St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-19

W tHc udEu stduuaru prevailing clsoWucre lHe
Republican party aims to elevate and dignity la
bor-not to degrade it.
| AS substitute for the industrial system which
| under Republican administrations has developed
such extraordinary prosperity, our opponents
| offer policy which is but a series of expert
ments upon our system Of revenues policy
| whose end must be harm to our manufactures
| and greater harm to our labor. Expert
ment in the Industrial and financial system is the
countrys greatest dread, stability is its great
est boon. Even the uncertainty resulting from the
recent tariff agitation 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, if the
uncertainty of perpetual tariff agitation is to be
inflicted upon the country? We are in the midst
| of an abundant harvest; we are on the eve of q
revival of general prosperity. Nothing stands in
our way but the dread OF change in the indus
| trial system which has wrought such wonders in
the last twenty years and which with the power
of increased capital will work still greater mar
vels of prosperity in the twenty years to come.
| OUR FOREIGN POLICY.
| Our foreign relations favor our domestic de-
velopment. We are at peace with the world-a
peace upon a sound basis with no unsettled ques-
tions of sufficient magnitude to embaTrass or dis
| tract US. Happily removed by our geographical
! position from participation or interest in those
| questions of dynasty or boundary which so fire.
! quently disturb the peace Of Europe, are left
| to cultivate friendly relations with all, and are
! free from possible entanglements in the quarrels
| of any. The United States has no cause and no
| desire to engage in conflict with any power on
earth, and We may rest in assured confidence that
no power desires to attack the United States
| With the nations of the Western hemisphere
we should cultivate closer relations and for our
| common prosperity and advancement we should
invite them all to join with us in an agreement
that, for the future, all international troubles In
| North or South America shall be adjusted by inn
! partial arbitration and not by arms This project
was part Of the fixed policy OF President Garfield 5
administration and it should in my Judgment
| be renewed. Its accomplishment on this contin-
ent would favorably affect the nations beyond the
sea, and thus powerfully contribute at no distant
| day 70 the universal acceptance Of the philan
thropc and Christian principle OF arbitration.
The effect of even suggesting it for the Spanish
American states has been most happy, and has
| increased the confidence of those people in our
friendly disposition. 1t fell to my lot as secre-
tary Of state i'll June, 1881, to quiet apprehension
| il the Republic of Mexico, by giving the asaur-
ance il an official dispatch that "there is not the
faintest desire IN the United States for territorial
| extension south of the Rio Grande. The boun-
diaries OF the two Republics have been established
i'll conformity with the best Jurisdictional inter
ests ot both. The line of demarcaton is not
merely conventional. 1t is more. 1t separates a
| Spanish American people frrm a SaXon-Ameri
can people. 1t divides one great nation from
another with distinct and natural fnality.'
| We seek the conquests of peace We desire
to extend our commerce, and i'll an especial de-
gree with our friends and neighbors on this con
, tinent. We have not improved our relations with
! Spanish America wisely ana as persistently as
we might have done. For more than q genera
| ton the sympathy of those countries have been
/ allowed to drift away from us. We should now
make every effort 10 gain their friendship. Our
trade with them is already large. During the
| last year our exchanges in the Western homis-
/ phere amounted to three hundred and fifty mil
lions of dollars--ncarly one fourth of our entire
foreign commerce. To those who may be dis
! posed to underrate the value of our trade with
the countries Of North and South America, it may
be well TO state that their population is nearly OF
quite fifty millions-and that, in proportion to
aggregate Numbers, we import nearly double as
much from them us we do from Europe. But
the result of the whole American trade
is in high degree unsatisfactory
The imports during the past year
exceeded TWO hundred and twenty five
millions, while the exports less than
| one hundred and twenty five millions
showing balance against us OF
| Of more thau one hundred millions Of dollars
| But the money does not 20 TO spanish America
| We send large sums to Europe in coin or It's
equivalent 10 pay European manufacturers for
| the goods which they send to Spanish America.
/ We are but paymasteIs for this enormous amount
annually to European factors-an amount which
| is Il serions draft in every fnan ;ial depression,
| u9on our resources Of specie.
Cannot this condition of trade in great part be
| changed? Cannot the market for prolacts
! be.gr, atty enl arcedy We have made II beginning
in our effort to improve our trade relations with
| Mexico and we should nlt be content until sini-
lar and mutually ivantageous arrangements
have been successfully made with every nation
OK North and south America. While the great
! powers of Europe are steadily charging their
coionial domination in Asia aad Africa it is the
| especial province of this country TO improve and
| expand lis trace with the nations OF America
No field promises so much, No field has been
cultivated 50 little. Our foreign policy should be
an American p0licy in its broa1est aud most com
| preheasive sensc--a policy OF peace, OF friend
ship, OF commercial enlargement.
The name Of A8,srieGa which belongs 10 us in
our national capicity must always exalt the jas,
pride OF patriotism. Ctizcashipof the Republic
must be the panaply and safeguard of him who
wears it. The American citizen. rich or poor.
na.iyc or na;uralized white or colorad must
ereryw here, wall; secure in his personal ani
civil rights. The Republic should never accept !,
lesser duty, it cen assume nobler one,
than the protection OF the hum5lest man who
owes it loyaity-protaction at home, and protec-
tion which shall follow him abroad into what.
ever land he may go upon lawful crraad.
THE SOUTHERN STATES
recognize, not without regret, the neccssit,
for speaking OF two sections of our common coun
try. Bat the regret diminshcs when see tha
the elements which separated them are fast dis
appearing. Prejudices have yielded and ar,
yielding, while a growing cordiGiity warns The
Southern and the Northern heart alike. Car
any one doIJt that between the sections con
ldenee ana esteem are TO day more marked than
AZ any period in the sixty years preceding III.
election Of President Lincoln? This is the re-
suit in part of time and in part OF Republican
principles applied under the favorable conditions
Of uniformity. 1t would be great calamity to
change these influences under which southern
! commoawcaths are learning - vinlicate ciyi
rights, and adapting themselves 10 tue condition.
Of political tranquility aud industrial progress
IL there be occasional aud v:olert outbreaks i.
The south against this peaceful progress the pub
lie opinion OF the country regards them as ex
ceptiol,al, and hopefully trasts that each will
prove the last
The south needs capital ami occupation, moi
controversy. As much any par. OF the north
the south needs the full protection of the revenue
lsws which the Republican party of.rs. Some
Of Tie southern states have already entered upon
q career Of industrial development and prosper
ity. These, at least Should not lend their elec
toral votes to destroy their own future.
Any effort to mite the southern states upon
issues that grow out of the memories OF the war,
Will summon the northern states To combine in
the assertion Of that nationality which was their
inspiration in the civil stragge. And thus great
energies which shand be united in common in
dustrial development will be wasted in hurtful
strife. The Democratic party shows Itself foe
to southern prosperity by always invoking and
urging southern political consolidation. Such q
policy quenches the rising instinct of patriotism