Arizona republican., 1900-10-08


 IN THE estimate put by the Or
 ORIENT. tent upon the United
 States of America.
 Previous to 1896 there was prevalent only a vague notion of our wealth and our power as a nation. It was gen. orally understood that we were great money makers, manufacturers and traders; that we had a small and inef- ficient army and a small and untried navy. Compared with the military and naval strength and display of Euro pean nations, and compared with the diplomatic equipment of these ma tions, the United States suffered in the minds of most Orientals, who are pro foundly impossible by the outward and showy demonstrations of wealth and power and the disposition and ability tO use them.
 Since the resurrection of industrial activity. due to republican policies un- der President McKinley's adnin!stra- t!on. and more emphatically since the
 
 naval resources in the Spanish and Philippine wars, new and trer con- ception of our power and dignity as a nation has taken deep root in the Or iental world, as indeed 1t has through out all the world. New considera tiop has been extended to our diploma tic consular and military, and naval repre- sentatives abroad. Travelfng Amer jeans have been treated with increased respect. Greater interest has been man. ifested in American machinery and manufactures and wider fields have been opened for the investment of American capital and the operations of American enterprise.
 It is understood that America has no sinister designs, politically or territor- ially, upon the Oriental states, but that her interests are all in the line of uni versal peace and general order and se- curity for the purposes of mutual in .. tercourse and trade. The change of at . titude from tolerant indifference 10
 
 greatly increased existing sources of trade and opened up many new ones. This change of front. which is so mani. fest as to deeply impress Americans who have long been in the east, comes at time when existing conditions at home are more happily fitted to enable us to avail ourselves of it than for many years. The return of prosperity at home, due to an honest monetary standard and a 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 moro ways than one, has secured an open door in the Orient througn which is to pass in the near future commerce as yet undreamed of in its extent and value. The world has passed through a Red Sea period, a Mediterranean period, and is at the height of the At 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 inexhaustfble re- sources and the unsurpassed ability of her citizens, trained to large affairs under republican policies, will give to her the foremost place in immense ac- tivitfes which are to result from the awakening energies of the Orient The possibilities of this Oriental future are not calculable merely by considering the consuming or producing power of people.
 It must be remembered that from the standpoint of modern requirements. Si- 'beria, China, Corea 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 AmC rica was in 1492.
 | 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 has been constantly overtaXed. The de mand for freight and passenger car riers has continually outgrown the supply. Vessels are constantly leaving freight behind them because ni lack of carrying capacity. The United States is constantly increasing it's exports of wheat. four cotton, oil. coal. macrin- cry and merchandise to the Orient. Americans are opening up min es, mills, railroads, electric plants and t"a sing concerns in all the east. Under the fostering care of republican policies we have been able not only a supply our !