The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-07-25

pie. Suffrage Is made UNIVERSAL as just
weapon Of self defense to every citizen. Ii
is not to the interest of the republic that any
economic system should be adopted which
involves the reduction Of wages to the hard
standard prevailing elsewhere. The Repub-
lican party aims to elevate and dignity labor,
not to degrade it. As substitute for the IN
dustrial system which under Republican ad-
ministration has developed such extraordi-
nary prosperity, our opponents offer policy
which Is but series Of experiments upon
our system of revenues policy whose end
must harm our manufacturers and the greater
part Of our labor. Experiment In tho indus
trial and financial systems Is the countrys
greatest dread, as stability is its greatest
boon. Even the uncertainty resulting from
the recent tariff legislation In Congress has
hurtfully affected the business Of the entire |
country. Who can measure the harm to our |
shops and our homes, to our farms and our |
commerce, II the uncertainty Of perpetual
tariff agitation is to be inflicted upon the
country? We are in the midst Of All abund- |
ant harvest; We are on the eve Of revival
Of general prosperity; nothing stands In
our way but the dread Of a change in the In
dustrial system which has wrought such
wonder in the last twenty years, and which,
with power Of increased capital, will work
still greater marvels of prosperity in the
twenty years to como.
OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS.
Our foreign relations favor our domestic
development. We are with the world ut
peace, upon sound basis, with No unsettled
questions of sufficient magnitude to embar-
rass or disturb us. Happily removed by geo.
graphical position from participation In the
interest of those questions Of dynasty or
boundary which so frequently disturb the
peace of Europe, we are left to cultivate
friendly relations with all, and free from
possible entanglements in the quarrels of
any. The United States has no cause and no
desire to enter into conflict with any power
Oh EARTH and we rest in confidence that no
power desires to attack US. With the nations
of the Western Hemisphere we should Guilt
vate closer relations, and for our common
prosperity and advancement we should in
duce them all to join with us in an agree
| ment that for tho future all International
| troubles in North or South America should
be adjusted by impartial arbitration and not
| by arms. This project was part Of the fixed
| policy Of President Garfield's administration,
and it should in my judgment be renewed.
| Its accomplishment on this continent would
favorably affect the nations beyond the sea
and thus contri butte at no distant date to the
universal acceptance of the philanthropic
| and Christian principle of arbitration. The
effect even Of suggesting 1t for the Spanish
| American States has been most happy, and
has increased the confidence of those people
in orr friendly disposition.
HIS SOUTH AMERICAN VIEWS.
1t fell to my lot. as Secretary Of State in
June, 1881, to quiet apprehensions in the
Republic of Mexico by giving tho assurance,
in an official dispatch, that there Is no desire
| In the United States for Territorial aggrand-
| izsment. The boundaries Of the two repub-
lies have been established in conformity with
| the best jursdictional interests Of both. The
| line of demarkation Is not merely conven-
| lent, is more; it separates the Spanish.Amer-
| lean people from a Saxon-American people
| it divides one great nation from another with
distinct and natural affinity. We seek the
conquests Of peace. We desire to extend our
commerce, and in an especial degree with
our friends and neighbors on this continent.
| We have not improved our relations with
| Spanish America as we should, and as we
| might, have done. For more than u genera
ton the sympathy Of these countries has been
allowed to drift away from US. We should
| now make
| EVERY EFFORT TO GAIN THEIR FRIENDsHIP.
Our trade with them is already large. Dur
| ing the last year our exchanges in the West
| ern Hemisphere have amounted to $3.50 ,0O0,-
| OC0-nearly one fourth Of our entire foreign
commerce. To those who may be disposed
to underrate the value Of our trade with tho
| countries of North and South America it may
be we'll to state that their production Is near
| ly $50, 200, 900, and that in proportion to the
| aggregate numbers we import nearly double
| as much from them a. We do from Europe,
but the result of the whole amount Of the
trade is in high degree unsatisfactory. The
| imports during the past year exceeded $685.
000, 900, while the exports were less than
| s125, OO0, 900, showing balance against us Of
more than 500, 10000. But the money does
not 60 to Spanish America. We send large
sums to Europe in coin, or its equivalent, to
pay manufacturers fer the goods which they
send to Spanish-Amsrica. We are but pay
masters for this enormous amount annually
to European factors-an amount which is a
serious draft in every financial depression
upon our resources Of specie. Cannot this
condition oftrade, in great part,be changed?
Cannot this market for our products be
greatly enlarged? We have made begin
ming Of our effort to improve trade relations
with Mexico and We should not be content
until similar and mutually advani agsous al
rangements have been successfully made with
every nation Of North and South America.
While the great powers of Europe are stead
lily enlarging their colonial domination in
ASIA and Africa, it IN the especial province
of this country to improve and expand Its
trade with the nations Of America. No field
promises SO much. No field has been cult
waited 50 little. Our foreign policy should be
An American policy in its broadcast and most
comprehensive sense-a policy Of peace and
friendship, ofconnercial enlargement.
AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP.
Tho name Of American, which belongs to
US in our national capacity, must always ex-
alt just pride Of patriotism. Citizenship Of
the Republic must be the panoply and safe
guard Of him who wears it. The American
citizen, rich or poor, native or naturalized,
white or colorcd, must everywhere walk Sc
cure in his personal and civil rights. The
Republic should not accept lesser duty. II
can never assume nobler ono than the pro-
lection ofthe humblest man who owes 1t 10y
alty-protection at home and protection
which shall follow him abroad in whatever
land he may 60 upon lawful errand.
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
recognize. not without regret, the neses-
sity for speaking Of two sections Of our coun-
try. But the regret diminishes when see
that the elements which separated them are
fast disappearing. Prejudiees have yielded
and are yielding, while growing eordiality
warns the Southern and the Northern heart
alike. Can any one doubt that between the
sections confidence and esteem are more
marked than at any period in the sixty years
preceding the election Of President Lincoln
This Is the result In part Of time and in part
Of Republican principles, applied under the |
favorable conditions of uniformity. 1t would
be agreat calamity to change these influences