The morning news., 1899-05-18
THE "OPEN doom" POLICY.

THE "OPEN DOOR" POLICY.
The fact that nothing is said about the
"open-door'' policy in the agreement be-
tween England and Russia, by which Rus
s.a is permitted a free nand, so far as
England is concerned, IN all that part Of
China north OF the Great Wall and Eng
land is permitted to do what she pleases
in all that part of China in the Yang-tse
basin, in fact. south Of the Great Wall
without any interference on the part of
Russia. does not seem TO be attracting the
attention to which it is entitled. The i'm
preston prevails that England endeavor-
ed 90 have that policy recognized in The
agreement, but that Russia wouldn't
agree. and England had to yield.
L is a bold and high-handed proceeding
for two European nations to practically
divide the great empire of China between
the mselyes. but who is TO step TO the front
and prevent them from doing what it
pleases them to do? It is true that the
oreucally. the integrity of the Chinese en-
pire is intact. but practically England and
Russia have from an Industrial and com
mercial standpoint, begun to shape II to
suit their respective interests
II has been urged that the "open-door"
POLICY in the Far East would give US all
the commercial opportunities in that part
of the world that we should need. and
that therefore it was useless for US to
waste lives and treasure IN getting pos
session of the Philippines. But this agree
ment between Russia and England looks
as If a closed door policy would prevail
| that England and Russia intend to develop
the trade Of the vast empire of China for
themselves alone.
We are demonstrating every day that in
the open markets of the world we ask no
| favors of any nation. and it looks as II
other nations recognize our superiority
| as a manufacturing nation, and are pre-
| pairing TO shut us out of markets which
! they control TO as great an extent as they
can. If that is the case there Is more
in the argument that we must have pos
session of the Philippines as an entering
wedge into China than there has general
| ly been thought to be-
We have always been, and stin are,
| opposed to anything that looks like i'm
| perialism, and we hope that our govern
meut will deal as literally with the Philip
! pines as ii proposes to deal with Cuba, but
| IT is not difficult 70 see that the rapid and
remarkable increase of European influence
in China makes it necessary that we shall
have some sort of friendly relations with
the Philippines.
our manufacturing interests are grow
ms with wonderful rapidity, and if it We're
| not for foreign markets our factories even
now would have 10 be shut down large
part Of the time We must have our share
of foreign markets, and we cannot permit
England and Russia to shut us out of any
of those markets. The American work
man, like the American gunner. is the
best in the world. Mr.. Carnegie said in
on" of his recent interviews, that the
American workman is the equal of two of
| any other nation That is why our man.
ufacturing interests are advancing with
such giant strides.
The great empire of China is going to
be divided, and distributed among the
| Powers Of Europe, and we must be in a
position 20 say, when the distribution
takes place, that the products of our fac
tories must be permitted to reach the four
| hundred millions of people Of China on
| the same terms as the products of the
factories of other nations reach them.