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Show rarjdl, touch at Hawaii, halt at Manila, halt a ec-ond ec-ond timf at Ceylon, trien croasing the Indian ocean and sailing up the Bed sea through the Sue canal, then on through the Mediterranean, out through the Pillars of Hercules and then on to Porto Rico muke the final lap to New York ; make an all around circuit of the world and fathering trade all the way. Or sailing east instead of west, having her argo unloaded by the time she reaches Manila, reload re-load there with such freight as New York always wants, reach home with as full a cargo as when she sailed. There are some eight millions of natives na-tives in the Philippines. When half that number become workers, how much hemp and sugar and t'llacco and cotton and tine woods and $ropicl fruits will they not be able to produce? And ours as a world power will need all the4e things. There is another feature to it. We made war upon Spain because of her abuse of her subjects in Cuba. Through that war the Philippines, where vastly worse oppressions had for a full century bten perpetrated, fell to us. Was there not a design behim! all of that! Was it not clear that whin Admiral Dewey entered Manila bay and without with-out the loss of a man sank the fleet that he found there and silenced every opposing shore battery there, it was fate; that the prayers of the wretched pecple had been heard and deliverance sent? And did not that impose a trust upon our nation na-tion which we have no right to shirk or ignore f Things are growing better in the Philippines, they will continue to growTiettefand" The timeTias almost been reached when, on a cold commercial basis, the islands will begin to pay. The old flag shining from thera has given a new light already to the orient. I-et us wait a little and we shall see. WHAT OF THE PHILIPPINES? A good many ahrewd ami well maanin; pipople say: "Sell the. Philippinr to Japan or giv them their inrlepemleorr and let I hem go, ant atop the perpetual expenite of them." Just below the Philippines Holland haa an it-land or two from which she has gathered a vary . large portion of her immense wealth. There will . come time after awhile, we cannot yet fix the date, when the United Statea will become a maritime mari-time nation; when her flag will be baik on the ara; when her ahipa will be aa of old, the fleetest and finest of alt the world. One need not be over-sanguine to imagine that lime though the congresses of the United States during the past five and forty yeara have done little lit-tle to presage such a day when loaded ateamers will leave New York, pass through the I'atiauia i . |