The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-31

you, but my impression is that the court
snip Is serious one, and no coquetry about
and know that / love them. I see some
OF our lady friends here. and they know
that when that state of facts exists. lt re-
suits III marriage. can tell our friends in
Europe that this is not only going To be q
mbarTfIage but it is going to be happy and
make Central and South America precisely
what we have made these States. Jap
plausel
Some people say to me: AS you are a
member of this Congress-. you should be
careful how you talk We have met to-
gether for the purpose of talking. and after
we have talked we propose to act. We pro-
pose to build line of ofrallr0ad-we have al
ready built to Mexico-to build it through
Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and
When we get to Venezuela and the Colon
bian states we shall build two branches
one on the east and one on the
west of the Andes. [Cheers.l We have
9 lovely country in North America. but
Brazil. one of the single States OF south
with a river mightier than the Mississippi,
with soil more fertile than ours, and we in-
tend to dot it all over with communities
such as Kansas City. They ask US what we
are going to do. We are going to have i'm
mense lines of steamers running from every
port in America and landing at every inn
portant port In Central and South America.
Applause.
I'VE have mission of peace in this coun-
try and not of war. If war comes. we tell
our European friends that we are ready for
it, and decidedly shall we be ready for 1t
after this glorious marriage shall have
been consummated. Given . union of the
Americas, and for peace and for war we
shall be invincible. Wewant . uniform sys-
tenn OF weights and measures and uniform
%hnr ,npol
We want to cultivate the arts of peace and
commerce, of civilization and social life.
We will need q language. Take ours II you
like 1T; If you don't we will take yours.
Laughter and cries of Half and half.
They ask. What sort of union of rePub-
lies are you going to cementi In the Ian
guage OF one of our American poets. say:
Give ms q union OF lakes. q union OF lands;
union 90 firm that none may be severed;
union of hearts, union of hands;
union to-day and union forever.
DIR. Martinez Silva. of Colombia, ne xt
spoke. in answer to repeated demands. He
said that Senator Henderson had expressed
his ideas and those of his colleagues. The
time had come when the Americas-North.
and South. and Central-shonldd draw closer
together and be bound by closer ties, not
only of commerce aud interest, but
also of brotherhood and love. lApplause.
At the present moment old Spain, who had
entirely forgotten that there were daugh-
ters of hers on this continent, now that the
United States had extended the hand OF
fellowship to these republics. was making
great haste to show that she had always
loved them much and wanted to bring them
TO the fold again. In conclusion. he hoped
that his aspirant is for closer relations would,
in brief time, become an established fact.
Congressman Tarsney. in brief talk.
said that he had no stronger hope than
that the purpose Of this congress shall be
fully accomplished, and also every plan
heartily support any and oil measures to
consummate the closest and warmest rela-
tions with the southern nations.
Governor Francis, in . few words OF
greeting. welcomed the visitors as fellow
Americans; for all should now be Amer.
leans in the fullest sense. Applause.
As the Governor concluded with a God
speed. fireworks were started in front OF
the hotel, and drill by the Flambeau Club
was witnessed. subsequently the guests
were escorted to the theater. Before mid.
night they were on their train, which was
again headed eastward, and rolling along
on their way to Springfield, Ill.