, 1884-07-19

DOrs on this continent. We W. notlm'
proved our relations with Spanish Amer
lea rs well and as pcnistently as we might
have done. For
MORE THAN a GENERATION
the sympathy Of these countries has been
allowed to drift away from US. We should
now make every effort to gain their friend
ship. Our trade with them is already
large. During the last year our ex-
changes in the western hemisphere
amounted to $3.50, 600, 900, nearly me
fourth Of our entire foreign commerce.
Those who may be disposed to underrate
the value of our trade with the countries
OF North and South America, il may be
well to state that their population is
nearly, or quite, $4,000, 900, and that in
proportion to the aggregate numbers We
import nearly double as much from them
as We do from Europe, but the result of
the whole amount OF trade is in u high
degree unsatisfactory. The imports dur
ing the past year exceeded S225, 900, 900,
while the exports were less than SIPS, O00,-
900, showing a balance against us of more
than 500, 900, 900. But the money does not
go to Spanish America. We send large sums
70 Europe in coin or it's equivalent, to pay
European manufacturers for the goods
which they send TO Spanish America. We
are but paymasten for this enormous
amount annually sent to European factors.
an mount which is a serious draft
IN EVERY FINANCIAL DEPRESSION
upon our resources of specie. Cannot
this condition of trade in great part be
changed? Cannot the market forour pro-
ducts be greatly enlarged? We have made
a beginning of our effort to improve trade
relations with Mexico, and we should not
be content until similar and mutually ad-
vantagcous arrangements have been sue
cessiyely made with every nation of North
and South America. While the great
powers Of Europe are steadily charging
their colonial domination in Asia and
Africa, it is the especial province of this
countrp to improve and expand its trade
with the nations of America. No field
promises 50 much. No field has
been cultivated 50 little. Our
foreign policy should be an American
policy in the broadcast sense and in the
most comprehensive sense Il policy of
peace and friendship, of commercial en-
largement. The name of American, which
belongs to us in our national capacity,
must always exalt the just pride of patriot
ism, citizenship of the Republic must be
the safeguard of him who wears it. The
American citizen, rich or poor, native or
naturalized, white or colored, must every
where walk secure in his personal and
civil rights. The Republic should never
accept a lesser duty. 1t can never assume
a nobler one than the protection of the
humblest man who ives it loyalty, pro
lection at home and protection which shall
follow him abroad into whatever land he
NAV go upon a lawful GRAND.
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
| recognize, not without regret, the
necessity for speaking of two sections of
commercial country, but the regret
%diininishcs when | see that the elements
which separate them are fast disappear
ing. Prcjudices have yielded and are
yielding, while a growing cordially warns
the Southern and the Northern heart
alike. Can any one doubt that between
the sections confidence and esteem are
today more marked than al 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 Il
great calamity to change these influences,
under which Southern commonwealth
are learning to vindicate civil rights and
adapting themselves to the conditions of
political tranquility and individual pro-
grcss. If there be occasional and violent
outbreaks in the South against this peace
full progress, the public opinion of the
country regards them as exceptional and
hopefully trusts that each will prove the
last.
II SOUTH NEEDS CAPITAL
and occupation, not controversy, as much
as any part of the North. The South
needs the full protection of the revenue
laws, which the Republican party offers.
Some of the Southern States have already
entered upon a career of industrial devel-
opment and prosperity. These, at least,
should not lend their electoral
votes TO destroy their w future.
Any effort to unite the Southern
states upon issues that grow out of memo
ries of the war, will summon the Northern
states to combine in the assertion of that
nationality which was their inspiration in
the civil struggle, and thus, great energies
which should be united in common indus
trial development, will be wasted in hurt
full strife. The Democratic party shows
itself a foe to Southern prosperity by ways
invoking and encouraging southern politi-
cal consolidation. Such a policy quenches
the rising instinct of patriotism in the
heart of the Southern youth. 1t revives
and stimulates prejudice, it substitutes the
spirit of barbaric vengeance for the love
Of peace, progress and harmony.
THE CIVIL SERVICE.
The general character of the civil service
of the United States under all administers
tons has been honorable. In the one su-
preme test the collection and disbursement
ofrevenue the record Of fidelity has never
been surpassed in any nation. With the