Show EFFECTS OF TAFTS TAFT'S VISIT TO TilE THE ORIENT American Residents Report it As a Most Important Event Oct 12 The Th The visit of Secretary Taft Tart to Japan and anil China with his hlA significant utterances In To To- klo kin and Shanghai Is regarded b by American re residents here as ns the most Important event ent affecting their Interests Interests Inter Inter- ests pst themselves an and their country In Inthe Inthe inthe the Orient In man many years A prominent prominent prom prom- American said raid toda today We have been drifting those these lat last fey few years CI Our trade is growing but It seemed to many of or u us that our politIcal political political po po- po- po and sentimental interests were steadily waning Secretary ry Hay made mado the tho Orient a special field flold for AmerIcan American Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean diplomacy Mr h. h Root appears In Inthe Inthe the tho greater eater Interests of South Amer Amer- AmerIca ica Meantime events moved against us Tho The boycott hurt Other OIlier cn E aThe a. a The successes of or Japan against Russia followed by our friction with Japan affected us adversely nd The Tho American position in tho the Orient i inow isnow is isnow now inseparably interlocked with our nun position in the Philippics and uncertainty uncertainty about the future futurO of the PhilIppines Philippines Philippines Philip Philip- pines adversely affects us Secretary Tafts Taft's significant measuring meas s tiring of or our unlimited resources against Japans Japan's scanty means n and Japans Japan's hard struggle to carr carry out domestic and ancI expansion enterprises his assurances that there thero will be no sudden ce cessation of or control of the tho Philippines his warning warning- that hat America will oppose e the thc effort of or rivals to secure special privileges es In violation of or tho the principle of the open doer show Americans who placed mone money In the tho Orient where they stand |