Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-07-19

scented the fruit Of the toll Of two hun
dred and fifty years. After 1850 tn,
business oil the country was encourages
and developed by protective tariff. Al
the end Of the twenty years the
total property Of the United States, as
returned by tho census OF 1880, amount
ed to the enormous aggregate Of Sf4,
O00, Co., 900 This great result was at
tanned Notwithstanding the fact thai
countless millions had. in the interval,
been wasted in the progress OF a bloody
war. The results are regarded by tbs
older nations Of the world rs phenome
nal. That our country should surmouni
the peril and cost Of gigantic war ant
for an entire period OF twenty year
make an average gain TO its wealth o.
Sl25, 0O0.0 900 per month surpasses thu
experience OF all other nations, aneien
or modern.
Even the opponents OF the presen
revenue system do not pretend that il
the whole history Of civilization any
parallel can be found to the materia
progress Of the United States since tn,
accession Of the Republican party Il
power. Our opponents find fault tina
our revenue system produces u sur
plus, but they should not forget tina
the law was given a specific pur
pose, 10 which all of the surplus II
proftably aud honorably APP lied. thu
reduction of the public debt aud thu
consequent relief of the burden Of taxa
ton. Not dollar has been wasted
and the only extravaganza with which
the party stands charged is the generous
pensioning Of soldiers and sailors and
their families, an extravagance which
embodies the highest form of justice in
the recognition and payment Of sacred
debt. When the reduction Of taxation
Is to be made the Republican party can
be trusted TO accomplish 1t such aform
as v III most effectively aid the industries
of the nation.
Referring TO foreign commerce. he
says: Oar carrying tiade has, from OBJ
vious causes, suffered many dcourage-
ments since 1860, but our foreign com.
merce has, in the snme period, steadily
and prodigiously increased. Increased,
indeed, at a rate and to an amount which
absolutely dwarfs all previous develop
ments OF our trade beyond the sea.
| From 1850 to the present time the for
| ttRn commerce VI tut Outttu pbutCdy vi
vided with approximate equality be-
tween exports and imper's, reached
the astounding aggregate Of twenty.four
thousand millions of dollars. The total
exports from the United States, from the
Declaration of Independence in l776,
down to the day of Lincoln's election in
1860, added to all that had previously
been exported from the American colo
MES from their original settlement,
| amounted to less than nine Thousand
millions of dollars. On the other hand,
our exports from 1860 to the close of the
late fiscal year, exceeded tw I've thou
sand millions of dollars, the whole Of it
being the product of American labor.
Evidently a protective tariff has not ill.,
jured our export trade, when under its
influence we exported in twenty
| four years forty per cent more than the
total amount of that that had been ex
ported in the entire history Of American
commerce.
| On the question of agricultural inter
ests he says: The South, which is almost
exclusively agricultural, has shared in
the general prosperity Of the country
and, having recovered from the loss and
devastation Of the war, has gained SO
rapidly that its total wealth is at least
the double of that which it possessed in
1860, exclusive Of slaves. In these ex-
traordi, airy developments the farmers
see the hopeful impulse Of u home mar
ket and they see that the iinan,
cial and revenue system enacted
since the Republican party came
into power has established and constant
ly expanded the home market.
Referring to the profits derived from
the nations foreign trade, he says: "Its
profits are enjoyed to-day by So, 900, 600
y of American tieemen and from this en-
joyment no monopoly is created. The
Internal competition which takes place
does away with everything like mOnop-
oily, and by degrees reduces the prices
of articles to the minimum OF q reasons.
bleprofit on the capital employed. Tits
impossible to point to a single monopoly
in the United States that has been created
or fostered by the industrial system
which lie upheld by the Republican
party. Our internal commercial ex-
changes are estimated by the Statistical
Bureau of the Treasury Department
to be annually twenty times as great in
amount as our foreign commerce. 1t is
into this vast field of home trade, at
once the creation and the heritage of the
American people, that foreign nations
are striving by every device to enter. 1t
is into this field that the opponents Of
our present revenue system would freely
admit the countries of Europe, coun-
tries into whose internal trade we could
not reciprooally enter, countries to which
we should be surrendering every ad-
vantage of trade from which we
should be gaining nothing in exchange.
Tho Republican party has protected the
free trade labor Of America 80 that iva
compensation is larger than is realized
in any other country. 1t has guarded
our people against the unfair competi.
ton of contract labor from China, and
may be called upon to prohibit the
growth of similar evil from Europe.
The institutions of the United States
rest upon the intelligence and virtue Of
the people. Suffrage is made universal
us Just weapon of self.protec,io IL to
every citizen. 1t is not the interest OF
the Republic that that economic system
should be adopted which involves
the reduction of wages to the hard
standard prevailing elsewhere. The Re
publican party aims to elevate and dig
nify labor, not to degrade it.. Nothing
stands in our way but the dread q
change in the industrial system which
has wrought such wonders in the la,
twenty years and which, with the pow,
in increased capital, will work still
greater marvels of prosperity in tie
twenty years to come.
On the South American question he
saws: All international troubles in North
or South America should be adjusted | J
impartial arbitration and not by arms
This project was part Of the fixed
policy of President Garfield's admin
istration and it should, ir
NV Judgment, be renewed. We have
not improved our relations with Spanish
America as we should and we might
have done. For more than generator
the sympathy of these countries has beer
allowed to drift away from us. W,
should now make every effort to gair
their friendship. While the great pow
ers of Europe are steadily charging theil
colonial domination in Asia and Africa
it is the especial province of this coun
try to improve and expand its trade witt
the nations of America.
Abiding to the necessities and re
quiremont, of the Southern States, HI
says: The Democratic party shows it
self foe to Southern prosperity by al
ways invoking and encouraging politica
consolidation. Such policy quenches thu
rising instinct of patriotism in the heart
of the Southern youth. 1t substitutel
the spirit of barbaric vengeance for thu
love of peace, progress and harmony.
On the question of Civil Service, Mr.
Blaine says; The growth of the coun
TT, has continually and necessarily Ell
larged the Civil Service until it include
vast body of officers. The rule
and methods of appointment which
prevailed when the number wa
smaller has been found INSULT
Gent and impractical and eanes
afforts have been made to separate IN,