The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-23

needed; the integrity Of the Chinese
empire was preserved. We opened, and
we hold open, the door through which
the commerce of the world is to pass
into China on equal terms. Study the
whole history of recent affairs in China
and you will find the triumph of our
just diplomacy as you will find the
greatest triumph of modern times of
our arms
About the same time England had an
unfortunate war in South Africa which
greatly taxed her resources and en-
cOuragcd her rivals to believe that by
interference they could humilate Eng
land. They learned very soon that the
United States would not take part in
such interference, and Calanities which
no man may measure were aVerted
Who cannot see that if we had earlier
attained this position of influence in the
worlds affairs that the terrible Chris
tian massacres in Armenia might have
been averted or minimized. If we had
been in the position then that we are
now, the powers acting in concert
would have surely listened to our ad-
vice and Turkey would not have been
permitted to burn and pillage and kill
Armenian Christians. When the power
did come to lis, you will all remember
how Turkey was compelled to make in
demnity for the destruction Of an
American college in Armenia, the first
time in her history I think when Tur-
key had been compelled to answer for
its wrongful acts.
Away in Central Europe there is
state which has so prosecuted and OPP
pressed and despOiled it's people on ac-
count of their religion that they were
fleeing to this land as a refuge in great
numbers, people who had been so
down -trodden and degraded that we
felt that such immigration was men
ace to our American citizenship. A
note Of protest to the powers against
the treatment Of the Jews by Roumania
was not only received with favor, but
has already borne good fruit.
Very recently the allied fleets Of
Great Britain and Germany appeared
in Venezuelan waters to collect by
force indemnities for alleged wrongs,
and to secure the payment of contrac-
tual obligations on the part of the Ven
ezue!an government. A condition which
threatened not only the integrity OF
Venezuela, but the peace of the United
States, has been most happily COM
posed at the suggestion of the United
States by reference of the matters in
volved to the international tribunal at
the Hague, a tribunal created upon our
request, and which | do not hesitate to
say would never have been established
except for the insistence of our mar
tyred president William Mckinley.
In all these recent international de-
velOpmentS, the United States has eXer-
cised an influence for good an influence
looking to the peace and harmony and
the advancement Of mankind which
would have been impossible a short de-
cade
Whether we approve of the Spanish
war or are sorry for it, it's results have
clothed us with power to largely direct
the affairs of the world. Never before
| in our history, or in the history of the
world, was a war Waged and concluded
with results so advantageous to man
| kind, and in my humble judgment its
|; remote consequences are to be of meal
culabe benefit to all nations. We
should accept the power which has
come to us with humility and not with
bOasting Now that this nation of
eighty millions of people, the greatest
and strongest in the world, has been
clothed with power as the worlds UNI
pire. we must see to 1t that that power
is exercised unselfishly, humanely, dis
creetly and beneficially. I have faith
to believe that it will be so exercised
1t is great thing to be a world power,
and for greater to use our power IN the
world for the good Of mankind. The