The Mineral argus., 1884-07-31

when an industrious man is not able by his
earnings 10 live in comfort, educate his chill
dren and lay by a sufficient amount for the
necessities of age. The reduction of wages
inevitably consequent upon throwing our
home market open to the world. would de-
prlYe them of the power to do this. 1t would
prove a great calamity to our country. 1t
would produce a conflict between the poor
and the rich, and in the sOrrowfuI degrada-
ton of labor would plant the seeds of public
danger.
The Republican party has steadily aimed To
maintain just relations between Labor and
Capital-guarding with care the rights of
each. Acontict between the two has ALWAYS
led in the past, and will always lead in the
future, to the injury of both. Labor is
indispensable to the creation and profitable
use of capital, and capital increases the
efficiency and value of labor. Whoever
arrays the one against the other is
an enemy of both. That policy Is
wisest and best which harmonizes the two
on the basis of absolute Justice. The
Republican party has protected the free
labor of America so that its compensation is
larger than is realized in any other country.
1t has guarded our people against the unfair
competition of contract labor from China.
and may be called upon to prohibit the
growth of a similar evil from Europe. 1t is
OBVIOUSLY unfair to permit capitalists to
make contracts for cheap labor in foreign
countries to the hurt and disparagement of
the labor of American citizens. Such a
policy dixie that which would leave the time
and other conditions of home labor exclu-
sively in the control of the employer), is in
furious to all p-arties-not the least so to the
unhappy persons who are made the subjects
of the contract. The institutions of the
United States rest upon the intelligence and
virtue of all the people. Suffrage is made
universal as a Just weapon of self-protec-
ton to every citizen. 1t is not the interest
OF the republic that any economic system
should be adopted which involves the reduc-
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ing elsewhere. The Republican party aims
to elevate and dignity labor-not to degrade
it.
AS a substitute for the industrial system
which under Republican administration has
developed such extraordinary prosperity,
our opponents offer a policy which is but a
series of experiments upon our system of
revenue-a policy whose end must be harm
to our manufactures and greater harm to our
labor. Experiments in the industrial and
financial system is the country's greatest
dread, as stability is its greatest 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 comm erce,
If the uncertainty of perpetual tariff agita-
ton is to be inflicted upon the country? We
are in the midst of an abundant harvest; we
are on the eve of a revival of general pros.
perity. Nothing stands in our way but the
dread OF a change in the industrial system
which has wrought such wonders in the last
twenty years and which with the power Of
increased capital will work still greater
marvels of prosperity in the twenty years to
come.
OUR FOREIGN POLICY.
Our foreign relations favor our domestic
development. We are at peace with the
world-at peace upon a sound basis with nc
unsettled questions OF sufficient magnitude
to embarrass or distract us. Happily re-
nnnNod FROM nrrr rroDo.ronhfno1 w1A1fAf0n F~0V~
participation or interest in those questions
Uf dynasty or boundary which so frequently
disturb the peace of Europe, we are left to
cultivate IDLY relations with all, and are
free from possible entanglements in the
quarrels of any. Tins United States has no
cause and no desire to engage in conflict with
any power 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,
and for our common prosperity and adj
vancement we should invite them all to ioin
with us in an agreement that, for the future,
all international troubles in North or South
America shall be adjusted by impartial arbi-
tration and not by arms. This project was part
of the fixed policy of President Garfield's ad-
ministration. and it should in my judgment
be renewed. Its accomplishment on this con-
tinent would favOrably affect the nations be-
yond the sea, and thus powerfully contribute
at no distant day to the universal acceptance
of the philanthropic 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.
1t 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 faint
est 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-
dictional interests of both. The line of de-
more. 1t separates 3 Spanish-American peo-
pie from a Saxon-American people. 1t di-
vides one great nation from another with
distinct and natural finality."
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 lone. For more than a generation the
of those countries has been allowed
TO drift away from us. We should now
make every effort to gain their friendship.
Our trade with them is already large. Dur
ing the last year our exchanges in the West
ern hemisphere amounted to $3.50, OOO, 900
nearly one-fourth of our entire foreign
To those who may be disposed
to underrate the value of our trade with 1he
of North and South America it
may be well to state that their population
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-
The imports during the past year
1925, 600, 900. while the exports
we're less than 1925, 900, 000-showing a
balance against us of more than one hundred
of dollars. But the money does not
20 to Spanish America. We send large sums
20 Europe in coin or its equivalent to pay
European manufacturer for the goods which