St. Landry democrat., 1884-08-02
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tlon III Cohst4 mas hurtluIly aAe&ted the
business OF T-re entire country. We can
measure tn, ha m to our shops and our
homes, to our farms and our comm erce, If the
uncertainty of perpetual tariff agitation is toy
be DdIcted up IN the country? We are N the
Must of an abundant harvest; we are on the
eve of a revival of general prosperity. Moth
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 eater marvels of
prosperity in the twenty yearsto come.
OUR FOREIGN POLICY.
Our foreign relations favor our domestic:
development. We are at peJce with the world
at peace upona sound bass with no unset
tied questi n of sufficient magnitude to en-
barrass or distract US Happily removed 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
ire IDLY relations with all, and are free from;
possible acknowledgements in the quaTels ofany!
The United States has no 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 internation--
al troubles in North or South America shall be-
adjusted by impartial arbitration, and not by
arms. This project was part of the fixed pol
icy of President Gartields administration,
and 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 dis ant
day to the universal acceptance of the pill
anthropic and Christian principle of arbitra-
ton The effect even of suggesting it for the
Spanish American States has been most hapJ
pv, and has increased the confidence of those
people in our friendly disposition 1t fell to-
my lot as Secretary of State in une, 1881, to-
quiet apprehension in the Republic of Mexico
by giving the assurance in an official dispatch
that 'Ghere Is not the faintest desire in the
United States for territorial extension south
of the Rio Grande. The boundaries of the,
two republics have been established i'll con-
foranity W tn the best jurisdi2tiOnal interests
of both The line of demarcatlon.is not mere
~ conventional. 1t is more. 1t separates
Spanish-American people from a Saxon
American people. 1t divides one great na-s
ton from another with distinct and natural
tinality."
We seek the conquests of peace. We DEF.
sire TO extend our commerce, and in am,
especial degree with our friends and ne19h4
bOrS on this continent. We have not I'M
proved our relations with SPANS Amer ca.
as wisely and persistently as we might have
done. For more than generation the SYM.
pathe5 of those countries have been allowed,
to drift away from us. We should now make
every effort to gain Their friendship. Our
trade with them is alrea ~ large. During the
last year our Tchanges in the western hem
isphere amounted to 1859 DOC, 000-nGarly ore:
fourth of our entire foreign commerce. To
chose who may be disposed to underrate the
of Moth and South America it may
be we'll to state that their population
is nearly or quite 50,000000-and that. IN
proportion to aggregate numbers, we import
nearly double as much from them as we DO
from Europe. But the result OF the whole
American trade is in high decree unsatls"
factory. The imports during the past ytar.
exceeded 1928 0G0, 900. while the exports were
less than Si25 600, 0G0-showIng balan Q
a2ainst us of more than 500 WW, UBO But the
money does not go to Spani h America We
send large sums to Europe in coin or Its
equivalent to- pay European manufacturers
for the goods which they send to Span, sh
America. We are but paymasters for mis-
enormous amount annually to European fac
t0rs--au amount which is a serious draft, IN
every financial depression, upon our re-
sources of specie.
be changed! Can not the market for our
products be greatly enlarged we have made
beginning in our eEeG to improve trade
relations with Mexico, rad we should not be
content until similar and mutually adyan-+
tageous arrangements have been uc@ess fully
made with every natl IN of North and South
America. While the great powers OF Europe
are steadily charging their colonial dom ma
ton in Asia and Africa It is the especial
province this country to improve and expand
ITS trade with the nations of Am srica. No
field promises SO much, No field has been
cultivate sc little. Our foreign policy should
be an American policy in its broaaest and
most comprehensive sense-a policy OF
peace, OF friendship, of commercial enlarge
meat.
The name of american, which belongs to US.
IN our national capacity, must always exalL
the just pride of patro ism. Citizenship or
the republic must be tie panoply and safe
quart OF MIN who wears 1t. Inc American
citizen, rich or poor, native or natLrailZedp
white or colored must everywhere walk Sc
cure ii his personal and civil RICH S. Tne re-
public Should never accept lesser duty, It.
can never assume nobler one than Ehe pro-
lection of the humblest man who owes 1t 10y
alty-prOtecpion at home and rejection which
shall follow him abroad, into whatever land ne
may go upon lawful errand.
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
recognize, not without regret, the neces-
sity for speaking of two sections of our COM
mon country. But the regret dim1alshes.
when see that the elements which separated
them are fast disappearing. Preiudices have
yielded aud are yielding, while a growing
cordialfty warns the Southern ard the North.
ern heart alike. Can any one do9bt that be-
to-day more marked than at any period IN
the sixty years preceding the election OF
President Lincoln? This is the result in part
of time andin part of Republican principles
applied under the favorable conditions OF
uniformity. It would be a great.
calamity to ntob change these
weatths are learning to Vindicate civil rights.
aud alap ing themselves to the condlt1ohs or,
it there be occasional and violent outbte ks
in the South against this peaceful progress.
the public opinion of the country regar' 8
them as exceptional and hopefully TRUSTS that~
each will prove the last.
The South needs capital and occupation,
not controversy. AS mu as any part of the
North the South needs the full protest ton Of
the revenue laws which theSstepubllcan party
offers. Some of the Southeh States have al
ready entered upon career of industrial de-
velopment and prosperity These. at least,
should not lend their electoral votes to de-.
stroy their own future.
Any effort to unite the Southern States
upon issues that grow out of the me nories of
the war will summon the Northern States to-
combine in the assertion OF that nationality
which was their inspiration in the civil strug-
GLE And thus great energies which should be-
limited in common industrial development.
will be wasted in hurtful strife. The Demo-
cratic party shows itself a foe to Southern
prosperity by always invoking and urging
Southern political consolidation. Such a.
r,olicr n11enches the rising instinct of natrint-