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pound at Peking. With the restoration Of
order this protection was withdrawn.
The interests Of our citi1sns in that vast
Empire have not been neglected during
the past year. Adequate protection has
been secured for our missionaries and some
injuries to their property have been re-
dressed.
American capital has sought and found
various opportunities of competing to carry
out the internal improvements which the
Imperial Government is wisely Hencour-
aging, and to develop the natural resources
Of the Empire. Our trade with China has
continued to grow. and our commercial
rights under existing treaties have been
everywhere maintained during the past
year. as they will be in the future.
The extension of the area open to in
ternational foreign settlement at Shanghai
and the opening of the ports of Marking.
Tsing-tao (kiao chao), and Ta-lienw to
foreign trade and settlement will doubtless
afford American enterprise additional ia
cilities and new fields. Of which 1t will not
be slow to take advantage.
In my Message to Congress Of Deem
Der 5, 1898. / urged that the recommended
tions which had been made to the Speaker
Of the House Of Representatives by the
Secretary OF the Treasury on the 14th OF
June, 1893, for an appropriation for a COM
mission to study the commercial and in
dnstrial conditions in the Chinese Empire
and report as to the opportunities for. and
obstacles to. the enlargement Of markets
In China for the raw products and manu-
factures Of the United States should re-
ceive at your hands the consideration
which its Importance and timeliness mer-
ited. but the Congress failed to take ac-
tion.
now renew this Recommendation, as the
Importance Of the subject has steadily
grown since it was first submitted to you.
and no time should be lost in studying for
ourselves the resources of this great field
for American trade and enterprise.
The death Of President Faure in Febru-
ary last called forth those sincere express
sions OF sympathy which befit the rela-
tions OF two Republics as closely allied
by unbroken historic ties as are the United
States and France.
The Paris EXPEDITION.
Preparations for the representation OF
the industries, arts, and products OF the
United States at the Worlds Exposition
to be held in Paris next year continue on
an elaborate and comprehensive scale
/ thanks to the generous appropriation pro-
vided by Congress and to the friendly in
terest the French Government has shown
in furthering typical exhibit of American
progress,
There has been allotted to the United
States a considerable addition of space,
which, while placing our country in the
| first rank among exhibitors. does not suf-
flee to meet the increasingly urgent de-
mands OF our manufacturers. The efforts
OF the Commissioner General are ably di-
| rected toward a strictly representative dis
play OF all that most characteristically
marks American achievement in the inven-
tive arts, and most adequately shows the
excellence OF our natural productions.
In this age OF keen rivalry among nations
for mastery in commerce, the doctrine of
evolution and the rule Of the survival
OF the fittest must be as inexorable In their
operation as they are positive in the results
they bring about. The place won in the
struggle by an Industrial people can only
be held by unrelaxed endeavcr and con-
slant advance in achievement. The pres
ent extraordinary impetus in every line
of American expectation and the astound-
ing increase in the volume and value of our
share in the worlds markets may not be
attributed to accidental conditions.
The reasons are not far to seek. They
lie deep in our national character and
find expression year by year in every
branch OF handicraft, in every new device
whereby the materials We so abundantly
produce are subdued to the artisans will
and made to yield the largest most prac-
tical, and most beneficial return. The
American exhibit at Paris should, and
am confident will, be an open volume,
whose lessons OF skillfully directed en-
deavor, unfaltering energy, and consum-
mate performance may be read by all on
every page. thus spreading abroad a clearer
knowledge Of the worth of our productions
and the justice OF our claim to an impor-
tant place in the martS of the world. To
accomplish this by judicial selection by
recognition Of paramount merit in what
ever walk OF trade or manufacture it may
appear. and by orderly classification and
attractive installation is the task of our
Commission.
The United States Government build
ing is approaching completion. and no ef-
fort will be spared to make it worthy, in
beauty of architectural plan and in COM
pleteness Of display, to represent our ma
tion. 1t has been suggested that per-
manent building Of similar or appropriate
design be erected on a convenient site.
already given by the municipality, near
the Exposition grounds. to serve in COM
memoration of the part taken by this |
country in this great enterprise, as an |
American National Institute. for our |
countrymen resorting to Paris for study.
/ am informed by our Commissioner Gen. |
eral that We shall have in the American |,
section at Paris over 1900 exhibitors, from |
every State in our country, number ten /
times as great as those which were rep /
resented at Vienna in 1873. six times as |
many as those in Paris in 1873, and four |
times as many as those exhibited in Paris |
in 1889. This statement does not include ;
the exhibits from either Cuba. Porto Rico.
or Hawaii for WHICH arrangements have
been made.
A number of important interra. ional
congresses on special topics affecting pub
lie interests are proposed to be held in
Paris next summer in connection with the
Exposition. Effort will be made to have
the several technical branches of our Ad-
efficiently represented at
those confereces. each in its special line,
and to procure the largest possible con-
course of State representatives. psrticu-
larly at the Congresses of Public Charity
and of Medicine.
GENERAL RELATIONS ABROAD.