Evening journal., 1898-03-28


we were upon the verge Of an outbreak
with each OF those countries.
Those in affairs and the newspaper
press Of the country were gravely con-
sidering our naval resources as COM
pared with those Of each OF those gov
enments. Fortunately, diplomacy dis
posed OF the difficulties with both OF
those countries, but yet not until II was
developed that each had a distinctively
stronger naval power than our own did
we awake to find little Chile had o
stronger naval power upon the Pacific
coast than we had, and that practi-
cally San Francisco at the outset was
at her mercy The significant thing,
though, is not what her strength was,
but that we did have such differences.
Later, the Importance Of navy be-
came manifest in the episode with
Brazil. That empire, becoming a repub-
lie, met with a rebellion, promoted and
aided by European nations in the In
tcrest of their trade. which was ad-
vanced by the mOnarchical condition
there, and was threatened with injury
by American competition under the
republic We sent TO Brazil a feet
which by its presence constituted the
one formidable naval demonstration In
foreign waters IN our recent history
and it ended that rebellion and restored
peace to Brazil.
That has gone further to demon
strate the potency OF the Monroe doc
trine that the suzerainty OF the Ameri-
can republic over both American hem
ispheres is a fact than anything which
has occurred since General Sheridan
marched with his $4,000 men TO the
Mexican border and the Emperor Ma
pOleon took his orders to leave the re-
public OF Mexico to her own autOnO-
nous government. That was the result
OF what naval strength we have but Il
shows the truth, as / conceive it, OF
my proposition.
I We cannot any longer afford TO ig-
! mere the outside world or our position
in the hegemony OF nations.
) But. Mr.. President. II rs the Pacific
J ocean where the acute interest OF TO-
= day has arisen; and what has happened
e there establishes my proposition.
r Beside the Chilian episode we have
the seal fisheries dispute, and | think 4
- that question had been properly deal
s with we should have accepted the wis
4 | suggestion OF Mr. Phelps, and hay
q simply told our Canadian friends tina
i those were our seals, that We ntende
l. to protect them, and II they wanted &
Y fight for them we should let them fight
! Then we should have had the seals an
II they would not have been destroyed b
! the poachers. But we did not choose {
, take any such risk; we were hardly /
a condition to take risks in navi
Ie struggle do not think, however, the
v it would have provoked a war.
% ! shall not undertake to review th
,e Hawaiian question, upon which "
IA have heard so much but every phase ,
~ it. the revolution OF 1898, the anneIi
10 tion treaty and it's withdrawal, the II
n cent revolution, and the whole subjec
4 illustrates the importance OF our nav
10 power in those waters and shows no
IA new and important interests will aril
in In the near future.
10 AS the senator from Massachuset
j" (Mr. Ilodge) just pointed out, Japl
q. has shown herself TO be country
be mcst, II not quite. OF the first ran
M She has manifested science and SIX
q and courage in the Organization, d
IN | velopment and fighting capacity
1v both her army and her navy and u
~ affairs OF the commerce OF the Orie
n and OF the North Pacific are no long
he left to the fleets OF Europe or the fle
Of the United States, but we have
a. reckon with Japan There is no ne.
a OF amplnying upon what all tn
~ means in the light of the interestl
al accounts which daily come to us
,Ta their great achievements on the 9th
ed side Of that ocean.
or But It need not be expected N
nd President, that China will always 7
main the weak and impotent natl,
he which she now appears to be. In d
"a current number OF the Cosmopolit
d. Magazine there is an article by 10
)r- Wolseley, the adjutant-geheral OF Z
Ia l British army, calling attention to {
ie- possibilities Of the Chinese nation
lat war when they shall abandon tn,
rer present want OF government authCri
Of and development, and with a poOpleu
cts surpassed in courage, having no fear
lc- death, we'll Officered, we'll led, and WI
er. financial capacity-w China sh
to have arisen out OF the ashes OF her {
,ur feat and received organization q
m leading she is likely to become {
lal dominant military power OF the globe
nd / read the other day in the Lond
on Times a suggestion as 10 the furtl
as use Of silver in China when that COZ
we try shall have been opened, as the O.
ess sequence of this war. to trade throu
)u- all its length and breadth; that cons
are to be put in the great cities Of
lon | empire, and coinage introduced tn
be in the place Of the use Of bullion silly
lO,- which is now their only means OF
re- change I refer to that as shOwi
lO,- simply what are the possibilities
ow China in the development and utih
but | tiOn Of her resources, her wealth,
ges well as Of her great power as a. fight
the nation. And when that comes VI
ca the land we may rest assured that
will not fail to come by sea.
aS ~ The day will come when she v
.us @ have a navy entirely equal to that
~ ~ Japan, and the one balancing the OF
~ will create a naval power upon q
coast with which we shall have
~ reckon, for while You have upon the
~ cific Siberia, a Russian possession,
a. al, British Columbia, a dependency OF
80 British empire, the Pacific coast Of
- United States presents such a shore
4 the only nation of which IL Is an II
- gral part. Our own people on I
ola coast will have all their interests