Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-10-25

some boarding officer boat, or upon
some one or two of the steamers that
were bought, ia order that they might
carry it
My friends in these times in which VIC
live Il am speaking to the fathers, am
speaking to the sons) is it not diiiicdlt to
establish young men in some profitable
happy calling Farming yields nothing
in the way of reward. The professions
are overstocked; merchandising is
precarious and needs capital, | am q
father with sons of my own, looking
forward to careers for them, and think
ing Of my fellow .ctizens in like cases.
Where is the career of navigation2 In
this world of ours the water of the
globe far, far exceeds in proportion the
lnnd. The other day in paper (Which
was read before the British association
for the promotion of science) l read
some statements in regard to the proper
tion of land ahd water. | believe it was
Captain Wharton, we'll known man of
science who had made the calculation
| that If the earth was all levelled down
even with tine sea and that piled into
Tie Pacific Ocean, it would not fill one
seventh part of it. 1t was made after g
calculation as tn the cubic space occu.
pied by the land and by the water. In
this globe called the world the water is
| II times greater than the land. What
| has become of the share of the people of
| the United States in those sixteen
seventeenths? Have we our share Of the
uses of the ocean for those uses are
being demonstrated day by day.
The laws pf the great element are
being comprehended 1t has become
under human invention, or the inven-
tious permitted by the all.wise Creator,
the swlftest, safest and surest channel
for human intercourse. Tclegraphic
lines lie along its bottom undisturbed
by storm or tide and bring the remotest
parts of the earth into closer proximity
| and intercourse; information instantane-
ously as to the markets of Brazil, of
North America, of South America, of
Asia, of Africa, of China and OF Japan.
Every event is instantly communicated
by these means.
What is the communication for ?
What is the object of men sending
messages, and why this permission
given them to communicate with each
other? Why, surely it was that they
should have commercial and friendly
intercourse. 1t was that they should
better understand each other; it was
that they should better deal with each
other; it was that they should exchange
with each other; that everything that
your industry creates in excess of your
needs shall so to him who needs it most,
and that you shall receive in return that
which he has 20 pay you and which you
stand in need of.
This is certainly a great fact. There
is certainly a great and profound pur-
pose in God thus permitting His children
all over this world to cume in closer
communication with each other, to have
a better understanding with each other.
This, my friends, is the drift of ont
times. 1t is the drift of diyinely ap-
pointed events. And the puny efforts
of a set of politicians In the United
States will be found unaVailing to stem
the great tide, the great current of human
feeling asking for human intercourse and
for mutually beneticent intercourse.
This is what the ocean is. 1t ought
to be and is the home, the scene oi
occupation, Of brave, of a hardy, of q
useful, of an honorable class.
The sailor, open.hearted and open
handed, face to face with that grea
element, ever learns to look closer upor
the ocean, through his courage, to thai
Being upon whom his safety depends
Religion, industry, the love of homl
and courage and courage to defend it
fairness in dealing-these are the quail
ties that those who follow the great SET
find developed in their heart. They
strengthen every nation; they Strengthen
every people.
And when turning from such o pic
ture as this, think of the efforts of tht
Republican party, and l find at the enc
OF thirty years Of high protection, witt
every department of the government il
their hands, they have swept the Ameri
can flag from the face OF the ocean
They have taken from the people o
Delaware an occupation which wa
= profitable, useful and rendered over,
foot OF your land and every tree Of you
forest of greater value. This is the re
suit OF the doctrine Of Republican pro
/ lection, and this is the feast to whicl
! you are invited by the Republican ora
r tors. [Applausc.
DELAWARE PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED
No, gentlemen, there is no part Of til
United States more Immediately an
plainly interested in the development @
navigation than this little State in whic
we live. God has given us here watc
front second to none; placed us right o.
the broad Atlantic; given US a grea
esctuary for commerce.; and can it b
= that policy that prevents us from til
!, ! natural enjoyment Of those advantages
!. is wise or is worthy of respect or ough
to be adopted.
think | could appeal to the memor
of SOME mon here tonight could ap
! neal to my venerable and good frien
/: DIR. Henry Ridgely, and ask him doc
= he not remember all through this penin
sula the men who bore the title of car
tain-not captain in the army, ship:
captains-men who followed the Sc
and who gained comfortable living
/ who laid by comfortable sums of money
y who came home here and built then
) selves modest and comfortable houses
= brought up their families, lived in homo
Il and died in peace. Where did the
y come from? They came from follow
= ing the sea. And the sea has been mad
J an accursed spot by the legislation G
= the party called protectionists in til
; United States. Applause.
Now friends these are the fact
= When you ask them how could yo
= restore ship building and ship nav
! CATION that taxation has driven frol
!, the face OF the ocean they sayby putin
d on more taxes, and call it subsidies.
y Well, gentlemen, in my opinion,
u subsidy paid outright is u great de-
, cheaper than the indirect results
l. tariff taxation; for when you pay
YOU know how much you pay. WhC
VIM come To the other tAxattOn of mr.