Connecticut western news., 1891-04-22
The Hospitable Texans.

with the wish of the president, Galveston people allowed him to spend Sunday quietly. Accompanied by Mrs. Dimmick, Postmaster General Wanamaker and Mayor Fulton he attended services at the First Presbyterian church and heard sermon by Rev. MT. Scott. The church was crowded and number of persons shook hands with the president.
 The presidents reception in Texas has proved very cordial one all along the line of the journey. Crowds greeted him at Houston, and he made several speeches. The party did not reach Galveston until late Saturday afternoon, but the presi- dents reception was fully as warm as that tendered General Grant when he arrived here on his worlds tour. Thousands greet ed him, and the ships in the harbor, Ameri- can and foreign, were gayly decorated with streamers
 In the course of one of the most interest ing speeches of his trip, the president said, referring to the reciprocity schemes a-foot:
 Brazil Will Soon Have Company
 Already one treaty with that youngest of the South American republics, the great republic of Brazil, has been negotiated and proclaimed. think without disclosing any executive se- crets, may tell you that an arrangement with Brazil is not likely to abide in lonesomeness much longer-[great and prolonged cheeringl- that others are to follow, and that as result of these trade arrangements, the products of the United States-our meats, our breadstuds and certain lines of manufactured goods-are to find free or favored access to ports of many of these South and Central American states. All states will share in these benefits. We have had an steamers now sailing to South American ports, and in 8 single steamer 1t was found that twen- ty-hve of our states contributed to the cargo.
 The Mail Steamship Subsidy.
 But we shall need something more. We shall need American steamships to carry American goods to these ports. [Great cheering.l The lAs4 congress passed bill appropriating $1 500, contract with the steamship companies for a psEiod not exceeding ten years for carrying the United States mail.
 aome one may say that we ought not to % Into the bustnesstthat 1t Is subsidy. But, my dear friends, every other great nation of this world has been doing 1t and Is doing 1t to- day. Great Britain and France have built up their great steamship lines by government aid.
 Not Plate of Subsidy Soup.
 It has been a careful study of the postmaster general in preparing to execute the law to which have referred to see how much of an
 r. We have said to the few existing American lines: 'You must not treat this appropriation as plate of soup to be divided and consumed by you. You must meet generous people in g generous Sp1r1C 1Ou must &1Ve US new unoS, new ships, increased trips and new ports oi call'' Already steamship lines are looking over routes to see what they can do with view o1 increasing their tonnage and in establishing new lines. This appropriation is for one year
 What future circumstances are to be must de pend upon deliberate judgment of the people If during my term of office they shall strike down the law that believe to be benehcient o1 destroy it's energy by withholding appropria, tions shall bow to their will, but shall feel the greatest disappointment if we do not make this area for the revival of American com merce. do much want that the time shall come when our citizens living in temporary exile in foreign ports shall now and then see steaming into those distant harbors fine modern men-of- war flying United States flagl[cheers]- with the best modern guns on her deck and the brave American crew in her forecastle [Cheers.] want also that in those ports SC long unfamiliar with the American flag there shall again be found our steamships and our sailing vessels carrying from our shores the products that our men of toll have wrought te l exchange for products of other climes.
 think we should add to all this-happily it ii | likely to be accomplished by individual effort the early completion of the Nicaragua canal l [Cheers.l The Pacific coast should no longer | be found by only by the passage of the horn. A short route should be opened, and ii | will be, and then with this wondrous stirring | among the people of our states, this awaken | ing to new thoughts and higher conception. l and larger business plans, there will come grea | prosperity to all our people. Vision have O. l all the thoughts that this matter embraces l I do not think of it as a question of party | think of it as 8 great American question. |