Excerpt from E. H. Harriman's Far Eastern Plans American commerce in the Far East; but beyond this, with the details not yet worked out, was a plan for a round the-world transportation line, under unified American control, by way of Japan, Manchuria, Siberia, European Russia and the Atlantic Ocean. Such a railroad and steamship line, if success fully established, would unite for com mercial purposes four of the most popu lous countries on the globe; and would enable the United States not only to take a commanding position in the Ori ent, but to supply the wants and direct in some measure the commercial activi ties oi hundreds of millions of people in the least developed parts of Europe and Asia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.