The Springfield herald., 1898-08-26
OUR FOREIGN POLICY.
IMPORTANT MEETING AT SARA
TOGA.
Prominent Men Gather to Discuss the Ma
-tion's Future Judge Grosscup Favors
Extension for IIumAnit5's sake.

Prominent Mon Gather to Discuss the ma
-tion's Future Judge Grosscup Favors
Extension for HumAnit,'s sake.
Saratoga, n. Y, Aug. 19.-The ma
tional conference on the foreign policy
of the United States was opened here
to-day with an 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 peace has
arrived, he said, there We're many Sc
rious problems to be considered.
He referred to the close friendship
between the Americans and British,
which would promptly lead to internal
tional arb,ration and finally to univer-
sal pence. The speaker spoke favor
ably of the Nicaraguan 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
ferred TO the positions respectively
held by the eXpansionists and the anti
expansonists. Whether we should an
mex the colonies that are lost to Spain
or TO control them by carpet bag gov
ernment is Il problem that has become
| the most serious one to Americans,
who should ponder wisely over it, i'll
| order to not make Il mistake. Com
mercinl interests urge that we should
| adopt Il colonial system, said Mr.. Rog-
ers. but business alone ought not to
control our conduct.
The question of the Nicnraguan ca
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 were now universally in favor of
| 1t, rs was also all of Europe.
The annexation problem was taken
mp mt the afternoon session. Carl
| Schurz of New York spoke at length,
giving the views of the anti-cXpansion-
lists, whose cause he advocated. He
was opposed by Judge Grosscup of Chi
cago. who is an earnest cXpansionist.
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 II portion. of
| the territory that has been occupied by
| our troops during the progress of the
| war. am ready TO go II 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 it was inaugurated and the
greater destiny on which, rs nation,
we are about TO enter.
-Four months ago the eyes of the ma
tlon We're habltually turned inwardly
upon itself The industries and COM
merce of this continent monopoliZed us.
Our policies were the policies of Ameri
ca alone, running too frequently-par-
ticularly in their financial and COM
mercial phascs-into thing apart from
the corresponding systems of the world.
1t was, in my judgment, providential
hand, glovcd in the smoke of battle,
that led us out from these coniining
boundaries TO the mountain spur we
| now occupy.
''rhe 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
from the Pacific in mountainous inter-
est and opportunity-against which
the outlines of The Philippines are but
d-spcck-something more than is
lnnds-nothing else than n continent.
Il favor the retention of the Philip
pines, or mt least Il 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 n 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-sceing America must soon
compass it,