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which tends to enhance the welfare of China and 

 to lead to a more beneficial intercourse between the 

 Empire and the modern world ; while in the critical 

 period of revolt and massacre we did our full share 

 in safeguarding life and property, restoring order, 

 and vindicating the national interest and honor. It 

 behooves us to continue in these paths, doing what 

 lies in our power to foster feelings of good will, 

 and leaving no effort untried to work out the great 

 policy of full and fair intercourse between China 

 and the nations, on a footing of equal rights and ad- 

 vantages to all. We advocate the "open door" with 

 all that it implies; not merely the procurement of 

 enlarged commercial opportunities on the coasts, 

 but access to the interior by the waterways with 

 which China has been so extraordinarily favored. 

 Only by bringing the people of China into peaceful 

 and friendly community of trade with all the peoples 

 of the earth can the work now auspiciously begun 

 be carried to fruition. In the attainment of this 

 purpose we necessarily claim parity of treatment, 

 under the conventions, throughout the Empire for 

 our trade and our citizens with those of all other 

 powers. 



We view with lively interest and keen hopes of 

 beneficial results the proceedings of the Pan-Ameri- 

 can Congress, convoked at the invitation of Mexico, 

 and now sitting at the Mexican capital. The dele- 

 gates of the United States are under the most liberal 

 instructions to co-operate with their colleagues in 



