The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-07-31

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affected the business of the entire
country. Who can measure the harm
to our shops and our homes, to our
farms and our commerce, if the un-
certainty of perpetual tariff agitation
is to be inflicted upon the country !?
We are in the midst of an abundant
harvest; we are on the eve of a revival
of general prosperity. Nothing stands
in our way but the dread Of a change
in the industrial system which has
wrought such wonders in the last
twenty years, and which, with the
power Of increased capital, will work
still greater marvels of prosperity in
the twenty years to come.
OUR FOREIGN POLICY.
Our foreign relations favor our do
mestic development. We are at peace
with the. world-at peace upon a
sound basis. with no unsettled ques-
tions Of sufficient magnitude to en-
barrass or distract US. Happily re-
moved by our geographical position
from participation or interest in those
questions of dynasty or boundary
which so frequently disturb the peace
Of Europe, we are left to cultivate
friendly relations with all, and are
free from possible entanglements in
the quarrels Of any. The United
States has no cause and no desire to
engage in conflict with any Power on
earth, and we may rest in confidence
that no Power desires to attack the
United States.
With the nations in the Western
Hemisphere we should cultivate clos
er relations, and for our common
prosperity and advancement we should
invite them all to join with us in an
agreement that, for the future, all in
ternational troubles in North or South
America shall be adjusted by impair
tial arbitration, and not by arms.
This project was part Of the fixed pol
icy of President Garfeld's Administra-
tion, and it should, in my judgment,
be renewed. Its accomplishment on
this continent would favorably affect
the Nations beyond the sea, and thus
powerfully contribute at no distant
day to the universal acceptance of the
philanthropic and Christian principle
of Arbitration. The effect even of
suggesting it for the Spanish Ameri-
can States has been most happy, and
has increased the confidence of those
people in our friendly disposition. 1t
fell to my lot as Secretary of State
in June, 1881, to quiet apprehension
in the Rebublic Of Mexico by giving
the assurance in an official dispatch
that There is not the faintest desire
in the United States for territorial ex-
tension south of the Rio Grande. The
boundaries of the two Republics have
been established in conformity with
the best jurisdictional interests of
both. The line Of demarcation is not
merely conventional. 1t is more. It
a Spanish-American people
from a Saxon-American people. 1t
divides one great Nation from another
with distinct and natural finality."
We seek the conquests Of peace.
We desire to extend our commerce,
and in an especial degree with our
friends and neighbors on this conti-
nent. We have not improved our re-
lations with Spanish-Americans as
wisely and as persistently as we might
have done For more than a genera
tion the sympathy of those countries
has been allowed to drift away from
US. We should now make every eff
fort to gain their friendship. Our
trade with them is already large.
During the last year our exchange in
the Western Hemisphere amounted
to three hundred and fifty millions of
dollars nearly one-fourth Of our en-
tire foreign commence. To those
who may be disposed to underrate the
value of our trade with the countries
of North and south America, it may
be we'll to state that their population
is nearly or quite fifty millions and
that, in proportion to aggregate num-
bers, we import nearly double as much
from them as we do from Europe.
But the result Of the whole American
trade is in high degree unsatisfac-
tory. The imports during the past
year exceeded two hundred and twen-
ty-fve millions, while the exports
were less than one hundred and TWEEN
ty-fve millions showing a balance
against us of more than one hundred
millions of dollars. But the money
does not 60 to Spanish America. We
send large sums to Europe in coin or
its equivalent to pay European manu-
factures for the goods which they
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