McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-31

vestOrs In all parts OF the world. our syS.
tenn Of currency Is the most admirable In
construction, while all the conveniences of
bill circulation attach to It., Every dollar OF
paper represents dollar Of the worlds
| money standards, and as long as the Just
and wise policy of the republican party Is
continued there can be no Impairment OF
our national credit. Therefore, under the
present laws relating thereto. 1t will be i'm
possible for any man to lose penny In the
bonds or bills Of the United States, or in the
bills of National banks. The. advantage of
having bank note in the house which will
be as good In the morning as 1t was the
night before should be appreciated by all.
The convertibility of our currency should be
maintained intact, and the establishment Of
an internal standard among all commercial
nations, fixing the relative values Of gold
and silver coinage would, be q measure Of
peculiar advantage to all.
INTER STATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE
AND FOREIGN RELATION.
The subjects embraced in the resolutions
respectively looking to the promotion OF our
inter state and foreign commerce and to the
matter of our foreign relations are fraught
with great importance to our people. In re-
spect to inter state commerce there Is much
to be desire in the way OF facilities of trans
portatiOn, that commerce may flow freely to
| the states themselves, the diversity OF Indus
tries and employments be promoted In all
sections of our country, and that the great
granaries and manufacturing establishments
In the interior may be enabled to send their
| products to the seab0ard for shipments to
foreign countries, relieved OF vexatious re-
strictions and Determinations. In matters
of which 1t may emphatically be said,
"Time is money! and also OF Unjust
charges upon articles destined 10 meet close
parts of the world. As to our foreign COM
merce, the enormous growth of our indus.
tries and our surprising production OF
| cereals and other necessities OF life impera-
lively require that immediate and effective
means may be taken, through peaceful, or
derby and conservative methods to open up
markets which have been and are now
monopolized largely by other nations. This
is more particularly relative to our sister
republics of Spanish America, as also to our
friends and people of the Brazilian empire.
The republics of Spanish America are allied
to us by the very closest and wArmest feel
| ings based upon similarity OF his tuition
and government common aspiration and
mutual hopes. The ''great republic" as
they proudly term the United States, Is
looked upon by their people with affection
| ate admiration and as a model for them to
build upon, and we should cultivate be.
tween them and ourselves closer CONNER
cial relations, which will bind all together
by ties of friendly Intercourse and mutual
advantage. Further than this, being small
commonwealth, in the military and naval
sense of the European powers, they look
to us at least as moral defender against
the system OF territorial and other encrOach-
ments which, though aggressive in the past,
have not been abandoned to this day. Dr.
| plomacy and intrigue have done much more
to wrest the commerce of Spanish America
from the United States than has the legiti-
mate commercial competition. Politically
| oh ho nd to- he ~
continent by the closest ties, and commune
cation by ships and railroads should be en-
couraged to the fullest possible extent con-
sistent with wise and conservative public
policy. Above all, we should be upon such
terms of friendship as to preclude the pos
sibility of national MISUNDERSTANDING be-
tween ourselves and any other members of
the American republican family. The best
method to promote an uninterrupted peace
between one and all would lie in the meet
Ing OF general conference, or congress,
whereby an agreement to submit all inter-
national differences to the peaceful decision
of friendly arbitration might be reached.
An agreement of this kind would give to
sister republics confidence in each other,
and in the United States closer communities.
ton would at once ensue reciprocally and
| advantageous. Commercial treaties might
| be made whereby much of the commerce
| which now flows across the Atlantic would
| seek its legitimate channel and inure to tie
greater prosperity of all American common
wealths. The full advantages OF policy OF
this nature could not be stated in brief
discussion like the present.
FOREIGN POLITICAL RELATIONS.
The United States has grown to be gov
| eminent representing more than %, 0O0, O0O
people, and in every sense, except in that
| of mere naval power, is one of the first ma.
lions of The world, and as such its citizen
ship should be valuable, emitting its pos
SCISSOR to protection in every quarter OF the
| globe. do not consider it necessary that
| our government should construct enormous
fleets of improved ironclads and maintain a
commensurate body of seamen in order to
| place ourselves on war footing with the
military and naval powers of Europe. Such
course would not be compatible with the
peaceful policy of our country, though it
seems absurd that we have not effective
means to repel wanton invasion of our
| coast, and give protection to our coast
towns and cities against any power. The
| great moral force Of our country is so uni
versally recognized as to render an appeal
to arms by US, either in the protection Of
our citizens abroad or in recognition of any
! just internal right, quite improbable. What
| we most need in this direction is firm and
vigorous assertion of every right and privil-
| eye belonging to our government or its citi-
Zens, as we'll as an equally firm assertion of
| luc IlSuGS aHu privileges DelouSluS W tuc
general family of American republics, stu
ated on this continent; when opposed, if
even ever they should be, by different sys-
TENS Of government upon another CONT
nent. An appeal to the rights of such a
government as ours could not be disregard
ed by any civilized nation. In the treaty,
by Washington; we led the world to
means Of escape from the horrors of war,
and it is to be hoped that the era when all
international differences shall be decided by
peaceful arbitration is not far off.
EQUAL RIGHTS OF MAN.
The central idea of a republican form of
government is the rule of the whole people
as opposed to other forms which rest upon
the privileged class. Our forefathers in
their attempt to erect new government
which might represent the advanced
thought of the world, at that period, upon
the subject of governmental reform, adopt
ed the idea of people sovereignty, and thus
laid the basis of our present Republic,
while technicallya government of the peo-
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