Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-14
SPEECH OF Elk GOVERNOR LELAND
STAMFORD.
Delivered at the Celebration OF American
independence by the american
Residents of London.


celebration of the one hundred and fourth
anniversary of American Independence by
the American residents of London, England.
MIR. Stanford spoke as follows:
Mr.. Chairman ard fellow countrymen 1t
sesms easy to predict that our commercial
prospects are bright, situated as our country
is between two greai oceans, which are high
ways to all parts of the civilized world, with
lines Of railroad communi .stion crossing our
continent at rates so low that there is scarcely
product of the field, of the mine or of the
mandatory which cannot be transported to
market. But to forecast our future com
mercial and manufacturing interests would
be to foretell The future of civilization. The
resources Of our country now seem we'll nigh
unhouuded yet how far these resources may
be developed and awaited of is almost entirely
q question OF intelligence, not for our people
alone, but for all the civilized world with
whom we may have desire TO have dealings.
The more prosperous the people OF other
countries are. the more able ard ready they
will be to make exchanges with Us.
Man, in his savage state, tiads his chief oc-
cupation in providing fer the necessares of life.
As he emerges from the stage OF utter
ignorance, az his intelligence increases, new
wants arrive, gradually embracing the COM
forts. the elegsucies, the Injuries and the
splendors of life. Hear, hearl knowledge
is the Aladin's lamp; with knowledge comes
new necessities, and with new necessities the
ability to support them. Hear, hear, Man,
in more civilized condition, has more wants,
is more industrious the savage has few
wants, because he has 50 little kno Wedge,
and he is an idler By civilization our tastes
are multiplied aud our capacities multiply
with our tastes Demand and production
walk hand in hand. and this correspond
ence of demand and production clearly
shows that the danger OF oyer-supplv is
not to be dreaded. Commerce is the daughter
and the handmade of civilization, born of
civilization, and attending upon it. The pur-
suit of commerce demands integrity of char
acter, honesty of purpose, and IS ever against
the barbarsm of aggressive war. Ii ever
tine standing armies of the world be dis
banded, and if the men who compose
them, instead of being consumers and consti-
tuting blight upon the body polite, became
producers, it will be because commerce has
broken down the artificial barriers that sepa-
rate peoples, thus making them, in fact, close
neighbors in the community OF interest. and
effectually forbidding cruel and unjust wars.
The telegraph has made of the whole civil
lied world one great neighborhood Any
idea worth attention or development
spreads throughout the earth between sun
Use ana sunset, anu DetOtbtS ttluulUu
property all over the world in one day. The
newspaper that great modern educator of the
people, insures general intelligence by the
attrition of one mind upon another, similar
to that which the individual obtains in
travelling through many countries. The ques-
ton of what are the interests of the people is
year by year better and better understood
also a more general elevation OF the masses,
and, in consequence, wiser Judgment and a
more certain control of the policy Of govern
ment by the people The sense OF justice
goes far with an intelligent people to control
their actions, and perhaps that sentiment
may be relied upon, when civilization has
progressed, to regulate the intercourse OF ma
tons but the civil cation Of the present day
is scarcely sufficient for such reliance, and we
must, as yet, rest mainly upon the surer
principle OF self-interest. Hear hear.
Evidently the chief factor in our CONNER
cial prosperity is labor-saying machinery.
Manufacture is no longer a question of num-
bers and of muscle when such was the case,
commercial supremacy reverted to the couu-
try where muscle was the cheapest. Now
one man. by placing his hand upon lever,
can effect result greater than that which
was only to be obtained by the labor of a
thousand. In short, our future commercial
prospects must be determined by education
developing the power OF mind over matter.
The reduction in our rates of transport IS
feature of our commercial status which
NAV well attract attention. As an instance,
I NAV remark that flour, which, within my
own experience, could only be conveyed from
Buffalo to New York at the cost of 70 cents
Der barrel, now goes from Chicago to Liver
pool for nearly the same price. And our
facilities for disposing of our products are as
great as our facilities for transporting them.
| There is Of course not market in the civil
lied world not open TO our people for pur-
chase as we'll as for sale. g Hear, hear
and g Very good."l But while our products,
through cheap transportation. are brought
closer to our customers, we must not forget
that the more populous countries, with their
advantages of contiguity of numbers, are en-
loving like cheapness of transportation and
consequent power of competition.
Not the least advantage which America
enjoys in her commercial prospects Is her
position almost midway between the two
great continents of Europe and Asia. Flour
goes East to one land, and West TO the other.
| We are accustomed to looking TO Europeans
as our main customers, but from the shores
of the Pacific American eyes are often turned
| towards the farther shore, where within four
| teen DAYS from San Francisco, hourishes
Japan with forty millions of inhabitants, and
few days beyond stands China, with four
hundred millions of population. The civil
cation of these lands was old when ours began,
and its effects are plainly traoeable in their
people to-day. They have wonderful ca
pacity, and within fifty years, with their con-
stsntly increasing knowledge they may be
expected to have the same Importance in the
commercial world as would a like number of
Europeans and Americans.
We have good cause to entertain bright
hopes for the future commerce of America
With alrost every known product IN cult
walton on our soil, with q range Of climate
extending from the semi tropical to the frigid
zone. we are inyenting and applying pro-
cegses which are opening up new prospects In
| trade, Thus, to name but one modern pro-
| cess, there is the canning OF fruit, IN which
| such important operations are now done. We
are learning to convey quantities Of fruit in
cars and steamships at 3 temperature insur-
ing their preservation for almost any dis
lance. Our resources in respect 20 the pro-
ducts of the earth are almost iulitless, and
gradually, as time and space are obhterated,
| and science comes in, teaching Us how to
utilize these products, our markets, ever full
with our apparently inexhaustible supplies,
will cater to the world.
! 1 am hopeful for the future of America;
am hopeful for general civilization I; | am
| confident that progress Will be made IN the
art OF government; am satisfied that our
| fathers, in making the Declaration of INDIE
| pendenee. laid down the true principles, and
the only correct ones, of national policy. At
| the basis of our Government are the rights of
man. Governments before had been founded
by force and maintained by force ours is
presided over by the virtue and intelligence
of the people. Sometimes Americans are
| apprehensive that the power of the majority
must necessary end in sbsolutism, since the
majority makes and constructs laws, and APP
point the officers to administer those laws.
But to me there seems little danger of any
such result as in our scheme of governing
the majority 50 frequently changes; and,
moreover, the latter can make no law for
the minority which is not equally applicable
to themselves. Therefore, if the sense of
justice is not strong enough to prevent ALSO
lutis1n, an intelligent appreciation among the
people of its own interests must prove amply
sufficient for the protection of all.
| The Murchie mine, Nevada City, is
moving its machinery to the new shaft now
being sunk. The location is about 500 feet
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