The San Francisco call., 1908-12-09

ed to include ash New federal FISH
hatcherfes should be established. The
administration of the Alaskan fur seal
service should be vested In the bureau
of fisheries.
This nations foreign policy is based
on the theory that right must be done
y-... ~..,. precisely as be-
treat Nations tween individuals.
% ss i,s1x,ana1. H ame and in our actions
-.-------------;. years we have In
this matter proven our faith by our
deeds. We have behaved. and are be-
having, toward other nations, as in pri-
vate life an honorable man would be-
have toward his fellows.
The commercial and material prog
ress or the 20 Latin American republics
the congress No other section of the
world has shown a greater proportion
ate development of it's foreign trade
during the last ten years and none
other has more special claims on the
interest OF the United States. IL offers
today probably larger opportunities for
the leSlJimate expansion of our COM
meIce tDan any other group or cOun-
tries. These countries will want our
products in greatly increased quanti-
tes and we shall correspondinSly need
theirs The International bureau of the
American republics is doing a useful
work in making these nations and their
resources better known to US, and IN
acqua1nting them not only with US as q
people and with our purposes toward
them, but with what we have to ex-
change for their goods. 1t Is an inter
the governments OF the two Americas.
The work on the Panama canal is
being done with speed. efficiency and
f. entire devotion 10
Panama Canal IL q model for an
% mousi ISr Al work of the kind
WORK OF Kind No task Of such
ever before been undertaken by any ma
ton; and no task of the kind has ever
been better performed. The men on
the istnmus, from Colonel Goethals aad
his fellow commissioners through the
entire list of employees who are faith
fully doing their duty, have won their
right to the ungrudging respect and
gratitude of the American people.
/ again recommend the extension OF
the ocean mail act of 1891 so that sat
isfactory American ocean mail lines TO
South America, Asia the Philippines
and Australasia may be established. The
creation OF such steamship lines should
be the natural cOrOllary Of the voyage
Of the battle feet. II should preeede
the opening of the Panama canal. Even
under favorable conditions several
years must elapse before such liecS
can be put into operation Accordingly
1 urge that the congress act promptly
where foresight already shows that &C.
tion sooner or later viii be inevitable.
l call particular attention TO the ter
ritory Of Hawaii The Importance of
those islands is
- apparent and the
Harbor. Hawaii, Their Condition arS
for Naval Base developing their
:. resources is ur-
gent In recent years industrial cOnGi-
tiOns upon the islands have radically
changed. The Importation OF coolly la
Dor has practically ceased. and there Is
now developing such diversity In as
ricultural products as to make possible
a change in the land conditions of the
territory so that an opportunity may
be given to the small land owner simi-
lar to that on the mainland. To aid
these changes, the national government
must provide the necessary harbOr i'm
provementS on each island. so that the
agricultural products can be carried to
the markets of the world. The coast
wise shipping laws should be amended
to meet the special needs of the islands.
and the alien contract labor law should
be so modified in its application 10 Ha-
waii as to enable American and Euro
pean labor TO be brought thither
We have begun TO improve Pearl
harbor for naval base and to provide
the necessary military fOrtifica tiOns for
the protection of the islands. but / can
not too strongly emphasize the need or
appropriations for these purposes or
such amount as Will within the
shortest possible time make those ISL
ands practically impregnable- 1t is
useless to develop the industrial cOndi-
bases of supply for our naval and meT-
chant eets unless we insure, as far as
human ingenuity can, their safety from
foreign seizure.
One thing to be remembered with all
our fOrtihcatiOns is that it Is almost
useless to make them impregnable from
the sea if they are left open TO land
attack This is true even OF our own
coast. but il is dOubly true of our insu-
lar possessions. In Hawaii. for in
stance. il is worse than useless TO eS-
tablish a naval station unless We es-
tablish il behind fortihcatiOns so strong
that no landing force can take them
save by regular and long continued
siege operations
ment is being made in the Philippine
islands. The gath
S.Iy e.o-.-nn. ering Of a Philp-
for Philippines 3 BODY and assiPiaiipe PhiIipe
Is Approaehins pine IS m ] y
absolutely new in Asia. not only as re-
CARDS Asiatic colonies Of European
powers but as regards Asiatic posses
sions OF other Asiattc powers; and. IN
deed. always excepting the striking ana
wonderful example afforded by the
great empire of Japan, il opens an en-
tirely new departure when eompafad
with anything which has happened
among Asiatic powers which are their
own masters. Hitherto this Philippine
legislature has acted with moderation
and self-restraint. and has seemed in
practical FASHION 10 reallze the etefndA
truth that there must always be gov
ernment, and that the only way in
which any body of individuals can es-
cane the necessity of being governed
by outsiders is to show that they are
able to restrain themselves, TO keep
down wrong doing and disorder. The
Filipino people through their officials.
are therefore making real steps in the
direction Of self government hope
and believe that these steps mark the
beginning of a course which Will cOr-
tfnue till the Filipinos become At 70
decide for themselves whether they de-
sire to be an independent nation. But
il is we'll for them (and we'll also fOr
those Americans who during the last
decade have done so much damage to
the Filipinos by agitation for an inn
mediate independence for which they
were totally unit to remember that
depend, upon the Filipinos them
selves All we can do is TO give them
the opportunity TO develop the capa-
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