The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-13

should be treated only as revolt, and thus keeping off the hands of the pow erful southern viceroys. It was the United States that enforced moderation in the adjustment and brought all the powers to accept a reasonable indemni- ty. At every point the voice of the United States was heard and its influ- ence was potential. We went into China because we had already gone into the Philippines. We were there by right and we were there with force. We went in when the Chinese house was set on fire because we had house next door. The whole movement was a logical development. We had to have world interests before we could become a world power. We had to be world power before we could sit at the worlds council table. We had to sit at the worlds council table before we could become the worlds peacemaker, as we have largely become"
 Mir Smith then pointed out how the United States is now world power in it's broad relations and in the councils with other governments as distin- guished from the position it held before these relations, and then proceeded:
 Consider some of the results already achieved. We know that in the nego- tiations of the powers during and fol- lowing the Chinese outbreak the United States gained the position of the best friend of China. We know that China came to feel under greater obligations to us than to any other nation l be- lieve 1t is within the bounds of truth to say that the attitude and action of the United States prevented the dismem- berment of the ancient empire at that juncture. Some of the great powers of Europe were disposed towards the par triton. But the United States stood as the great obstacle. The United States, with all the prestige of it's new position in the east and In It's new power in the world, and in the masterly diplomacy of Secretary Hay, clearly and firmly declared that the integrity of the Chi nese empire must be maintained, and through its unselfish spirit, it's moral influence and It's lofty representation, it stayed and stopped the threatened division. When the United States stopped that division and insisted on the open door, it kept the growing and incalculable trade of China for the worlds free competition. It saved an equal chance for Americans and an equal chance is all that Americans ask.
 Even the very demand for the open door was made possible only by our new position in the east. The moral position of the United States, strength
 ene1 by it's physical presence and pow CT in the east, brought success where others had failed. I do not know whether the open door can always be kept open-the new power and ambi- tions of Japan have brought new ele- ments into play-but do know that It's opening hinged on our successful de- monstration in the Orient. Thus the saving of China from dismemberment the open door and all our vastly in- creased prestige and influence in the east, with our augmented power of preserving the peace and equipoise of the nations, are the direct fruits of our expansion in the Philippines, and no man can estimate the advantages.
 As to the immediate results in the Philippines, MT. Smith said:
 I've have given the Filiplnos a de gree of personal protection and securi- ty which they have never enjoyed be- fore. We have Rescued them from the pestilent system of administrative cor ruption and exactions which had op- pressed them throughout their history. We have largely destroyed the native brigandage under which they had suf- fered for four hundred years. We are training half a million children in pri- mary and industrial education, and