The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-11-05

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power in this world, and we should put
ourselves in q position where that power
shall be recognized by every known ma
tion of this world.
So l call your attention to the foreign
policy of Mr.. Cleveland as it has been
illustrated. In order to do that wish
to go back TO his first election. think
he knew just as much then as he knows
now, just exactly. daughter Now
you take this
MATTER OF THE NICARAGUA
CANAL.
| am talking to business men. In my
Judgment, no achievement would be pos
sible in this century equal to that OF con-
structing the Nicaragua canal. In my
Judgment ID would give the greatest I'M
petus and boom to the business Of this
republic, to it's commerce, to its trade,
to its shipbuilding, to it's shipownlng,
than anything else that has taken place
in the last fifty years. AndEwhy? Why,
take this simple matter of distance. You
build the Nicaragua canal, and you put
yourselves Immediately ten thousand
miles Searer San Francisco by sea than
you are today; you put yourselves eight
thousand miles nearer Alaska; four
thousand miles nearer Hong Kong; six
thousand miles nearer Yokohama nearer
to all the ports of the Mediterranean; /;
from five to six Thousand miles nearer to
five hundred millions of people who have
wants to be supplied Take the matter of
time. Everybody knows that you can
carry upon the water for one-third of
what you can carry upon the Iandgin the
matter of freight. The question Of freight
is one OF the utmost Importance now !;
almost everything depends upon the
question of freight. Today it takes
from 12 to 13gdays. to bring a load of lum
ber from Washington from the mouth
Of the Columbia river, if you please, to
NewaYork. The freight perhaps will be
saw S14. By steamer, though Magellan it
takes from forty to fifty days with the
same thing. You cannot bring it by rail,
as nv friend here Mr.. Brown, knows
perfectly. we'll To do so, would be to con-
fiscate the lumber at, once. Now the
stumpage in Washington, in the Moth
western Pacific country, was reckon ed
by the..Agricultural Department. to be
FOUR HUNDRED BILLIONS oE
Tt runs from seventy five to dollar and
fifty cents a thousand today. 1t cannot
be gotten to the markets OF the world
short of from twelve to fourteen dollars
for freight. You build the Nicarag-
ua canal and Immediately it reduces the
time from the mouth of the Columbia
river to New York, trombone hundred
and twenty or one hundred and thirty
days to from fifty to sixty days; through
the straits of Magellan it reduces it from
forty .or fifty days,ssto from twenty to
twenty five days. Now everybody can
see at bnce that it will cut down the
freight at least one-third. Suppose you
cut down the freight ono-third and bring
all that lumber into the markets of the
world, you add just one-half of the saw
ing of the freight to that stumpage and
it makes six hundred millions of dollars
added value to your country. The same
is true of grain. Now can anybody fail
to see that in that great country around
Puget Sound-the most magnificent body
of water in the whole world--in twenty
five years we would have Almighty COM
merce? 1t is part cf our country, and
we re just as much
INTERESTED. IN 1T HERE IN MAINE
as they are in Washington and Oregon.
Take another thing. The Suez canal
was constructed; we were as near the Med
iterranean ports and the East Indies and
China and Japan as England was, but
the moment that that canal was con-
structed. it brought England from twen-
ty five hundred to three thousand miles
nearer to those five hundred millions OF
people than we were. Now if you will
lust notice, you will find that the trade
and commerce of Great Britain and our
trade and commerce with those coun-
tries, showed that at once, in the Twink
ling of an eye. Great Britain has had
the enormous advantage of that reduction
of distance, and We were being pushed
twenty seven hundred miles farther from
all those ports from that day. But this
Nicaragua canal will bring us twelve
hundred miles nearer every northern port
of China than Great Britain is. 1t will
bring us two thousand miles nearer every
port of Japan than Great Britain is. 1t
will bring us thousand miles nearer
the port of Australia than Great Britain
is, three thousand miles nearer every
port of Western South America than
Great Britain is. 1t will bring us all the
way from one thousand to four thousand
miles nearer this five hundred millions
of people that am talking about, thar
Great Britain is. Now, is not that worth
something2 That canal would have been
constructed, ana we WOulu udNe ueeH
using it and having the entire benefit
from it, had it not been for President
Cleveland. President Arthur made a
treaty with Costa Kica and Nicaragua,
under the terms of which, they ceded to
us everything that we wished Ne agreed
to build that canal, as a government.
That treaty came before the Senate at
the session before Mr.. Cleveland took
his seat on the 4th of March 1t had a
clear two-thirds majority for it's ratifioa-
tion, when it came into that body. 1t
soon got noised about that Mr.. Bayard,
then a Senator, was to be Mr.. Cleveland's s
Secretary of State. The position OF Sec
rotary of State is one comforting enor-
NOUS power. That officer is supposed to
be the confidential counsellor of the
President. Therefore this gave him a
power which he never had had before
with his party. And Immediately Mr..
Bayard took ground against that treaty
He shook that spook, that Clayton Bull
wer treaty, which had been
AS DEAD AS JULIUS CEASAR
for thirty years, in the face of the DEM
ocartic party in the Senate. He fright
ened then.out of their consistency, and