The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-04-25
HARRISON AT GALVESTON
The Presidential Party Given a
Right Royal Reception.
Address by the President Admirably
Fitted to the Place and the Occasion
The sabbath Spent Quietly
--Of for san Antonio.

GALVESTON. Tex. April 19.-Fully as
cordial. if not more so. than the well
come given Gen. Grant on his visit to
Galveston while on his tour around the
world, was the reception President
Harrison received when he arrived in
this city at $50 o'clock yesterday after
noon.
The streets were alive with people.
who kept up an almost continuous
cheer. At the Beach hotel the president
went to the stand and reviewed the
procession. This ended the ceremonies.
At $50 o'clock the president was ser
enaded by Noight's band. When this
vas over. the president had formal re-
ception on the band stand in front of
the hotel, and when the Misunderstanding
was concluded. Gen. +. y. Waul dcliv-
cred an eloquent address of welcome
on the part of the city, to which the
president responded as follows:
MY FELLOW CTTIZEyS-wc close tonight
n whole week of hand shaking. Il whole
week Of talking. have before me ten thou
sand miles Of hand shaking and speak, ing.
and am not 10y reason Of what this week
has brought me, in voice to contend with the
fine but rather strong gulf breeze which
pours in upon us to night, and yet It comes
to me laden with fragrance Of your welcome.
Cheers 1t comes with softncss. refresh
mcnt and grace. which has accompanied all
my intercourse with the people of Texas.
IGrcat chccringl
The magnificent and cordial demOnstra-
tiun which you have made in our honor
to-day will always remain a br ght and
pleasant picture IN my memory Great
cheers
am CAD to have been able To- rest my eyes
upon the city of Galveston am glad TO
have been able 10 traverse this harh0r and
to look upon that work which liberal and
united government has naugUrated for your
benefit and for the benefit of the northwest.
Great and prolonged cheering. ! have al
ways believed that it was one of the
undi>putcd functions of the general govern
eminent to make these waterways which
penetrate our country, and these harburs
into which your shipping must come to re-
ccivc the tribute Of rail and river. safe. com
mOtious and easy of access. This minister
ing care should extend to our whole coun-
try. and I glad that adopting of 4
policy with reference to the harIOr work
here at least, which insisted upon in pub
lie message great and prolonged checringl
an appropriation has been made that is ad-
quatc to dIlIgrnt and prompt completion of
the work. Great checrinGl.
In the past the government has under
taken too many things at once. Its annual
approximations have been 80 inadequate
that the work of engineers was much re-
tartlch and often seriously damaged in the
interval Of waiting for fresh appropriations.
II Is better policy. when the work has once
been determined To be of national >igniii-
cInce,thdt appropriation should hc sufficient
to bring it speedily and " ithOut iuSs TO con
clu-ion- Great cheering.
am glad that the scheme Of the engineer
for giving deep water to- Galveston Is thus to
he prosecuted. have said the same of our
south Atlantic and gulf ports. They occupy
most favorable positions for new commerce
towards which we are rcachn" out our
hands and which is reaching ont its hands to
US. Great cheering.
am an economist in the sense that would
not waste one dollar of pubic money. but
am not an economist in the SENSE that l
would leave incomplete or suffer to lag any
great work highly promntivc of the true
interests of the people. Great chrcrin.l.
We are great enough and rich enough tn
reach forward to erander 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 alb
sOTb nearly the entire commerce of the near
sister republics that lie south of us. II i
naturally in large measure ours: ours by
right Of ncghborhood; ours 10y near
ness of access; ours bv that sym
pathy that binds a hemisphere with
ont king. The Inauguration of the pan
American congress, or more properly.
American conference. was conducted in a
wise and comprehensive spirit that was
manifested by all our southern nciGhbnr$,
which has stimulated desire in them and
in our people for larger intercourse of
commerce aud friendship. Til" provisions
of the bill at the last s"ss on looking to rrci-
procity Of trade, not only met with my of
fetal approval when ! signed the bill, but
with my Jealous promotion before the bill
was reported. Prolonged cheers Its pro
vision concerning reciprocity i that
have placed upon our free list, sugar, tea,
coffee and hides, and have said to those ma
tiOns from which we receive these greatest
staples: "Give us free access to your ports
for the equivalent amount Of our product in
exchange, or We will reinpO>c duties upon
the articles named"
The law leaves it wholly to the executive
to negotiate these arrangements. II does
not need that they shall take the form
Of a treaty. They need not be submit
ted for the concurrence of the senate. IL
only needs that we. having made our offer,
shall receive their offer in return. and when
they have mad" up an acceptable schedule
of articles produced by us that shall have
free access tO their ports. the proclamation
by the president closes the whole bus. ness.
tChcers.l Already one treaty with that
youngest of the south American republics,
the great republic of Brazil, has been ncSo-
tiatcd and proclaimed. ! think. without
disclosing anv cx -cutivc secrets. ! may tell
you that our arrangement wi.h Brazil - not
likely to abide lonc-omcly much longer
great and prolonged chccrin.l; that others
are to follow and that. as a result Of these
trade arrangements. the products of the
United States, our meats. our brcadstuns
and certain lines of manufactured goods are
TO find free favored access to ports of
many of these South and Central American
states. All states will share in these bcne-
fits. We have had an analysis made of the
manifrsts OF some of our steamers now
sailing to South American ports. and in n
single steamer il was found that twenty-five
OF our states contributed to the cargo.
But we shall need something more We
shall need American steamships to carry
American goods to these ports. iGr"at
chcering.l The last congress passed hill
81 5GOOpO. and authorizing the
postmaster general to contract with steam
ship companies, for a period not exceeding
ten years. for carrying the United states
mail. Foreign mail service j. the only mail
service out Of which the government has
been making a net profit. We do not make
any profit out of our land service. There
Is an annual deficiency which my
good friend, the postmaster general,
has been trying very hard to reduce or wipe
out. The theory of our mail service is that Il
is for the people; that We are not to make
any profit out of il that We are to give them
a cheap a postage As il possible. We are
many OF US looking forward for a time When
We shall have one cent postage in this coun-
try. iChcersl. We have been close and
penurious in dealing with our ships in car
rying foreign mails that we have actually
made revenue out of that business,
not having spent for 1t what We have
received from it. Now we propose to change
that policy and make more liberal contracts
with American lines carrying American
mail. [Cheersl- Some one may say we
ought not to go into the business; that it is
n subsidy. But, my dear friends, every
other great nation OF This world has been
doing it and is doing it to-day. Great Brit
ain and France have built up their great
steamship lines by government aid and 1t
seems to me our attitude with reference to
that is amply portrayed by an illustration
] mentioned the other day: In olden times,
no wholesale merchant sent out travelling
men to solicit custom, but stood in his
own store and waited for his customers, but
some enterprisins merchant be-
gan to send out men with their sample
cases to seek the trade, to save the country
buyer the cost of trip to New York or Phil
adelphia, until finally that practice has be-
come universal, and these active, intelligent
men are securing this country over, push. |
ing and soliciting their several line3 of