Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-20
FOREIGN POLICY DEBATE
Colonial Extension Considered by the Ma
tional Conference.
Judge Grosscup's Views in Favor of
Expansion Opposed by Carl Schurz
Other Speakers.

The colonial extension problem was con-
siGered at the afternoon session yes terday
of the national conference on the foreign
policy of the United States. Carl Schurz
of New York spoke at length, giving the
views of the anti-expansionists, whose
cause he advocated. He was opposed by
Judge 2. S. Grcsscup of Chicago, who is
an earnest sXparsionist and who spoke at
great length. Judge Grosscup said in part:
L favor the retention of the Philippines,
or, at least, part of them, that they may
stand as a tangible continuing demonstra-
ton of the physical presence of the rzpub-
lie In Asiatic waters, The value CT these
conquests is not in their territory nor their
resources, separately considered but in the
fact that as an entirety they constitute
chain precisely adapted to the expanded
sphere In which We are to enter.
l come, now, to what is, in my judgment,
the most interesting and important object
of our future foreign policy. l refer, of
course, to the immediate future of Asia. 1t
is in that quarter that we will find sftua-
ton open to American Enterprise. a COM
merce waiting for American venture, and
eventually people and institutions ready
for graft from the tree of Angio-SaxOn
civil liberty. Outside of these countries
that are already European dependencies,
the population of Asia numbers already
40t,000,o00 souls.
Great Results Must Follow.
They have, up to the present time, lived
almost apart from mankind The breaking
of the seal upon their ports is to us OF
Europe and America the discovery of a
new continent. In the nature Of things,
great results must follow. The discovery of
unpeopled America broke up the deepest
foundations of European life; the opening
of Africa, peopled only by savages, has
stirred every corner of European enter
prise. But here in the far east, swinging
inward, are doors that will admit us to one
half of the desirable territory and one-third
of the population of the earth. 1t is
land without railroads, without manufac-
tories, without cities built on modern lines,
without fields cultivated by modern i'm
plementS.
1t bids for every character Of American
enterprise. 1t lies under the temperate
zone the only strip Of cur globe that in
sures health to men now alive, and prom
lses increasing yigor to men yet to come.
Looked at from every material point of
view, the invitation rendered is one that
The breakup in the current of Asiatic life
Is at hand The people of China are al
ready beginning to compare their modes Of
ME with ours, and to reach out for some of
the physical aids that we are ready to
offer.
Before US in the far east, at this very
moment, are opening gates that will in
Few years reveal a market transcending
In value our own, and transcending our
own immensely in its potentialities for the
future. The full magnitude of this opening
era has not yet dawned upon the world.
The far-seeing statesmen of Europe see it;
far-seeing America will soon compass it.
Our course seems clear, III we are in
earnest in our purpose to participate in
the development of the east We need
these islands as an integral part of the
naval force, without the display of which
we can never obtain a proper share in her
commerce, or protect it after 1t is obtained:
we need them as strategic points in a naval
contest with any power on the earth; we
need them that we may draw physically