The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-08-10

A New ForeIga PoIicy for the Unised
sfe 1p tiS'i'n 100 Stntes. Sd sEa -aeNt1q
p When Mathew H1Carpenter went into the
United States Senate from Wisconsin itwasex-
pected that he would make d decided impress
ion there at once, though there was lurking
suspicion in some minds that his personal adj
yantages,-his courtly bearing, imposing stat
1ure, piercing eyes and general pbysicakmaeni-
fcence-furnished the greater part of the
foundation on which these great expectations
rested But the new Senator has already Jus
ti1ied the sanguine anticpations Of his friends
in large measure by the purely intellectual ef-
forts The lady correspondents of some of the
papers continue to dwell upon his personal &C
complishments, but his Increasing national rep
utation is due to.other causes 81 Il sa.f.
One of the most remarkable and original ef-
forts OF Sena or Carpenter since he became
Senator is speech at the dedication of the
Memorial Hall at Beloit College. In his re-
marks on that occasion be argued that the Uni
ted States should abandon that timd nom
commttaI, selfish foreign policy that was en-
forced upon the nation in its earlier days by
! its weakness. Now, in its days Of power, il
I should make its influence for good felt
throughout the world. For the first time in
its history it should haysa distinctive foreign
policy that should be known and recognized by
all of the, great brotheIhood'of nations. He
would have the people, of the United States
feel the sans moral copstraint in the agere-
gate, as to propagting good and resisting evil,
that persons do in their Individual capacity.
For instance, he would say to the people Of
England, who are and always have been our
friends, "Your Tory rulers 10 our me Of
= troublelnhicted upon us evils that cannot he
measured by any money standard You are
not responsible tor this, b it the decayed aris-
q tocracy that rules you When you are able,
pay Us the sums necessary to compensate us
for such losses as can be iquidated by money.
! The balance, the greater part of the debt,,we
:. never can receive. All we viii ask of you.
therefore, is t9 keep the, aristocracy going on
!; the down grade on which you have. started
them. naSpain he would enter upon like
course of democratic propsgandism He
= would give the republicans Of chat country The
assistance to be derived from Che moral support
o-of the Great Republic. He awould 90 second
vi thu efforts of gthe9 Liberal party that nsither
France nor any other foreign power gcould
stand between the people and a government
Il they desire. He would make the influence Of
the United States felt in Italy in the same way,
as well as in all other countries where the peo-
pie are forced to endure a despotism that their
souls abbof. sA' = sssliss'll's' a''9 7lotD ~
Senator Carpenters views afe something
g very different from the empty rawlings Of Sem
afef Chandler. He would not embroiI the
United States in war, but would have the
s conntry,s foreign policy ! consonant with its
b domestic institutons,s faras itean withinthe
4 rules law He. proposes, az it
: seems to us, to make the, same code of ethics
applicable to, nations. that governs or should
govern individuals Heretofore the nom
. intervention policy Of the United States has
2 been best not only ior itself but for the sirug-
Cling democfacies of the old world The best
thing It eodidio for the world was to make
saitself stablsH and powerful. q Having done 50,
it would bepnrs selfishness 10 our diplomacy
were notFof such a character as to give all
possible encouragement to such people az
are striving for the same blessings that we en-
tow