The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1898-06-26
OF EMPIRE.
fx-Judgc Tree Pictures the Future Policy of
the United States.-0ld Ideas arc
Out of Date.

E1-Judge Lambert Tree. Democrat.
student OF affairs and former minister
10 Russia. ia outspoken in behalf Of an
oyerturnlng Of the traditional "lso'a-
ton" policy Of the United States. lie
believes thar Dewey's victory has
thrown into the hands OF this country
an opportunity which should not be
overlooked 10 extend It's commercial
and maritime power. Asked what he
considered were some OF ths more i'm.
portant questions thus far Suggested
by the war. Mr.. Tree said to a Chicago
paper:
THE logic Of the war which requires
the seizure Of Manila and Puerto Rico
will be apt to bring the United States
face to face with new questions In re-
gard TO the future policy which ought
10 control the government m IFS inter-
national relations. II Is easJ 10 under
stand how the statesmen who were
guiding the steps Of the republic IN the
Infancy Of its experimental existence.
when II had scarcely three millions o.
Inhabitants. was substantially without
an army or navy. or the means OF pro-
curing either. and whose chief inter
e5t and ambition was 10 be let alone
10 develop lis own internal resources
and soldify It's own federal system
Of government. should strenuously in
sist upon its avoiding any line Of ac-
ton which might by any possibility
bring II into contentious beyond the
continent on which II had established
itself Most Of the disputes between
nations al that period concerned dy-
nastic ambitions In which this country
could have no possible Interest aside
from the fact that our feebleness as
a power ~ the world admonished us
TO keep clear Of them. whatever might
be their purpose.
America Fast Its Babyhood.
But times have changed consider
ably now. We have passed the
period Of babyhood ms a nation and
find ourselves grown 10 be a great com
merclal power with a population Of
more than seventy millions engaged
In all the purauits incident 10 a pro-
grcsslyc and aggressive people. Our
manifold interests reach ont and touch
every portion Of the inhabited globe.
The rules laid down for the guidance
o. the sparsely settled. little expert
mental republic OF a hundred years ago
In It's international relations scarcely
n the powerful nation Of today and
a strict adhesion 10 them seems near
10 being fetish worship. Whatever ar
gumonts may be advanced by those
who look with apprehension upon the
establishment o. new outposts by the
United States In order 10 secure their
share O. the worlds commerce II will
be found In the end that the country
will be compelled 20 obey the laws OF
Us destiny as a great commercial and
maritime power n not today. then
tomorrow. China. with her four hun.
drCd millions Of people and vast re-
sources. Is soon TO be awakened from
her slumbers Of centuries. Railways
will penetrate the heart Of the empire
and ships will on her naylgable rivers
10 engage in trade with her. The
United States. whose western frontier
Is bordered by the same ocean which
washes Chlna's shores. and whose ships
sail directly ont Of our ports into
Chlna's. must have an equal chance
10 share In China's trade with European
nations. whose shores know no othc
ocean than the faraway Atlantic
Even now the trade o. this countrl
through the open treaty ports o. Chini
Is many millions o. dollars create
than that OF the combined countries
of continental Europe. and Is only ex
cccded by that Of Great Britain. Tn
vessels also which navigate Chimes
waters and ny the American flag out
number by thousands those OF all Flu
rope, Great Britain excepted. Yet W
have recently seen inaugurated a move
mcnt by certain continental powers b,
the seizure. more or less violent. O
; several important ports Of China 70
the undouhted purpose Of controllln
and monopollzing the trade there q
the exclusion Of other nations. Tn
, last breaking into the Flowery King
] dom was a case Of fiat burglary, n
wonder these same powers. after al
the pains they have taken. contemplat
b with CONSERVATION and undIsguse
Jealousy the event which has trans
pircd AZ Manila, In which an American
officer Of the name of Dewey played
part Can II be possible that the de
tested Yankee Is going to put his han
in the game and spoil the plan u eY