The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-27
THE FUTURE OF THE PACIFIC.

President Roosevelt's speech at Wat
souviIIe. Cal. in which he limited at
future American supremacy in the Pa
ciic, has aroused the foreign press.
The Paris Temps, organ of the French
foreign ministry, discusses the subject
as follows:
THE German press shows that il is
passabIy moved by the language which
President Roosevelt recently made use
OF regarding the Pacific Ocean.
The chief magistrate of the great re-
public Of the New World thought it his |
duty to affirm that the vast body of
water upon whose shores he found him
self was destined to fall under the
dominion OF the United States. To this
grandiose assertion he added an ex-
hortation to the American people,
whom he implored to rise to the height
OF their destiny and whom he reminded q
that a nation renders Itself worthy and
capable Of greatness only by continuous
effort and by unceasing labor. Such is
the speech which has disturbed the ;,
calm OF the augurs on the banks of -
the Spree. +. American slang, :;
that picturesque jargon which fears
neither familiarity OF utterance nor
vuIgarity Of expression. has a special =.
phrase with which to characterize such
grandiloquence: It's a large order /,
something equivalent to our own Ex- =
cuse the trihe.' And If the civilized -,
still remembers the protests :,
evoked by the unfortunate EXPRESSIVE ,c c,
cf a too ambitious statesman who spoke 40
OF making the Mediterranean French -
lake. II is beyond dispute. and all the
evidence indicates, that the infinitely :.
more exorbitant pretensi0n Of making
The Pacific Ocean a Yankee lake VIII ,
arouse opposition elsewhere than in -,
perrin. Australia, that vigorous COM
which has grown up under Ia,
the protection of the British crown, and ";
which remains, beneath the far-away m.
sovereignty OF the king. loyal and IN.
patriotic member OF the British empire, M
australia VIII certainly nave worn ~ hil
say on this subject. and 1t is doubtful g.;
Z she will resign herself easily to rec ~,
,xnfzing American supremacy over
hose vast seas and to permitting the 7
Government to substitute No,
throughout these regions for the proud .
Rule Britannia an impertinent Rule 70
columbia On the other hand. the pow lac
rs which have a boundary on the Pa +be
life Ocean are numerous. There is, in 80
edition to England. France, Germany, ne,
Russia, Holland, and it is not likely ers
hat great states. after having made Az
uch great sacrifices for centuries either Hi
o acquire colonies or to extend their
influence and commerce throughout T
hese remote ATTITUDES. will bow at once pa.
,efore the pretensions of the United wb
,tates and give way to this new and t,y.
attest conner this
The Pacinc ocean VIII proOdOiS "o' Pc
be controlled by any one power any nm,
more than the Atlantic is, but natural
81 the country having the largest in 7
.erests on the borders of. the great mo
yea and the most tonnage afioat on -,
It's waters, will, If possessed of the ,ad
argest Navy, have the most to say
bout its concerns. The contest for
,rimacy lies between Great Britain,
Russia, Japan and the United States, ->''
,ut 1t is much too early to say which
viii win.
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