The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-22
III UNITED STATES ONE OF THE
WORLDS POWERS.

tions of the Old World since she took
her place among leading powers. We
were a back number as far as interna-
entered into and SO soon wound up
tie little affair with Spain and then
took our proper position among the
allied powers of Europe in suppress
Ing the anti-foreign uprising in China.
Slice then the European powers have
seen fit to pay more respect to our
opinions and desires. 1t was mainly
through American Intervention that
the affairs of China were settled so
soon after the capture of Pekin by the
allied forces.
HI latest exercise of American in
n1ence in the far east is shown by the
readiness with which the other powers
have acceded to our request that the
Chinese city of Tien-Tsin be evacuated
by the foreign troops the city
turned over to the control of the ma
tives. The representations of this gov
eminent have been met in a most
frie idly spirit and promptly approved,
and the result is that the city of Tien-
ence of foreign troops.
Our government has from the first
stood for maintaining the integrity of
the Chinese empire and against any
European power being allowed to gain
any advantage, territorial or CONNER
lie $685. ~+Lo- o,l - zIz.--
willingness to claim no Advantage in a
commercial or any other way over the
other powers interested in Chinese af-
fairs, but at h same time has shown
a determination to insist upon her
rights. This firm position of our gov
ernE-=nt has had most wholesome eff
feet pon the powers of Europe who
were ready and only awaiting an OPP
p%ortunity to pOunce upon the Chinese
territory and portion it out as best suit
ed their interests. They have been laugh
a lesson by the heretofore condemned
American republic and have learned
that il IS better to take her advice and
and respect her counsels in matters of
which. if she had had any thing to say
ten years ago they would have told her
it was none of her business.
al this is changed now, and when
u secretary of state advises the allied
powers that in the opinion of our gov
eminent this Chinese city of Tien-Tsin
should be evacuated by the foreign
troops they acquiesce and take steps for
the evacuation DIT an early date.
The truth is the bold and determined
of u government on the
Philippine question has placed it in
possession of the key to the far east,
and she holds the w~hiphandle on the
other powers and they recognize this
fact. Russia, with her trans-con-
tnental railroads and England and
france in pushing their northeastern
boundaries into the Chinese territory
from India and Siam can not gain a
with the United States in her occupa-
ton of the Philippines in securing con-
troll of the rapidly increasing foreign
trade OF the Chinese empire.
When the. United States went into
the Spanish war she laid aside the old
life of the isolated American republic,
hedged off from the balance of the
world by strict construction of the
Monroe doctrine and her high tariff
laws, and became one of the integral
parts of the worlds community of ma
lions and to maintain hat position
IL 4-@l,- e. Io-. -~
spect from the balance of the world
she will be forced to make many
changes in her former rules of inter-
course with other nations. Already
leading republicans recognize the fact
tina the Dingley tariff bill has become
IN anticipated principle of government
and h it must be madernized to suit
the changed conditions, either by re-
ciprocity treaties with many of the ma
lions or by a general revision of the
present tariff laws. The Monroe doc
trine, which we have so strenuously
upheld for nearly a century, defying
France on n occasion and England on
another to dispute it, will, by reason of
u becoming an important power in
the eastern Pacific ano there demand
ing the open door for all nations.
coupled with our building or an 18TH
milan canal between the two oceans,
nave to be modified-trimmed down
considerably, or else We will find every
government in Europe, Japan and the
chief South American state allied
against us.
When Admiral Dewey. after obeying
the orders of President Mckinley to
destroy the Spanish fleet in Manila
bay, remained with his fleet in that
harbor instead OF sailing away and
leaving the Spanish and the Filipinos
to fight it out, ne changed the charac-
ter of the American republic and put
beyond her power for all time to come
the following of Washington's advice
as to never engaging in e~ntangling for
eign alliances. We are one of the ru1-
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