The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-04-23


picture IN my memory. l am glad to have
been able to rest my eyes upon the
city of Galveston. | am glad to
have been able TO traverse its harbor
and l look upon that liberal work which
liberal and united government has in
the benefit of the Northwest. / al
ways believed that it was one of
the undisputed functions of the general
government to make these great water
ways and these harborS into which our
ships shall come to receive the tribute of
access. ] have believed that this minister
ing care should extend 10 our
whole country, and I was therefore glad
that we adopted policy with reference to
this work which insisted upon in the pub
lie message. That appropriation has
been adequate to the diligent
and prompt completion Of the
work that has been inaugurated.
In the past the government has undertaken
too many things at once, and its annual ap-
preparations have been so inadequate that
the work of the engineers was much re-
tarded and even seriously damaged in the
interval while they Were waiting for other
appropriations. II is better policy that
when once a work has been determined 10
be Of national significance the appropriation
should be sufficient TO bring it speedily and
without rest to a completion. | am glad
that the scheme of the engineers for
giving deep water to Galveston is thus
TO be prosecuted. l have said that some of
our South Atlantic and gulf ports occupied
a most favorable position toward the new
commerce towards which we are reaching
out our hands, and which is
reaching out its hands to US.
am an economist in the sense that
] would not waste a single dollar of public
money, but | am not an economist i'll the
sense that | would leave uncompleted or
suffer TO Ia" any great work behind which
was the common interests of our people
We are great enough and rich enough to
reach forward to the grandest conception
that have pinched the minds of some of our
statesmen in the past. If you are content am
not that the nations of Europe shall absorb
yearly the entire CONNIE of this one sis
ter republic that lies south of US. 1t is
naturally in
LARGE MAJORITY OURS,
ours by ncighborhood, ours by nearness of
access, ours b. that sympathy that
combines the hemispheres without
kingdom. The Inauguration of the
Pau-Amcrican congress, or more properly
the American conference, the happy CON
duct of that meeting, the wise and compre-
hensive measures which are suggested by
the fratCrnal and kindly spirit that was
manifested by all our Southern
neighbors, has stimulated an interest
IN them for a larger intercourse
Of commerce and friendship The provi-
sons OF the bill passed at the last session
looking to the reciprocity of trade not only
met with my official approval when
/ signed the bill, but met
with my official promotion before
the bill was reported. Its general provision
IS that We have placed upon our free list
sugar. tea, coffee and hides, and have said
to those nations from whom we receive
these great staples
GIVE Us SOMETHING FREE.
Give US your product in exchange, or we
will reimpose those duties. The law leaves
it wholly with the executive to
negotiate these arrangements. 1t does
not neeu that ii should take the form of
treaty. 1t does not need to be submitted to
the concurrence of senate, for it has al
ready received the concurrence of both
branches of congress. 1t only needs that we,
having made our offer. shall negotiate with
them and receive their offer. When we
have made up the schedule of articles
produced by US we shall in
exchange have free access to
their ports. y proclamation by the presi-
dent
CLOSES THE WHOLE BUSINESS.
Already one treaty with that precious
and newest of the South American re-
publics, the great Brazil, has been negoti-
ated and proclaimed. l think,
without disclosing any executive
secret. may tell you that
the arrangement with Brazil is not to be
lonesome much longer-others are to follow,
ana as d result Of this the products of the
United States, our meats, cur breadstuffs
and certain lines of manufactured goods
are finding free access to the ports of many
of those South and Central American
states.
All of the states share in these benefits.
We have mad an analysis made of the man
ifestS Of some of our steamers now sailing to
South American ports, and single steamer
was found where twenty-five Of our states
contributed to her cargo.
But we shall need something more. We
shall need American steamships to carry
American goods to these ports. The last
congress passed bill appropriating about
$l,250,000 authorizing the postmaster-gen-
eral to contract with steamship companies
for the carrying of the United States
mails. My fellow citizens, the foreign
mail service is the only mail service out OF
which the government has been making i
net profit We did not make profit out of
our last service. There is an annual de-
felt which my good friend here has been
trying TO reduce or wipe out.
The theory of our mail service
is that it is for the people. We are not to
make profit out of them, but we are to
give them as cheap postage possible with
the revenues that are derived, and we are
many of US looking forward for the time
when we shall have l cent postage
in this country. We have been so close in
dealing with our ships carrying the foreign
mail that we have actually made revenue
out of that business, not having spent for it
what we received from it. Now we pro-
pose TO change that policy and to make
contracts with American lines TO carry the
American mails. Some one may say we
ought not to go into this business, that it is
a subsidy. Well, let me tell you
my friends, every great nation Of the
world has been doing it and is doing it to-
day. Great Britain and France have built
their great steamship lines
BY GOVERNMENT AID.
1t seems to me our policy with reference
TO it is aptly illustrated by an illustration
of mine the other day. In the olden times
the wholesale merchant did not send
our travelling men to solicit
custom. He sat in his store
and waited for the customer to come, but
presently some enterprising merchant I'M
dertook TO send out men to seek the trade
with their sample cases and save the coun-
try buyer the cost of trip to New York or
Philadelphia. Finally that practice
has become universal in the trade. These
active and intelligent travelling men are
scurrying this country over, pushing and
soliciting for their several lines of business
Now imagine some conservative merchant
in New York who should say to himself.
all this is wrong, trade ought to come 10 US,
and should refuse to adopt
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