The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-20
Our Place in the Orient.

that a fair field and no favor is all
We require, and with less than that we
cannot be satisfied. If we accept the
assurances we have received as honest
and genuine, as I certainly do, that
equality will not be denied US, and the
result may safely be left to American
genius and energy
we consider our interests in the Pa
cif1c Ocean as great now as those of
any other Power, and destined to in
definite development. We have OPEN
ed our doors to the people of Hawaii;
we have accepted the responsibility of
the Philippines, which Providence i'm
posed upon us: we have put an end to
the embarrassing condominium in
which we were involved in Samoa, and
while abandoning none of our COM
mercial rights in the entire group, we
have established our flag and our au-
thority in Tutulia, which gives us the
finest harbor in the South seas. Next
In order will come Pacific cable and
an isthmian canal for the use of all
well disposed peoples, but under ex-
elusive American ownership and Amer
lean control--of both of which great
enterprises President Mckinley and
President Roosevelt have been the en-
ergetic and consistent champions.
Our Honorable Position.
Sure as we are of our rights in these
matters, convinced as we are of the
authenticity of the vision which has
led us thus far and still beckons us
forward, l can yet assure you that so
long as the administration of your
affairs remains in hands as strong and
skilful as those to which they have
been and are now confided, there will be
no more surrender of our rights than
there will be violation of the rights
of others. The President. to whom you
have given your invaluable trust and
confidence, like his own immortal pre-
decessor, is as incapable of bullying a
strong Power as is he is of wronging a
weak one. He feels and knows-for
has he not tested it, in the currents of
the heady fight, as well as in the toll
some work of administration-that the
nation over whose destinies he presides
has a giants strength in the works of
war, as in the works of peace. But
that consciousness of strength brings
with it no temptation to do injury to
any Power on earth, the proudest or
the humblest. We frankly confess we
seek the friendship of all the Powers;
we want to trade with all peoples; we
are conscious of resources that will
make our commerce source of ad-
vantage to them and of profit to our
selves. But no wantonness of strength
will ever induce us to drive a hard
bargain with another nation because
it is weak, nor will any fear of ignoble
criticism tempt us to insult or defy a
great Power because it is strong, or
even because it is friendly"
After he concluded Secretary Hay
was obliged several times to acknowl-
edge the applause accorded him by the
diners.
Gov. OdeIl spoke TO the toast. estate
| of New York. and Mayor-elect Low
| replied to the toast, THE City of New
York. Joseph Fl. Choate, ambassador
| to England, was next introduced. AT
| ter the applause had subsided he spoke
with his usual eloquence, dwelling
| mostly on the sympathy that had been
| shown by the British people at the time
| of President McKiniey's death. and
| said that not only had sympathy been
| manifested almost every hour for days
after the event by royalty, but that
| all classes were quite as sorrowful. In
! view of these facts Mr. Choate thought
this government justified in thinking
| that England's grief was an expression
of natural sympathy.
Mr.. Choate was followed by Senator
| McLaurin of South Carolina, who spoke
| to the toast of "The Monroe Doctrine
| of the Twentieth Century" The SEN
ator's address was very well received,
and he was frequently applauded.
| senator McLnurin's Address.
| Senator ]. L. McLaurin of South
| Carolina spoke to the sentiment, "The
| Monroe Doctrine of the Twentieth Cen
tury."
| He declared that the ruling question
| to-day with all nations, and the one
TO which all political questions are
subordinated is, What can we do to
further industrial development and OBJ
tain substantial business prosperity ~
Speaking of the promulgation by the
! infant republic of the Monroe doc
| trine, he said that "any other policy
would have wrecked our government
and been an insurmountable barrier
to our national growth, prosperity and
| progress"
Now that we have become the
| greatest export nation of the world
| the mightiest potentiality on earth for
| progress, civilization and human free
dom, we can no longer confine our IN
stitutions and our destiny to this con-
tinent, but are compelled. by uncon-
trollable events, to seek fraternity with
other nations and to reach out fol
| new channels of trade.
"The Spanish war was the occasion
! not the cause. The report of Dewey's
cannon in Manila bay was but the
| formal announcement to the world oi
| what you call on your programme the
twentieth century Monroe doctrine, but
which / call the Mckinley doctrine
| and as such it will be known to future
ages"
Senator McLaurin elucidated the
| Mckinley doctrine to be as follows:
First, that as our own manifold
productions largely exceed home con-
sumption, the expansion of territory
trade and commerce was the only
means of creating markets for our sur.
plus products.
Second, that as a nation with q
firmly established constitutional gov.
ernment and enlarged national obli.
cations, we could no longer abstain
from participation in the affairs of the
world. but must take our share of the
responsibility.
'aThird, that while maintaining the
doctrine that no government on the
American continent must be interfereC
with or controlled by any European
Power. vet we must cultivate friendl,
relations with them and be prepared 4
seek and control our share OF the trade
OF the world.
"Fourth, that we should not and
could not as a nation safely shrinl
from the full performance OF all th'
responsibilities cast upon us. but mus
move forward 10 the fulfllment OF oul
national destiny,
"rhe propositions embraced IN thii
doctrine viii be 10 the twentieth cen
turv what the Monroe doctrine was q
! ne nfneteenth II, as a nation, w
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