The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-06
have seen and been entranced. Our path
way has been strewn with flowers.

have seen and been entranced. Our path
way has been strewn with flowers.
NEW EPOCH.
We have been surprised, when we were
in the region of orchards and roses, to be
suddenly pulled up at the station and asked
to address some remarks to a pyramid Of
pig tin. Products of the mine, rare and ex-
ceptional, have been added to the products
of the field, until the impression las been
made upon my mind that II any new want
should be developed in the arts possibly il
any want should be developed in statesman
ship or any vacancies in office we have a
safe reservoir that can be drawn upon
ablibitum But my friends, sweeter than all
the incense of flowers, richer than all the
products of the mine, has been the gra-
cious, unaffected, hearty kindness with
which the people of California have every
where received us, without division, without
dissent, simple and yet magnificent Amer
lean welcome. It is gratifying that it should
be so. We may carry into our campaigns,
to our conventions and congresses, discus
sions and divisions, but how grand it is that
we are people who bow reverently to a de-
cision when it is rendered, and who will
follow the flag always-everywhere
absolute devotion of heart, without asking
what party may have given the leader in
whose hands 1t is placed. / believe that we
have come to new epoch as a nation.
There are opening portals before us inviting
us to enter, opening portals to trade and in
fiuence and prestige such as we have never
seen before. We will pursue the paths of
peace we are not warlike nation. All
our instincts, all our history is in the lines
OF peace. Only the intolerable aggression,
only the peril of our institutions of the flag
can thoroughly arouse us. With capabili-
ties Tor war on land and sea unexcelled by
any nation in the world, we are smtten
with love of peace. We would promote the
peace of this hemisphere by placing Judi
n hA nalI
Gates imply for saluting purposes and yet
they should be of the best modern type.
We should have on sea some good vessels
We do not need as great navy as some
other people, but we do need a sufficient
navy of first class ships, simply to make
sure that the peace of our hemisphere is
preserved, simply that we may not leave
great distant lnarts and harbors of COM
merce and our few citizens who may be
domiciled there to feel lonesome for the
sight OF the American flag. We are making
fine progress in the construction of navy
The best English constructors have testified
to the completeness and perfection of some
of our latest ships. 1t is source of great
qualification to me that, here in San Fran
cisco, the energy, enterprise and courage of
some OF your citizens have constructed
plant capable of building the best modern
ships. saw with great delight the mag
nficent launch of one of these new vessels.
L hope that you may so enlarge your ca
pacities for construction that it will not be
necessary to send any naval vessels around
the Horn.
MERCHANT MARINE.
We want merchant ships. believe we
have come to a time when we should choose
whether we will continue to be non-partici-
pants in the commerce of the world or will
now vigorously, with the push and energy
which our people have shown in other lines
of enterprise, claim our share of the worlds
commerce. l will not enter into the discus
sion of the methods of which the postal bill
Of the last session Of congress marks the
beginning. Here in California, where for so
slong time postal service that did not pay
| its own way was maintained by the govern
ment; where for other years the government
has maintained mail lines into your valleys,
reaching out to every remote community
and paying out yearly hundred times the
revenue that was derived from it, it ought
| not not to be difficult to persuade that our
ocean mail should not longer be the only
service for which we refuse to expend even
| the revenues derived. 1t is my belief that
under the operation of the law to which
have referred we shall be able to stimulate
ship-bulding; to secure some new lines of
American steamships and to increase the
| ports of call of those now established. 1t
will be my effort to do what may be done
under the powers lodged in me by law to
| open and increase trade with the countries
of Central and South America. / hope it
,
| il we but unitedly pursue this great scheme,
until one can take a sail in the Bay of San
| Francisco and see some deep water ship
come in bearing our own flag. During our
excursion the other day / saw three great
vessels come in One carried the Hawaiian
and two the English flag. L am a thorough
| believer in the construction Of
THE NICARAGUA CANAL.
| You have pleased me so much that would
| like shorter water communication between
my state and yours. Influences and oper-
| ations are now started that will complete,
I am sure this stately enterprise, but my fell
| low-citizens, this is the fifth time to-day
that / have talked to gatherings of Cali
fornia friends, and we have 80 much taxed
the hospitality of San Francisco in making
our arrangements to make this city the CEN
ter of a whole weeks sightseeing, that L do
not want to add to your other burdens the
infiiction of longer speech Right royalty
have you welcomed us with all that is rich
and prodigal in provision and display and
with all graciousness and friendlness 1
leave my heart with you when CO." [Great
and prolonged cheering.l
Protection for the Farmer.