The Portland daily press., 1898-01-28
No COMPROMISE.


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maintained at parity with gold Eand we
| favor all measures designed to maintain
| inviolably the obligations of the United
States and all our money, whether coin
or paper, at the present standard and
| standard OF the most enli ghtened nations
| of the earth. -
| Ihls ls in reality command from the
people who gave the administration to
the party now in power, and who are
still anxiously waiting for the execution
of their free and omnipotent will by those
OF us who hold commissions from that
supreme tribunal. 1 have tonight spoken
In somewhat serious strain because
| belleve 1t is due both to the mem bership
OF this association and to the conditions
under which this assemblage has met.
| The conferences and systematic efforts
of such a body of men as this are capable
of infinite good to the respective COM
munities in which the members live and
to the nation at large. The country is
| now emerging from trying conditions.
| 1t is only just beginning to recover from
the depression in certain lines of business
long continued and altogether unparal-
be slow, but let us not be impatient.
Rather let us exercise just patience and
one which in time will surely bring it's
own high reward. / have no fear for the
future of our beloved country. While
discern in its present condition the
necessity that always exists for the faith
full devotion OF it's citizens, the history of
Its past is assurance to me that this will
be as 1t always has been through every
struggle and emergency, still onward and
| upward. 1t has never suffered from any
trial or been unequal to any test.
Founded upon right principles, we have
| nothing to fear from the vicissitu des
which may lie GROSS our pathway. The
nation founded by the fathers uponsprinci-
| pies of virtue, education, freedom and
human rights; moulded by the great dis
cussions which established its SOW
ereignty, tried in the crucible of civil
war, its integrity, confirmed by the re-
suits of reconstruction, with union
stronger and better than ever before,
stands today not upon shifting sands, but
upon immovable foundations. Let us
resolve by our laws and by our admins
tration of them to maintain the rights of
the citizens, to cement the union by still
firmer bonds, exalt the standard of Ameri
can civilization, encourage the promotion
of thrift and industry and economy and
the homely virtues which have ennobled
our people, uphold the stability of our
currency and credit and illustrate the
government; and then though the rain
descends and the floods come and the
winds blow, the nation will stand, for it
ia founded upon rock.
Senator VIM. P. Frye of Maine. was
next introduced as one of the greatest
friends of the merchant marine service.
He said:
"God scattered with prodigal hand
his gifts to our beloved country. A sea-
board almost limitiess in extent, equipped
with splendid and safe harbors, mighty
rivers, arteries of trade stretching away
across the continent, great lakes plant
ed right where commerce seemed TO de-
Inand them; boundless forests, noun
tains of iron, coal, enough for the world,
gold, silver, 2opper-eyery mineral and
every metal man needs.
"Great stretches, rich In soil, prairies
rich and fertile, q climate so varied that
we can produce every fruit and every
grain that we require.
"We have made reasonable use of these
gifts. We have the best home market
| in the world, our people consuming. at
| least one third more thai any other. We
| use. indeed, almost our entire product.
.But four years ago we had a new
| teacher. Ee was terribly severe IL his
discipline. The Purchasing power OF our
I! consumption fell off one third. Now
that taught you gentlemen lesson.
| What was it2 No longer contented with
| the home market determined advance
| was made upon the foreign market
With what were you confronted when
you tried it? An enemy most powerfully
entrenohed in power all over the world.
Great Britain, France, Germany, with
swift steamship lines making regular
| trips to every commercial port in the
world, with banking facilities and credit
systems established, highest commercial
| agencies, all the appliances for success
ful trade, and with % fiercely aggressive
policy not only TO maintain what they
| had, but to extend it still further. In
the east today you see the result. Now,
how could you go ahead to scale such
barriers as theseY'
! Senator Frye referred to the great in
crease in domestic commerce and gave
| statistics. In speaking of the Nicaragua
canal he declared that the United States
should build it.
| Senator Frye said that the value of the
/ Hawaiian islands was $39. 100000 and
that Americans owned them. Ameri.
can ships carried the commerce valued
ct 1928, 900, 600.
! He said that if the treaty were not rati-
fled, in less than one year the islands
would be under the protection of Treat
/ oEllttlu. lulS NES I1iOo WlVAi oA1Co u
''No.'' Much confusion followed. He
asked the guests to exercise their infiu-
ence with the Senate to have the treaty
ratified. There were cheers and cries of
''No,' as well. Senator Frye read an
extract from report of Admiral Dupont
in which he advised the occupation OF
the Hawaiian islands as key to the Pa
citic. He said the Nioaraguan canal
would not be worth q cent with the Ha-
waiian islands in the hands of an ene-
my. This was received with applause.
| Then Senator Frye spoke of the neces-
sity for increasing the merchant marine.
| He spoke of bill about to be intro
duced for lettering the condition of the
merchant marine and asked for its sup
port from all. He said that if he was a
dictator he would hold the Nicaraguan
| canal, take Hawaii. build railroad from
Terra Del Fuego and subsidize the mer-
chant marine of the country. During all
OF. Mr. Frye's reference to Hawaii there
wers several mos" yelled out when he
referred to a treaty. He closed amid
great applause.
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