The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-07-19

enue system enacted since the BE-
publican party came into power,
has established and con. family ex
banded the home market. They see
that even in the case OF wheat,
which is your chief cereal export,
they have sold il average years since
the close of the war, three bushels
at home to one they hay
sold abroad, and that in the in
crease of corn, the only other cereal
which we export to any extent,
one hundred bushels have been
used at home to three and a half
bushels exported. In some years
the disparity has been so great that
for every peck OF corn exported one
hundred bushels have been con
summed in the home market. The
farmers see that in the increasing
competition from the grain fields OF
Russia and from the distant plains
of India, the growth OF the home
market becomes daily Of greater
concern to them, and that It's i'm
pairmant would dspreeiste the
value of every acre of tillable land
IN the Union.
Our chief emporium, the City
of New York, with ITS deDenden
cies, has withio that period doubled
her population and increased wealth
five fold. During the same psriod
the imports and exports, which have
entered and left her harbor, are
more than doubled in bulk and
value, the whole amount reported
by her between the settlement of
the Dutch colony in the island of
Manhattan and the outbreak OF the
civil war in 1860.
SPANISH AMERICA.
We send large sums to Europe IN
coin or its equivalent to pay Euro
pean manufacturers for the goods
which they send to Spanish Amer
lea. We are but paymasters for this
enor nous amount annually to Euro
pean factors. An amount which is
serious draft in every financial
depression upon our resources o;
specie. Cannot this condition of
trade in great part be changed?
Cannot the market for cur products
be greatly enlarged? We have made
beginning Ct our effort to improve
trade relations with Mexico, and
We should not be content until
similar and mutually advantageous
arrangements have been succes-
sively made with every nation o.
North and South America; while
the great powers of Europe are
steadily enlarging their colonial
domination in Asia and Africa, it is
the especial province OF this coun
try to improve and expaCd its trade
with the nat ons of America. No
field promises go much; no field has
been cultivated so little. Our for
eign policy should be an American
policy In the broadcast sense, and the
moot comprehensive senss =; a policy
of peace and friendship and OF cons
mercial enlargement.
The name af American which be.
longs to US in our national capacity
must always exalt the just pride o;
patriotism. Citizenship of the res
public must be the panoply and
safeguard of him who wears it. TIE
American citizen, rich or poor, ma
tive or naturalized, white or colored,
must everywhere walk secure IN his
personal and civil rights. The res
public should never accept q lesser
duty, 1t can never assume a nobIer
one, than the protection OF the
humblest man who owes it loyalty,
protection at home end protect on
which shall follow h m abroad inso
whatever land ne may 20 upon a
lawful errand.
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
l recognize not without regret the
necessity OF speaking OF two sections
OF our common country, but the re-
greet diminishes when zee that the
elements which separated them are
fast disappearing; prejudices have
yielded and are yielding, while 8
growing c1rdiality warns the SOUTH
ern and the Northern heart alike.
Can any one doubt that bet Ween thu
sections confidence and esteem are
to-day mere marked than at any
period in the sixty years preceding
the election of President Lincoln ?
This is the result in part Repub~
lican principles applied under the
avors ole conditions.
OUR INTERNAL COMMERCE.
Such facts as th. Sc. touching the
growth end consumption of cereals
at home give some slight conception
Of the internal commerce of the
United States. They suggest also
that in addition to the advantages
which the American people enjoy
by protection against foreign COM
petition; they enjoy the advantages
Of absolute free Lrade ove- a larger
area and with greater population
than any other nation. TIE in
ternal commerce OF OUT thirty-eighI
States and nine Territories ia
carried on without either let
or hindrance, without tax detention
1t is in this field that the opponents
of our present revenue system
would freely admit the countries Of
Eur pr, countries into whose inter-
nal trade we would not reciprocslly
enter. countries 20 which we should
bs su'rend.liDg every nd antags of
trade from which we should be
gaining nothing in return; would
be disastrous to the mechanics
and UOrl-ipopooD nf the ITpifa6