Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-12-05

portation, mining. banking, currency,
homestends and the use and ownership of
the lnnds and timber. These laws will give
free play to Industrial enterprise, and the
commercial development which will surely
follow will afford TO the people of the
islands the best proofs of the sincerity of
our desire to aid them
/ call your attention most earnestly to
the crying need Of q cable to Hawaii and
the Philippines. to be continued from the
Philippines to points in Asia. We should
not defer day longer than necessary the
construction Of such a cable. It is de-
nanded not merely for commercial but
for political and military considerations
Either the congress should Immediately
provide for the construction of govern
ment cable or else an arrangement should
be made by which like advantages to
those accruing from a government cable
may be secured to the government by
contract with private cable company.
The Isthmiun Canal.
No single great material work which re-
mains 10 he Nndo"t'ken on this continent
people as the building OF canal across
the tsthmus connecting North and South
America. Its Importance to the nation is
by no means limited merely to its mate
rial effects upon our business prosperity,
and yet with d view to these effects alone 1t
would be to the last degree important for
us Immediately to begin 1t. While it's BEN
eficial effects would perhaps be most
marked upon the Pacific coast and the
gulf and south Atlantic states, It would
also greatly benefit other sections. 1t is
emphatically work which 1t Is for the
interest OF the entire country to begin and
complete as soon as possible; 1t is one OF
those great works which only great ma
tion can undertake with prospects Of sue
cess and which when done are not only
Ftnl
interests. but standing monuments to its
constructive ability.
am glad to be able to announce to you
that our negotiations on this subject with
Great Britain, conducted on both sides In
spirit of friendliness and mutual good
will and respect have resulted in my
being able to lay before the senate
treaty which II ratified will enable us to
begin preparations for an lsthmian canal
at any time and which guarantees to this
nation every right that 1t has ever asked
in connection with the canal. In this
treaty the old Clayton Bulwer treaty, SO
long recognized as inadequate TO supply
the base for the construction and mainte-
nance of necessarily American ship ca
nal is abrogated. 1t specifically provides
that the United States alone shall do the
work OF building and assume the respon-
sibility Of safeguarding the canal and
shall regulate its neutral use by all ma
guarantee or interference of any outside
nation from any quarter. The signed
treaty will ut once be laid before the sem
| ate and IL approved the congress can then
proceed TO give effect to the advantages 1t
secures US by providing for the building of
| tho canal.
The true end of every great and free
| people should be self respecting peace.
| and this nation most earnestly desires
| sincere and cordial friendship with all
| others. Over the entire world of recent
years wars between the great civilized
| powers have become less and less fire.
| quent Wars with barbarous or semibar-
| barous peoples come in an entirely differ
| emit category, being merely most regret
| table but necessary international police
| duty which must be performed for the
| sake of the welfare of mankind. Peace
| can only be kept with certainty where
both sides wish to keep 1t, but more and
/ moro the civilized peoples are realizing
| the wicked folly of war and are attaining
| that condition of just and intelligent re-
| gard for the rights Of others which will in
| the end, as we hope and believe, make
worldwide peace possible. The peace con-
ference at The Hague gave definite ex-
preston to this hope and belief and mark
ed a stride toward their attainment.
The Monroe Doctrine.
This same peace conference acquiesced
as compatible with the purposes and aims
of the conference.
The Monroe doctrine should be the car
dinal feature of the foreign policy of all
the nations OF the two Americas as 1t is OF
the United States. Just seventy-eight
| years have passed since President Mon
roe In his annual message announced that
1.-THE American continents are henceforth
not to be considered as subjects for future
colonization by any European power. In
other words the Monroe doctrine is a dec
laration that there must be no territorial
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT by any non-American
power at the expense of any American
mower on American soil. 1t is in nowise
| intended as hostile to any nation in the
old world. Still less Is 1t intended to give
cover to any aggression by one new world
power at the expense of any other 1t is
simply step, and a long step, toward as,
surfing the universal peace of the world by
securing the possibility of permanent
. peace OH this hemisphere.
During the past century other influences
have established the permanence and in
dependence OF the smaller states of Eu-
| rope Through the Monroe doctrine we
hope to be able to safeguard like indie
pendence and secure like permanence fol
| the lesser among the new world nations.
This doctrine has nothing to do with the
commercial relations OF any American
power save that 1t in truth allows each Of
|
words. II Is really a guarantee of the com
mercial independence of the Americas
We do not ask under this doctrine for anS
exclusive commercial dealings with any
other American state. We do not guaran-
tee any state against punishment IL Il
mlsconducts itself provided that punish
ment does not take the form Of the acqui
sltion OF territory by any non-Americar
power. va
antee of Our own good faith. We hav'
not the slightest desire to secure any ter
ritory at the expense of any of our neigh
boris We wish to work with them hant
in hand, SO that all of us may be upliftet
together, and we rejoice over the goot
fortune of any of them, we gladly hal
their material prosperity and political sta
billy and are concerned and alarmed 4
any of them fall into industrial or polltica
chaos. We do not wish to see any OLD
! world military power grow UP on thi
continent or to be compelled to become {
military power ourselves. The peoples o
the Americas can prosper best IL left t.
work out their own salvation in their owl
way.
The Navy.
The work OF upbuldlng the navy mus
be steadily continued. No one point o
our policy, foreign or domestic, is NOR
important than this to the honor and ma
terial welfare and, above all. TO the peac
Oh uuf iitttlult III tHe lulute' hhchhSi '"
desire 1t or not we must hepceforth recog
nize that we have international duties nj
less than international rights. Even
our flag were hauled down in the Philip
pines and Porto Rico, even If we decide'
not to build the isthmian canal, we shoul
need a thoroughly trained navy OF ade
quate size or else be prepared defnitel
and for all time to abandon the idea tina
our nation is among those whose sons 6
down to the sea In ships. Unless our com
MERGE is always to be carried in foreig