Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-12 | Page 4 | Ours as a World Power

OURS AS A WORLD POWER. One of the strongest and best of the "golng-away" speeches just prior to the adjournment of Congress, was that of Senator Cullom, reviewing the diplomatic diplo-matic triumphs of this country In Its foreign relations, beginning with the McKlnley administration In 1S97. First came the series of events In connection connec-tion with the Spanish war, the acquirement ac-quirement of the Philippines and Porto Rico, and the satisfactory agreement with Cuba. Other events of importance recalled by him arc the insistence of the, Administration Ad-ministration on the "open door" policy of China, our influence toward modifying modi-fying tho hard terms of the indemnity payments by China after the Boxer rebellion, re-bellion, and for preserving the integrity integ-rity of the Chinese empire. Then, the controlling voice of this country in tho Venezuelan imbroglio was justly referred re-ferred to. and the part played by the United States In The Hague peace congress con-gress and the arbitrations there and at Caracas. Then, we got pretty much what we claimed In the Alaskan boundary arbitration, as was indeed Inevitable In-evitable If It could be referred to any Impartial Intelligence. Finally, there was the Panama coup, in which tho United States was promptly followed by all the leading nations of the world, and which gives us the right to construct the Isthmian canal. But all the same, it is a new thing for the United States to lead the world in diplomatic measures of any kind. - The conclusion of the whole matter Is that the United States is a world power, whose voice must be listened to, not only in the matter of tho Monroe Mon-roe doctrine, but In all International affairs; af-fairs; and thc nations are not easy In their minds until they And what thc opinion of thc United States Is in every Important question that comes up. And the whole of this triumphant situation Is a Republican development of but seven short years.