Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-07-30

TEN oi revenue-a policy whose end must
Oe harm TO our manufactures and greater
harm to our labor. Experiment in the in
dustrial and financial system is the conn
try's greatest dread, as stability is its great
est 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, 10 our farms
| and our commerce, il the uncertainty of
perpetual tariff agitation is TO be inflicted
upon the country We are in the midst of
an abundant harvest; We are on the eve of
revival of general prosperity. 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 prosperi-
| ty in the twenty yeBrs 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
no unsettled questions of sufficient magni-
tude 10 embarass or detract us. Happily
removed by our geographical position from
| participation or Interest in those questions
of dynasty or boundary which SO frequent
ly disturb the peace OF Europe, we are left
to cultivate friendly relations with all, and
are free from possible entanglements in the
quarrels OF any. The United s tates has no
Cause and no desire to engage in conflict
with any Power on earth, and We may rest
liz assured confidence that no Power desir-
es TO attack the United States.
With the nations Of the western hemis-
phere We should cultivate closer relations,
and for our common prosperity and advan-
cement We should invite them all to Join
with us IN an agreement that for the future
all international troubles in North or South
America shall be adjusted by impartial ar
bItration, AMI not by arms. This project
was part OF the fixed policy of President
Garheld's administration, and it should in
my judgement be renewed. Its accomplish
ment on this continent would favorably af-
feet the nations beyond the sea, aud thus
powerfully contribute at no distant day to
the universal acceptance of the phIlanthr0-
pic and Christian principle of arbitration.
The eiirct even of suggesting it for the
spanish American States has been most
happy, aud has increased the confidence of
those people i'll our friendly disposition II
tell 10 my lot as Secretary of State in June
1881, TO quiet apprehension in the Repub-
lie OF Mexico, BY giving the assurance 10 an
official dispatch that ..thsre is not the faint
est desire in the United States for territOr-
| ial extension south of the Rio Grande. The
boundaries OF the two Republics have been
established IN conformity with the best iui-
isdIctIOnll interests OF both. The line OF
/ demarcatIOn Is not merely conventional. 1t
is more. Ii separates a Spanish-American
/ people from a SaXOn-American people Ii
/ divides one great nation from another with
| distinct and natural finality."
| We seek the conqneStS of peace. We de-
] sire TO extend our commerce, and in an es-
pecIai degree with our friends and neigh
bors on this continent. We have not I'M
proved our relations with Spanish-A America
As wisely and perSistrntly rs we might
have done. For more than a generation the
/ sympathy of those countries has been al
/ lowed to drift away from us. We should
now make every effort TO gain their friend
/ ship. Our trade with them Is already large.
/ During the last year our exchanges in the
western hemisphere amounted 10 three hun
dred and fifty millions of d0llars-nearly
One-iourth OF our entire foreign commerce.
To those VINO may be disposed to underrate
the value OF oar trade with the countries o;
North and South America, it may be well
to state that their population Is nearly or
J aiuAAt lLAAAlb-as dutA liltls III IIbpDEllfi
10 aggregate numbers, We import nearly
double as much from Them as we do from
Europe. Bat the result OF the whole Amer
lean trade Is in a high degree unsaristact
ory. The imports during the past year ex-
ceeded two hundred and twenty five mill
ions, while the exports were less than one
hundred and twenty-five millionS-shOwing
a balance against us of more than one hun
drad millions OF dollars. But the money
does not GO to Spanish America. We send
large Sums 10 Europe in coin or its equiva-
lent 10 pay European manufacturers ior the
goods which they send TO ; pauish America.
! We are bat piymIsters for this enormous
amount annually to European factorS-ln
amount which Is 4 serious draft, In every
financial depression, 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 beginning in our effort 10 improve
| our trade relations with Mexico, and we
should not be content until similar and mu-
tuary advantageous arrangements have been
successively made with every nation of
North and South America. While the
! great Powers of Europe are steadily enlarg-
ing their colonial dominion in Asia and Al
rIca, 1t is the especial province OF this coun-
try TO improve and expand its trade with
the nations of America. No field promises
I so much. No field has been cultivated so
little. Our foreign policy should be AN
| American policy in Its hroadest and most
comprehensive sense-a policy of peace, of
friendship, OF commercial enlargement.
The name of American. which belongs to
us in our national capacity, must always
eXalt the just pride OF patriotism. Citizen
| ship OF the Republic must be the panoply
and safeguard OF him who wears it. The
American citizen, rich or poor, native or
naturaiZed, white or cOlOred, must every
where walk secure in his personal and civil
rights. The Republic should never accept
a lesser duty, it can never assume a nob.er
one, than the protection of the humblest
man who owes it loyalty protection at
home, and protection which shall follow
him abroad, into whatever land he may go
upon a lawful erraud.
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
| recognize, not without regret, the ne
cesSity tor speaking of two sections Of our
common country. But the regret diminish
es when | see that the elements which sep
arated them are fast disappearing. Preiu-
dices have yielden and are yielding, while
and the northern heart alike. Can any one
doubt that between the sections confidence
and esteem are TO day more marked than at
any period in the sixty years preceding the
election of President Lincoln This is the