Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-07-23

eagerly sought after by investors in all parts
of the world.
Our system of currency is most admirable
in construction. While all the eonyeniences
of bill circulation attach to it, every dollar
of paper represents a dollar of the worlds
money standards, and as long as the just and
wise policy of the Republican party is con-
tinued there can be no impairment of the
national credit. Therefore, under present
laws relating thereto, it will be impossible for
any man to lose penny in the bonds or bills
of the United States or in the bills of the
national banks.
The advantage of having a bank-note in
the house which will be as good in the morn
Jag as it was the night before, should be ap-
preciated by all.
The conyertibiliiy of the currency should
be maintained intact, and the establishment
of an international standard among all com
mercial nations, fixing the relative value OF
gold and silver coinage, would be measure
Of peculiar advantage,
INTER STATE FOREIGN COMMERCE, AND For
EIGN RELATIONS.
The subjects embraced in the resolutions
respectively looking to the promotion of our
interstate and foreign commerce and to the
matter OF our foreign relations fraught
In respect TO inter state commerce, there is
much TO be desired IN the way of equitable
rates and facilities OF transportation, that
commerce may flow freely between the states
themselves, diversity of industries and en-
pigments be promoted in all sections of our
country, and that the great granaries and
manufacturing establishments of the interior
may be enabled to send their products to the
seaboard for shipment to foreign countries,
relieved of yexatiOus restrictions and dis
ordinations in matters of which it may en-
phatically be said, time is Money" and also
of unjust charges upon articles destined to
meet close competition from the products of
other parts of the world.
As to our foreign commerce. the enormous
growth of our industries, and our surpris-
ing production of cereals and other necess-
ties of life. imperatiyely require that imme-
diate and effective means be taken through
peaceful, orderly, and conservative methods to
open markets, which have been and are now
monopolized largely by other nations. This
more particularly relates to our sister rebub-
lies of Spanish America, as also to our friends
the people of the Brazilian empire.
The republics of Spanish America are
allied to us by the very closest and warmest
feelings. based upon similarity of Institutions
and government, common aspirations, and
mutual hopes. The Great Republic" as
thev proudly term the United States is looked
upon by their people with atfectionate admir-
alton and as the model for them to build up
on, and we should cultivate between them
and ourselves closer commercial relations,
which will bind all together by the ties of
friendly intercourse and mutual advantage.
Further than this, being small common
wcalihs, in the military and naval sense of
the European powers, they look to US as, at
least, moral defender against a system of
territorial and other encroachments which,
aggressive in the past, has not been abandoned
at this day Diplomacy and intrigue have
done much more to wrest the commerce of
Spanish America from the United States than
has legitimate commercial competition.
Politically we should be bound to the re-
publics of our continent by the closest ties,
and communication by ships and railroads
should be encouraged to the fullest possible
extent consistent with wise and conservative
public policy. Above all, we should be upon
such terms of friendship to preclude the
, possibility of national Misunderstanding be-
tween ourselves and any of the members 1T
the American republican family. The best
method to promote uninterrupted peace be-
tween one and all would lie in the meeting of
a general conference or congress, whereby an
agreement to submit all international differ
ences to the peaceful decision of friendly
arbitration might be reached.
An agreement of this kind would give tn
our sister REPUBLICS confidence in each other
and in Us. closer communication would AT
one, ensue. reciurocally advantageous com
mercial treaties might be made. whereby
much of the commerce which now flows across
. the Atlantic would seek its leoitimat, chan.
nels. and inure to the greater prosp4ritv Of
all the American CONFERENCE.-The The full
advantages of A policy of this nature could
not be stated in A brief discussion like the
present
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