The age-herald., 1898-09-02
SENATOR BRYCE
 ON EXPANSION
From the New York Sun.

just back from Newport, and is full of his foreign tour."
 After o'clock I'll have some time if you can ride along with me to the Oriental hotel" said MT. Brice, who was and again may be the Commodore Vanderbilt of the west in opposition lines.
 At o'clock he came promptly out in his English suitings and tight curl of topknot hair and began in a monoogue to lose no time from questionlngs.
 q spent two weeks in France and six weeks in England. We stand high in regard to all that is representative in Eng land. Nothing has ever approached the completeness of recognition of the Ameri- can state and people by today's England. nor have any other people that I can hear ef-foreign peope-secured the full measure of respect America now has in the British islands, and especially England,''
 "Is that the result of the Spanish warp
 "The efficacy of the American state and military machine in this extraordinary war of four months solved all samples of doubt in England that we have become and are a high modelled nation, with people as capable as the state and military This recognition is without any exceptions of
 
 solitary cad who may raise his exception falls out of pity to a sudden depth of con- tempt. We occupy the situation of full equal and master power of the world. The affability of the Americans in victory con tinues the impression made by our onset When the fleet began it's work and not a gun was unshipped, steel frame dis turbed, no weakness made manifest in our .Aa. .N.af,a buoyantly into the sea and crushing the armed enemy at every point, with a cheer ful beginning and a swift succession of great events hardly matched in history, the last scale fell off the eyes of England. The intrepidity of the army and its triumph over climate, as well as Spaniards, were coincident. But above even these physical achievements stood the wealth of the re- public in the manifestations it gave while stripped for battle. The subscription of $20O0O0,000 by the plain, unvarnished popu- laton in sums of $500 apiece, and less, so that the treasury is probably going to re- ject all bids above $4,5OO, and take no 5000 subscription, was another wonder to Eng land. Wealth, after all, makes war sue cessful, and war ,iS-the parade day of na- tions. The large excess of the loan offered and-refused by the government, the turn ylng down of bankers and syndicates, and their absolute unimportance in the loan, and the close concord between the saving people and the war power caused England to feel that here was a new scene upon the world Add to this the trade of the United States at the war period, it's $1, 200, ,000 600 of exports and but half the value of imports g. mighty balance three times the cost of the whole war-and the confidence of Eng land was greater still. Then they saw 100000 volunteers come to the presidents call, from the flower of the family, as well as the fields of toll, so swiftly that before criticism could begin the soldery were at the work of war, and England said, 'Yon-
 der are manhood, means, and government in full measurel' The cost of the war is a flea bite to the credit it wins us among almost the only people who were likely to show sincere regard for in our victories no less than our reverses Heretofore Eng land has had the jealousy of other powers concerning our acquisitions of territory and subjugation of schismatics This time England almost fears our moderation, be- cause she knows Europe so well and sees so clearly the instantaneous advantage we have gained in islands and points of trade" "Is South Africa still genuine source of wealth to England?"
 'Yes, it is worth s6O, 900 in gold year or about as much as all our American gold diggings put together Australia is worth about $40,000,0OO in gold to England The possession of colonies is the cause of the return of blood after it is sent out from the heart of the old country Germany France and Russia see the circulation England attains by colonies and ape her colonial policy with very little of England S hearty and liberal spirit. The United States suddenly Iot | in colonial onset and produces a disturb ance, as when the eagle alights among the kites"
 Do you favor keeping the Philippine isands?
 "Of course. All we have to say to those other nations is Gentlemen, the inability of one of your number to keep the peace
 and utilize his colonies compelled us to as- | sume their trusteeship, and now that the Philippines are ours we mean to keep them to start our trade with China and have a point of vantage according to your late and | impressive example"
 "What is the state of the railway conces- sion you and others obtained in China?'' | Tt is all right We are not affected by Russia and China having gotten closer to- | gether. We submitted to the Russian gov- 1 ernment the concession offered to us and | asked if 1t would be unpaatable to Russia. | They replied that we were preferred by | Russia as the least objectionable nation, because we would not be colonizers of | China, but only investors there. Here, | however, lies the whole value of that fran l chise and all others that Americans may procure in eastern or tropical countries. l Will the United States support its citizens l in their foreign rights and privileges? If | not they are not worth anything. But the l Spanish war has made it probable to be the | public purpose that the United States will l be as brave as England or Germany to sup | port American life and property rights | abroad"
 You regard the Pacific trade as valuable
 to the republic?
 Tt is almost the whole question. There l Is to lie our great market The Pacific l states will come to a fine destiny by their | trade with the 4oO,00o.000 people of China. l The Pacific islands have been desired by
 Japan for the close relation of the great I market. The activities of California will | react upon the older states and ih no other | way have we kept this country to the front I by stepping promptly Into the successive l footprints of the genius of opportunity" STRANGER THAN FICTION