Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-07-23


be appreciated by all. The convertible
currency should be maintained intact,
and the establishment of an interna-
lonal standard among all commercial
nations, liking the relative values of
gold and silver coinage, would De q
measure Of peculiar advantage.
INTERSTATE AND YoREIsS coMxKBrE AND
FOREIGN RELATIONS.
The subjects embraced in the resolu-
tons, respectively, locking to promoting
our interstate and foreign CONNER
cial matters and our foreign relations
are fraught With great Importance to
sur people. Ia respect TO interstate
commerce there IL much to be desired
IN the way of equitable rates and IA
cIlities of transportation that COM
merce may fioV directly To the States
| themselves, that diversity of indus
tries and employment may be pro-
noted IN all sections of the country.
and that the great granaries and manu-
featuring establishments of the interior
may be enabled to send their products
to the seaboard for shipment 10 foreign
countries. relieved Of restrictions and
discrimination in N alters in which il
may be emphatically said time il
money" and also from unjust charges
upon articles destined to meet close
| competition from the products of other
parts OF the world. As to our foreign
| commerce, the enormous growth of Our
Industries and our surprising produc-
ton of cereals and other necessities Of
life imperttlyely require that imme-
| date and effective mems be taken,
| through peaceful, orderly and conserva-
tive methods, to open channels which
have been monopoliZed largely by other
nations. This more particularly re-
lstes to our sister republics of Spanish
America. IL Is also true of our frisnds,
the people of the Brazilian Empire.
The republics of Spanish America are
allied to Us by the very closest feelings
apoa similarity OF institutions and gov
eminent, common aspirations and mu-
tual hopes and 1.-THE great Rspublic,"
a. they proudly term Us, is looked
on by their people with aifectionote ad-
miration, and a. "a model for them to
Guild upon. and We should cultivate b..
tween them and ourselves closer com
msrcial relations which will bind to
gether by ties of friendly intercourse
and mutual advant ages. Further thaR
this, being small communwedlths in the
mi. Itary and naval sense of European
powers, they look to Us at least AS a
moral defender against the system of
territorial and other entertainments,
whose aggression in the past has not
been abandoned at this day. Diplo-
macy and intrigue have done more to
wrest the commercs Of spanish America
from rs than has legitimate commercial
competition.
Politically we should be bound to these
Republics of our own continent only by
the closest ties, and communication by
ships aud railways should be encour-
aged to the fullest possible extent con
sistent with wise and conservative pub
lic policy. Above all We should be upon
such terms Of frlendshipges to preclude
the possibility of national misunder-
standing between ourselves and any
members of the American republican
family. The best method to preserve
uninterrupted peace between one and
all would be IN the meeting Of General
Conference or Congress, whereby an
agreement to submit ali international
differences TO peaceful decision and
friendly arbitration might be reached.
This would give To our sister Republics
confidence In each other and in the Unit
ted States. and closer communicable
would at once ensue. Reciprocity ad-
vantageous commercial treaties might
be made, whereby much of the CON
meroe which now flows across the At
lantic would find its legitimate channels
and inure TO the greater prosperity of
all those American commemorative.
Tho full advantages OF policy of this
nature could not be stated IN a brief
discussion like the present.
FOREIGN POLITICAL RELATIONS.
The United States has grown to be a
government representing more than
10000. 600 and III every s6nse. excepting
that of mere naval power. ia one of the
first nations of the world. As such, CIT
izenship should be valuable. emitting
its possessor to protection in every quar-
ter of the globe. / do not consider it
very necessary that our government
shosld construct enormous fleets of i'm
proved ironclads and maintain a com
mensurate body of seamen IN order 10
place ourselves ON q war footing with
the military and naval powers of En-
rope. such a course would net be com
patible with the peaceful policy of our
country, though II seems absurd that
We have not effective means to repel
Wanton invasion of our coast aud give
protection TO our coast towns and cit
les The great moral force Of our ooun-
trv ia NO universally recognized as To
render An appeal To arms by US, either
in protecting our citizens abroad or IN
recognition of any just international
right, quite improbable. What We most
need Ia this direction is the vigorous
assertion OF every right aud privilege b.
longing to our government or its citizens.
rs well AS an equally firm assertion of
the rights and privileges belonging To
the general family of American repub-
lics situated upon this continent, when
opposed. II ever they should be, by diff
ferent systems of government upon an
other continent. An appeal To the right
by such government as ours could not
be disregarded by any civilized nation.
In the treaty OF Washington We led the
xsrld to a means of escape from the
horrors of war. and IL IA 20 be hoped
that tue era when all International diff
ferences shall be decided by peaceful
arbitration is nos far of.
EQUAL BroHrs To CITIZENSHIP.
The central idea is that republican
form of government IL due the whole
people, a. opposed to other forms which
rest upon privileged classes. Our fore
fathers, in the attempt tn erect gov
eminent which might represent the ad-
vanced thought of the world az that
period upon tue subject Of government
reform, adopted tue idea OF the peoples
sovereignty, and thus laid the basis Of
our present Republic. While technical
" government Of the people, IL Was
in strictness only government of
portion Of the people. excluding from
all participation certain other portion
held in a condition of absolute despair
and hopeless seryitrde. the parallel to
which. fortunately. does not nos exist
in any modern Christiau nation. With
the colonization, however. of another
circle OF advanced thought the Ameri-
can Republic Suddenly assumed the
full character of government OF the
whole people, and &.oo1. 900 human crea
lures emerged from the condition OF
bondsmen g. the full status Of free men.
theoretically invested with the civil and
political rights possessed by the former
masters. The subsequent legislation
which guaranteed by every legal title
citixsnshlp and full equality under the
Law in respect to this previously dis
franchised people amply covers all re-
ouirements. and creates 10 them, 50 far
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