The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-08
States would be completely shut out.
FIELD OF COMMERCIAL OPERA
TONS.

StHlSS NOH4A DU SoA1 RACSoA} $500
FIELD OF COMMERCIAL OPERA
TONS.
EVERY one comedies that the ORR
ent is the future great field for the
principal commercial nations OF the
world. We ought to be the leaders,
but we must at least have a share
in the enterprise, and in order to do
so we must maintain the position We
have occupied through force Of cir
cumsfances in that region / am talk
ing now Of the purely commercial
phase of the question, and I think 1t
is plain that We must have CONNER
eial base of operation such as Manila
furnishes. And then, in order to pro-
tect our commerce, we must have a
naval base, and at Subig bay such
a base is now being developed. Con-
gress has recognized our needs IN the
Philippines and has appropriated iber-
ally for terrifying the islands. Modern
guns are being mounted, a large dry
dock has been located in Subig bay,
troops are stationed in the Island of
Luzon, and in every way Congress has
shown its desire TO protect the islands
from foreign aggression and also to
establish base for possible military
operations.
1t has been frequently said that
the United States has assumed respon-
sibilities in the Philippines which it
can not pass over to other hands. I
do not care TO discuss this phase of
the situation, except to say that be-
lieve the American people viii never
shrink from such responsibilities as
were assumed for them when the Unit
ed States took over the Philippines.
DID NOT PAY MONEY FOR PHILIP
PINES.
81 was very glad to see that Maj.
Mcintyre recently exploded the popu-
lar idea that the United States paid
twenty millions to Spain for the is
lands. He made il clear that when the
treaty of Paris was signed the Span
ish commissioners agreed TO settle all
their numerous claims for the sum
mentioned and to throw in the Philip
pines, and showed that by accepting
this offer the United States avoided
the necessity Of taking over the Cuban
and Porto Rican debt.
But the commercial side Of the |
matter. in which farmers, our manu-
faeturers and all our people are con-
cerned, is to my mind of greater i'm
portanee; and [ want to emphasize my
belief that the United States as
world power viii always have COM
mercial and diplomatic interests in the
far east, and can not maintain itself
properly without a base of operations.
The United States can not withdraw
from its present enterprise in the east,
but must go forward seeking its share
# the advantages and sustaining its
share of the esponsibilities.
We can not afford to turn over
% the other nations Of the world al
he vast commerce OF the east, and
-estriet ourselves to our own Pacific
cast. The annexation of Hawaii was
n pursuance of a policy of CONNER
:ial expansion and protection in the
Pacific which the statesmen of few
ears ago foresav as both inevitable
md advisable for the United States
Re are fortunate that what was ac-
lnired through their wisdom has been
in legitimate and hon. ]
rable way, by the eession of the
philippines to our country, and we
hould never let go the immense COM
lereial advantages we have thas Sc !
ured. !
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