The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-10-14
On the Foolish Talk About the
Worlds Markets.
ENoLAho's COLONIES ARE HERS
We Can't Invade Them, but We Can
Get Spanish-American Trade.
However. the Hsvemeyer Law Has Tn
done BIaine's Greas work OF Rect
proeisy-stsvenscn Predicts Great
Prsspsrisy-Meki kipiev speaks In Ohio

ispTasAPoLrs, Oct. f3.-Benjamin Har-
rison returned 10 Indianapolis at 80 this
evening from his campaigning tour
through Southern Indiana His last
speech, which was the twentieth of the
trip. and the thirteenth of the day, wac at
Edinburgh. and his voice rang out as
clear as when he spoke first yester-
day. At one or two places in the
southern rart Of the state the greater part
Of his audience we're Democrats. but they
listened with respect and interest On
this occasion, as on the longer journey
that he made to the South and West when
he was president. children with flowers
and days and old veterans of the late war,
with the @. A. r veterans. formed . con-
spicuous feature of every gathering. AT
Bonneville the booming of cannon an
nouncei his arrival. At Lincoln City, the
burialpiace of the mother of Abraham Lin
coin, brief stop was made and he ad-
dressed the crowd ut some length.
At the manufacturing town Of New Al
bany great crowd met him at the station
and escorted him to the stand. where be
spoke for forty minutes. He said:
The Democrats have been talking q
good deal about the markets Of the world
Where are their markets2 Are they in
African Well. Africa does not offer per
capita anything like as attractive a
market as America. Here We clothe our
selves all over, and they do not there
iLaughter. England has had for years
African possessions. and they are now
greatly extended. This thing gives her
and those other nations great advantages
in the commerce OF the world over the
United States. We have never had coll
onizing policy, and probably never will
have one Indeed, We have been so narrow
in our views upon this question that We
could not even take in the Hawaiian
islands when their people asked for II.
am going 10 make the point now that
these colonial possessions have been es-
tabiished with view of extending Eng
lish, German. French and Italian trade,
aud they secure to the nations that have
established them a great advantage over
the United States.
Now there IL part of the world where
this selfish policy. which the great CON-
merciai nations of Europe have pursued
in utter disregard of the rights of the
natives. pushing their trade on the point
OF the bayonet. has not been put into
effect-one point of the earth upon
which they have not been permitted TO
lay their hands. The Monroe doctrine,
expressed with quietness and We. with
courage, and adhered TO in our American
htpsViuaI4 SibCS thS tiutu va iis
ton, has preserved these states of Cen
trail and South America from European
aggression. The people Of these countries
are friendly to Us. They stood in good
relation to US geographically. and we
ought TO have had their trade, and. my
friends, by the reciprocity provision
of the Mckinley Law We had made start.
Ii was simple start. Here were
markets of the world that we not only
could get. but we had gotten; we had OBJ
tanned them without infiicting any injury
on the American workmen, the American
farmer or American manufacturers, ana
think the American people should call to
account the party that so wantonly
and uselessly abandoned them"
At JeffersonviIle, Scottsburg. Seymour
and other towns along the road short
stops and short speeches were made.