Show CHAMBERS AN expansionist SAYS SAMOA WAS OUR FIRST STEP IN EXPANSION new york dec 2 the chi phy fraternity which is now holding its ts annual convention in this city gave a dinner last night at the waldorf As torla at which ex chief justice win L chambers the principal fuesti spoke on samoa the threshold of american expansion mr air chambers after speaking of the original treaties between the united states and somoa said thus we planted the first seed of a foreign expansion policy until that time our expansion of territory bad had been strictly continental and with the single exception of alaska had been purely border growth and the wildest dreams of the most I 1 tic imperialist had haa not flown beyond our own shores dut but that little r seed eed planted in the tropical soil os of far away tutuila soon sprang into life and for many yeara years its sporadic existence was sustained by a small advance guard of expansionists the sentiment growing slowly but with determined purpose finally won to its support some of our brightest public men men meu like AW mckenley KInley morgan and lodge who are ever in tho the nations watch towers when our honored president now at washington waa was elevated by hla his countrymen to the most exalted position among men all of us who believed in the greater america took hope 1 I 1 cannot discuss for reasons you must appreciate at this time my personal connection with the thrilling events of recent history to d do 0 pa tra intelligently would involve discussion of 0 a treaty that bundle of diplomatic dynamite succeeded for ten yeara years in maintaining a kind of status quo la in samoa because each of the collaborators in its manufacture familiar with its contents feared to touch it until all three wisely concluded to act together holding tho the three greatest nations of the world in lit an unhappy partnership it did more to fan the flames of ill will between them than all the other causes combined but wo we need not concern ourselves with past evil possibilities when instead of the calamities that might have been we are facing and rejoicing in results among the most glorious in ou our count rys history the powder cask aa eta dr von recently german minister at washington described it has been taken out of international politics and no one Is found to regret it the early settlement of the philippine troubles which promises special rejoicings rejo icings at christmas time will afford our diplomacy which in future must win victories far us no less renowned than those our arms have won opportunities for securing commercial advantages never asserted before and which will soon make us the flit common denominator in many a great problem that cannot be solved except as our genius and wealth and power may determine let us build the nicaragua canal aa as quickly as engineering skill and money can build it shipping our products without breaking bulk cipra our eastern and southern ports as well as the western to this commercial field and then we may expect to obtain a share of that vast commerce instead of the miserable 53 per cent which we no nov have what great great britain had accomplished in the orient has largely been gained through the pert of hong kong which only 57 years ago was a barren rock with only a few scat scattered tereA fis hermens huts on its shore and it if england has been in halt half a century N ith american cotton as a cornerstone to build up a city which ranks fourth now in the shipping world and has gained a trade of over what may we not do in less time than that with a central point of distribution trib ution lying as manila manlia does adjacent c to an area containing people the proceedings of the convention now being held in ili this city are secret and nothing of public interest was wars done excepting the election of W if stokes of welch W va to the office of grand gamma |