Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-13


contribute to the education of the chill
dren of the land was worthily be-
slowed and meets my hearty approval,
as does also the declaration as to lib
erty of thought and conscience, and the
separation Of church and state. The
safety Of the republic Is an intelligent
citizenship. and the increased interest
manifested in the states in education.
the cheerfulness with which the neces-
sary taxes are paid by all classes and
the renewed interest manifested by the
children in the national flag are hope
full indications that the coming genera
ton will direct public affairs with in
creased prudence and patriotism.
Our interest in free public schools
open to all children of suitable age is
supreme, and our care for them will be
jealous and constant. The public
tended to restrain the natural right OF
the parent, after contributing to the
public school fund, to choose other ed.
ucational agencies for his children.
favor aid by the general government
to the public schools with a special
view to the necessities of some of the
southern states, but it is gratifying to
notice that many of these states are,
with commendable hberality, develop.
ing their school systems and increasing
their school revenues to the great adj
vantage of the children of both races
Agriculture's Great Gain.
The considerable attention of the
farmers of the whole country is invited
to the work done through the state and
agricultural apartments in the inter-
est of agriculture. Our pork products
had, for ten years, been not only ex-
cluded by the great continental nations
of Europe, but their value discredited
by the reasons given for this exclusion.
All previous efforts to secure the re-
moval of these restrictions had failed,
but the wise legislation of the Fifty.
first congress, providing for the inspec-
ton and official certifcation of our
meats and giving to the president pow
er to forbid the introduction into this
country of selected products of such
countries as should continue to refuse
our inspected meats, enabling 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 market value of the inspected
meats.
Under the recip rocity agreements
special favors have been secured for
agricultural products and our exports
OF such products have been greatly in
creased, with sure prospect of a
further and rapid increase. The agri-
cultural department has maintained in
Europe an agent whose special duty it
is to introduce there the various prepa-
rations of corn as articles of food, and
his work has been very successful.
Cattle Exports.
The department has also sent skilled
veterinarians TO Liverpool to examine,
in connection with the British veterina.
rians, the live cattle from the United
States landed at that port; and the re-
suit, IN connection with the sanitary
methods adopted at home, has been
that we hear no more about our cattle
being infected with leuro-pneumonia.
a 1udicious system of quarantine lines
has prevented the infection of northern
cattle With the Texas fever The tariff
bill OF 1890 gives better protection to
farm products subject to foreign com
petition than they ever had before, and
the home markets for such products
have been enlarged by the establish
ment OF new industries and the devel-
We may confidently submit to the in
telligent and candid judgment of the
American farmer whether, in any corr
responding period, SO much has been
done to promote his interests, and
whether, in continuance and extern
sion Of these methods, there is not a
better prospect offered to him than in
the invitation of the democratic party
to give our home market to foreign
manufacturers, and to abandon the
policy, and better also than
4 ha radical and 11pfrin1 raafhnIo ~ Y.a-
lief proposed by other parties, which
are soliciting his support.
The Nicaragua Canal.
/ have often expressed my strong
of the value of the Nicaragua
ship canal to our commerce and to our
navy. The project is not one of con-
venience, but of necessity. 1t is quite
possible, believe, if the United States
will supprt the enterprise, to secure
the speedy completion of the canal
taxing the treasury for any di-
rect contribution, and at the same time
to secure to the United States that in
fuence in its management which is i'm
pcrative.
Foreign Policy.
1t has been the purpose of the adj
to make its foreign policy
not a matter of par tisan politics but of
patriotism and national honor; and
have very great qualification in being
able to state that the democratic mem
bers of the committee on foreign affairs
in a true American spirit.
have not hesitated to consult freely
with them about the most confidential
and delicate affairs, and here
frankly confess my obligation for
needed cooperation. They did not
eat.1 l,.k q
ence upon American rights and up
ON immunity from insult and injury for
our citizens and sailors in foreign ports !
rs policy of "irritation and buster"
They did not believe, as some others |
seem to believe, that to be a dem |
ocrat one must take the foreign side of |
every international question if a re-
publican administration is conducting |
the American side.
do not believe that tame submis- |
sion to insult and outrage by any ma
ton at the hands of another can over |
form the basis of a lasting friendship. |
The necessary element of mutual re-
spect will be wanting.
The Gillian incident, now so happily |
and honorably adjusted, will, l do not |
doubt, put 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 commits |
sion, of the long unsettled claims be-
tween the two governments. The work |
Of Mr.. Egan has been highly advan-
.ageous to the United States. The con-
idence which / refused to withdraw
from him has been abundantly justified. |
In our relations with the great Eu-
ropean powers the rights of the United