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Show DAVIS Oil OUR FOREIGN FOLIC! CHAIRMAN OF SENATE COMMITTEE COMMIT-TEE SPEAKS ON EELATIONS. . Says Europe Now Respects This Country, Which Will Command Bulk of Trade With China. Philadelphia, June 13. The feature of alumni day at the University of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania was an address by Senator Cushman K. Davis of Minnesota on "The Foreign Relations of the United States.". He said, in part: "The foreign policy of this country has usually been of that formal character char-acter which consists In negotiating those conventions which maintain the j peaceful intercourse of states. We have followed, with very few exceptions, the wise advice of . Washington not to involve in-volve ourselves In entangling alliances with European states, and to preserve our peculiar and powerful isolation from their political concerns has been the line upon which our foreign relations rela-tions have been conducted. We have been too remote and our latent power has been too great to be attacked, or even made the subject of serious diplomatic diplo-matic aggression by European states, singly or in combination. "As to any expansion of our dominions, domin-ions, it has never been asserted by the most adverse critic of our institutions that the cause of civilization and human hu-man freedom would not be thereby promoted. pro-moted. I "I think it can be safely said that they who once threatened intervention between the United States and Spain abandoned that desire very quickly after af-ter the momentous events of Manila and Santiago and will never again entertain en-tertain the design of a similar intrusion under any circumstances that we can now imagine. "I believe that these victories have done more to assure the peace of the world than all of the alliances and international in-ternational concerts which have been effected during the last fifty years." With regard to the partition of China, Senator Davis said the United States would command the greatest part of the commerce with the Chinese Orient. |