The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-09-06

ialoiu the Introduction into this
country of selected products of
such countries as should continue to re-
fuse our inspected meats, enabled us to
open all the markets of Europe TO our
pork products. The result has been not
only to sustain prices by providing new
markets for our surplus. but to add fifty
cents per hundred pounds to the mar ket |
value of inspected meats. Under the rec
lproclty agreements special favors have |
beech secured for agricultural products. |
and our exports of such products have !
been greatly increased, with a sure pros |
pect of a further and rapid increase We |
may confidently submit to the intelligent |
and candid judgment of the American |
farmer whether in any corresponding |
period so much has been done to pro
mote his interests, and whether in
continuance and extension of these
methods there is not a better prospect
offered him than in the invitation of the
democratic party to give our home
market to foreign manufacturers and to
abandon the recipoctity policy; and bet
ter also than the radical and untried
methods of relief proposed by other
parties which are soliciting his support
1t is quite possible, l believe, if the
United States will support the Nicara
qua ship canal enterprise, to secure the
speedy completion of the canal without
taxing the treasury for any direction con-
tribution, and at the same time to secure
to the United States that influence in its
management which is imperative.
Foreign Policy.
1t has been the purpose of the admin
istraton to make its foreign policy not
matter of partisan politics but of patriot
| ism and national honor; and have very
| grent qualification in being able to state
that the democratic members % the com
mittees on foreign affairs responded in
true American spirit. They did not be
| Eeve, as some others seem to believe, that
to be democrat one must take the for
eign side of every international question,
as republican administration is conduct
ing the American side. | do not be-
lieve that a tame submission to insult
and outrage by any nation at the
hands of another can ever form the basis
of a lasting friendship necessary
element of mutual respect will be want
ing The Chilian incident, now so hap
PLY and honorably adjusted, will, do
not doubt, place our relations with that
brave people upon more friendly basis
than ever before This already appears
in the agreement since negotiated by Mr..
Egan for the settlement by commission
of the long unsettled claims between the
two governments. The work of Mr.
Egan has been highly advantageous to
the Unitee States. The confidenc,
which | refused to withdraw from
him has been abundantly justified
In our relations with the great European
powers the rights of the United States
and of our citizens have been insisted
upon with firmness The Samoan ques
, ton, which came over from the preccd
ing administration have been the on,
settled, and the other submitted to arbi
tration upon fair basis. Never before
? | think, in like period have so man,
important treaties and commercial agree
ments been concluded and never before
S have the honor aud influence, nationa
e and commercial of the United States beel
a in higher estimation in both hemispheres
e The union soldiers and sailors are nov
e veterans of time as well as of war Tn
e parallels of age have approached close t.
c the citadels of life, and the end, for each
e of a brave and honorable struggle is no
i. remote. The ear that does not listen witt
: sympathy, and the heart that does no
Y respond with generosity are the ear ant
t heart of an alien and not of an American
d A cOmrade in the column of the victor
d parade in 1865, | am not less conrad
n now. | have used every suitable occas
It sion to urge upon the people of all sec
: tions the considerations that n
good cause can be promoted upon tn
e ground of lawlessness. Mobs do no
S discriminate, and the punishmenis in
n flicted by them have no repressive O
e salutary influence. On the contrar
l. they beget revenges and perpetual
N feuds. 1t is especially the duty of th
, educated and influential to see that th
v weak and ignorant when accused {
le crime are fairly tried before lawful tr
O bunals The moral sentiment of I'll
1t country should be aroused and brougl
lr to bear for the suppression of those offer
IT ces against the law and the social orde
1t The Emigration Matter.
s, The necessity for careful discrimin;
is ton among the emigrants seeking or
r shores becomes every day more apparen
k We do not want and should not recci,
De habits are not wanted at home. The il
ly dustrious and self respecting, the love
ne of law and liberty, should be discrim
w mated from the pauper, the criminal an
ne the anarchist, who come only to burdt
It's or disturb our communities. Ever
n effort has been made to enforce the Law
I'd and some convictions have been secure
es under the contract labor law.
"A Condition of Country.
~ The general condition of our count
-, - is one of great prosperity. The blessir
~ ~ of God has rested upon our fields al
~ upon our people. No other nation CT
~ match the commercial progress whi'
the figures of our foreign commerce di
20 close. Our comparisons may well 60 o
to those whose party necessities al
ha habits still compel them to declare tn
nc our people are oppressed and our ira
-aI restricted by protective tariff.
lai In General.
1t is not possible for me 10 refer ev
in the briefest way to many Of the tOpi
x presented in the resolutions adopted
'or the convention. Upon all that have r
fce been discussed l have before public
ISL expressed my views. !. change In
ne personnel of national administration
lily of comparatively little moment.
rec those exercising public functions
able, honest, diligent, and faith
others possessing all these qualities m
the be found to take their places.
lch changes in the laws and in the admin
Nil trative policies are of great nome
'ed When public affairs have been give
oes direction and business has ad justed
of self to these lines, any sudden change
'ra- wolves stoppage and new business
est justments. If the change Of direction
hill so radical as to bring the commerC
our turntables into use, the business chan
on involved are not re adjustments, but
)w constructions. The democratic pa
the offers programme of demoliti
af- The prospective policy to which
bic business, even that of the importer
ed now ad diusted-the reciprocity policy,