The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-02-07
Continued from Est page.)

WOtlu, nuWeVeT SLrOuH, can CdIty UuO
measures involving an entire change
of policy or which might lead to
war, unless they see that the COM
munities and the great electorate are
behind them.
From any point OF view Great
Britain has two dangers in the fut-
ure with regard to the security Of
her trade and commerce-one is the
dominant military position taken up
in the north by Russia, and the
other is the effete condition of the
Chinese Government. When l speak
of the dominant position of Russia
in the north l speak of what know
and of what l myself saw, and il
foreign country takes up certain
strong positions with regard to what
they think necessary for their own
people, it is for us to see that they
do nothing which hurts the interest
of our people. think il l
was a Russian | should do ex-
actly what the Russians are doing
only L should do great deal more.
| am not at all sure / should not
have been in Picking before now,
and l am absolutely certain the
Russians will be in Picking before
very long, when once they have Sc
cured the military positions, if they
find no more remonstrance or oppo-
sition than they do at present from
the other great countries of Europe
and America. There was one thing
telegraphed home with regard to
some remarks l made at Shanghai
which was telegraphed incorrectly.
1t said l remarked that the open
door was being everywhere closed
against us. | never said anything
so FOOLISH, OR so UNTRUE.
What 1 did say with regard to the
policy of the open door and British
trade in Manchuria was that it was
worse for our countrymen and our
traders to have a commercial enter
prise interfered with mot to be al
lowed to conduct commercial enter
prises-than it was to put on tariffs
or preferential rates. If another
country puts on tariff the British
trader knows where he is. 1t goes
into his profit and loss account but
eventually falls on" to the consum-
er. He can go on trading, but if a
merchant is stopped altogether, l
say the door is shut more firmly
than if you put on tariff, and I
cited the Shanhaikwan- Newch wang
Railway. AS you know, our Govern,
ment told the Russian Government
they would not be allowed to inter.
fere with any commercial enterprise
which British merchants might I'M
dertake, but the Russian Govern
ment interfered, and they said we
should not have the security for the
line which went beyond Shanhai.
kwan. That was a direct interior
ence with commercial enterprise,
and / hold here, as | have held be-
fore, that the British Government
should not have allowed the Rus
sian Government to interfere with a
commercial enterprise, and there
fore the door is just as shut as if
there was more hostile tariff put
against us. You must remember we
have in the Treaty OF Tientsin got
equal rates with other nations in all
parts of China.
"THosE EQUAL RATES DO NOT EXIST
at this moment in Manchuria where
the Russians have this military dom
mination. With regard to the mil
tary domination, when the Russians
are ready, when they have their
bases OF supply, when they have a
great many troops there, there is nc
reason in the world why they should
not put on tariff. 1t is always
wise to Judge of events which are
coming by what has preceded in his