Show tarsi MARKETS WORTH STRIVING F fie Commerce of the Orient Worlds Ian est Commercial Prize ten Three thousand millions of doll r m That Is the arithmetical measure 1 retu the commerce of the Orient Thuj lam is summed up by the official alt i i on clan of tho governments depalll 1 of statistics 8ls And that commerce Is said to yet small as compared with I i worlds commerce The population of Asia and Ocrul Is 850000000 while that of all at < parts of the world combined U < about 750000000 Its land are I 18000000 square miles while Hut I other parts of the world Is 31000 yet the commerce of the Orient Isll a paltry 3000000000 while that other parts of the world Is 19MO 000 Ir 000So So it Is seen that the average capita commerce in the Orlcctlif year while tho average pier i apJ I the rent of the world is 27 a jej The foreign commerce of with 400000000 industrious people no railways has grown but 11 000 since 1870 that of India t i I 300000000 people and a system i railways has grown 258000000 that of Japan with only < 5W and a system of railways has fIJ I 215000000 And how does the United Sti stand to share In this coamii prize of tho Orient At present the United States 1 a to the Orient about 100000000wot tea of goods a year while Europe ttf a 600000000 But the records of t i past ten years show that w 5 aw I h Ing much more rapidly In this tn k than any other nation The Impt e ot China Japan anti Australia fall 1 f-all European countries comet on showed an increase In 1903 of I 45000000 as compared with 1 9i while tho increase in Importations d those countries from the ttf States alone in the same period 49000000 thus showing that onrf e In their export trade was let 05 greater than the grain of all En ht combined 1 Our purchases too from the OnVj t have grown since 1870 from less 0 32000000 to 190000000 In 1904 have quantli t taken from them large of raw silk tea hemp juto tin I n skins etc and wo send them rail ai manufactured cotton mineral 0 manufactured Iron and steel fto meats and rice No country has the natural ndl tages which are possessed bY 1 > United States for securing thl Orl < tal command 1 61 0 trade In tho j American merchants have of the rm lh clfic ocean Our national r ° nlwl d the nautical mia pa Pacific la 12500 while that of the United KlngdOIl BW T 10000 of Russia 6000 Japan China about 3000 > t In addition to this we are about of the ISU construction ginning tho mlan canal which when coope 1 h will furnish direct water common tlon between the Orient and our pit section ducing and manufacturing Iron aJI t the south Cotton east and SOli routetoti I route breadstuffs will go by this Orient touching at the ports of 11 I Angeles San Francisco Tacoma Seattle Ualtd the UB alono this By means States should Increase her Or1ental 500000 Ports from 100000000 toper i per annum |