Show awalter in the worlds work tor aprile tries to west to tho arouse the people ot the wonderful opportunities unfolding to them in the trade ot abo orient it is now since the standard nearly two years first urged the importance ot american he ascendancy in orient ag bearing on tho ot abe J baa since intermountain occurred to cour itry nothing cause ua to less ot the but there has much transpired loye assure ot the ot aar alewe the writer la worlds ay iy hundred millions of people are living within an area one halt that of the united states they are using the rudest ot agricultural and industrial methods which limits the mans efforts and his productive efficiency they are in the most meagre fashion their needs are great we have plenty to offer them yot it Is only within five years ithal we have waked to the fact that china Is a market worth our while we have been used to ascribing our limited inter courses to the belt imposed isolation and conservation ot the chinese but a large share ot responsibility Is due to our conservative prejudices it Is not my purpose to discuss the chinese trade situation but only to indicate what the prairies may do in that market it Is sufficient to say that at the beginning of the present trouble in china not one tenth of the empire was open to foreign trade even by indirect means taking into account the change in value of chinese currency which Is the basis of the estimate the value of imported trade had nearly doubled within twelve years most of the increase was in the years 1898 and 1899 we must bring our western prairies up to the fullest measure of their trustfulness we must found in the pacific an american merchant marine we must secure a canal to connect our gulf ports with the pacific and we must dig up from the dusty deais of memory all that we have forgotten ance our school days about the lands 0 the far east which we are now to dominate we have our work cut out for us |