The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-04-26

The Review OF Reviews in discuss
ing the enactment OF the Mckinley
bill says: There Is this to be said for
NE programme OF the Republican
Congress which enacted the Mckinley
hill; 1t was bold. we'll conceived and
many-slded policy for the rapid ag-
Erandizement of the United States In
% commercial and its political in.
A<ests. II was intended to MAX o
sumplete In the present decade the
anrivalled supremacy OF the United
Mates as a manufacturing country.
ltwas expected to round out our iron
md steel industry by tho transfer
rom Great Britain of that special
Nanch known as the tin.plate manu-.
acture. The addition to our textile
manufactures of a great aud produc.
I've linen Industry was part of the
uEogramme. 49,.
IL was carefully designed through
me bounty system to add sugar to
ihs list OF our great crops, partly
through the further encouragement nj
y cane growing in the South, but
sfzieily through the development OF
bset sugar industry and the sorghu II
mne industry in the west. Its reclp
rocfty policy was intended to give our
manufacturers special opportunity
10 push their wares In the Latin.
kmerlcan countries lying South OF us.
lnasmuch as wewere already the prin
npal purchasers OF their great ex ports
Of sugar, coffee, hides. dye-stuils and
- on. This same policy looked to
ward the rapid revival of tho Ameri
ban merchant marine through posta
subsidies aud believed that reclpro.
atty would lead to direct traffic 10
Tween our ports and those of South
Aanerica-a traffic that would tend Il
Bspk American bottoms II was q
policy which. II the Republicans oil
the Harrison-B!aine school had re-
NAMED In power, would have lod in,
gvitably to the construction OF the
Nicaragua Canal under exclusive
&merlcan auspices, would huva an
uuxed the Hawaiian IsIands and de
veIoped great coal and supply sta
ton In Pearl Harbor, would have per,
sisted until successful in negotiations
Tor one or more coallng stations In
The West indies, and would in short
have pushed at every point the doc
Urine and principle of our national
hegemony in all Western Hemis
pheie affairs. Such a policy woull
nave led by logical necessity to al
Burly attempt to securo cummerciu
md political union betwesnthe unItet
States and Canuda. Whether or moi
an Intelligent American citizen sympa
thizes with tha main principles Of tile
large aggressive public policy, ID al
most entirely matter OF teLnpera
ment.
Senator Morgan. OF Alabama, hap
pens to be Democrat by vlture Of thu
geographical Argument; but IL has
long been easy TO soc that lie belongs
tustinctively to what we may call tie
american imperial Echuo. There are
pther Democrats In public life besides
hir. Morgan who belong temperament,
hliy to that lame way OF thinking. On
the other hand there arc not few Re.
publleans who remain In their party
through ties OF tradition or the con
venient logic OF locality. who arc az
esvoid of the broad, Imaginative
Imperial ambition for America, aa
President Cleveland himself. They
pave no sympathy whatsoever witt
ne idea of an expansion OF our com
merclal power, or OF our influence
whether in one half or In both halves
pf this planet, through aggressive
public action.