Arizona republican., 1902-12-03


 mankind. The work should be carried out as continuing policy without regard to change of administration, and 1t should be begun under circum- stances which will make it matter of pride for all administrations to con tinue the policy.
 The canal will be of great benefit to America, and of importance to all the | world It will be of advantage indus trially and also as improving our mili- tary position. It will be of advantage to the countries of tropical America. It is earnestly to be hoped that all of these countries will do as some of them have already done with signal success, and will invite to their shores com merce and improve their material con- ditions by recognizing that stability 1 and order are the prerequisites of sue cessful development. No independent ma tion in America need have the slight est fear of aggression from the United States. It behooves each one to main tain order within it's own borders and to discharge its just obligations to foreigners. When this is done, they ] can rest assured that. be they strong Or weak they have nothing to dread from outside interference. More and InOTe Ine increasing lHlcTQeDtUQcICc and complexity of international politi- cal and economic relations render it incumbent on all civilized and orderly powers to insist on the proper policing of the world.
 THE PACIFIC CABLE.
 During the fall of 1901 a communica- tion was addressed to the secretary of state. asking whether permission would be granted by the president to a cor poration to lay a cable from a point on the California coast to the Philip pine islands by way of Hawaii. A statement of conditions or terms upon which such corporation would under take to lay and operate a cable was volunteered.
 Inasmuch as the congress was shortly to convene, and Pacific cable legisla- ton had been the subject of consider ation by the congress for several years, it seemed to me wise to defer action upon the application until the congress had first an opportunity to act. The congress adjourned without taking any action, leaving the matter in exactly the same condition in which 1t stood when the congress convened.
 Meanwhile it appears that the Com> mercial Pacific Cable company had promptly proceeded with preparations for laying its cable. It also made ap- plication to the president for access to and use of soundings taken by the U. s. s. Nero, for the purpose of dis | covering a practicable route for a trans Pacific cable. the company urging that with access to these sound;ngs it could complete its, cable much sooner | than fo taIr ings upon its own account. Pending consideration of this subject. it ap- peared important and desirable to attach certain conditions to the permis- sion to examine and use the soundings, if it should be granted.
 In consequence of this solicitation of the cable company, certain conditions were formulated. upon which the presi- dent was willing to allow access to these soundings and to consent to the landing and laying of the cable, subject to any alterations or additions thereto imposed by the congress. This was deemed proper, especially as it was clear that a cable connection of some Kind with China, a foreign country, was part of the company's plan. This course was, moreover, in accordance with line of precedents, including President Grants action in the case of the first French cable, explained to the congress in his annual message of December, 1875, and the instance oc- curing in 1879 of the second French cable from Brest to St. Pierre, with a branch to Cape Cod.
 These conditions prescribed, among other things, maximum rate for com mercial messages and that the com pany should construct a line from the Philippine islands to China, there being at present, as is we'll known, a British line from Manila to Hong Kong.
 The representatives of the cable com pany kept these conditions long under consideration, continuing, in the mean time, to prepare for laying the cable. They have. however, at length acceded to them, and an all-American line be- tween our Pacific coast and the Chinese empire. by way of Honolulu and the Philippine islands, is thus provided for, and is expected within a few months to be ready for business.
 Among the conditions is one reserying the power of the congress to modify or repeal any or all of them. A CODY of the conditions is herewith trans mitted.
 POPTO RICO.
 Of Porto Rico it is only necessary to say that the prosperity of the island and the wisdom with which it has been governed have been such as to make it serve as an example of all that is bes, in insular administration.
 THE PHILIPPINES. On July last, on the one hundred and twenty-sixth anniversary of the declaration of our independence, peace and amnesty were promulgated in the Philippine islands. Some trouble has : since from time to time threatened with the Mohammedan Moros, but with the late insurrectionary Filipinos the war has entirely ceased. Civil government has now been introduced. Not only . does each Filipino enjoy such rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happi- ness as he has never before known dur ing the recorded history of the islands but the people taken as whole now enjoy a measure of self government greater than that granted to any other orientals by any foreign power and