Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-01

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| hatlon from It's commercial idiocy!
On the south of us are regions nearly
Lnree umes as large as the United
otates Whlch are without manufactures
| without wOolen goods, without agricultura
| implements, without telegraphs. without
| telephones, without shoes, without sew.
| ing machines, without ten Thousand
| lhings that we have and thew must have
| Where shall they get them? They are pettine
| them from 5000 miles away and we at thu
next door from them are buried under a sur.
| plus of these very things. They are able t.
| trade with us for their sugars. cOffees. sDices
| fruits and valuable woods we need as mucl
| as they need our products. But look and ther
| hang your heads at the statement that while
| our next door neighbors, the Southern repub.
| lies ana Brazil and neighbOring colonies i'm.
| port S6l5.OOO.OOO worth or goods in a year. only
| l2o0O0, 600 are from the United States OnIy
one-1fth of the trade is ours, European ma.
LIONS lions taxing the i0ur fingers and leaving us
| the poor thumbs. The sister republics on the
American continent have a foreign com.
| merce amounting to $42S, 1000 of which
we nave only the feeble and paltry sum OF
$63,OOoO0O. There is nothing but comparative
| Terry between this country and the West In
ules, whlle there are raging seas of long voy-
| age between them and other continents. Yet
/ tney import SILT, 1000 900 worth of goods year
| and only $4,000, 900 come from us
NOW, all this is going to be speedily changed
| ana tne change Is going to be the solution oi
| the labor question and the bread question and
Ine communist question and the over -produc-
| tlon and nder-cOnsumption question and al
most every other question. 1t is going to set
all the mills on the Merrimac and the Connec-
tieut and the Susquehanna and the Chatta-
hoochee running day and night with double
sets OF hands and calling for ten factories
where we have one factory, and putting all
the men who are now out of employment into
WORK at good wages, and change this story OF
dull times into a prosperity which will roll on
IN IuIl tlde until the Mississippi loses its way
70 the Gulf of Mexico. / am no more thank
Iul Iof the past blessings of this country than
Il i4arr 1crfTt,
It's height stupendOus and in It's width hemis-
pheric.
How will 1t be doneP Among other things
by such action as that which led Our COnpress
to appropriate 81 300, 900 to the New Orleans
Exposition, Mexico giving 5000, 900 and New
Orleans $5OO,O0O That exposition, though pre-
ceded by the Sydenham Crystal Palace and
the French and the Vienna and the Philadel-
phla eXposltions, will be, in far-reaching sig
nlhcance, more important than all of them
put together They showed chiefly what had
been done. This exposition of next month
VIII build platform on which the nations of
the American continent shall come for intro
ductlon to new commercial epoch in the
history OF the ages. On that platform will
come up Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay
Venezuela, Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia
Costa Rlca, Ecuador, Brazil and the brunette
west Indies, to meet the blonde and smiling
United States.
Whlle the pessimlsts have been hunting up the
burial service to read at the death of Ameri-
can commerce, and the stops of the organ
were being pulled out for the dead march in
saul, 1, an optlmlst by nature and by grace,
take up III anticipation the bright covered
wedding service, and as the blonde North takes
the brunette South by the hand saying,
with all my worldly goods | thee endOw y
L cry. "WhOm God hath Joined together let
not foreign despOtlsm or American demagog-
uery ever put asunderp' Then let all the
organs and cholrs ana Orchestras make every
thlng from the Montreal ice palace to the
halls of the Montezumas quake under the
rolling thunders of the grand march of North
and South American progress.
This southern door will be fastened open the
more firmly by the tides of travel diverted
from Europe TO the land of the Aztecs. Much
OF the SlO6,OOO, 600 yearly expended by Ameri-
cans in Europe will be expended in southern
exploration, in looking at some of the ruins
OF the AZ cities that Stevens, the traveller,
found little way apart, and walking through
the corridors, and under the arches and in
the great doorways, and over the miracles of
mosaic, and along by the monumental glOries
OF another civilization, and ancient America
Will with cold lips of stone kiss the warm lips
OF modern America, and to have seen the
Andes ana the PopOcatepetl will be deemed
as Important as to have seen the Pyreneean
ana Balkan ranges. So there will be fewer
people spollt by foreign travel, and in our
MIDST less poor imitation of the French shrug
and the intentional hesitancy of the brainIesS
swell The fact is that there are more people
made fools of by European travel than any
other way, and though sensible when they
emDafK, they return with a collar and a
craYat, and shoe and a coat, and q pro-
nunclatlon and contempt for American in
stltutlons, and bend of the elbow that make
one belleYe In evolution backward from man
10 ape. OF the 10000 Americans who now
cross the sea annually there will be thousands
VINO on pleasure and business visit the tropics,
and so tourist and merchant and scientist
ana capitalist will all hello in this national
development.
wish that somehow our next Congress
might take the 500, 200, 900 of surplus in the
United states Treasury which the Republi-
cans did not steal, and before the Democrats
get chance TO steal 1t, and in some way eX-
pend IL in establishing new lines of shipping
between the ports of North and South Amer
lca, and in dredging their harbors and in
building telegraphic wires, and in quickening
all that glorious cOnsummaton which is sure
to come. GO on. gentlemen, discussing your
nigh tariff and low tariff, and horizontal tariff
and no tariff at all until the question is as
malodorous as the moss bankers that the Long
Island fishermen throw on the fields to enrich
the farms. But, meanwhile, God is going to
prepare for the rescue of the
millions of hard working men and
women OF this country, who have
been hungry and cold long enough, and this
door of the South open is going to let in on
them summer of bright, warm prosperity.
In anticipation nail on the front door of this
nation an advertisement:
WANTED-One hundred thousand men. to
build South American railways, long as from
here to San Francisco.
Wanted, five thousand telegraph operators.
anted-TWenty million dollars worth of
dry goods and hardware from New York
Wanted-All the clocks you can make at
New Haven, and all the shoes you can manu-
facture at Natick, and all the brains you can
spare from Boston, and all the bells You can
mould at Troy, and all the Mccormick reap
ing machines you can fashion at Chicago. and
all the hams you can furnish from Cincinnati.
BOOnton and Pittsburg.
Wanted!
Wanted right away!
Wanted Want I'd by express, wanted by rail train,
Wanted, lawyers to plead our cases!
Wanted, doctors to cure our sick
Wanted, ministers to evangelize our popu-
Wanted, professors to establish our uniyer
stiles!
Another door toward the south. On the
souIn three gates" Lift up your heads ye
everlasting gates and let the North come
South and the South come North Corrected
forever the geographical blunder of the CEN
turtles which says there are five continents
Africa and America. Our Arctic and Ant,
arctic only the crystal latches on front and
back gate of the one palace yard Ave- the
continent Is one living queen of beauty and
power Though the continent be narrow at
the waist If you girdle it at Aspinwall it is
still one living queen upon whom God hath
put the richest diadem Of all the world. On
this Thanksgiving day thought l would tell
you of your Inheritance Henceforth nut this
into your prayers, tune it into your doXOlogies
and let capitalists and statesmen lift it into
their plans. What is the use of gathering
WhoIe Meet OF laden steamers at the mouth of
small river, trying to pile them in, jostling
ana stuck fast, when there is this great, wide
Southern sea with room for largest merchant
men to spread sail or drop anchor.
Without this opening prospect this dav
would be very dark for those of us who are
interested in the lab0ring classes. To-day
one million people in the country out of work.
Ten per cent. of the laboring classes with
nothing to do but suffer and another 20 per
cent. tOiling on half wages. j shall not take
my seat at the Thanksgiving table to- day un-
til look at the bare plates of these multi
tudes and at their empty wardrobes and
invoke upon them the mercy of God and the
generous consideration of those in comfortable
circumstances. Congress assemblies next
week ana let IL waste no time on distractions,
but by some swift enactment open this door
south and all the other legitimate doors for
the relief of men who can get no work and
who stand in this November cold wringing
their numb fingers with their helpless families
at their back. Hungry men and women
never have been quiet and never will be quiet
and never ought to be quiet. Bread they
ought 70 nave and bread they must have and
bread they VIII have. With this, the fifth
plentiful harvest, if there be any one
man, woman or child without food and with
out comfortable apparel and without shelter,
there must be something aWfully wrong. Nav
the suffering Christ who once had nowhere to
lay His head. champion the cause Of the helm
less, and smash the great monopolies that are
built out of the bones and cemented with the
9lood OF poor workmen, and send a supply this
day from every full pantry to every destitute
home, and so change the condition of those
hardly bestead, that when another thanks
giving day arrives, the poorest man in Ame-
rica shall have upon his table a twenty
pound turkey. royalty Drowned and
basted and stuffed, put upon his
plate dashed with cranberry and emptied
only 10 make way for pumpkin pies such as
New England matroDs baked. or the more
classic and juicy mince pie such as our dear
old mother made with her own hands before