These treaties mean that the United States has announced to the world that it is ready to fight for a place. if not in the sun. then for t place in the Orient. that it is ready to contend for a market in the Orient. that it is ready to fight for the open door to China. so that the Chinese door should be open to alybody .ada everybody who is ready to invade China. We have openly committed ourselves to the policy which has been followed by European nations. to fight for markets. colonies. and spheres of influence oil other continents. Simultaneously with this anlouncement there has come al agreement that the number of dreadnoughts in the Navy be limited In the ratio of 5 to 3. so far as the principal Asiatic power is concerned.