The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-06
The Presidents TOur--.NOtable
Speeches.

The presidents tour of the South
and the Pacific Coast has been one
long ovation. He has made many
speeches-all breathing spirit of
broadcast craftsmanship, all character
lied by an intense patriotism and a
sturdy devotion to the welfare of the
whole country. The same happy fac
ulty of putting things that showne out
80 conspicuously in his addresses
during the canvass that ended in his
election appears again in his addresses
with heightened power, tinged with
the glow of successful administration
and the prospect of a united country,
entering, under his guidance, upon a
new and brilliant era of prosperity.
The presidents eloquent and felicitous
addresses, imbued, as they are, with a
friendiness of spirit that has in it no
shade of cold convenIiunalism, have
deeply stirred the South. But the
president is Away his best interpreter,
and we publish below some extracts
from two representative speeches.
After referring III terms of warm APP
proval to the progress of the govern
ment scheme to give its harbor deep
water, he said at Galveston:
| have seen some of our South Atlantic
and Gulf ports occupy a most favorable po-
-ttt, tI.a, nd
we are reaching out our hands and which is
reaching out its hands to us. | am an econ
omist in the sense that | would not waste
one dollar of public money. But am not
an economist in the sense that l would
leave incomplete or suffer to lag any great
work highly promotive of the true interests
of our people. We are great enough and
rich enough to reach forward to grander
conceptions than have entered the minds of
some OF our statesmen in the past. If you
are content, | am not that the nations of
Europe shall absorb nearly the entire COM
merce OF these near sister republics that lie
south of us. 1t is naturally in large measure
ours-ours by noighborhood, ours by near
ness of access, ours by that sympathy that
binds a hemisphere without a king The
Inauguration of the Pan merican Congress,
or more properly the American Conference,
the happy conduct Of that meeting, the wise
and comprehensive measures which were
suggested by it, with the fraternal and
kindly spirit that was manifested by our
southern neighbors, have stimulated a desire
in them and in our people for larger inter
course of commerce and of friendship. The
provisions of the bill passed at the last ses-
sion, looking TO reciprocity of trade, not
! only met with my official approval, when l
signed the bill, but with my jealous appro-
baton before the bill was reported It's pro-
vision concerning reciprocity is that we
have placed upon our free list sugar, tea,
coffee and hides, and have said to those ma
| tons from whom we receive those great
| staples: 50 Give us free access to your ports
| for an equivalent amount of our prodace in
exchange, or we will reimpose duties upon
the articles named" The law leaves IL
wholly TO the executive TO negotigate these
arrangements. 1t does Lot need that they
shall take the form of a treaty. They need
not Ne submitted for the concurrence of the
senate. 1t only needs that we, having made
our offer, shall receive their offer in return
and when they have made up an acceptable
schedule of articles produced by us that
shall have free access to their ports a proc
lamation by the president closes the whole
| business. Already one treaty with that
| youngest of the South American republics
the great republic of Braztl, has been me-