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OUR FOREIGN POLICY.
IMPORTANT MEETING AT SARA
TOCA.
Prominent Men Gath es to Discuss tho Ma
tion's future-JudEs Gro.scup favors
Extension for Hum Anity's sake.

tion's future-JudEe Gro..cup favors
Extension for Hum anit,'. sake.
Saratoga, n. Y, Aug. 10.-The ma
tionnl conference OH the foreign policy
OF the United States wns opened here
to-day with IN address by Henry
Wade Rogers of Chicago, chairman OF
the committee on arrangements. Mr..
Rogers says that the conference was
called to consider some OF the most
momentous questions In the history OF
the republic. He spoke of the war and
returned prayerful thanks for the
peace now at hand. While pence has
arrived. he said, there were many &C.
rlous problems TO be considered.
He referred to the close friendship
between the Americans and British.
which would promptly lead to interna-
tional arbitration and finally to univer-
sal peace. The speaker spoke favor
ably Of the Nicaragunn canal, which,
he argued, should be built and con-
trolled by the United States govern
ment. That canal would shorten the
distance by water to San Francisco by
10000 miles. A reference to the trip
OF the battleship Oregon elected hearty
applause. Mr.. Rogers said that the
principal problem before the present
conference was that of territorial ex-
pansion, on which many distinguished
men of national reputation hold wide
ly divergent views. Indirectly, he re-
fcrred to the positions respectively
held by the expansionists and the anti
cXpnnsionlsts. Whether we should an
mex the colonies that arc lost to Spain
or to control them by carpet bag gov
eminent Is problem that has become
the most serious one to Americans,
who should ponder wisely over 1t, in
order to not make n mistake. Com
mercal interests urge that we should
adopt colonial system, said Mr.. Itog-
ers. but business alone ought not to
control our conduct.
The question of the NicaraEuan Gu
nal was taken up, and Warner Miller
of New York took the platform. He
briefly spoke OF his persistent advocacy
of the canal. Events of the past three
months demanded the immediate con-
struction. and he believed all Ameri-
cans We're now universally in favor OF
1t, us was also NIL of Europe.
The annexation problem was taken
up mt the afternoon session. Carl
Schurz of New York spoke ut length,
giving the views of the anti-expansion-
lists, whose cause lie advocated. He
was opposed by Judge Grosscup of Chi
cago, who is an earnest eXpansionist.
Judge Grosscup said, In part:
Il am among those who believe
that the people of the United States,
without breach of faith to the prom
ises OF our past, or serious danger to
the expectations of our future, should
hold permanently all, or a portion, of
the territory that has been occupied by
our troops during the progress Of the
war. l am ready to go n 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
operations and toward the future use
fulness of ourselves, demand that we
should permanently hold 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 a nation,
we nre about to enter.
"Four months ago the eyes Of the ma
ton were habitually turned inwardly
upon itself. The industries and COM
merce of this continent monopoliZed us.
Our policies were the policies of Amerl-
ca alone, running too frequently-par-
tfcularly In their financial and conf
mercial phases-into thing apart from
the corresponding systems of the world.
1t was, In my Judgment, n providential
hand, gloved in the smoke of battle,
that led us out from these combining
boundaries to the mountain spur We
now occupy.
1.-THE true question is not whether
Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines
are intrinsically worth the responsible
ties incurred by their occupation,
whether their commerce and resources
will counterbalance the new dangers
that their requirement would introduce
into our political system. For l see be-
hind them, in the horizon toward
which we are heading, looming up
from the Pacific in mountainous inter-
est and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS which
the outlines Of the Philippines are but
n Notwithstanding more than IS
lands-nothing else than a continent
81 favor the retention of the Philip
pines, or at least n part Of them, that
they may stand as tangible, contin-
uing demonstration of the physical
presence Of the republic in Asiatic
waters"
Judge Grosscup declared that, in his
judgment, the most interesting and i'm
portant object of our future foreign
policy was involved in the immediate
future of Asia. The breakup in the
current of Asiatic life is at hand, he de-
clared, and the gates are opening up
on market the full magnitude of ;
which has not yet dawned upon the
world. The far-seeing statesmen Of
Europe appreciate the situation, he
said, and far-seelng America must soon
compass it.