The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-03
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Los AffEeles.
out having fired q shot III anger, With
dangerous than saltites and dinner par
tics. the fleet. under the command Of
Rear -Adtniral Evans came to the ports
Of the Pacific Coast states to receive
q welcome more enthusiastic In spirit
fleet received before. If 1t had re-
turned .inscatlied from q victorious sea
have swciled tho volume OF cheers that hat
greeted It. Tho cities from San Diego
to Seattle could not have Increased the
e sow 81 6'ntnf tie yrads e floW
peaceful cruise create such wonderful
Interest? "
IT. was because the people OF tho
Pacific slope lad feared the coming
the Rlsing Sun: T fs fact fe tf iaas ff he
great fleet had come from the waters
f o. ii the Mtlan,ie .c The Pacific seq
Ing condition than when 1t set out.
seemed to these people TO be n gunraii.
tee of peace and protection. With every
chcer there was Il deep breath or relief.
Why tic Pacifie coast feared ca "pd the as.
erosion Of an Asiatic power, the peo-
re ,,a, who i've to the west OF the Great
looked upon as foreign waters.'' =.
But the influence of the cruise of
w, great. fleet does not end with Its
f ~ pe Of fears 9f attask J. has given
q sense OF sharing In the destinies OF
he future OF this great nation which
they did not possess. IT has been well
coined as the first act of the long.
Of the United States In the Pacific
Ocean. It's looked upon az an earnest
for the future that the Pacific
fleet of the american Navy will be
the Atlantic fleet. that the Pacific
coast will be considered as much a part
81 eaa The the United ted States as the Atlantic
think these Western patriots. viii more NOR,
than overcome the Influence OF East
ern statesmen and editors who seem
70 look upon San Francisco Bay as q
foreign port.
The half million dollars spent by
NE people OF the Pacific cities in en-
tertaintns the officers and men of the
fleet, the ts 100000 spent by tho peo-
port cities to Join IN the welcome. the
many thousands OF dollars spent in pri-
p prince,y entte er,,,,1n aggrsgate
cents Cannot neasre su Tho dollars and
or good accomplished by the cruise OF
the fleet In allaying the apprehensons
or the people OF the Golden West
no ~ ,ha me more than month from
other side OF the Pacific. It It viii wi he be
sye with even greater cnthu.
siasm by the people OF Hawaii and the
uon 1t guarantees. Honolulu already
looks forward TO its coming as the
greatest event since annexation Of the
Islands naa to the United states. 1t is
IN II.s, H..
aence that at last the United States
has come to a realization of the i'm
portance Of the Pacific. and that
Hawaii is the key 10 the Supremacy
=. Eut the full measure of the active
influence OF the cruise OF the fleet
VII WI s. be noted In the foreign ports at
influence reached those ports long
ago. months In advance Of the coming
9 9d,. ths :, ships, It will remain, potent
echoes of the saiuting guns have died
from the cars of man.
In Japan the fleet probably will re-
Geiye a welcome which Will equal, II
receptions OF the whole cruise The
polished and cosmopollte dipiomatists,
ministers and military officers OF the
empire e VIII employ every art OF a
tesy 70 make the stay OF the Amer
lean seamen pleasant. And. what is
H!DIe important, the Japanese foreign
ONCE VIII carefully abstain from writ
ing any notes to the American gov.
eminent In the arrogant tone which
was employed in discussing the SAN
FRANCISCO incident. The Influence Of
the fleet has already manifested IT.
self in diplomatic communications OF
inc Mikado's ministry. Its full force
VIII be felt later on.
N emma the influence of the fleet
VI VII be wholly different. Already the
Chlnese look upon the coming fleet
as az. physical guarantee of that ter
rltorial integrity which John Hay pre-
served eight years ago. Then China
feared European nations whose mutual
jealousy prevented war McKinley's
Secretary Of State saved China by
diplomacy. Now China fears the in
sidious encroachments of Japan. The
Chinese believe that the demonstration
OF force made by the presence OF the
american fleet will operate to deter
ia pan from carrying out Its designs. The
Chinese newspaper press. which has
come INTO existence since the RoXer
trouble OF 1900 has told the people a1i
over the empire that the American En-.
peror has sent his great fleet to pro-
tect China from the Alikado Americans
ut nome may smile at this childlike
faith IN Chinese-American alliance, but
the Chinese take comfort in it, FUR
speech. He was the youngest prest-
nt1aI candidate ever nom n l,,,