Arizona republican., 1896-01-15
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achieve it. Between Bangor in Maine 1 and Corpus Christi in Texas there are over forty ports connected by rail with the vast network of iron rail which ex- tends over our country. There are forty ports where cotton and wheat and cattle and salted meats could be placed on ship board, and England could no more blockade all of them at once than she could prevent the shad and the salmon from swimming up our rivers in the spring time. (Cheers).
 In the event of war all English goods would be embargoed by us, and we would do quite as we'll without them, while England would be compelled to buy American food products and raw material at French or Belgian ports, and pay for them in gold or in Ameri- can securities. l do not think that such securities would return to us, for the nations of continental Europe would take them, but if returned it would not be to our loss, for we would repurchase them at very heavy dis count on the prices for which we sold them. I believe indeed that we have reached condition of wealth and prosperity where Mnancial fndepen dence of the world is possible and I bid hail and welcome to the hour when we shall adopt a purely Ameri- can system of finance and maintain it. and when it will no longer be deemed necessary for any national administra- tion to contract with a syndicate Of msurers to manage the treasury and protect the credit of the United States. Great applause).
 A war with England in support of the Monroe doctrine would vastly in crease our trade all the way from the Rio Grande to Cape Horn. The mere announcement by President Cleveland of our intention to uphold that doc urine has so warmed the ties of kinship that in every town from JuareZ to Valparaiso the merchants are busy tearing the labels off British goods and pasting American labels in their places. Manchester cottons are un- derstood to be made in Manchester, New Hampshire, Qaughter) Worcester shire sauce was compounded in Wor- cester, Massachusetts, Qaughter) and every Senor Don south of the equator will suffer his thirst to go unquneched or join the W. c. T. U. rather than touch drop of British beer Daughter and applause).
 AS we have only a limited foreign carrying trade to lose, as our vast do- mestic comerce and all of our Mexican trade could be conducted by rail, as our great staple exports could be sent abroad in foreign ships, as all of our ports could not be blockaded, as our interior cities could not be reached by any enemy, and as our coast cities could not be reached by any enemy and as our coast cities could rapidly be supplied with defenses practically i'm pregnable, it does not appear that we would sustain any serious commercial losses in the event of a war with Great Britain.
 How is it with England? It is forty years since she has been engaged in a war with any European power, and then she was allied with France, Italy and Turkey, and Russia with whom she combabted was almost without a navy. It is eighty years since her war with Napoleon. In the mean time she has extended her territoral and com mercial lines in every direction and in every zone. These acquisitions are a source of wealth in peace, but they would be a source of weakness in war Her commercial supremacy is a shell which a war with us would crush. Il would cost her many, many millions to garrison and fortify Canada against invasion, andat last she could not hope to hold the dominion against our arms She could only hold her West Indian and Central and South American and Antipodean colonies, because we might not find it to our interest to at tack them. She could not afford to lessen by a ship or a man or gun, the force which she now maintains in Asia, or with which she guards the Mediterranean road to the Orient From the Bay of Bengal to the Him. malayas every Rajah would be ready to rise in rebellion. Russia is eager to give her trouble in. the east. Spain would be glad of a chance to retake Gibraltar. Germany would aid to di- vest her of her South African posses sions. Ireland would need to be gar