The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-01

thousand people coming in one year from the
! other side the sea to our country. If this had
not been the best country to live
in there would have been $4,000
| Americans going to the other side the Atlantic.
| Shall we go northl Already the busiest lines of
competition are along the St Lawrence, and the
| Androscoggin, and the Penobscot, and the woods
of Maine, and the waters of the lakechain
answer mo room here"
| Shall we move westl There is no West. The
emigrants chased it across the Ohio across the
| Mississippi across the Platte, and FremOntis
| exploring expedition put their spurs into their
! horses TANKS and chased the West from the
| Rocky mountains to their Sierra Nevadas, while
| the forty miners from California, landing from
! their ships on the Pacific beach, took the West
in the rear. And the workmen of the Union Pa
| cifc, and Northern Pacific. aud Southern Pacific
| came upon upon 1T with their spades, and the
! giant West has ceased. And though many might
suppose that it might be said of it as Of Moses:
No man knoweth Of his sepulchre to this day."
| | think that the Yosemite valley IS its sarcopha-
| gus. with FL Captain for the headstone and
| Cathedral Rock at the foot. The millions OF
! foreign population that are yet to cross the sea
for America will soon fill all the area between the
| Atlantic and Pacific beaches
But in the words of my text l now declare
! Another door toward the south" And when
| say south do not mean the Southern States of
the Nation. but mean magnificent infinity of
! opportunity beyond, Portuguese America, the
| fifteen Spanish American republics and tine
islands of The South Pacific Through that door
| this oversuppy 1t will come within ten years
within five, within three. On the 10th of next
month, at the New Orleans exposition, that door
| will begin to swing open. And If the govern
ment of the United States fully appreciate the
opportunity, and the people will help, the high
est water mark that the wave of our national
| prosperity has ever reached will be a hundred
feet under what shall speedily be the full tide of
commercial agricultural manufacturing liter
airy and moral success In the name of God
| proclaim revolution. Not by sword. or dynamite.
| or nitro glycerine giant powder, but by
| pillow, and saw, and yardstick and factory
| hands, and new lines of steamers and whole
| nations rising up to greet our Nation in CONNER
| cial unity Our people, for the most part sit in
| appalling ignorance Of an opportunity such as
was never spread out before any nation since
the morning stars sang together. ION the
| south three gates" YEA three thousand gates.
| and all of them wide open.
have had facts put before me enough to keep
| man awake at nights because of their startling
significance, and statistics so loaded with mean
! ing that they move with the splendor and power
| of the Iron Dukes army at Wateroo-Scotch
Greys and the Life Guards, and Packs Infantry,
| and battalions of Ponsonby, and Ryland, and the
Dutch Begians, and Highlanders sounding their
| bagpipes. Ave! aye 1t is bloodess Waterloo
which will decide the commercial destiny of
| North and South America. The simple fact is
that the vast realms of population in the tropics
are buying from transatlantic nations almost
| everything, and from us almost nothing, and the
| tide ought to turn, and the tide will turn, and
preach this sermon to help it turn Your ears
will tiugle with the intensity of this recital. In
1880 So 1863 600. 600 worth Of goods manufactured
in the United States, and only per cent taken
by foreign markets 1t is wonder that Amer
lean manufactures are not as dead as the pro
verbal dOor-nail
RELIEF FROM COMMERCIAL IDIoCY.
My only wonder is that nine-tenths of the man
ufactores have not gone into bankruptcy and
ninety nine one hundredths of the factory hands
gone into starvation the aims house, and it
will be worse if the battle is to go between
Lowell spndles here and Manchester spindles
there-between foreign merchants who want
tariffs down and American merchants who want
tariffs up There is no relief for us in the mar
kets of Europe, and will be none till moons
shall wax and wane no more. Another door
oward the south On the south three gates"
This Nation. to-day, is like silly dry goods
merchant who stands behind the counter nag
Cling with a small customer about three yards of
| tape when there at the counter, impatiently
waiting, three princesses wishing to purchase
their bridal trousseauX. May God arouse this
| Nation from its commercial idiocy.
On the south of us are regions nearly three
times as large as the United States which
without manufactures, without wooden goods,
without agricultural implements, without tele-
graph without telephones. without Shoes with
out sewing machines, without 10, 900 things
that we have and they must have. Where shall
they get theml They are getting them from
| 3 900 miles away and we, at the next door from
them are buried under surplus of these very
things. They are able to trade with us for their
sugars and coffees, and Spices and fruits, and val
liable woods need much as they need our
products But look, and then hang your heads at
the statement, that while our neXtdoor neigh
bors, the southern republics and Brazil and
neighboring colonies import 500 900, 900 worth
of goods in year, only $l26 DOC, 900 are from
| the United States. Only one-ifth of the trade
is ours European nations taking the four fingers
and leaving us the poor thumb. The sister re-
publics the American continent have
foreign commerce amounting to $428, OOO, 600, for
which we have only the feeble and paltry sum
of $63 900 900. There is nothing but compar-
alive ferry between this country and the West
Indies, while there raging seas of long voy
age between them and other continents Yet
they import 81 Is 900 900 worth of goods year,
| and only $31, COO, 900 comes from us.
Now, all this is going to be speedily changed,
and the change is going to be the solution of the
| labor question: and the bread question and the
communist question. and the overproduction
and under-consumption question, and almost
every other question. 1t is going to set all the
mills on the SIerrimac, and the Connecticut and
the Susquehanna and the Chattahoochee run
| ming day and night with double set of hands,
aud calling for ten factories where we have one
factory, aud putting all the men who now
out of employment into work at good wages,
and change this story of dull times into pros
perty, which will roll on in full tide until the
| Mississippi loses its way to the Gulf of Mexico.
| l am no more thankful for the past blessings of
this country than | am thankful for this open
! ing opportunity, in its height stupendous and in
its width hemisphere.
How will IL be donel Among other things by
such action as that which led our Congress to
appropriate 81, 300. 600 to the New Orleans expo
sition, Mexico giving 100000 and New Orleans
$500, 900. That exposition, though preceded by
Sydenham crystal palace and the French. and
the Vienna and the Philadelphia expositions
will be in farreaching significance more impor-
tant than all of them put together They showed
chiehywhat had been done This exposition of next
month will build platform on which the ma
tions Of the American continent shall come for
introduction to a new commercial epoch in the
history of the ages. On that platform will come
up Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela,
Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia, Costa RIGA, Ecua-
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