Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1884-04-09
TsR AMERICAN CHOICE FOR
" PREsIDENT.

10 the Arq0naut give pretty clear idea
of the estimation in which Blaine is
held by the thinking citizens Of
America:
AS statesman, we
maintain that he has no peer upon
this broad continent. He is aware
that. geographically, orr country is
like no other. He knows that to
induce people TO settle the valleys
away back in the interior of the coun.
try, and to encourage the miner who
delyes in the mountains for metals,
and the manufacturer who follows
these harbingers of civilization, our
great industries must be protected
from the cheap labor and cheap carry
ing power of Europe. He knows tfat
the lighter textile fabrics manuiac
tured In the United States are especi.
ally adapted to the climate of the
South American countries, and these
markets, for all things we produce
which are fitted for them, of natural
right belong to US; but these, through
4 policy which never dared look over
the lines of the District of Columbia,
we have seen snatched from our door
steps by England and France. The
idea advanced by him, while in Presi
dent Garfeld's Cabinet, of calling a
congress of these countries TO meet in
Washington, was the grandest display
of craftsmanship that ever emanated
from an American statesman-the
emancipation of the slaves alone ex-
cepted. This master stroke penetrated
too deeply into the future for the aver
age modern Congressman and editor
to comprehend. The idea fell upon
them like mountain, and their bewil-
derment was only equaled by a com
munity endeavoring to escape from
the force of " cyclone. Finally, a
general disruption doomed up in their
defective visions, and their cry was
war! war with which they imagined
they were surrounded. They could
see no extension Of our market; they
could see no Americans building rail
roads across the valleys; they could
see no miners climbing mountains in
search OF treasures, and a general de-
velopment and rapid peopling Of these
semi.civllized and partially developed
countries teeming in natural wealth
and resources, all followed by
manufactures and general produce
from home, and the establishment of
an active, permanent business with Il
great country, partially settled by our
own people, brimful. of their charac-
teristic dash and energy. No, but
they could see war, and war they made
on Blaine. All sorts of propositions
and surmises were thrown out from
the various cramped intellects that
could see nothing outside of the dis
trict or Office in which they lived or
reyolved. They accused him of having
q South American policy" of n desire
to- establish protectorate over
those countries, and God only knows
what more. But. after four years Of
reflection, what do we seer Bills in.
troduced in Congress with the express
object in view of extending our market
foragricultural and manufactured pro
ducts into South America. y
Bhine does not believe Chat separation
OF the United States from South Amer
iCa BY q canal fortified at each end by
massive forts and European guns, and
these again guarded by floating islands
of iron and steel, Iwieribies, Inpiaei5ies,
ETC., carrying eighty.ton cannon as
pieces of furniture, is conducive to the
safety and future welfare of the coun-
try; and, let me ask, who doess But
still the stunted harper and burlesque
statesman howled and blew their
trumpets, without asking themselves
the question, "Whcre do we livey'
The canal goes on and the menace
approaches. BY and by the Unsuitable
fangs of France and England will
stretch out, like the tentacles of devil
Ash, over the territory ON either side
OF the canal. Then it will take some
thing more than fishing smack and
pop-gun TO route them. They have a
foothold, and henceforth will have u
say in American questions. Blaine's
policy was not war but a preventive of
war. He saw the danger and sought
to prevent it, as was indicated 1t
took no mind-reader to see it. But vet
he was bounded like pickpocket. In
all the positions he has held through
life he has given evidence of being
endowed with superior intellect
always able, never lacking. His short
career as Cabinet ofllc0 was sufll.
cient to indicate his superior foresight;
and the policy he outlined would place
the United States in that rank among
nations to which she is entitled-at
the head This can be accomplished
without resort to war with swords.
Blaine has the temerity to look Enrope