The Portland daily press., 1894-05-03

China and Japan anu INDIA there are
| vast quarries OF cneap labor. Capital
A lreadv there are symptoms of the es-
tabIishment. not by the natives but BIZ
wealthy people of all nations, of indus
| tries in those lands which will give MS
vast troubIe at no distant day. Senator
| Mills NAV talk as vigorously as he will,
irving to show that costlier labor is
cheaper, but he and you will find that
the same appliances run by labor ten
| times as cheap Will bring even the proud
| Caucasian to the dust.
| When / look on all that is transpiring
| TODAY and witness the wild unrest of
the neonle. the crowds moving to and
| fro shardly knowing what they want
themselves, but missing they know not
how, the prosperity to which they have
| been accustomed all their lives; when L
| look on this and the misery we have
| faced. and are yet to face. and thinking
seIfishly, feel sense of satisfaction
| that those who have made all this
| trouble have got to FADE it. But when
| i think of it in broader spirit and re-
mem her that most of those who suffer
are innocent or sorry, rejoice that the
DEsTINIEs OF THIS COUNTRY
are sd Isoon to be handed over to that
staunch DID party which. while IT, has
often fallen short of the highest excel
Ience. has always had that saving com
mon sense which has led it, sooner or
later. but always sursly, to the paths
of safety and honor:
I have not been talking very cheerfully
thus far because hare been talking Of
things as they are. Thank heaven,
America is too great, her resources all
too mighty, for even tie worst legisla-
tion and most incompetent rulers to de-
stroy. '9
Mighty as has been our past, our re-
sources have just been touched upon,
and there is wealth beyond the Mississ-
ippi which in the npt distant future
shores of Lake Michigan. From the
time my eyes first rested on the great
uncultivated plains which lie between
the Mississippi and the Pacific ocean,
my Weakening dreams have been filed
with visions Of the insalculabIe wealth
which the touch Of living water will
bring.to life from those yoiceless deserts.
There wealth only can produce wealth,
and man, single and alone, might as
well.try to subdue the Himalayas as to
cope with these wastes, but the hand of
united and associated man is already
reaching forth to graspthe great results.
The Republican party believes in bring
ing to the Improvement of this country
all the powers of this ration. 10
The same power which wastes millions
on thes Mississippi car be utilize to
make the 8sh
ossat5n DESERT BLOSSOM r.
with the homes of mel for whom and
for all of us the now bfghted soil will
bring forth the fruits If the Garden of
Eden.
What the country NEEDS is not repress-
i've, but developing craftsmanship, con-
servative, preserving the rights of all,
but progressive, making all that is possi-
BILE out of our great possibilities. That,
however, Is in the iuture. What we
need now is that the doctrine shall be
firmly established in the conviction of
all our people that whatever happens
this country is to 60 its own work.
When that is once flied in our minds,
all the details Of tariff will be easy to
arrange with moderation and sense.
We shall hope until can be no longer,
that the Wilson bill viii be defeated, and
the country be allowed to resume it's pro.
gressive march. But Il not, then it be-
comes our duty at tbnce to pave the
foundation for the victory OF 'S6 and to
re-establish the principles and practices
of protection. Prostitution Will then
have had it's last day. That is not thu
only question which. mast be settled. All
the resources of this country must be-
made to blossom, but all the other re-
sources of the Mississippi country
must be developed wherever it can be
done ON a safe and sound basis. What
course
.THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
will pursue to Obtain international BIZ
metallism. which we must have, can
not venture TO predict, but l am conf
dent that the wisdom which has guided
that party safely ami securely through
even greater tinandal questions than
that, will when we have the power and
responsibility be found to be still with
us for the great glory and advancement
of this country.
What makes me have this faith in the
Republican party? Is it mere partisan
shin? Why should ihe Syrian captain
dip himself in Jordan alone to be clean?
Are not the waters of the rivers of
Damascus just as pure? Perhaps they
re.gaAnd yet only eut of Jordan thus
faryhas stepped any sick man clean every
whit. This generation has witnessed "a
splendid series of statesmaniike achieves
menus, SO uniform il excellence and so
secure in results that it seems wouder
that we should have looked for better.
But we looked, And now we realize
that in an every day sensible world
I" It is better to be safe than to be sorry"
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