The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-04

surely follow will afford to the people
of the islands the best proofs of the
sincerity of our desire to aid them.
A Pacific Cable Needed.
l call your attention most earnestly
to the crying need of a cable to Ha-
wall and the Philippines, to be contin-
ued from the Philippines to points in
Asia We should not defer a day long
er than necessary the construction OF
such cable. 1t is demanded not mere
ly for commercial but for political and
military considerations.
Either the Congress should immedi-
ately provide for the construction of a
government cable, or else an arrange
ment should be made by which like ad-
Vantages to those accruing from gov
eminent cable may be secured to the
government by contract with a private
cable company.
The Isthmian Canal.
No single great material work which
remains to be undertaken on this con-
tinent is of such consequence to the
American people as the building of a
canal across the Isthmus connecting
North and South America. It's Importance
to the nation is by no means limited
merely to it's material effects upon our
business prosperity; and yet with view
to these effects alone it would be TO
the last degree important for us inn
mediately to begin it, While its bene-
fetal effects would perhaps be most
marked upon the Pacific coast and the
Gulf and South Atlantic states, 1t
would also greatly benefit other sec
lions. 1t is emphatically work which
it is for the interest of the entire
country to begin and complete as soon
as possible; it is one Of those great
works which only great nation can
undertake with prospects of success,
and which when done are not only
permanent assets in the nations mate
rial interests, but standing monuments
to its constructive ability.
am glad to be able to announce to
you that our negotiations on this sub
iect with Great Britain, conducted on
both sides in a spirit of friendliness
and mutual good will and respect,
have resulted in my being able to lay
before the Senate a treaty which II
ratified will enable us to begin prep1-
rations for an isthmian canal at any
time, and which guarantees to this ma
ton every right that it has ever ask
ed in connection with the canal. In
this treaty, the old Clayton Bulwer
treaty, so long recognized as made
uuate to supply the base for the con-
struction and maintenance of a neces-
arily American ship canal, is abroSat-
ed 1t specifically provides that the
United States alone shall do the work
of building and assume the RESPONSE
bility of safeguarding the canal ana
shall regulate it's neutral use by all ma
tions on terms of equality without the
guaranty or interference of any out
side nation from any quarter The
signed treaty will at once be laid be
fore the Senate, and if approved the
Congress can then proceed to give Ell
feet to the advantages 1t secures US
by providing for the building of the
canal.
The true end of every great and
free people should be sell-re-
speeding peace; and this nation
most earnestly desires sincere ana
cordial friendship with all others.
over the entire world, of recent years,
wars between the great civilized Pow
| ers have become less and less frequent.
Wars with barbarous or semi barbar-
GUS peoples come in an entirely differ
! ent category, being merely a
most regrettable 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 more the civilized peoples are re-
alizing the wicked folly of war and
are attaining that condition of just
and intelligent regard for the rights
of others which will in the end, as
we hope and believe, make world wide
/ peace possible. The peace conference
| at The Hague gave definite expression
! to this hope and belief and marked
| a stride toward their attainment.
| This same peace conference &C
| ouiesced in our statement of the Mon
roe Doctrine as compatible with the
/ purpose and aims of the conference.
The Monroe Doctrine should be the
! cardinal feature of the foreign policy
of all the nations of the two Americas,
as it is of the United States. Just
seventy eight years have passed since
| President Monroe in his annual mes
sage announced that The American
continents are henceforth not to be
! considered as subjects for future col
onzation by any European Power" In
other words, the Monroe Doctrine is
a declara ton that there must be no
territorial aggrandiZement by any nom
American Power at the expense of any
American Power on American soil. 1t
is in no wise intended as hostile to any
nation in the Old World. Still less is
it intended to give cover to any ag-
erosion by one New World Power
at the expense of any other. 1t is sim
ply a step, and a long step, toward
assuring the universal peace of the
world by securing the possibility of
permanent peace on this hemisphere.
During the past century other influ
ences have established the permanence
and independence of the smaller states
of Europe Through the Monroe Doc
trine we hope to be able to safeguard
like independence and secure like per-
manence for the lesser among the New
World nations.
This doctrine has nothing to do with
the commercial relations of any Ameri
can power save that it in truth al
lows each of them to form such as it
desires. In other words, 1t is really
a guaranty of the commercial indie
pendence OF the Americas. We do not
ask under this doctrine for any exclu-
live commercial dealings with any
other American state. We do not
guarantee any state against pun
vided that punishment does not take
the form of the acquisition of territory
by any nom American power.
Our attitude in Cuba is a sufficient
guaranty of our own good faith We
have not the slightest desire to secure
any territory at the expense OF any of
our neghbors We wish to work with
them hand in hand, so that all of us
may be uplifted together, and we re-
joice over the good fortune of any of
them, we gladly hail their material
prosperity and political stability and
are concerned and alarmed II any of
them fall into industrial or political
chaos. We do not wish to see any Old