Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1898-08-25
new FOREIGN POLICY
Coming Greatness Discussed
by National Conference.
THE NICARAGUA CANAL FAVORED
Judge Grosseup EioquentIy DwcIis on
the GIories Of Conquest aud Ter
ritorial Expansion.

Saratoga, Aug. 22.--The national
conference on the foreign policy Of the
United States opened here today, with
an address by Henry Wade Rogers, Of
Chicago, chairman of the committee on
arrangement. Rogers said the confer
ence was called to consider some
momentous questions In the history OF
the republic. He spoke OF the war, and
returned prayerful thanks for the peace
now at band. While peace has arrived.
be said, thcre were many serious prob
lens to DO considered.
He referred TO the close fr!epdship
between Americans and British, which
would promptly lead to international
arbitration and finally to universal
peace. The speaker spoke favorably OF
the Nicaragua canal, which be argued
should be built and controlled by the
United States government. The canal
would shorten the distance BY water to
San Francisco By IL, 900 miles. The
question of the Nicaragua canal was
taken up, and Warner Miller took the
platform. He briefly spoke Of his per-
sistent advocacy Of the canal
Events OF the past three months do.
.manded the immediate construction,
and be believed all Americans were now
universally In favor Of it. as was aIso
all Of Europe. He spoke Of the numer.
GUS surveys made Of every proposed
route to pierce the istlImus, and said
the route by the way OF the Nicaragua
canal has received great consideration
as both feasible and desirable. Mr.
Miller referred to several canals that
have materially aided in opening up
the country.
The Nicaragua canal would alone
save Us 10000 miles, and would be q
great outlet for those states on the Pa
cific coast. The continent is gridiroped
with transcoptinental railroads, but
these do not alone afford the advantages
that could be secured by a canal. II lie
question OF cheap transportation, and
the Nicaragua canal would solve the
problem. Within 10 years after the
completion of the canal the population
of the Pacific states will have increased
to 10. 900. 900. One Of the best results
Of the spanish-American war Is that
II will compel the building OF the Mo
aragua canal.
The annexation problem was taken
up at the afternoon esssion. Carl
SchuIs, Of New York, spoke at length,
giving the views of the anti-expansion-
lists, whose cause be advocated. He
was opposed by Judge Grosscup, Of
Chicago, who Is an earnest expansionist.
Judge Grosscup said 10 part:
81 am among those who believe that
the people Of the United States can,
without breach Of faith to the promises
Of our past or serious danger to the ex-
pectatiops OF our future, hold perma-
nenly all or portion OF the territory
that has been occupied by our troops
during the progress Of the war. am
ready TO go step further and assert
that the obligations OF our duty toward
mankind, and especially toward the
particular peoples who have been
drawn within the sphere OF our opera
tions, and toward the future useful
ness of ourselves. demand that we
should permanently retain SO much OF
these, the captures of war. as are need
ed to round out the moral purposes for
which 1t was inaugurated, and the
greater destiny on which, as nation,
we are about to enter.
"As people, we. for the first time,
look clearly over the empire of tho
earth. Without the sacrifice Of right
eousness or honor, but as the ministers
Of both, the invitation comes to take
our share in the opportunities and re-
sponsibilities of this wider field. The
immediate question, the one that, by
its solution, will either bring In OF bar
out Of this larger national sphere, re-
lates 10 the permanent occupation OF
our Spanish conquests. The true
question is not whether Porto Rico,
Hawaii and the Philippines are intrins-
ically worth the responsibilities in.
CURED by their occupation. but wheth-
er their commerce and resources will
counter balance the new dangers that
their requirement would introduce into
our political system. For see behind
them, In the horizon toward which we
are heading, looming up from the Pa
cifio, mountainous interests and oppor-
tunity, against which the outlines OF
the Philippines are but mere speck-
something more than islands, nothing
else than continent.
within Asia lies the interest and the
that, by its largeness,
dwarfs every other prospect. favor
the acquisition OF Porto Rico, partly |
because the moral purpose OF this war
demands that it should not longer be
political plague spot In the otherwise
purified Caribbean sen, but chiefly
because it 10 at the gateway to the
Caribbean--a sea that when the COM
merce of Asia Is fully developed and
The Nicaragua canal opened will, from
both naval and commercial view, be-
come the most important water on the
iace Of the globe. Favored the acquisi.
lion Of the Philippines, or so much Of
hem as may be needed. solely because
in the new career Of commercial aptiv-
ty upon which trust we are about to
,nter, we need clear across the Pacific a
line of naval stations and home ports;
stations in every sense our own, carry
ng under the soil the American title
md over IL the Amofican fac