Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-07-23

where. The Republican party aims to elevate
and dignity labor-not to degrade it.
AS substitute for the industrial system
which under Republican administration has de-
veloped such extraordinary prosperity, our OPP
ponents offer policy which Is but series of
experiments upon our system OF revenue-a
| policy whose end must be harm to our manu-
| racturers and greater harm to our labor. Ex-
perlmenrin the industrial and financial system is
the country's greatest dread, an stability is its
creates 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, II the uncertainty of perpetual
tariff agitation is to be inflicted upon the coun-
tryI We are in the midst of an abundant har-
| vest; we are on the eve Of revival of general
| prosperity. Nothing stands in our way but the
dread OF change in the indsutrial syetem
which has wrought such wonders in the last
creased capital, will work still greater marvels
OF prosperity in the twenty years to come.
QUE FOREIGN POLICY.
Our foreign relations favor our domestic de-
velopment. We are at peace with the world
ut peace upon sound basis with no unsettled
or detract us. Happily removed by our geo.
graphical position from participation or inter
est IN those questions of dynasty or boundary
which 80 frequently disturb the peace Of
Europe, we are left to cultivate friendly rela-
tlons with all, and are free from possible en-
tanglemont 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 and South America shall be adjusted
BY impartial arbitration and not by arms. This
project was part of the fixed pol
Icy OF President Garfeld's admin
istration, and it should, in INV Judgment.
be renewed. Its accomplishment on this con-
tinent would favorably affect the nations be-
You'd the sea, and thus powerfully contribute
at no distant day to the universal acceptance
of the ph1anthropic and Christian principle of
arbitration. The effect even of suggesting it
for the Spanish American states has been most
happy and has increased the confidence of
those people in our friendly disposition. It
fell TO my lot as secretary Of state, in June,
1881, to quiet apprehension in the Republic Of
Mexico by giving the assurance in an Official
dispatch that 'there is not the faintest desire
in the United States for territorial extension
south of the Rio Grande. The boundaries of
the two republics have been established in con-
formity with the best jurisdictioual interests
OF both. The line of demarcation ID not mere
ly conventional. 1t is more. It separates
Spanlsh-American people from 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 IN an especial de-
gree with our friends and neighbors on this
continent, We have not improved our relations
with Spanish America rs wisely and persist
emily as We might have done. For more than
generation the sympathy of those countries
has been allowed to drift away from us. We
should now make every effort TO gam their
friendship. Our trade with them Is already
large. During the last year our exchanges in
the Western Hemisphere amounted to three
hundred and fifty millions Of dollars-nearly
One-fourth Of our entire foreign commerce. To
those who may be disposed 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 or quite fifty millions
and that, In proportion to aggregate numbers
we import nearly double as much from them as
we do from Europe. But the result of the
whole American trade is in high degree ne
satisfactory. The imports during the past
year exceeded two hundred and twenty-five
millions, while the exports were LEES than one
hundred and twenty-five MISUNDERSTANDING q
balance against US OF more than one hundred
millions Of dollars. But the money does not
go to Spanish-America. We send large sums
to Europe in coin or it's equivalent to pay Eu-
ropean manufacturers for goods which they
tors for this enormous amount annually to Eu-
ropean factors-an amount which is q serious
draft, in every financial depression, upon our
resources Of specie.
Cannot this condition Of trade in great part
be changed2 Cannot the market for our
products be greatly enlarged? We have made
beginning IN our effort to improve our trade
relations with Mexico, and we should not be
content until similar and mutual advantageous
arrangements have been successfully made
| with every nation of North and South America
While the great powers Of Europe are steadily
enlarglng their colonial domination in Asia and
Africa IL Is the especial province OF this cOun-
try to improve and expand it's trade with the
nations of America. No field promises so
| much. No field has been cultivated so little.
Our foreign policy should be an American
policy in its broadcast and most comprehensive
sense-a policy of peace, of friendship, of COM
| mercial enlargement.
The name of american which belongs to us
in our national capacity must always exalt the
| just pride Of patriotism. Citizenship Of the
republic must be the panoply and safeguard of
him who wears it. The American citizen, rich
or poor, native or naturalzed, white or colored,
must everywhere walk secure in his personal
| and civil rights. The republic should never
| accept a lesser duty, it can never assume 8
| nobler one than the protection of the humblest
man who owes it loyalty-protection at home
| and protection which shall follow him abroad
| i1oo Whatever AdAO AO 20 UPON d lawful
| errand.
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
| recognize, not without regret, the necessity
| for speaking of two sections of our common
| country. But the regret diminishes when see
| that the elements which separated them are
fast disappearing. Prejudices have yielded and
| are yielding, while growing cord1ality warns
| the Southern and Northern heart alike Can
any one doubt that between the sections con.
| fdence and esteem are to-day more
marked than at any other period in the sixty
| years preceding the election of President Lin
coin? This is the result in part of time and IN
part Of Republican principles applied under the
favorable conditions of uniformity. It would
| be great calamity to change these influences
under which Southern commonwealth are
learning to indicate civil rights, and adapting
themselves to the conditions of political tran
| guilty and industrial progress. II there be oc-
| casional and violent outbreaks in the South
against this peaceful progress. the public opin-
| ion of the country regards them as exceptional
and hopeful trusts that each will prove the
| last. esr.s
The 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
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