Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-19

augurated for your benefit and for
the benefit of the Northwest. I al
| ways believed that it was one of
d, the undisputed functions of the general
| government to make these great water
ways and these harbors into which our
| ships shall come to receive the tribute of
| rail and river safe. commodious and easy of
access. I have believed that this minister
| ing care should extend to our
| whole country, and I was therefore glad
| that we adopted policy with reference to
| this work which insisted upon in the pub
| lie message. That appropriation has
| been adequate to the diligent
| and prompt completion of the
! work that has been inaugurated.
| In the past the government has undertaken
| too many things at once, and its annual ap-
! preparations have been so inadequate that
| the work of the engineers was much re-
! tarded and even seriously damaged in the
| interval while they were waiting for other
appropriations. II is a better policy that
when once Il work Las been determined TO
| be Of national significance the appropriation
| should be sufficient TO bring it speedily and
| without rest to q completion. am glad
| that the scheme OF the engineers for
| giving deep water TO Galveston Is thus
| TO be prosecuted. have said that some of
| our South Atlantic and gulf ports occupied
| q most favorable position toward the new
commerce towards which We are reaching
out our hands, ard which IS
| am an economist III the sense that
l would not waste single dollar of public
money, but ] am not an economist in the
sense that / would leave uncompleted or
suffer to lag great work behind which
was the common interests OF our people
We are great enough and rich enough to
reach forward to the grandest conception
that have pinched the minds of some of our
statesmen in the past. If you are content am
not. that the nations of Europe shall absorb
yearly the entire commerce Of this one sis
ter republic that lies south of Us. 1t is
| naturally in
LARGE MAJORITY oURs,
ours b. neighborhood, ours by uearness of
access, ours by that sympathy that
combines the hemispheres without a
kingdom. The Inauguration of the
I'an-American congress, or more properly
the American conference, the happy con-
duct of that meeting. the wise and compre-
hensive measures which are suggested by
the fraternal and kindly spirit that was
manifested by all our Southern
neighbors, has stimulated an interest
in them for larger intercourse
of commerce and friendship. The provi-
siOns of the bill passed at the last session
looking to the reciprocity of trade not only
met with my official approval when
l signed the bill, but met
with my official promotion before
the bill was reported. Its general provision
is that we have placed upon our free list
sugar, tea, coffee and hides, and have said
to those nations from whom we receive
these great staples
GIVE Us SOMETHING FREE.
Give US Your product in exchange, or we
viii reimpose those duties. The law leaves
it wholly with the executive to
negotiatc these arrangements. 1t does
not need that it should take the form of
treaty. II does not need to be submitted to
the concurrence of a senate, for 1t has al
ready received the concurrence of both
branches Of congress. 1t only needs that we,
having made our offer, shall negotiate with
them and receive their offer When we
have made up the schedule of articles
exchange have free access to
their ports. y proclamation by the presi-
dent
CLOSES THE WHOLE Bus NESS.
Already one treaty with that precious
and newest of the South American re-
pUblics, the great Brazil, has been negoti-
ated and proclaimed. 1 think,
without disclosing any executive
secret, ! may tell you that
the arrangement with Brazil is not to be
lonesome much lOnger-others are to follow,
and as a result of this the products OF the
United States, our meats, our breadstuffs,
and certain lines Of manufactured goods
are finding free access to the ports of many
Of those South and Central American
st9tes
Al of the states share in these benefits.
We have had an analysis made of the man
fests of some of our steamers now sailing to
South American ports, and Il single steamer
was found where twenty-five OF our states |
contributed TO her cargo
But we shall need something more. We |
shall need American steamships to carry |
American goods to these ports. The last |
congress passed bill appropriating about |
81, zoos authorizing the pOstmaster-geu- |
eral to contract with steamship companies |
for the carrying of the United States |
mails. My fellow citizens. the foreign |
mail service is the only mail service out of |
which the government has been making a |
net profit We did not make d profit out OF |
our last service. There is an annual de- |
felt which my good friend here has been |
trying to reduce or wipe out. |
The theory of our mail service |
is that il is for the people We are not to |
make profit out of them, but we are to |
give them as cheap postagI possible with |
the revenues that are derived and we are |
many of us looking forward for the time
when we shall have l cent POSTAGE.
in this country. We have been so close inf
dealing with our ships carrying theSforeign |
mail that we have actually made revenue
out of that business, not having spentipg F
what we received from IL NOW we pro-
pose 10 change that policy and to make |,
contracts with American lines to carry thss&
American mails. Some one may say wei
ought not to go into this business, that it is
Il subsidy. Well, let me tell YOU
my friends, every great nation of the
world has been doing it and is doing it to-
day. Great Britain and France have built
their great steamship lines
BY GOVERNMENT AID.
1t seems to me our policy with reference
to it is APPLY illustrated by an illustrasSeaAgk
OF mine the other day. In the oldens times
the wholesale merchant did not send \
custom Gus 80, He sat in his sssre
and waited for the customer to come. but
presently some enterpriSing merchant I'M
dertook TO send out men to seek the tradS1
with their sample cases and save the coun-
try buyer the cost of q trip to New York or
Finally that practice |
has become universal in the trade These
active and intelligent travelling men are
scurrying this country over, pushing and
for their several lines of business.
Now imagine some conservative merchant
in New York who should say to himself,
all this is wrong, trade ought to come to Us,
and should refuse to adopt
THESE MODERN METHODS,
What would be the result as to him? He
would either have to adopt the new method
or go out of business. Now we have been
10 adopt this universal method
used by our competitors to stimulate our
interests and we have gone out of
business. Encouraged by what your
SpokeSmnO has said tO-riubt