Bisbee daily review., 1904-07-08

lislands coincided with the important
 interests we have to guard in the
 Pacific. In the Samoan treaty we freed ourselves from a useless and
 dangerous entanglement, and in place
 of an undesirable condominium we
 gained possession of the best
 harbor in the South Seas, retaining, at
 the same time, our commercial rights l in the archipelago. The diplomacy
 of Mckinley and Roosevelt has been
 directed principally 10 our present and
 future interests in the Pacific, on
 whose wide shores so much of the
 worlds work is to be done. They are
 constantly keeping in view the vast importance of that opening field of our activities. Thi long negotiations
 for the open door" in China; the
 steadfast fight We made for the in-
 tegrity. of that ancient Empire; Pres
 ident McKinley's attitude throughout
 the Boxer troubles, so severely criti-
 cized at the time and so splendidly ap-
 proved by the result; the position 1 President Roosevelt has since held | and now holds in regard to the
 neutrality of China in the present war have all been dictated by one con isistent policy, of taking care that our
 interests received no dertiment in the Pacific. that while We wish no harm ] to anyone else We shall see that no
 damage is done to our people, no door 1 is shut in our face.
 The negotiations begun by Mckinney and successfully completed by Roose- velt for the abrogation of the Clay. n Ifrl fry IDI freedom Of action in building
 I Istnmian canal was a part of the same general plan of opening a field of en-
 terprise in those distant regions where
 the Far West becomes the Far East. ! In this matter we were met in the
 most frank and friendly spirit by the
 British Government, as also in the
 rastter of the Alaskan boundary
 which was setted for all time by a joint high judicial tribunal removing
 a cloud upon our title to another
 great Pacific possession. And to close
 this record of success-monotonous
 because gained by appeals to reason
 rather than force, without parade or
 melodrama-came the treaty with
 Panama. by which We finally gained i the pathway across the Isthmus by a perpetual grant. ensuring the con ] lstruction of an American canal under
 American control, built primarily for American needs. but open on equal terms 10 all the people of good will the world over
 All the foreign policy of Mckinley
 and Roosevelt has been marked with the stamp of honesty and fair dealing.
 confessedly in American interests. but treating our friends with equity and consideration. They have made more treaties than any two preceding Pres lioents; and the conclusion of the
 whole matter is that We stand today in independent though amicable relations
 to all the res. of the world-without
 an ally and without an enemy.
 II the Government for the last seven years had done nothing else il would have entitled itself 10 an honorable place in history by the manner in
 which 1t has handled the questions Of the islands whose destiny has been so interwoven with our own.
 Thd Wsr with Spain was caIried through with incredible swiftness and energy. without shadow of corrup- ltion without a moral or technical fault. A hundred days sufhced for the fighting Diplomacy then did it's
 work. and our commissioners brought home treaty so just and so bene- ficial that il was impossible 10 unite the opposition against it. Then came
 the far more difficult and delicate task of administration. You remember
 the doleful prophecies of evil with
 which the air was filled: that We had
 not the habit nor the ability to govern outlying possessions: that the islands
 would be cesspools of jobbery and 1 fraud: that the enterprise was con- ce.ved n violence and would go Gown | in disaster And now you know the result. The Republic never is in de- fault Of men 10 serve it worthily