The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-08-01

winch has wrought sucn n m the las.
twenty years and which with the power OF
increase capital will work still create,
marvels OF prosperity In the twenty years to
ome
U FOREIGN POLICE.
Our foreign relations favor our domestic
Development We are at peace with thu
world-ar peace upon a sound basis with no
unsettled questions OF sufficient magnitude
70 elnbarrass or distract us. Happily re.
moved from our geographical position from
participation or interest in those questions
81 dynasty or boundary which SO frequently
cultivate friendly relations with all, and are
Tree from possible entangfements In the
quarrels of any. The United States has no
cause and no desire to engage in conflict with
any on earth, and we may rest In as
sured confidence that no power desires to
attack the United States.
with the nations of the Western hemi-
sphere we should cultivate closer relations,
a Tor our common prosperity and ad-
vancement we should invite them oil to Join
with US In an agreement that, for the future,
all international troubles In North or South
America shall be adjusted by impartial arbi-
Iation and NOT by arms. This project was part
OF tne nxed policy of President Garfield's ad-
mlnistratton. and it should in my judgment
be renewed. Its accomplishments on this con.
t1nent would favorably affect the nations be-
yond the sen, and thus powerfully contribute
at no distant day to the universal acceptance
OF the philanthropic and Christian principle
OF arbitration. The effect sven Of suggesting
1t for the Spanish American states has been
most happy, and hasincreased the confidence
OF those people In u friendly disposition.
~ TELL 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 faint
eat desire In the United States for territorial
extension south of the Rio Grande. The
boundaries OF the two republics have been
established in conformity with the best juris-
d%ictional interests of both The line Of der
marcation is not merely conventional. It ID
more. 1t separates a Spanish-American peo-
PIE from a Scandinavian people. It di-
ytdes one great nation from another with
distinct and natural tinality.n
We seek the conquests of peace. We de.
sire to extend our commerce.. and in an
especial degree with our friends and neigh
bors On this continent. We have not i'm
proved our relations with Spanish-America
as wisely and as persistently as we might
have done. For more than a generation the
sympathy of those countries has been allowed
to drift away from us. We should no;a
make every effort to gain their friendship.
Our trade with them is already large. Dur
ing the last year our exchanges in the Vest
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 a high degree unsatis-
factory. The imports during the past year
exceeded 1925, O0O, 900. while the exports
were less than 1925, 900, OOO-showing a
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 Its equivalent to pay
European manufacturer s for the goods which
they send to Spanish America. We are but
paymasters for this enormous amount annu-
ally to European factors-an amount which
ts o serious draft, in every financial de-
preston, upon our resources of specie.
Cannot this condition of trade in great
part be changed? Cannot the market for
our products be greatly enlarged? We have
made a beginning in our effort to improve
our trade relations with Mexico, and we
should not be content until similar and mu-
tualy Advantageous arrangements have been
successfully made with every nation of North
and South America. While the great powers
Of Europe are steadily charging their colo
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 cultivated SO little. Our for
eign policy should be an American policy in
Its broadcast and most comprehensive SENSE
o policy Of peace, Of friendship, OF CONNER
cial enlargement
The name of American which belongs to
us In our national capacity must always ex-
alt the just pride OF patriotism Citizenship
of the republic must be the panoply and
safeguard Of him who wears it The Ameri-
can citizen, rich or poor, native or natural-
lied, white or colored, must everywhere
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
owes it loyalty-protection at home, and
protection which shall follow him abroad,
into whatever lands he may go upon a law
full errand.
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
recognize, not without regret, the neces-
sity for speaking of two sections of Our CON-
mon country. But the regret diminishes
when 7 see that the elements which separ-
have yielded n are yielding, while a grow
Ing cordiality warns the Southern and the
Northern heart alike. Can any one doubt
that between che sections confidence and
esteem are to-day more marked than at any
period in the sixty years preceding the cleo
in part of time and in part of Republican
principles applied under the favorable con-
ditions of uniformity. It would be a great
calamity to change these influences under
WulCu SyuUucIh COulllOuW cuibub " lCdTnl1lX
to vindicate civil rights, and adapting them
selves to the conditions of political tranquil
lily and industrial progress. II there be oc-
c~asional and violent outbreaks in the South
against this peaceful progress, the public
opinion of the country regards them as ex-
ceptional and hopefully trusts that each will
prove the last.
The South needs capital and occupation,
not controversy. AZ much as any part OF
Ahe North, the south needs the ruu protes,
tion of the revenue laws which the Repub-
lican party offers. Some Of the SoutheD
states have already entered upon a career Of
Industrial development and prosperity.
These, ut least, should not lend their cleo
toral votes to destroy their own future.
Any effort to unite 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 national
ity which was their Inspiration in the civil
struggle. And thus great energies which
should be united in a common industrial de-
velopment will be wasted in hurtful strife.
The Democratic party shows itself n foe to
Southern prosperity by always invoking and
urging Southern political consolidation.
Such a policy quenches the rising instinct