The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-20
TOUR OF THE PRESIDENT,
TEXT OF HIS MBATY SPEECH ct
GALVESTON.


Neighoors to the South Mexico's
President Can't Meet Him.
GALVESTON, TEX, April 19.-At the
beac1 hotel late last night, in response to his
,ordia1 welcome.to Galveston, the President
said in part:
am glad to have been able to traverse this
larbor and to.look upon that liberal work
which liberal and united government has in
augurated for your benefit and for the benefit
If the northwest. [Great and prolonged
hears | have always believed that it
was one of the undisputed functions of
he general government to make these
yreat waterways which penetrate our coutry
and these harbors into which our shipping must
,ome to receive the tribute of rail and river,
safe and easy of access. This ministering care
should extend to our whole country, and am
ylad of the adoption of the policy with reference
"a the harbor work here at least, which | in
sisted upon in my public message. Great and
cheering,l The appropriation has
osen made adequate to diligenJ and prompt com
lIetion of the work. (Great cheering. III the
past the government has undertaken too many
things at once, and its annual appropriations
have been so inadequate that the work of the
engineers was much retarded and often seri-
ously damaged in the interval of waiting for
fresh appropriations. 1t is better policy
when the work has once been determined to
he of national significance. that the appro-
priation should be sufficient to bring
L speedily and without loss to
conclusion. [Great cheering am glad that
the scheme of the engineer for giving deep
water TO Galveston is thus to be prosecuted. |
have said some of our South Atlantic and Gulf
ports occupy most favorable position for the
new commercei toward which we are reaching
out our hands and which is reaching out its
hands to US tGreat cheering.l
HIS STAND ON ECONOMY.
% lam an economist in the sense that would
If uyas or dollar Of the nUbIC RIlt I
am not an economist in the sense that l would
leave incomplete or suffer to lag any great
work highly promOtlVe Of the true interests OF
our people. TGreat cheering. We are great
enough and rich enough to reach forward to
Crander conceptions than have entered the
minds of some of our statesmen In the past II
YOU are content, am not, that the nations of
Europe shall absorb nearly the entire com
lnerce of these near sister republics that lie
south of us. 1t is, in a large measure, ours.
Ours by neighborhood, ours by nearness of
access, ours by that sympathy that binds the
hemisphere without king TOheers. The
the wise and comprehensive measures
which were suggested by it, with
the fraternal and kindly spirit that was
manifested by our southern neighbors have
simulated desire in them and in our people
for larger intercourse of commerce and OF
friendship The provisions of the bill passed at
the last session looking to reprocity OF trade
not only met with my official approval, when l
after the bill was reported. Great and pro-
longed cheering.
ITS PROVISIONS.
Its provisions concerning reciprocity are that
We have placed upon our free list sugar tea,
coffee and hides and have said to those nations
from whom we received these great staples,
Give us free access to your ports for
equivalent of our produce in exchange, or we
|ll re-impose the duties upon the articles
named. The law leaves it wholly to the eXeCu-
tive to negotiate these arrangements. 1t does
not need that they shall take, the form of a
treaty. We have made our offer and when they
IN return make up an acceptable scheduIe OF
articles produced by us that shall have
free access to their ports, proclama-
ton by the President closes the whole
business [Cheers Already one treaty with
that youngest of South American republics
the great republic of Brazil-has been made,
and proclaimed. l think, without
disclosing an executive secret, / may tell you
that the arrangement with Brazil is not likely
to abide in lonesomeness much longer. Great
and prolonged cheering.l Others are to fol-
low, and as results Of these trade arrangements
products Of the United States, our meats, our
breadstuff5 and certain lines of manufactured
goods, are to tind free or favored access to the
ports of many of these South and Central
American states.
OF BENEFIT TO ALL THE STATES.
All the states will share in these benefits. In
the manifest of a single ssteamer it was found
that twenty-five of our states contributed 10 the
largo. but we SDall ne6tt SOIl6LulLS more we
shall need American steamships to carry Amer
lean goods to these ports. Great cheering, !
The last congress appropriated about 81, ,50O0OO
and authorized the Postmaster General to con-
tract with the steamship companies to carry
the United States mail. The foreign mail serv
ice is the only mail service out OF which the gov
ernment has been making net profit. We do
not make profit out of our land serv-
ce. There is an annual deficiency. which
my good friend. the Postmaster Gen
eral, has been trying very hard
to wipe out. The theory of our mail service is
that 1t is for the people; that we are not to make
profit out OF 1t, and that we are to give them
as cheap postage as is possible. We are many
of us looking forward to the time when we snail
nave cent postage in this country lCheers. ]
We have been SO close and penurous in dealing
with our ships in the carrying of our foreign
mails that we have actually made revenues out
OF that business. Not having spent for it what
we have received from it, now we propose to
cnange that policy and to make more liberal
contracts with American lines carrying Ameri-
can mails. Cheers. Some one may say we
ought not to go into this busness-that it Is a
subsidy. But, my friends every other great
nation of the world has been doing it and is
oolng 1t to-day. At one time no wholesale
merchant sent out travelling men to solicit Gus,
tom. but stood in his own store and waited for
his customers
THE STORY OF THE DRUMMER.
But presently some enterprising merchant
began TO send out men with their samples to
cost OF trip to New York or Philadelphia.
ungi! hnally that practice has become universal,
alu M Uhose active, intelligent travelling men are
ylng TINS country over; pushing and solicit
aug IN their several lines of business. Now i'm
aRlne some conservative merchant in New YORK
saying to himself: IAN this is wrong; trade
oqSht 10 come to me- II he should refuse to
StopG these modern methods he must 20 out Of
BUSINESS We have been refusing to adopt the
UNIVERSAL method of our competitors in com
iterce 20 stimulate their shipping interests and
aaEe wen nigh gone out of business Laughter
anu anu cheers. Encouraged by what your spokes-
llsh mas said tonight, l venture to declare that
am in favor of going into the business again
ii rIG When 1t is re-established l hope Galveston
VIII De IN partnership Great cheering
WHAT We SAY TO THE LINES.
~, we now say TO the few existing American
aHes. You must not treat this appropriation
i pS a d piate OF soup to be divided aud consumed
~ yo9r ships. You must give us new lines,
nsM lew ,shlps, increased trips and new ports Of
- Ll, Already steamship lines are looking
eeF routes to see what they can do with view
~ ncTeasing their tonnage and in establishing
H." lines. This appropriation is for one
Sdi What the future Is TO be must
~ pehd upons the deliberation of the people,
uurlng my term of office they shall strike
l%oWh % The law that believe to be beneficial, or
II k.e5troy Its energy by Withholding appropria-
IONS, shall bow to their will, but shall feel a
-e eal disappointment if we do not make this an
d LOT the revival of American commerce.
~ ops that the time shall come when our
80 1rte rs Living in temporary exile in foreign
800 shall now and then see steaminR INTO these
etdht ports fine modern men-of war flying the
n,sed States flag [cheers with the best
aouern guns on their deck and brave Ameri-
an crew o. her forecastle. [Cheers.
want also that in these ports, so long un-
lHElIlar with theAmerican flag, there shall again