The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-20
FOREIGN POLICY
 OF UNITED STATES
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mountains of the moon. We are griev-
 ed and distressed when there are diff 1 ferences among them, but even then we
 should never think of trying to com
 pose any of those differences unless by
 the request of both parties to it. Not
 even our earnest desire for peace among
 them will lead us to any action whicE
 might offend their national dignity or
 their Just sense of independence. We
 owe them all the consideration which
 we claim for ourselves, To critics in
 various climates who have other views | of our purposes we can only wish fuller information and more quiet consciences
 AS to what we have tried to do-- what we are still trying to do--in the general field of diplomacy, there is no reason for doubt on the one hand or reticence on the other. President Me
 Kinley in his messages during the last
 four years, has made the subject per
 fectly clear. We have striven, on the
 lines laid down by Washington, to cul-
 tivate friendly relations with all pow
 CTS, but not to take part in the forma-
 ton of groups or combinations among
 them A position of complete indepen-
 dence is not incompatible with relations
 involving. not friendship alone, but con-
 current action as well, in important
 emergencies.
 we have kept always in view the
 fact that we are pre- eminently peace
 loving people; that our normal activi-
 ties are in the direction of trade and
 commerce; that the vast development
 of our industries imperatively demands that we shall not only retain and con-
 firm our hold on our present markets,
 but seek constantly, by all honorable means, to extend our commercial in- terests in every practical direction It is for this reason we have negotiated the treaties of reciprocity which now await the action of the senate; all of them conceived in the traditional Amer ican spirit of protection to our own in- dustries, and yet mutually advantageous to ourselves and our neighbors. In the same spirit we have sought suc- cessfully, to induce all the great pow CTS to unite in a recognition of the gen. eral principle of equality of commercial access and opportunity in the markets of the Orient. We believe that 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 gen. uine, as I certainly do, that equality will not be denied us and the result may be safely left to American genius and energy.
 We consider our interests in the Pacific ocean as great now as those of any other power and destined to indefi- nite development. We have opened our doors to the people of Hawaii; we have accepted the responsibility of the Philippines which Providence imposed upon us; we have put an end to the condiminum in which we were involved in Samoa and while abandoning none of our commercial rights in the entire group, we have es- tablished our flag and our authority in Tutuila, which gives us the finest har- Dor in the South seas. Next in order will come a Pacific cable, and an isth- milan canal for the use of all well dis posed peoples, but under exclusive American ownership and American control-of both of which great enter prises President Mckinley and Presi- dent Roosevelt have been the energetic and consistent champions.
 Sure as we are of our rights in these convinced as we are of the au- thenticity of the vision which has led us thus far and still beckons us for ward, can yet assure you that so long as the administration of your affairs remains in hands as strong and skillful as those to which they have been and are now confined, 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 immortal predecessor, is as incapa- be of bullying strong power as he is of wronging weak one. He feels and knows-for has he not tested 1t in cur rents of the heady fight, as well as in the toilsome work of administra tion?- that the nation over whose destinies he presides has a giants strength in the work of war as in the works of peace But that consciousness of strength | brings with it no temptation to do in- jury to any power of earth, the proud | est or the humblest. We frankly con-