We Are Glad by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 1, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 13.

We Are Glad

By Editor

All true Americans and lovers of liberty ought to be glad that President Wilson has had the courage and sympathy to recognize the Chinese republic, and refuse to lend or authorize government funds to sustain the American bankers in joining bankers of other nations in throttling the young republic, or in placing a mortgage upon its finances. Among other good things the President said:

“The condition of the loan seems to us to touch very nearly the administrative independence of China, and this administration does not feel that it ought, even by implication, to be a party to those conditions. . . . The responsibility on the part of the government, implied in the encouragement of a loan thus secured and administered, is plain enough, and is obnoxious to the principles upon which the government rests.”

“The government of the United States is not only willing, but earnestly desirous of aiding the great Chinese people in every way that is consistent with their untrammeled development and its own immemorial principles. . . . Our interests are those of the open door—a door of friendship and mutual advantage. This is the only door we care to enter.”

And who could object to such noble action?