Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-13
THE SEWARD BATCH OF TREATIES ALL
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BAD.
I'd The present Administration was so unfol
tunate as to receive as a legacy from th
late versatile Secretary of State, Mr. Sew
be ard, series of great treaties for petty an
es nexation and petty reciprocity, which con
Ia. tributed, perhaps, more to the self-satis
IS faction OF the Secretary than they appea
destined to contribute to that of tn
Us country he officially represented. No
Sc one of these infelicitous treaties had it
origin with the present Administration
II which owes to them no original fealty
If whatsoever.
"a The st. Thomas matter was referred Il
,e and the Monroe doctrine explained by
n the Senator at considerable length. He
|. declared that the doctrine was not thai
s. we were to seize all the land adjoining US
,e nor was it by any means susceptible Of
n the selfish Interpretation that European
d vuitures were to be driven away in order
}. that the American eagle might swoop
a down and clutch the prey. Such had not
a been the we'll settled policy of the nation
d until it remained for our late Secretary
# OF State, always grand in his conceptions,
t even when wrong, first to grasp the north
r pole, and then to leap back almost to the
q equator, or to alternate between icebergs
/ and earthquakes. In his Notwithstanding
, eve not only "the whole boundless conti-
E nent" was ours, but all of its outlying in
coherent dependencies were equally to
be coveted.
OUR FUTURE GROWTH.
After demonstrating that Hayti needs
Santo Domingo vastly more than this
country does. the Senator proceeded to
speak of the future growth of this coun-
try, and declared that it was unreasonable
10 expect our past ratio of increase for an
indefinite length of time. When the
best lands shall be exhausted, as we NAV
find at some time they will be, and GER
tainly when our population becomes dense,
it would be uuphilosophical and contrary
to all history to expect the same ratio OF
increase from births, nor could We hope
the SEINE increase from immigration.
There will be declension in the power
to absorb as we'll as in the source of sup.
ply. During the fiscal year 1870 we re.
ceived zoos immigrants. Since 1S47, |
only twenty-three years, the number of
foreigners who have made our country
| their home amounts to 4,297,9S0. Our
present population, but for snch acces-
sions, would amount to only one-third of
what it is now. The difference between
receiving and sending out annually 2OO,-
O0O men is marvellous, and it is point
deserving especial attention. The aver
age cost of raising a man in any civilized
country is rather over than under $1,000,
and of woman rather less J: but the
average is still not less than $1,000. Upon
removal to new country they augment
its capital by the transference of their
economical value as future producers and
the exchangeable value of all property
which belongs to them. We have brought
to US annually from abroad a capital of
$oo,UOO,OOO by persons who add each
year, by their labor, two or three hundred
millions more. Sante Domingo could not
be of the slightest value to US unless re-
peopled and supplied with capital, to be =.
subtracted from our home stock or accept. l..
ed as questionable foreign gifts-the ! !
spawn of the Caribbean Sea and the Mex =
lean Gulf. Any gain there would be :
either so much positive loss at home or a =
gain OF numbers with a loss of character. \
Shall we postpone the great destinies of a
Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska, of Colorado y
and Montana, sndthe youthful and vigor- d
GUS states on the Pacific coast, until we b
can plant and hatch out new brood of is
States in distantseas. h
COMMERCE STATISTICS OF THE ISLAND b
Senator Morrill, then proceeded to criti- :,
'lse the statistics given in regard to the a.
rade of Sauto Domingo Admitting that ;,
% 1859 the trade of the island, including =.
dayti, was quite large, the commerce has
low forsaken it, and history has shown =,
hat when once such is the fact, it never or
eturns. The total value of the exports 8,
n hn Ial. Nd nn-
r only triie more than the city of Port ev
and now annually sends over the Grand n
trunk Railway. This was in the hight ac
the prosperity of the island. He then de
allied attention to the fact that the
reatesL number of people in Santo Do
lingo at the time of the greatest amount 49,.
+ commerce WAS 100000 slaves, $4,000 80
mites and $4,000 mulattoes, and then =,
ear in mind the fact that the United No
tates in 1880 contained a population of mr.,
2,o66,O2O. No one will deny our own rec
otivity, whether as to production or trade, The
nd yet our whole exports then amounted to
ally to $73,Sl9,50S, or less by more than Ser
Venty-six million dollars than 425, 900 jec
orking tatterdemalions in Santo Domin- s,x
are represented to have exported 10 -,
1873 With population of II, 069. 453 in . =
'4o. our exports amounted to only $104.- ~,
'o,o9l, and yet it is assumed that in pro tbo
'rtIons to numbers the Dominicians in 49,
~ exceeded the United States in its ,ror
odncts exported in the ratio of Ntriy- "a A
7ht to one. Need 1 say more touching deb
g Dominican bubble, or the hundred won
ilions of exports which would push to a
rth by only hosting the American flag 4? mex
In 1868 the imports of Santo Domingo deb
I'm the United States. according to our pay
IN records, were 1888 1863. and the ex- NJ
rts to the United States $64,11O. Yet but
til these beggarly but indisputable facts ties
fore us, it is seriously argued that few wer'
shing Americans would work out the coul
raele of giving us trade only surpassed very
present in its vast magnitude by that one
the United States with Great Britain ciaii
In 1868 our domestic exports to Hayti suro
re $2,9569S3. and of foreign good re- give
ported S299.619, while our domestic 0y
ports to Santo Domingo were only 1884, su'i
}, and but $209l of foreign goods re- a al a.
ported. Onr imports for the same wear Anu
m Hayti were $3.50. 0S7, and from Santo o ot,i
mingo only 1888; the trade with U wh",
ITO Domingo thus leaving balance of NOV, nova
ut twenty thousand dollars to be paid cost
us in gold, while the Haytien trade resol
exceedingly healthful, leaving bal were
9 OF SS,l9o,o96 to be paid to us in upon
d. r
THE
,oANUTs AND BANANAS WILL NOT PAY Tn,
OFF THE PUBLIC DEBT. and a
he Senator nroceeded 70 chow .ho inner
aey of the Presidents theory that the tnas
olcal products of the island would 90 a meh'
at way toward the payment of the .nem'
tic debt. The Imagination is poor 70 .ht
meier, wholly without thrift. Even na.lo
ntlng the greatest products, they ..s oan
lid, nevertheless be the property of pri- S1n
owners. and must be paid for accord as.o a,
y, and the price would be the average .uas :.
q of such articles in the chief marts of rno =
,,'o.;a 'u' no' less 'han Inc cost OF Repus
~, ~ San'u Oomlngo. Ii the unwlI
Ids supply of coffee and sugar were encies
9 SO largely increased, however, by a come
dred millions, then it is plain to see Dough
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