Show GOODBYE PEKIN II i E ACTION of o President McKinley in withdrawing ing the TIE THE army from China has received the almost unanimous com commendation commendation of all the people of the tile United States Stat We Vc beg 1 the privilege of o joining the chorus and may be permitted pe to toC C add a fey few remarks remark The administration papers a few weeks ago were getting ready to defend an opposite policy With uplifted hands and arid tories topes their editors were rere asking What desert the th missionaries Withdraw from our destined sphere of influence influence influence ence Forsake the call of destiny Remain daLto arto tha th tb inter interests interests ests of philanthropy and five per percent cent The presidents presIdent s action adion was as patriotic patrio c and tand obvious The sig significant ig C fact f ct is that had he taken a ours the whole hole pack p ck would w uld have ave been in full cry alter after aft Chinas trade trad barking arking c the same considerations that now flOW to them th m justify the retention of the tile Philippine islands If ports consuls and treaties naval display and nd diplomatic pressure are sufficient to secure our share of trade tr de with China in ill a contest then tilen th n why in the name of f common sense sense would not lot the same pacific means mC give us the insignificant trade of the tile Filipinos who under a friendly policy would ld have been ful fuD of gratitude to their liberators and defenders |