The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-10-14
Rio Janeiro. In this case it seems that
trade may follow the battleships.

trade may follow the battleShps.
President Roosevelt Explains Move
ment.
In a statement in Il speech he made
III St Louis. President Roosevelt took
the public into his confidence to de-
gree when he said california. Ore
gon and Washington have coast line
which is our coast line just as emphat-
trally as the coast line of New York and
Maine, of Louisiana and Texas Our
feet is going to its own home waters
i'll the Pacific and after stay there I;
will return to its own home waters
N the Atlantic The best place for th.
naval efiicer to learn his duties is ut
sea by performing them. and only by
rclualy putting through a voyage of
this nature voyage longer than any
rho lefore undertaken by as large a
fleet of any nation, can we find out
fast exactly what is necessary for us to
lsnow IS to our naval needs and prac
,ce our officers and enlisted men In
The highest duties of their profession"
Awakening of the Orient.
all far seeing statesmen as the theater
IF the worlds coming great struggles
FOR military and commercial mastery.
When China awakens. to the degree
that Japan is now awake, events pass
Ing the power of the Imagination to
conceive will take place.
AS to the palliative and beneticeEt
effect this cruise may have on China
and Japan. there can be but one opin-
ion Willie Uncle Sam was little con-
cerned about the rumors to the effect
that Japan was about to descend upon
the Philippines, or possibly to make il
demonstration off our Pacific coast, yet
he did desire, and perhaps Is in 4
position to insist. that the Open Door
policy be maintained in China. Japan
has apparently never been quite recon-
ciled to this policy, and is said to have
worked 10 establish in China the poll
cy of spheres of influence" To this
America, with European nations, siren
uously objected--and does still object.
| This Open Door policy stands as Il
world monument in diplomacy to tee
constructive genius of the Republican
| party. William Howard Taft is in full
| sympathy with this constructive policy.
| Mr.. Taft on his last trip to the
| Orient was given such an enthusiastic
reception at Shanghai, China, as WAS
never before accorded to any visiting
| statesman by officials of the Celestial
Kingdom. On that occasion Mr.. Taft
made speech which. in spite of its
genial tone and cautious phrasing. Was
at once recognized as of the highest
| international Importance Said he:
WE MOULD HAVE THE RIGHT
TO PROTEST. AT BEING ENCLUD-
ED FROM THE TRADE OF CHINA
BY REASON OF OUR INSISTENCE
| UPON THE POLICY OF TIE OPEN
| DOOR. The ncquiescence in this poll
cy of all the nations interested has
| been so unhesit:ting and emphatic that
| it is hardly worth while to speculate
as to how far the United States would
so in the protection of it's Chinese
trade 9 This feeling is likely to
| find expression in the action of the
| American government. The United
| States and the other powers favor the
Open Door and if they are wise they
| will encourage the empire to take long
steps in administrative and govern
mental reform
So we have not far to seek for an
other very powerful reason for this
world cruise of our fleet. Mr.. Taf
simply announced in diplomatic Ian
guage that this cruise is intended Il
say That The open Door policy VIII 3t
maintained at any price. He is il
thorough sympathy with the alert con
structive policy OF the Republican
party He is one of It's chief e&pon
entsi,
This world cruise of the mighty ar
mazda OF siNtecn ships Of the line has
been. ana IS being. conducted wttll :
precision worthy OF the fine traditions
Of American sealu9usFsiB which splll.
the highest lf0ise Every man from
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