"The one dark spot in the Pacific is China, and I won't say much about it, but if we could only catch every Tuchun and hang him to the most convenient telegraph pole, we'd settle the job quickly." The Chinese are going to come through, how, I don't know, no one in this room knows, but we must have patience. We must wait for the turn in the tide and stay with the job."
In conclusion Captain Dollar declared, -"'I am far more than ever convinced that the centre of the world's commerce is shifting from the Atlantic to the Pacific. You will participate in that. I may not, T have but 20 years of work left in me (Captain Dollar is now St years old), but you will surely see the day."
A visi ising tribute was tendered peaker and all joined in "For Jolly Good Fellow."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.