The age-herald., 1898-08-20

lie in Asiatic waters. The value of these conquests is not in their territory, nor their resources, separately considered, but in the fact that as an entirety they constitute a field precisely adapted to the expanded sphere in which we are to enter 1 care little for the links, individually, but every thing for the chain that will henceforth hold us to our opportunities in the far east"
 After paying notice at great length to objections urged by opponents of annexa- tion, Judge Grosscup continued:
 "I come now to what is in my judgment the most interesting and important object of our future foreign policy. refer, of course, to the immediate future of Asia. It is in that quarter that we will find situa- ton open to American enterprise com npeiee awaiting American venture and eventually people and institutions ready for graft from the tree of Anglo-Saxon civil liberty Outside of these countries that are already European dependencies the populations of Asia numbers already 400 900, 900 souls.
 ''They have up to the present time lived almost apart from mankind. The break ing of the seal upon their ports is to us of Europe and America, the discovery Of new continent. In te mature of things great results must follow. The discovery of unpeopled America broke up the deep est foundations of European life: the
  has stirred every corner of European en- terprise. But here in the far east. swing ing inward, are the doors that will admit us to one-half of the desirable territory and one-third of the population of the earth. It is land without railroads, with out manufaetories, without cities built on modern lines, without fields cultivated by modern implements. It bids for every character of American enterprises. It lies under the temperate zone, the only ri of rl<1N f1Ak tt1Er hnn1f h to men now alive and promises increasing vigor to men yet to come. Looked at from every material point of view, the invita- tion rendered is one that no enterprising people can afford to decline. The breakup in the current of Asiatic life is at hand The people of China are already beginning to compare their modes of life with us and to reach out for some of the physical aids that we are ready to offer
 The Opening Gates
 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 overshadowing our im- mensity in its potential shadows for the fu- ture. The magnitude of this opening era has not yet dawned on the world The far seeing statesmen of Europe see 1t; far-see- ing Americans will soon compass 1t. Looked at from every side-its certainty, its imme- diate proportions, its immeasureable poten- tialities for growth-it reveals itself as a world movement commercially more im- portant than the discovery of America; an event in many respects without a parallel in the history of mankind.
 Our course seems clear If we are in earn est in our purpose to participate in the de- velopment of the east. We need these is- lands 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 it is obtained; we need them as stragetic points in naval contest with any power on earth; we need them that we may draw physically close to the quar- ter of the globe in which we wish our in 1uence to be felt and our commerce to ex- pand we need them above all other con- alterations as security towards peace-that character of peace-bonds that all nations respect"