral who exposed himself beside the conning tower of I the Olympia I meant that Infinite In-finite Wisdom had gown weary of the oldtime oppressions at last had become Impatient at the slow growth of the missionary work In the Orient and that through material moans there was to bo a quickening such as that portrayed In an extract from an oration ora-tion which we print in another column from the brain of exPresident Harrison Harri-son But the fact remains that if we are big enough and true enough by that we moan the American people to carry out the purposes which have been marked out for us ours will Jot only be thc foremost of nations but It will carry more good to the peoples of the Orient than all thc rolling years since the beginning of time have brought them |