Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-21
THE CONSTITUTION
And Its Approaching Cen
tennial.
HOW TO CELEBRATE IT.
The DemOcracy's Plan to Extend
Our Commerce On the Ameri-
can Continent.

hepuDuc--au era Vi enldIReu cotnmeTcial
intercourse with the outside world, and
particularly more intimate. social and
commercial relations between the severa
sister nations of the three Americas.
The first century OF the United States
has been manly devoted to home affairs
the evolution and perfection OF Consti
tutional Government. This continual
inward gaze of the public mind has
sometimes left it in morbid condition.
The time has now arrived when public
sentiment demands broader field of
though and action.
III" second century should, on the
2, be conspicuous for the consid-
of international questions, par
;. international commercial ques-
solution can best be accom-.
by the political party which, by
:, its liberal tariff policy, its firm
.ce to conservative and constitu-
ethods of government, and its
-. .oreign policy inherited from jeff
erson's inaugural address favoring" peace,
commerce aud honest friendship with all
NatioL ., entangling alliances with none, +"
II command the conf of the bus
immunity at home, and the re-
nations abroad.
armony with the spirit of the
must inaugurate new depart.
,ard more liberal trade, whereby
plus products and manufactures
.se to be restricted to the 55, 000,-
suuiers at home, but, on the con.
ave freer outlet to the 2,000,-
consumers in the markets of the
ese and other important respects,
mocratic party has placed itself
at the head of the best thought of the
country, and ably supported by vast
army of independent and intelligent vot-
ers, enters upon the fall campaign deter.
mined to place American politics upon q
higher plane and broader and more
dignified basis.
The Democratic foreign policy is in.
herited from Jefferson's inaugural ad.
dress. as follows:
"Peace, commerce and honest friend.
ship with all misunderstanding ALLAN.
ces with none"
In harmony with this general policy.
the Democratic National Platform of
1884 contained the following plank:
'We favor an American continental
policy based upon more intimate COM
mercial and political relations with the
fifteen sister Republics of North, Cen
trail and South America, but entangling
alliances with none"
CENTENNIAL OF THE CONSTITUTION.
In order to put this resolution into
practical operation and lay the founda.
tion broad and deep for more intimate
oomme rcial relations between the several
sister Republics of the Western. Hemi-
sphere, Senator German, ON the I'd of
last March, introduced in the Senate
the following bill:
A Bill to provide for joint celebra.
tion by the sixteen American Republics,
on the fourth of March, eighteen hun
dred and eighty.nine, in honor of the
one hundredth anniversary of the Con.
stitution- of the parent Republic, the
United States.
Whereas the fourth of March, eighteen
hundred and eighty.nine, will be the
enc hundredth anniversary of the Con-
stitution of the United States and the
date of the inauguration OF the President
Of this Republic; and
Whereas the fifteen Spanish American
Republics have, to greater or less ex-
tent, taken the Constitution of the United
States as the model of their organic laws;
Therefore,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
Representatives of the United States
America in Congress assembled, That
order to prepare for an appropriate
celebration of this great historic event,
he President of the United States be,
nd be is hereby, authorized and request
ed to invite all the Presidents of the fiji.
.een Spanish American Republics, name
Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua. Co.'S
aica, Salvador, Honduras, the United
les OF Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia,
u, Chill, Uruguay, Paraguay, Ecua.
and the Argentine Republic to visit
shington on the fourth of March,
teen hundred and eighty-nine, and
with the President of the United
ses, and others who may be invited,
uitable ceremonies in honor of the
mt.
.;Bc. 2. That the Presidents of said
teen Spanish.American Republics be
.vited to have prepared, in the Spanish
sneuage. concise histories of their re-
,ective constitutions, together with full
pies of the same, with all amendments
-ereto.
SEC. 8. That the Government of the
'nited States, through commission tc
appointed, shall have said histories
d constitutions translated into the
.U1to1V 10, o.,1 hlsoha6 in crrS \.
ole form.
SEC. 4. That for the purpose Of max
adequate preparations for said cole
stion, the President of the United
ates be, and he is hereby, authorized
4 requested to appoint three Commits
.ad one secretary, learned in the
be known as the Constitutional
ial Commission, which said Com.
shall have charge of the prepa.
or and ceremonies of said cele-
the translation and publication
Spanish American constitutions
.jries, and all other preparations
" and appropriate for said occa-
.. That the sum of one hundred
aousand dollars, out Of any money in
40 Treasury of the United States not
therwise disposed of, be, and ia hereby,
Appropriated, or so much thereof as may
be necessary, and placed to the credit OF
he Secretary of the Treasury, to defray
A manner becoming the dignity OF the
United States the expenses incident to
the celebration of said event.
SEC. 9. That said Commission shall
.om ii -e'so time report directly to tht
United states.
NEW FOREIGN MARKETS.
New foreign markets for our surplus
products and manufactures are one o
10 most pressing demands of the day.
1t is an astonishing and disgracefu
,ot that of our annual manufactures
mounting in 1880 to more than -. 900,