THE NEW EARTH 



so highly prized by the Chinese, and, to them, 

 possessing magical qualities — agricultural im- 

 plements, books, maps, engravings, candles, 

 patent medicines, clocks and watches, dried 

 fish, chinaware, dried fruits, glassware, printer's 

 ink, gunpowder, iron and steel, locomotives, 

 typewriters, musical instruments, leather, oils, 

 writing-paper and envelopes, soap, candy, 

 wines, hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth 

 of cigarettes, — the list is a long one. 



In 1903, when we sold abroad nearly a 

 billion, five hundred millions of dollars' worth 

 of our surplus, not quite five per cent of 

 this amount went to the Asiatics. At no time, 

 from 1870 to 1900, did the Asiatic export 

 trade of the United States reach four per cent 

 of our total exports. It is estimated that there 

 are eight hundred millions of inhabitants in the 

 Orient, with a trade, as indicated, approaching 

 two billions of dollars a year. Indeed, the 

 difference between less than nine per cent of 

 this vast sum and the amount to which the 

 United States is entitled by contiguity, by 

 facilities, and by natural resources, forms a 

 prize worthy the contest that is on. 



But it is along the Atlantic seaboard that 



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