Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-10-11

ana lnnuence or these nations have
been greatly extended. Their ships
open regular communications, their
subjects control trading houses, and
these. as against American traders,
unsupported by the same means and
influences, absorb much the largest
share in supplying distant peoples
with the commodities they require.
L do not mean to say that think the
United States could have wisely pur-
sued the same policy in respect to
obtaining numerous foreign posses
sions, and creating foreign depend
encies, but in the present state of the
trade of the world I do not think it
clear that our government should en-
courage the establishment of Ameri-
can lines of communication with, and
American trading establishments in,
the principal purchasing and nom
manufacturing countries, which will
facilitate the export of American
goods, and will create and promote
American commercial influence, and
in the end give us that measure of
advantage in foreign markets that
the superiority of many of our pro-
ductions fairly J entities US to.
In this great ocean communication
and trade [ think the one by far most
important point is as yet unoccupied
and not utilized by any country. L
refer to what | am confident is the
only practicable ship water way be-
tween the Atlantic and the Pacific
oceans, and which crosses the repub-
lie of Nicaragua, within 1000 miles
Of our coast. To any intelligent per-
son. who will examine globe or map
of the world, it will be apparent (if 1
am right to the fact that | have just
stately that such ship canal will
prove the key and regulator of half
the long commerce, as it may be call
ed, of many nations, and that for the
commerce of the Central and South
| American states with the United
States, as we'll as in respect to our
own commerce with Asia and the is
lands of the Indian ocean, and in re-
spect to the domestic shipping trade
| between the eastern and western
shores of the republic, it will be in
dlspensable. The people of Nicara-
qua and her sister states have been,
and | believe still are, desirous that
this canal should be built and
managed by the United States for
the great common ends and benefits
of commerce and intercourse between
nations, as well as for the more init
mate interests of the American
states, and l trust that ere long our
government will feel more deeply and
see more clearly than it has yet done,
the Importance of the matter, and
bring it to a successful issue.
These briefly outlined subjects, Mr..
President, and ladies and gentlemen,
I have thought might interest you.
perhaps, as much as many of the
more immediate questions that sur
round us as members of common and
coherent working communities, abid-
ing, and to abide, among the fair
hills and valleys of Vermont and
Northeastern New York, but / am
sure that cannot forget in our nee
essary consideration of the wide in
terests and relations that we have in
common with the great nation of
which we form part, that every ad-
vancement, great or small, that oc-
ours among civilized men, is founded
on the strength, the intelligence, the
virtue and the persistence of the
members of organized communities,
and that Improvement and progress,
like what is said of true charity, 'sbe-
gin at home" We must cultivate
our fields and work our mines, quar-
ries and shops by better and more
economic methods and secure larger
and more profitable results we must
sustain our churches with stronger
faith and with larger contributions,
and with spirit more and more tol-
Grant between the various branches
of the great Christian family and we
must pour out through our schools
and colleges, as from an unfailing
and abundant fountain, that intelli-
gent and well balanced education for
our children IN all their faculties,
which is more than mere learning,
and more valuable than great posses
sions, and which will make them
wherever they may be, wise and pru-
dent and earnest workers for peace
and happiness among men.
Mrs. Jones, how is your health this morning?
Thank you, madam, much improved I bought a
bottle OF DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup last night, and,
after the first dose, my cough was checked, slept
well and have not coughed once this morning.
Accidents will occur not only 'tin the best regu-
lated families" but everywhere and at all times.
Therefore keep Salvation Oil convenient.
How To INCREASE CHURCH AT
TENDANCE. method of increasing
church attendance that is particularly
applicable in hot weather, was lately
discovered by the wife of clergy
man. She found, while visiting
among the parishioners, that they
did not attend church more frequent
ly because the services were so long.
Giving the tip to her good husband
he began services promptly at the
appointed hour, read only one verse
of each hymn, instead of the whole,
cut down his prayers One-half, and