Arizona republican., 1899-11-28
The Senator Exto|s QuaIi-
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AN OPEN DOOR IN CHINA
It Has Made the Nations of the Old World Pause He Says and Marks the Increased Influence of the United States in Oriental Affairs. Some of the Commercial 0ppor- tunities.

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 Washington, Nov. 27.- Senator Frye. chairman of the committee on com merce, leading member of the com mittee on foreign relations, and presi- dent pro tempore of the senate, was in Bangor, Me, the past week and re- ceived a very notable reception from representative citizens there and in eastern Maine. In the course of a lec- ture, which he delivered in an infor- nal way, he touched on current politi- cal topics and made plain his continued enthusiasm for expansion in trade and commerce with the newly acquired islands. The senator's utterances were very pronounced and have made a great impression in that section. He spoke in decidedly eulogistic terms of the Filipinos.
 They are," said the senator. mot as black as they are painted. They are good husbands good wives, good carpenters, good sailors-extra good sailors-these Tagals with whom we are at war now. Their children are taught to respect their parents They are truthful They are easily taught. They take readily to education, though it must be admitted that their opportunities in that direction have been limited. One of the army officers says that he has employed 200 of them in the Manila custom house and that they make good clerks. The men allow their wives to carry the money and do the business for the household. Isn't that good sign?
 "I I'd the Philippine archipelags as worth a dozen Cubas,'' continued the senator. "In every way it is su- perior, and we want to reap the ben efits of that superiority. Look at Ma nila, only two days from Hong Kong, with our flag planted there in the heart of the Orient. Shall we haul it down and get out?
 ''Only two years ago France and Germany and Russia were going to partition China-divide her among themselves. And each one was going 10 shut it's share up to trade from the outside. They aren't so vigorous about it now. Why not? Because we are there. This very day at this very time diplomatic correspondence with those powers, demanding the maintenance of an open door to our trade there. We will not allow the doors to be shut to our commerce in the east, and we are not afraid to say so.
 The senator then made some vigor- ous comment on the condition of af- fairs two years ago, explaining that we wouldn't have yipped" at a sim liar condition then. Why do we act now?" he continued. Because this is a new nation, taking her place at last among the great powers of the old world. We all remember how in Tur- key the kurds were massacreing poor Armenians, killing our missionaries, destroying our churches, and demol- ishing our schools. What did we do? We made an awful growl at Great Britain. We asked her to go in and stop the trouble. What do you sup pose we would do today? Would we i growl at Great Britain? Not much. Today we would send a ship of war to Smyrna, and we would say, This must ! cease The position we have acquired in the last two years is worth all that it has cost or will cost
 T am an expansionist," declared the , senator, and I am not ashamed to say it. Contentment on the part of a man or a nation is the beginning of | decay. Isolation of nation marks the beginning of the decadence of that nation. We have always been expan- sionists. We started with S00,OOO square miles of territory, and now, with acquisition from time to time, We | have over 3,OO0,OOO square miles, hay ing taken 1,121, ,OOO square miles at one swoop. We never thought it neces- sary to get the consent of the gov erned. If we could stand expansion at 1 that rate we ought to have no great trouble in taking in the Philippines?' Senator Frye declared that the fight with Aguinaldo must be kept up till peace is restored, and added that in the fullness of time the Filipinos should be given the blessings of our own liberty. Railroads, school houses, churches and highways must be built taxes reduced, and revenues honestly collected and distributed, and the Fili- ipinos be led on to the day when they can be intrusted with the direction of their own affairs.