ihe Anglo-Japanese Agreement.
The news of the signing of the Anglo-Japanese treaty is received in the United States with immense satisfaction. The treaty is regarded as entirely in the line of the policy for which Secretary of State Hay has stood and for which he has worked with conspicuous success. Indeed, the language of parts of the treaty is, closely similar to the note which Secretary Hay addressed to the Powers on July 3rd, 1900, in which he said _"The policy of the government. of the United States is to seek a solution which
safety in China, preserve Chinese territory. may bring, about permanent peace and al and administrative entity, protect all rights guaranteed to friendly Powers by treaty and by law and safeguard for the world the principle of equal and impartial trade with all parts of the Chinese Empire."
That was the position of the McKinley administration two years ago and it is the position of the Roosevelt administration to-day. What leading public men think of the treaty can be told from the quoted words of these three men, which follow Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, chairman of the Foreign Relations committee of the Senate—"'The treaty, from the point of new of the United States, is most excellent and admirable. It is in complete accord with our recent attitude in regard to Manchuria and with the position firmly and ably maintained by Mr. Hay on the Manchurian question. Our policy and the policy of the treaty betwen and Japan is to prevent the part China, preserve her autonomy, and wain-tain the open door. We seek 10 preser China from partition and leave her kets open to our commerce on qual terms ith the rest of the world."
Senator Foraker, one of the most influential Republi embers—" It is a move of the nations gainst Russia for an open door. Russia occupied Manchuria with the intention of keeping out the other nations, and now England and Japan are standing for an open door in the East. It is the same position as was taken by the United States against Russia in the China affair, and the position will redound to the benefit of this country."
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