, 1900-06-13
IN GRANTS FOOTSTEPS.

1t is asserted with considerable posi-
tiVeness that the administration will
under no circumstances become n party
10 h dismemberment of the Chinese
empire. General Grants policy is the
guide OF the present administration.
John Russell Young, who died a year
ago, was minister to China. He accom-
panied General Grant on a Journey
around the world. He enjoyed the con-
fdence of the general, and was espe-
'ially familiar with Grants views re-
Sarding China-views in which there
was almost a prescience of the situa-
lion which has now arisen. Some time
ego Mr.. Young wrote his recollection.
d the period in which was formed the
relationship of the United States to-
ward China that has been maintained
Hhtll this time, and which it is the mr.
pose Of the president to continue. Mr.
Young said:
The policy of General Grant, which
governed the instructions which | re-
celved from Mr.. Frelinghuysen when I
was IN diplomatic service, was based on
c certain study of the Eastern question
amld advantages such as no other for
elgner ever enjoyed. 1t was a policy
developed after careful study and con-
hdential conversations with the prince
regent and ministers of China and tho
emperor n ministers of Japan. What
he expressed in the freedom and vivid
ness or personal intercourse was spok-
en- no less in public addresses where
he weighed every word. America he
SAID, In one speech, delivered to a COM
pany OF Oriental noblemen. and mem
cradle for the impression it made at
The time-America has much TO gain
from the East; no nation has greater
interests; but America has nothing to
gain except what comes from the
cheerful acquiescence Of the Eastern
people, and insures them as much bene-
fit as it does us. | should be ashamed
Oh my country If its relations to other
nations, II especially with these an
cient and most interesting empires of
the East, were based on any other idea.
1t was my privilege to be present at
many interviews, and to know how
deeply General Grant was impressed by
what he heard and saw. What would
not give he said to me one day. TO
have known ten years 6 what know
today
What might not America give had
the Just, intrepid policy toward the
Eastern nations which the genius of
Grant evolved from the political condi-
ions of the Pacific found fruition and
encouragement or been governed by his
firm, enlightened will? American poll
Cy toward China should be based on the
same lines as American policy toward
England and France. Out of the full
ness of our diplomacy, what have we
o done for the American hog in Paris,
Vienna and Berlin? For that praise
now and always. But what might we
also have done for the American man
in Picking and Toxic? American gen.
Jus brought China into the diplomatic
family of nations. Where now is the
power ~bequeathed TO us by Burlingame?
I'VE are the neighbors of these en-
pires. The richest markets in the world
are nearer to us than Liverpool or
Queenstown were twenty years ago
The development of our Pacific railway,
now in its infancy. rests on the COM
mercial relations that should exist in
Asia. The commercial empire of the
East, if l may so call it, belongs to us
by the ties Of geography, enterprise and
sympathy.
w have no interests that jar with
these vast and venerable empires. We
don't menace their independence, like
Russia, nor seek the profits of shame,
like those reaped from the opium sin
of England. Hand in hand, the Oldest
and youngest civilization could pursue
their destiny, the genius of antiquity
resting on and strengthened by the gen.
JUS Of youth"