The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-07-25

-IIIIINlI NL-IIFN- NFlLUIEN .. IIINEIN NIX
sshea 81 lnl..stsla..s anan Is NOT able hg hss
earnings 10 live In comfort, educate his ciii-
dren and Law hy q sufficient amount FOR the
necessities OF age. The reduction of wages
inevitably consequent upon throwing our
home market open to the world, would de-
prive theln of the power TO do this. 1t would
prove q great calamity to our country. 1t
would produce a conflict between the poor
and the rich, and in the %sorrowfuI degrada-
ticn of labor would plant &c seeds of public
danger.
The Republican party has steadily aimed Co
maintain just relations between Labor and
Capital-guarding with care the rights of
each. Aconfict between the two has always
led in the past, and will always lead in the
future, to the injury of both Labor is
Indispensable to the creation and profitable
use of capital, and capital increases the
efficiency and vnlue OF labor. Whoever
arrays the one against the other is
wisest and best which harmonizes the two
ON the basis Of absolute Justice. The
Republican party has protected the free
labor of America so that it's compensation is
larger than is realized ia any other country.
It has guarded our people against the unfair
and may be called upon TO prohibit the
growth of a similar evil from Europe. 1t Is
obviously unfair to permit capitalists TO
make contracts for cheap labor in foreign
countries to the hurt and d-isparagement of
the labor of American citizens. Such a
and other conditions of home labor exclu-
s1veIy in the control of tine empioyer), is I'M
furious to all parties-not the least SO to the
unhappy persons who are made the subjects
OF the contract The institutions of the
United States rest nnan the intelligence :.a
virtue of all the people. Suffrage is made
universal as a Just weapon of self-protec-
ton to every citizen. 1t is not the interest
of the republic that any economic system
should be adopted which involves the reduc-
ton of wages to theh hard standard prevail
ing elsewhere. The Republican party aims
to elevate and dignity labor-not to degrade
it,
AS a substitute for the industrial system
which under Republican administration has
developed such extraordinary prosperity,
orr opponents offer a policy which Ii but a
series of experiments upon Our system OF
revenue policy whose end must be harm
to our manufactures and greater harm to our
labor. Experiments in the industrial and
financial system is the country's greatest
dread, as stability is it's greatest boon. Even
the uncertainty resulting from the recent
tariff agitation in congress has hurtfuliy
affected the business OF the entire country.
Who can measure the harm to our shops and
our homes, TO our farms and our comm cree,
II the uncertainty of perpetual tariff agita-
ton is to be inflicted upon the countryg We
are in the mid OF an abundant harvest; we
are on the eve of q revival OF general pros
perity. Nothing stands in our way but the
dread of q change in the industrial system
which has wrought such wonders in the last
twenty years and which with the power OF
increased capital viii work still greater
marvels of prosperity in the twenty years to
come.
OUR FOREIGN POLICY.
Our foreign relations favor u domestic
6auot0nfnanf Wa o7rc af t1pafa with f1a
world-at peace upon O sound basis with nc
unsettled questions of sufficient magnitude
to embarrass or distract VI Happily re
moved from 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 confii with
any power on earth, and we may rest La as
sured confidence that no power desires to
attack the United States
With the nations of the Western hemi-
sphere we should cultivate closer relations,
and for our common prosperity and adj
vancement we should invite them all TO join
with us in an agreement that, for the future,
all international troubles in North or South
America shall be adjusted by impartial arbi-
tration and NOT by arms. This project was part
of the fixed policy of President Garfield's adj
ministration. and it should in my judgment
be renewed Its accomplishment on this con-
tinent would favorably affect the nations be-
yond 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 American states has been
most happy, and has increased the confidence
Of those people in u friendly disposition
1t fell to my lot as secretary of state, in June,
1881, to quiet apprehension in the Republic
of Mexico, by giving the assurance IN an
official dispatch tina there is nor the faint
est desire Ia the United States for territorial
extension south of the Rio Grande. The
boundaries of the two republics have been
established in conformity with the best jurls-
dictional interests Of both The line OF de-
marcation is not merely conventional. IL IA
more. It separates a Spanish-American peo-
PIE from a -Saxon-American people. 1t oil
vides one great nation from another with
distinct and natural finality."
We seek the cOnQuests OF peace. We de-
sire TO extend our commerce. and In an
especial degree with our friends and neigh
bors on this continent. Ne nave not inn
proved our relations with Spanish-America
as wisely and as persistently as we might
nave done. For more than a generation the
| sympathy of those countries has been allowed
| to drift away from us We should o
make every effort TO gain their friendship.
Our trade withShem is already large Dur
ing the last year our exchanges IN the west.
ern hemisphere amounted TO ,uUU
NEARLY ene=feHEs CT eur entire 4efsssssH
| commerce. To those who may be disposed
| to underrate the value of our trade with the
| countries of North and South America Il
| may be well to state that their population
is nearly or quite fifty miIlions-and that, y
proportion TO aggregate numbers, we impor1
| nearly double as much from them as we do
| from Europe. But the result OF the whole
| American trade Is In q high degree unsatis.
| factory. The imports during the past year
| exceeded 1925, 600, 600. while the exports
| were less than $125, 600, O~00-showing 9
millions OF dollars. But the money does not
70 to Spanish America. We send large sums
to Europe in coin or It's equivalent TO pay
European manufacturer Fer the goods which
they send to Spanish America. We are but