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Philippines , Alaska , and Hawaii , with
out which the Uuited States would have
beeu the most remote from , instead of
being as it is now the nearest of all the
nations to the great Asiatic market.
The foreign relations of the United
States are , in every respect , auspicious
for peace. No portent is seen that can
cause any reasonable fear of war. Wo
were never more friendly with all na
tions than wo are today. There is not
now and there never was any secret
alliance , compact or understanding be
tween the United States and Great
Britain. Germany does not purpose any
enterprise in defiance of the Monroe
doctrine , nor is there any controversy
between that empire and this govern
ment , which in the least degree war
rants the apprehension of anything more
serious and vigorous than beneficent ne
gotiations. Each state enacts its own
economic and protective laws , and each
state has the right to do so. These con
flicting economic policies will , in due
time , be brought to the minimum of
conflict by wise and conciliatory diplo
macy.
With all this the United States will ,
as heretofore , stand for peace. It is true
of nations as it is of the smallest villages
or of two families , or of two men that
peace is secured by obedience to that
precept of righteous selfishness "mind
your own biasiness. " We shall attend
to our own affairs. We shall not en
tangle ourselves in the controversies of
European states , nor , by any unfriendly
act , intermeddle with that which does
not concern us. These states will fight
to the uttermost their own wars in their
own way , and be judges for themselves
of the causes for which those wars shall
bo waged. The United States is the
great armed neutral of the world. It
will have peace , not as the boon of a
suppliant non-combatant , but as the
right of a peace-loving , armored puis
sant nation whose rights are secured by
its manifest ability to cause other na
tions to respect them.
OUSIIMAN K. DAVIS ,
Chairman Senate Committee on For
eign Affairs.
"I'llOGKKSS" IN CHINA.
The wisdom of governments and the
destinies of nations are determined by
long periods of time. People of our
generation and race who frequently
mistake change for progress naturally
wonder at the Chinese and denounce
them as "heathen" for their opposition
to it. It may have boon forgotten by
people who indulge this kind of con
tempt for the Chinese that the founders
and architects of the most populous of
nations and the most stable and endur
ing of civilized governments were build
ing suspension bridges across rivers and
navigable canals through vast regions ,
twenty centuries before Ooosar ruled
Home , and that Confucius had given to
ihe world the Golden Rule 500 years
before Jesus Christ , was "born of the
Virgin Mary" and "suffered under Pontius
tius Pilate" . It is true , the genius of
invention had not inspired one of the
most intelligent of the races of men to
discover labor-saving machinery , steam ,
railroads , nor Maxim guns and Mausers
for the wholesale slaughter of men who
possessed something which they might
covet. Nor need one go afar in search
of sound reasons for the failure. They
are readily found in their simple neces
sities and modes of living. They have
no use for industrial inventions to dis
place , and starve , in population so
dense , vast volumes of human labor , or
railroads and steamships to answer the
demands of their internal carrying
trade. They now prefer canals to rail
roads for reasons thus intimated , and
it might have been better for this coun
try , under the long-tests of the'dura
bility of nations , if it had followed
their example. But , above and over
all , the paramount and potential fact
stands that the Chinese have been
taught for ages to love peace and to hate
war. Passionate lovers of learning in
every known period of their history , the
writings of their sages are the delight of
modern scholars. They have a religion
that has satisfied the spiritual needs of
a great race for thousands of years ,
which the Christian seeks to overthrow ,
by peaceful means , if possible , and by
man and the sword , if necessary. No
longer ago than a mouth , the imperial
head of the German Empire virtually
proclaimed the early coming of such a
war , with only a riotous revolution in
Peking as a pretext.
"Progress" in China has possibilities
of which the insane greed of other na
tions may have occasion to take more
serious notice in the not far future. In
the months of March , April , May and
June , 1861 , William H. Seward would
have plunged the country into war with
England on the hare-brained theory
that it would unite the South with the
North and save the union. Mr. Lincoln
and Charles Francis Adams averted that
calamity. Dynastic union of tke Chi
nese for a common defense against a
common enemy of the religious faith ,
civilization and territorial integrity of
China , and the alternative of war ,
forced by a long and continued criminal
aggression , might result in a form and
of " " in China and
power "progress" out
side of China , that would drench the
world in the blood of innocence.
Iii a speech made
SWINDLED.
recently at Falls
City the peerless and paramount Bryan
declared that the government of Spain
transferred no title to the government
of the United States because Spain was
not a rightful but only a forceful hold
er of the Philippines. If that be true ,
why did Bryan insist upon the ratifica
tion of a treaty which compelled the
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