Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-08-31

bilious to come 10 the Senate. Now,
won't you tell me what you expect to
do wher you gct there. Will YOU drop
into your scat as a member Of the MI
lionaires' Club, and to be content with
the honor and the salary, VIII YOU be
an advocate OF sensational attacks on
capital and corporations, or will YOU DE
the slave and agent OF the mOuopoiies'
LOO other words Senator, what do you
prouro.e to dyN'
u don't know that ought TO answer
that question" replied Senator ElEin'.
" can say, however that | am not gong
into the Senate 10 take any one 81 the
three places you have lai out Tor M.
Zoo the urs. place. ! could not ue Inactive
% tutu. lu the second. while ] am 100
sympathy with honest labor aud tue
l1bpuUg mao, / believe avn too fair to
attempt To- gain influence and nuipuety
by supporting amy Oi the sCmi.auaf-
Cl.suc VT slcialistic clemens. AMI, IN
the third place, am not aud have never
been the slave Of any corporation. such
interests as ] have { control In cOnnee.
ton with two OF three men, and while
the corporations OF the country may not
want 20, they know that they cannot
control me. No. ] am going into the
Senate to do what can 10 help along
my state and to better the condition OF
The country don't know that d will
be much. But ! have my own idcas,and
I think there IS room iUr me 10 do some
good "
AMERICA As MsrErs, OF rHE SEAS.
Along what lines. SENATOR
II belir.c, 30 the nrst place replied
Senator Elkins, that the business 10.
trrgsts OF the United States are the ones
We should look uut iu. We have reach
ell the point where government is, alter
30, more q matter OF sound business adj.
miui,tftiiOu than Of sentiment We. the
people. are, M q certain sense, d great
stYe. company owning this United
SIaias, and the executive and Congress
are our trustees. to whom we look 10
manage our internal and foreign rCla.
tons Tor our own individual aud national
advantage. We have passed ihe lorna.
tive period and the era Ut experiment 10
government and We arc nos 10 The era
OF progress and DEVELOPMENT. We must
now adopt and sees out such measures
and policies as will, m the surcst and
most rapid ways, promote these ends
] believe the ultimate destiny Of the
United States Is to lead IN ihc business
affairs Of the world. ] want to see New
York take the place OF London rs the
financial center. In q word, ] van, and
expect to see this country lead The
world IN trade. commerce, mining end
manufactures, and ia my small way
desire 10 do what ] con 90 The senate to
aid IN bringing this about,
Among the questions which are
pressing now are those OF our ioraIAu
trade aud shipping We ought to *.
tend ani enlarge our iolcign trade and
have our own shipping and carry our
own goods TO aud from the foreign
markets, Think OF b. We pay Eng
land 100000 60 q year Tor carriage be-
Tore We begin To compete with her as to
trade. This seems TO me very poor
business. There Is a great deal Of vast
ed energy IN the deuuntiation OF the
word subsidy Il came into our yOca'
bullfy m connection with the Pacific
Mail scandal twenty years ago, 20, a
bad name. aud frightened Our Statesmen
into dong nothing tot our shipping.
England has built up her steamship
lines by means OF subsidies, In twenty
years she ha, paid tue Cuuafd line alone
nearly !I,uoo,ODJ. and she gives bouu'
ties 10 the ships carrying the mails. This
is matter that should be carefully con
sldctrd and studied. We cannot COM
pete with Eng ami Ia shipping while she
helps her shipping interests and We do
nothing. ! don't say ] am tor subsidies,
but do say favor some policy IN the
way Of help that Will put us on footing
with England until we can build up a
shipping OF our own, aud make
America, and not England, mis-.
tfcss ui the seas. / think the day has
come when We mus consider our for,
cign trade. The Asiatic counties lie
nearest to as, and they are now forced
upon our consideration. We should
turn towards the beautiful orient aud
gather from II trade as well as wisdom,
Asia has moe than Sou,uoo,u11 Of
people. More than halt the population
Of the globe live on that continent.
These y uple have backs to be clothed,
stumlChs to be ted and muscles TO be
worked. They are now, following the
recent war between China and Japan, to
come into competition with the rest OF
the world. We must have our share in
the work, aud On the supplying OF their
wants. We need closer connection with
them. We must have H. In the future
our trade relations with China, Japan
aud the east will bee rr aliycly more im-
| psrtant than with Europe, Mark, say
| relatively. As these countries adopt the
/ manners, custom, habits and methods
| of our western civil zluUu, the wants OF
their people will multiply, and we must
| be ready to meet them. China, alter
two thousand years, Is again leaning TO
eat flour, and caTgors OF Hour grc begin
ming To- leave the Pacific gJas, Tor ASIA,
Take the Nicaragua canal, II should Doe
| built 40 once. suppose Il does cost
| 800, ouo, Ool. What IS tha' We ought
| to build o, even II II cost more Al
glo1,ooO. 900 It would only be the paying
| ot shilling, twelve and onc'hall cents,
q head lOr q possible customer in Asia
| for our goods from now on TO eternity.
| The cToakers will say. But We don't
know how the canal should be built or
| where II should come out. That Is %
question TOT the engineers aud not Tor
me. What the country wants b. die
! canal
HE uulyEs IS RECIPROCITY
How bout Mexico aud South
! Amcura"
"l think they should be closer TO Us in
a C0mmofCa. way We should cold.
| yata them, AMI We should have their
| uIdc have recently returned from a
! I5.ua1 Mule trn 100 which ! visited McNi.
! GO CIiy ard travelled through most ui that
country, DO Isu land of great po,s.bl.i.
| ties, aud the English, French aud Ger
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