Show SENATOR TELLER He Writes About the Far East and American Interests In China New York World Adcidents make history That is the worlds record I believe If President Cleveland l had don what he should have done at the tnn > consresa passed resolutions recognizing the belligerency ofnhe Cubans there would have been no war with Spain and we should not i1 have got possession of the Philippine Islands and thrown ipursclvcs into the complications in tJiSfar east I was in favor of going evert farther and recognizing recog-nizing the government pf Cuba If we had done that I think the Cubans could have whipped Spain and turned her out of the island Finally think there would have been pp war if l the Maine had not been blownUP But Mr Cleveland did not recognize Cuban belligerency the Maine was blown up we fought Spain and whipped her nnd we now have the Philippines and cannot let them go In time we shall establish a local government govern-ment but we cannot withdraw entirely our supervision of affairs in those islands i because if we did so some other power would undoubtedly take possession posses-sion of them Germany covets the Philippines and she would doubtless find an excuse to get possession of them if we withdrew Germanys desire for the Philippines is due to the new conditions governing international relations It Is evident that the wars of ther world hereafter are to be fought on the sea COal today to-day is as valuable as powder for war purposes Germany has no coal Of the nations of the earth the United States England China and Japan have coal Russia has little and no other I nation has control of great coal fields The Philippine islands are full of coal I I and would be useful to Germany for j naval purposes But for that very I reason we do want Germany not to I have the Philippines and if Germany is I I to be kept out of the islands we must r continue our control of them indefinitely i indefinite-ly or until new conditions arige which may make it seem wise for us to let go Our interest in the Philippines Is not I the only reason why we shquld concern ourselves with te Chinese question A year ago thej cabinet I at Washington said Ae had no interest Jn China Evidently Evi-dently they did l not look very fat be ond thfr present Taday we hare ftn admitted interest in China and in the future that interest 11 to be still greater Jf may not hi in the near fu jure hut WIthin the next fifty years it 13 quite possible we shall1 be considering China as a pijbslbl rival in our in idustrjesv I O 4 > It is poor statesmanship that does not look beyond the Immediate future The makers of the constitution worked not for theii8 generation alone but for posterity 1 pos-terity We hat now 75000000 people i there will bo 100000000 before long1 Our country is becoming crowded We must lind an outlet for am products The Aslatia market Is one at great value and we should not tako any chance of losing it For that reason I believe in the theories ot Lord Charles Beresford as to the open door I believe that the United States should enter into an understanding un-derstanding with Qermany Japan and Great Britain to maintain the present status in China that is to keep the Chinese from becoming Russianized Whether Germany would join such a movement is doubtful because Germany Ger-many by reasop of her possessions on tile border of Russia has relations Whither Whit-her neighbor which might prevent her entering into such a combination A very intelligent gentleman of tIlls country who for two years represented large Interests in Japan tells me that Japanese capital is now going into China to develop industries which are made possible by the cheapness of labor la-bor in that country and which eventually event-ually will draw capital from other parts Of the world and develop a rivalry which the United States will find difficult diffi-cult to contend withunless labor in this country Is put down to the level of Chinese cheap labor In the mining camps of Colorado the Chinaman lives on a little rice and dry fish and his expenses ex-penses are one quarter of those of the American miner Yet he seems to perform per-form as much labor as the white man When the Chinaman begins to compete with ua in his own country the only way to preserve our industries will be I by putting up a tariff wall and having our market all to our own people The same gentleman Informs me that there Js a widespread discontent among the Chinese with the present dynasty The Manchus are regarded by the Chinese as interlopers and the end of the present dynasty is not far away When it comes to a close there will undoubtedly un-doubtedly be a revolution in China but it rests with this and other governments govern-ments to say whether that revolution shall take the form of a restoration of the old goverqment under foreign protection pro-tection or the complete Russianizing of China It is not so very many years since Russia fought with the Cossacks and subdued them Today there is no more loyal Russian than the Cossacks Rus sias power of assimilation is prodigious prodi-gious If Russia ever gains full control of ChInaand It looks now as though she were moving to that endshe will establish a government there which will b Russjan Inall its sympathies The1 people of the United States do not un I dcrstand the Russian government It I I Is a moat democratic government in all I local matters the general government I never Interferes in local affairs Russia J II would give China the same form of I government and would quickly bring Ii order out of chaos which exists there Ii Then we should have to deal commercially commer-cially not with the Chinaman as he is II today but with the Rusbhuu I HENRY M TELLER r D St I |