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Identifier: empirecentury00gold (find matches)
Title: The empire and the century
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Goldman, Charles Sydney Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
Subjects: Imperial federation
Publisher: London, John Murray
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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ver moreambitiously, to the Far East. In 1848 she had evictedSpain from the Pacific slope : now she evicted her fromthe Philippines. Cable communication with the newAmerican Empire was indispensable. Should the Stateundertake it, or should private persons ? Her states-men decided for private enterprise, and, accordingly, in1903 the Commercial Pacific Company laid cables fromSan Francisco to Honolulu, thence to Midway andGuam, and thence again to Manila. The Philippinetraffic, which previously had to pass wholly over theBritish cable to Hong Kong, now found an independentroute direct to America. To tap the China traffic,the Americans further laid a cable from Manila toShanghai. Last new rival of all, Japan intends, naturally enough,to seek an independent connection in the direction ofAmerica. She has already her own cables to Formosa,and thence to Foochow. She is laying a cable toconnect herself with Bonin, and thus with America. Prior to 1890 the China rate was from 7s. Id. to MAP VI.
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COMMERCIAL CODES 281 8s. 9d. per word, according to the different placestouched on the coast. Now it has been reduced to4s, 5d. uniformly, having fallen by three different stages.Of course, the British company carrying the traffic fromChina to Madras receive only a small proportion of thisamount. The Chinese take the large average terminalrate of lid., and the Cis-Indian administrations take2s. 2^d., whilst Indias share is 3^d., or a total of 3s. 5d.Thus Is. is left to the British company. The lesson of the Far East is surely too obvious toneed repetition. In that region, as elsewhere, Britishcable enterprise is rivalled and assailed on all hands andin every quarter by foreign nations. It will survive ifthe British Government is reasonably friendly and help-ful to its own citizens. But if the latter are to be com-peted with by their own Government, then our position,such as it is, in the Far East, will be fatally com-promised. Our cables, become unprofitable, will besold to our Americ
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