The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-09-10
OUR HOME MARKET BEST.
PRESIDENT HARRISON TELLS THE
PEOPLE WHY.

United States Not Intended Solely
for Aericulture-Reoipro and tho
American ship.
The following speech was made by the
president on his trip through New Eng
land:
MY FELLOW CTr1zENs-I greatly APP
preciate the value and Importance of
these manufacturing centers, which are
now, fortunately for us, not character
istic of New England alone, but arc
found west of the Ohio and the Missis-
sippi and of the Missouri am one Of
those who believe that in diversifica-
ton of pursuits we make most rapid IN
crease in wealth and attain the best
social relations and development am
one of those who believe that Providence
did not set apart the United States to be
a purely agricultural region. furnishing
its surplus to supply the lack of other
people of the world. while they do al
the manufacturing for us.
We shall raise our own food. and q
manufacturing class, withdrawn from
agriculture and other pursuits, shall fur
nish the farmer market for his surplus,
near to his fields and gardens. which he
exchanges for the product of the shop
and loom would not introduce poll.
tics. lido not intend to cross any lines Of
division, but | think we shall agree,
though we may differ as to the means by
which it is to be done, that the nearer
together the producer and consumer can
be brought the less waste there is in
transportation and the greater gain in
wealth.
1t is known to you all that our S., ,000,-
900 people furnish, per capita, Il larger
market than any like number of people
This grows out of the fact that our Ca
pacity for purchasing is larger than is
found in those countries where poverty
holds larger sway. The workman buys
more and has more to buy with than in
any other land in the world.
mentioned the other day st. Albans
that this was the era for the battle for "A
market The whole world is engaged in
it. The thought was suggested to me by
sentence in the address of President
Bartlett at the observance of the battle
of Bennington in 1877. He said trading
Manchester furnished two regiments to
Burgoyne to conquer market" The
foreign policy of the United States has
never been selfish. There has always
been, if you will trace it through the
struggle of Greece and of our South
American neighbors for independence
and free government, a brave, generous
tone of sympathy with struggling people
the world round in our diplomatic policy.
think we may well challenge the COM
parison with the foreign policy of any
other great government in the world in
this regard. 1t has never been our policy
to push our trade forward at the point
Of the bayonet. We have always be-
lieved that commerce should have peace
full, natural progress. We have always
believed that it should be urged upon the
ground of mutual advantages; and upon
this ground alone are we now endeavor-
ing by every means in our power to open
the markets of our sister republics in
Central and South America to the prod
ucts of American shops and farms. We
do not covet their territory. The day of
flibustering aggression has gone by in
the United States. We covet their good
will. We wish for them settled institu-
tions of government, and we desire those
exchanges that are mutually profitable.
We have found that we were receiving
| from some of these countries enormous
: annual imports of sugar, coffee and
hides, and we have now placed these AZ
ticles upon the free list upon the condi-
! tion that they give to the products of the
United States fair reciprocity.
If our laws or any aggressive move
, ment we are making for larger share
in the commerce Of the world should en-
; cite the commercial jealousy and rivalry
of other countries, we shall not complain
if those rivalries find only proper en-
preston. We have come to a time In
our development rs nation when DO
lieve that interest on money is low enough
for us to turn some Of our accumulated
: capital from the railways into steam
) transportation On the sea; that the time
has come when we shall recover full
participation in the carrying trade of the
. world; when under the American flag
p steamships shall carry our products tx
:, neighboring markets and bring back
! their exchanges to our harbors. Larger
o. foreign markets for the products Of oul
!. farms and of our factories, and larger
share in the carrying trade Of the world
n peaceful relations with all mankind. will
q naval and coast defenses that will silent
e ly make an argument on the side o
q peace, are the policies that ! wnnId pur
d sue.