The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-10-03

tration, and more emphatically since
the demonstration of our vast military
and naval resources In the Spanish and
Philippine wars, new and truer con-
ception of our power and dignity as a
nation has taken deep root in the ORR
entail world as indeed it has through
out all the world, New consideration
has been extended to our diplomatic,
consular and military and naval rep
resentatives abroad. Travelling Amer
leans have been treated with increased
respect. Greater interest has been
manifested in American machinery and
manufactures and wider fields have
been opened for the investment Of
American capital and the operations Of
American enterprise.
IN THE ORIENT
It is understood that America has
no sinister designs. politically or terri
torially. upon the Oriental states, but
that her interests are all in the line
of universal peace and general order
and security for the purposes of mu-
tual intercourse and trade. The change
of attitude from tolerant Indifference
to solicitous friendliness has already
greatly increased existing sources OF
trade and opened up many new ones.
This change of front which is so man.
ifest as to deeply impress Americans
who have long been In the east. comes
at a time when existing conditions at
home are more happily fitted to en-
able us to avail ourselves of 1t than for
many years The return of prosperity
at home due 10 an honest monetary
standard and q protective tariff, has
enabled our merchants. manufacturers
and investors to reach out into the
new and attractive fields of the Orient
as never before.
We have impressed the east with our
power our wealth. our rectitude and
our ability to bring things to pass.
The Mckinley administration, in more
ways than one, has secured an open
door in the Orient through which Is
to pass in the near future a commerce
as yet undreamed Of in its extent and
value. The world has passed through
q Red sea period, a Mediterranean pc
riod and is at the height of the At
lantic period II is now entering upon
the Pacific period which will, in its
turn, at no distant day. eclipse all that
have gone before IT,
The United States, under Mckinley
has assumed suddenly the proportions
of the inevitable leader and arbiter in
this opening era Her inexhaustible
resources and the unsurpassed ability
OF her citizens, trained to large affairs
under Republican policies, will give to
her the foremost place in immense ac-
tivities which are to awake from the
awakening energies Of the Orient. The
possibilities of this Oriental future are
not calculahle merely by considering
the consuming or producing power Of
its six or eight hundred millions of
people.
II must be remembered that from the
standpoint of modern requirements, ST.
IBERIA, China, Korea and part of Japan
are as new today in undeveloped re-
sources of coal, iron, gold, silver cop
per, lead, oil and other minerals. as
America was in 1892.
AGGRESSIVE AMERICAN ENTER
PRISE
Aggressive American enterprise al
ready has its eager representatives in
every land whose coasts are washed by
Oriental waters Since 1898 the ton
mage capacity Of steamships plying be-
tween Asiatic ports and America have
been constantly overtaxed The de-
mand for freight and passenger car
riers has continually outgrown the sup
ply. Vessels are constantly leaving
freight behind them because of lack
of carrying capacity. The United States
is constantly increasing its exunrts of