I do not thtnk. then. -ne would act wisely to violate good faith with these people. We have made vast expenditures to enable us to reach the irmouse future commerce of China. Japan. and other Asiatic nations. We have as good as donated sixtysix millions of dollars. which. with interest. now amounts to about one hundred millions of dollars and land grants covering a territory larger than the Republic of France or the German empire. to open a great highway by railroad to the commerce of the East. which brings that commerce to our doors by a route thousands of miles nearer than it can be reached by European nations. In addition to this. companies of capitalists have constructed a southern line of railroad across the continent. to put the southern section of the Union in closer relationswith the Eastern powers.