New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-06

prophesying war but nothing untoward fol-
lowed. The Car or his Minister Of State. read
the full text of the petition, and politely as
suTed the American Ambassador that the orig
inal could not be received. With inexpressible
glee the President explained to his Jewish callers
that their petition had been read by the Rus
sian authorities. and. more, by all the world.
The end had been accomplished, despite the
fact that the original rested in the State De-
partment q Washington. and Europe stood
amazed the introduction of Yankee ingenu-
ity' into the most austere and conservative OF
European courts.
CHIN4,S ADMINISTRATIVE ENTITY.
Even the most cursory sketch of the foreign
policy Of President RooseveIt's first admins
tration would be Incomplete without some ref
erenCe to that vastly important influence which
the United States has come to exert in the great
field Of Eastern politics The assertion of its
rights by this country as a world power and
the inststence on its right to be heard on every
proposed solution of the Eastern problem date
probably from that memorable July 3, 1900,
when Secretary~Hay addressed to the European
powers and to Japan the now famous 'identi-
cal note wherein information of intention
to restore order in Picking and rescue the threat
| ened diplomatic representatives of the several
nations was accompanied by a declaration OF
| the purpose of this country to preserve Chi
nese territorial and administrative entity and
safeguard for the world the principle of equal
and impartial trade with all parts of the Chi
| nese Empire" Through the passing of Presl-
dent Mckinley. however, the responsibility of
carrying this policy to a successful issue de-
| volved on Theodore Roosevelt and the
success which has attended his efforts TO
carry out the policy of his predecessor is the
| marvel of the civilized world. When the at
tack on the legations at Picking and the marcA
of the allied forces to the Monaghan capital
had passed into history the United States stood
as perhaps the sole protector of Chinese entity
and it's stanch insistence on the principle pre-
>fouslv enunCiated prevented. in the estimation
of students of international conditions, the par
tition Of China.
Hut even more troublous times We're to come,
times which would tax the diplomacy OF Iheo-
dore Roosevelt and his exceptionally able Secre-
tarv of State to the utmost but which were not
70 find them wanting. On February 10 1904 the
Russo-Japanese War. war conducted largely
for supremacy in Chinese territory, had become
an accomplished fact, and European powers
greedy for territorial expansion, looked on upon
the conflict eager for the time to come for them
70 assert their claims to various portions OF the
Chinese Empire But on that day the voice
Of America was once more heard in clarion
tones declaring the imperative necessity OF pro-
,actino the administrative entity Of China
and deIiuiting the sphere Of hostilities. Foreign
5inIonlats were brought TO a realization OF the
fact that China's future was a question Whlch
no longer concerned themselves alone. Graduai-
" as in all great movements, the powers as
simulated this fact, and one by one they nave
-. n recognize and acknowledge the justice
% Americas position, until to-day every Euro
pean power stands pledged TO observe the prln-
cirla peraistently pressed upon them by 1heo'
dore Roosevelt and Secretary Hay; ana what
ever NAV be or whenever may come the emu o.
H. terrible conflict which has drenched ii
blood the fields of Corea and strewn the plains
and hills Of Manchuria with dead. the beneh-
cent result 10 the whole world is assured. The
ft,i,es. E,,nDire viii not be dsmembered. Eu-
rorean greed has been muzzled by the infant Re
rrbIic of the Western Hemisphere, and to Theo
dor. Roosevelt the man who has sometimes
been proclaimed a war lord. belongs the credl
OF solving IN advance a problem which mish
otherwise have involved all Europe and hal
the other nations OF the world in the bloodies
war of ages.
Nor IL this solution OF the Eastern question
without it's commercial advantages, not alone t
this country but TO all the world. Not selfish
ness. but broad principles OF justice and humanl
tarianism have dictated the policy Of the Roose
Welt administration In the East, and now tn
"open door in China" has, in the estimation o
one of the leading American statesmen com
10 be as definitely established and as widel
recognized as the Monroe Doctrine in the West
ern Hemisphere.
GOOD FRIENDS NTH GERMANY
one more triumph of President Roosevelt
policy must here be chronicled. although II wa
achieved without ostentation. in fact haFdt