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adopted which involves the reduction of wages
to the hard standard prevailing elsewhere. The
Republican party aims to elevate and dignity la

adopted Wnlcn Involves the reQuctlOn OF wages
to the hard standard prevailing elsewhere The
Republican party aims to elevate and dignity Ia
bor-not to degrade it.
AS a substitute for the industrial system which
under Republican adm Illustrations has developed
such extraordinary prosperity, our opponents
offer policy which is but q series of expert
ments upon our system Of revenue-a policy
whose end must be harm to our manufactures
and greater harm to our labor Expert
ment in the Industrial and financial system is the
country's greatest dread as stability Is its great
est boon. Even the uncertainty resulting from the
recent tariff agitation in Congress has hurtfully
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
uncertainty of perpetual tariff agitation is to be
inflicted upon the country? We are in the midst
of an abundant harvest; we the eve Of q
revival of general prosperity. Nothing stands in
our way but the dread of change in the indus
trial system which has wrought such wonders in
the last twenty years and which with the power
of increased capital will work still greater mar
wells of prosperity in the twenty years to come.
OUR FOREIGN POLICY.
Our foreign relations favor our domestic de-
velopment. We are at peace with the world-a
peace upon sound basis with no unsettled ques-
tons of sufficient magnitude to embarrass or dis
tract US. Happily removed by our geographical
position from participation interest in those
questions of dynasty or boundary which SO fire.
Quently 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 cause and no
desire to engage in conflict with any power on
EARTH and we may rest in assured confidence that
no power desires to attack the United States.
With the nations of the Western hemisphere
we should cultivate closer 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 international troubles In
North South America shall be adjusted by i'm
partial arbitration and not by arms. This project
part of the fixed policy of President Garfield S
administration and it should in my Judgment
be renewed. Its accomplishment on this contin-
ent would favorably affect the nations beyond the
sea- and thus powerfully contribute at no distant
day to the universal acceptance of the philan-
thropic and Christian principle of arbitration.
The effect of even suggesting it for the Spanish
American states has been most happy, and has
increased the confidence of those people in our
| friendly disposition. 1t fell to my lot secre
tary of state in June, 1881, quiet apprehension
in the Republic OF Mexico, by giving the assur-
ance in official dispatch that ''there is not the
faintes desire IN the United States for territorial
| extension south Of the Rio Grande The boun-
daries of the two Republics have been established
i'll conformity with the best Jurisdictional inter-
ests OF both. The line Of demarcation is not
merely conventional. 1t Is more. 1t separates a
! Spanish American people frem a Saxon Ameri-
can people. 1t divides one great nation from
| another with distinct and natural fnality. -
We seek the conGuests of peace. We desire
! to extend our commerce, and i'll an especial de-
gree with our friends and neghhors on this con-
! tiDent. We have not improved our relations with
Spanish America as wisely and as persistently as
| we might have done. For than genera
ton the sympathy of those countries have been
| allowed to drift away from u.s. We should now
| make every effort TO gain their friendship. Our
| trade with them is already large. During the
last year our exchanges i'll the Western hemis-
| phcre amounted TO three hundred and fifty mil
| lions Of enthusiastically one fourth of our entire
| foreign commerce. TO those who may be dis
posed to underrate the value of our trade with
/ the countries of North and South America it may
be well to state that their population is nearly Or
| quite fifty milons-and that, in proportion to
aggregate numbers, we import nearly double as
mnch from them as we do from Europe. Bat
! the result of the whole American trade
| is in high degree unsatisfactory.
The imports during the past year
! exceeded two hundred and twenty-five
millions, while the exports were less than
one hundred and twenty-five millions
showing balance against US of
| of more than one hundred millions OF dollars.
But the money does not go to spanish America.
| We send large sums TO Europe in coin or its
| equivalent TO pay European manufacturers for
| the goods which they send to Spanish America.
We are out paymasteIs for this enormous amount
annuallyto European factors-in amount which
| is serious draft, in every financial depression,
upon onr resources OF specie.
Cannot this condition of trade in great part be
changed? Cannot the market for our prol1Gts
be greatly enl arged. We have made beginning
| in our effort to improve our trade relations with
Mexico and we should not be content until SINH
lar and mutually advantageous arrangements
have been successfully made with every nation
of North and South America. While the great
| powers of Europe are steadily charging their
! colonial domination in Asia aud Africa it is the
| especial province of this county to improve and
expand its trade with the nations OF America
! No field promises so much, No field has been
cultivated SO little. Our foreign policy should be
an American policy in its broaiest and most com
| prehensive sense-a policy of peace, OF friend
ship, of commercial enlargement.
The name of Americaa which belongs to us in
| our national capicity must always exalt the just
PRIDE of patriotism. Citizenship of the Rcpublic
must be the panoply and safeguard of him who
wears IT, Tie American citizen, rich or poor
native naturazed, white or coored, must
! everywhere, walk secure in his personal and
civil rights. The Republic should nevera accept a
! lesser duty, it can never assume Il nobler one
| than the protection of the humblest man who
owes it loyaty-protection ut home, and protec-
| lion which shall follow him abroad, into what
ever land he may gu upon u lawful Grand
TIE SOUTHERN STATES.
| irecoguiZe, not without regret, the necessity
! for speaking of two sections of our common coun-
| try But the regret dminshes when see that
the elements which separated them are fast dis
! appearing. Prejudices haze yielded and are
! yielding, While growing cordiality warns the
| Southern and the Northern heart alike Car
any one Goabt that between the sections con-
Gdence and esteem are to-day mere marked than
at any period in the sixty years preceding the
! election of President Lincoln? This il the re-
suit in part of time and in part of Republican
principles applied under the favorable conditions
! of uniformity. II would be great calamity to
! change these Influences under which southern
commemorative are learning to vindicate civil
rights, and adapting themselves 10 the conditions
| of political tranquility aud industrial progress
! II there be occasional and violent outbreaks in
the south against this peaceful progress the pub
/ lie opinion OF the country regards them as ex-
| ceptional, aud hopefully trusts that each will
! prove the last
The south needs capital and occupation, not
! controversy. As much any part OF the north
the south needs the full protection of the revenue
laws which The Republican party oIfers. Some
of the southern states have already entered upon
4 career of industrial development and prosper
ity. These, at least, should not lend their cleo
torsl votes to destroy their own future.
Any effort to mite the southern states upon
| issues that grow out OF the memories OF the war;
| will summon the northern states to combine in
the assertion OF that nationality which was their
/ inspiration in the civil struggle. And thus great
energies which should be united III q common in-
/ dustriG! development viii be wasted in hurtfuI
strife. The Democratic party shows itself foe
! to southern prosperity by always invoking and
urging southern political consolidation. Such
| policy quenches the rising instinct of patriotism
] in the heart of the southern youth; it reyives
/ and ssiInulates nreinfics IL suhstifutes tho