The Portland daily press., 1897-07-14

should have broader and truer under
standing. The party should learn that
it's life and perpetuity depend on being
in it's leadership and its inspirations the
party of the whole people. The people
should learn that their true and lasting
welfare, depends on the principles Of
patriotism and not on the delusions of
demagogism. In this mutual appreciation
of party and people will lie their mutual
advantage.
The Opportunity of Republican state.
craft lies along the lines of domestic se-
curity and continental Development The
first mission of the Republican party was
the naturalization OF, freedom. In that
splendid moral struggle it embodied the
national conscience and crystalized the
highest impulses of liberty loving peo-
pie. Its second mission was the industrial
upbuilding of the regenerated Union. In
Tn at mighty work of practical statesman
snip 1t organized and energized the most
gigantic material growth which the
World has ever witnessed. Its mission
now is to complete the industrial indie
pendence and power of the American Re-
public, and to extend the sceptre of its
commercial dominion and of its peace
full and paramount influence over the
American continent.
In obedience to that command the Re-
publican party stands for American pro-
lection and for honest money Its genius,
its history and its character would not
permit it to stand otherwise. Its return
to power has been prom pity signalized by
the restoration of a protective tariff which
establishes bulwark of defense for Anne
rican labor and manufactures. With this
revival of true American policy the
clouds of depression which followed its
fatuous overthrow four years ago are van
ishing, and when the essential conditions
shall be fully restored the sun of pros
perity will again be shed it's effulgence
over the land. Republican supremacy
equally assures honest money. What is
honest money? 1t is money as good us
gold everywhere. Its key is the absolute,
unvarying integrity OF the standard.
the standard became sure. 1t has never
been imperilled under Republican rule,
and it never will be. The elements of
the currency system may need revision;
that is question of detail; but the cardi-
nal principle of honest money is that
every dollar of the currency, of whatever
kind, shall be measured by the world S
standard, and that is the irrevocable
Republican pledge. The Republican
creed means honest work or honest work
men paid in honest dollars.
Let 1t be granted that these are the
foremost obligations of the hour, but they
are not all. Let it be granted that full
security and confidence throughout our
borders are the first consideration, but
they do not measure our whole duty. The
time is ripening for the development of
a broad, true continental policy-not ag-
gressive, not military, not grasping, but
peaceful, commercial and beneficent. The
genius Of Republicanism demands that
it shall stand in the forefront of oppor-
tunity land it will fall short of its present
mission if its penetrating vision does
NO ho h rrh nf Pc
public and if its patriotic spirit does not
move forward towards it's realization.
The Republican party has created the
greatest industrial empire in the world.
But where shall be its outletsP What
shall be its field of commercial conquest?
Has it reached it's limit and is the map
of progress to be rolled up and put away
on the dusty shelves of blind and inept;
f-sufficiepcy?
Not such can be the answer of the en-
lightened craftsmanship which founded
this Republic and has built up it's great-i
ness. The statesmen of the earlier era.
even in the infancy of the Republic, were
constantly laboring to extend its infiu-
ence in the Western Hemisphere. What
could have been the grandeur of their
dreams in the majesty and amplitude
of its present power. Alexander Hanifla
ton, even before the Constitution was rati-
fled, urged that the United States should
lain at an ascendant in the system of
American affairs. Benjamin Frank
lin advocated the cession of Canada as one
Of the conditions of peace and insisted
that it was essential to future safety.
Thomas Jefferson had been the intense
partisan of France and the bitter enemy
of England; but Napoleon secured the
retrocession of Louisiana from Spain and
threatened the creation of permanent
menace on our border and in control of
the Mississippi, Jefferson was ready to
forget his anglophobia and make an alli-
ance of the two chief maritime powers
against this greater and more immediate
French peril The fathers of the Republic
were first of all Americans, and their ar
duous struggle and lofty aspirations bred
a contemplative and heroic statesman
ship which even behind the veil caught
glimpses of the magnificent destiny of
their country and prepared the way for
captions.
1t was the bold attitude of jefferson
that in part led Napoleon to abandon his
Louisiana scheme, and permit our ac7
QUESTION of that territory which now
forms SO splendid a segment of the Re
public. When Jefferson completed that
purchase there were croakers and pull
backs who condemned it. Where are they
now? Buried and forgotten in the same
merciful oblivion which SO years hence
will throw it's generous mantle over their
lineal progeny who now oppose the ac-
QUESTION of Hawaii. Those critics who
would undertake to stop the march of the
inevitable are wiser in their own conceit
than all the long line of illustrious states
men from Clay, Calhoun, Everett, Marcy
and Seward to Blaine and Harrison.
They are greater sea strategists than Cap
tain Mahan and Admiral Walker. They.
are more PRESIDENT than Webster and
more American than Mckinley. Fifty
years ago sagacious American states
manship contemplated the annexation of
Hawaii, and it has never been out of the
purview Of American policy except dur
ing the brief and unhappy honeymoon
of Cleveland and Liliuokalani. If states
manship recognized it's value half q cen
fury ago, how much more important is
it now when the naval revolution of
steam and steel-clad cruisers have
changed all the modern conditions of
maritime defence and of commercial ex-
pansion.
In the development of our continental
policy there is still more important meas
ure. We are not like England dependent
on the sea. Our land power and home
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