The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-14

learn the stern lesson of disaster and
nenceforth party and people should have
broader and truer understanding. The
party should learn that its life and perpe-
tuity depend on being in its leadership and
Its inspirations the party of the whole peo-
pie. The people should learn that their true
and lasting welfare depends on the princi-
pies OF patriotism and not on the delusions
of denagogfsm In this mutual apprecia-
ton OF parry and people will lie their mu-
tual advantage.
Tho opportunity of Republican state
croft lies along the lines of domestic Sc
curity and continental development The
first mission of the Republican party was
the nationalism of freedom. In that splen-
did moral struggle it embodied the national
conscience and crystallized the highest i'm
pulses of a hberty-loving people; It's second
mission was the industrial upbuilding of the
regenerated Union In that mighty work
of practical craftsmanship it organized and
energized the most gigantic material
messed Its mission now is to complete the
industrial independence and power OF the
American Republic, and to extend the
scepter of its commercial dominion and OF
its peaceful and paramount influence over
the American continent
I'm obedience to that command the Re
publican party stands for American pro-
lection end for honest money. Its genius,
its history and it's character would not per-
nit ii to stand otherwise Its return TO
power has been promptly signalized by the
restoration of q protective tariff which es-
tablishes a bulwark Of defense for Amerl-
can labor and manufactures. with TINS re-
vival of true American policy the clouds of
depression which followed its fatuous over
throw four years ago are vanishing and
when the essential conditions shall be fully
restored the sun of prosperity will again
shed its effulgence over the land. Repub-
hcan supremacy equally assures honest
money. What is honest money? 1t is
money as good as gold everywhere. Its key
is the absolute unvarying integrity OF the
standard. When the Republican party trt-
umphed the standard became secure. 1t has
never been imperied under Republican
rule, and IT never will be! The element of
llh c n
that is a question of detail; but the card1-
nal principle of honest money is that every
dollar. of the currency, of whatever kind
shall be measured by the world standard,
and that is the irrevocable Republican
pledge. The Republican creed menas hon
est work for honest workmen paid in hon
Let it be granted that these are the
foremost obligations of the hour, but they
are not all. Let it be granted that run Sc
curity and confidence throughout our Dor
ders are the first consideration, but they
do not measure our whole duty. The time
is ripenng for the development of
broad, true continental polcy-not aggres-
sive, not military, not grasping, but peace
full commercial and benehcent. The genius
of Republicanism demands that II shal
stand in the forefront of opportunity and
il will fall short of its present mission If
its penetrating vision do not prefgure the
high destiny Of the Republic and If its
patriotic spirit do not move forward to-
wards its realization. The Republican
party has created the greatest Industrial
it's outlets? What shall be its field of COM
mercial conquest? Has 1t reached its limit
and is the map of progress to be roited 1,, up
and put away on the dusty shelves OF Dlnd
and inept self-sufhciency?
FEARLESS CRAFTSMANSHIP
mot such can be the answer of the en-
lightened craftsmanship which founded
this Republic and has built up it's great
ness. The statesmen of the earlier era,
even in the infancy of the Republic, were
constantly laboring to extend its influenc'
In the western hemisphere. What would
have been the grandeur of their dreams in
the majesty and amplitude of it's present
powerl Alexander Hamilton, even before
the Constitution was ratified urged that
the United States should aim at an as
cendant in the system of American affairs.
Benjamin Franklin advocated the ceSsion
of Canada one of the conditions of peace
and insisted that it was essential to future
safety Thomas Jefferson had beer the in
tense partisan of France and t.e bitter
enemy Of England but when Napoleon Sc
cured the retroceSsion of Louisiana from
Spain and threatened the creation of a
permanent menace on our border and in
control of the Mississippi, Jefferson was
ready to forget his anglophobia and make
an alliance of the two chief maritime
powers against this greater and more i'm
mediate French peril The fathers of the
Republic were first of all Americans, and
their arduous struggle and lofty aspira-
IlOnS Dfeu COnlempldllNe anu HEROIC
craftsmanship which even behind the veil
caught glmpses OF the magnificent destiny
of their country and prepared the way Tor
a fultillment beyond their grandest con-
ceptions!
that in part led Napoleon to abandon his
Louisiana scheme, and permit our acquisi-
ton of that territory which now forms so
splendid a segment of the Republic When
jefferson completed that purchase there
demned 1t. Where are they now? Buried
and forgotten in the same merciful oblivion
which fifty years hence will throw it's gen.
erous mantle over their lineal progeny who
now oppose the acquisition of Hawaii!
These critics who would undertake to stop
the march of the inevitable are wiser in
their own conceit than all the long line
of illustrious statesmen from Clay, Cal
houn, Everett, Marcy and Seward TO Blaine
and Harrison! They are greater sea
strategists than Captain Mahan and Adj
miral Walker They are more president
than Webster and more American than Nc
Kinleyl Fifty years ago sagacious Ameri-
can craftsmanship contemplated the an
nexation of Hawaii, and 1t has never since
been out of the purview of American policy
except during the brief and unhappy honey
moon of Cleveland and Lliuokalanii If
craftsmanship recognized its value half
century ago, how much more important is
ii now when the naval revolution of steam
and steel-clad cruisers and the era of COM
mercial rivalry have changed all the mod
ern conditions OF maritime defense and of
commercial expansion.
I'm the development of our continental
policy there is a still more important meas
ure. We are not, like England, dependent
on the sea. Our land power and home
capabilities are unrivaled But nature de-
signed us to be great on the ocean as on the
land. We have 5,452 miles of ocean coast
line, more than that of all Europe. We
have 1885 miles on the Atlantic side and,
not counting Alaska 557 on the Pacific
side. Less than a hundred miles of canal
through Nicaragua would give us pracu
cally a continuous coast line from Quoddy
head, on the Atlantic, to Puget sound, on
the Pacific, and would unite the two great
sections of the Republic in unbroken
waterway. The marvel of American af-
fiuence and apathy is the long neglect of
this great project, which would marry the
oceans and assure American commercial
dominance of the continent. Had England
been in our place she would have dug the
canal long years ago; and, more than that,
she never would have permitted any ques-
tion of complete British supremacy over it.
Other nations might have been allowed to
send their commerce through its waters in
times of peace, as they do through the Suez
canal. but when an emergency of national
safety and defense came the ascendancy of
the union jack would have left no doubt of
the master power. There are some things
in the policy Of England which command
the admiration of every manly spirit and
among them are the fidelity and courage
with which she follows and protects Eng
lishmen wherever they may be. and the
genius and persistence with which she pur-
sues her unfaltering course of commercial
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
MUST HAVE PANAMA
"Just so 1 would have the ascendancy of
the stars and stripes over the Nicaragua
canal unquestoned and unchallenged Does
the old Clayton-Bulwer treaty stand in the
way? Then let it be denounced, as it has
In fact already been denounced and let no.