The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-11-12

fore our eyes the manufacturing and
commercial energies of our country
bursting one by one the bonds and
traditions and satisfaCtuns which
keot them only national, if we did not
See our foreign commerce daily grow
ing and exports o: our manufactures
for the first time largely invading the
markets of the world, if we did not
find it easy to foretell the immediate
expansion Of our merchant marine, il
these palpable evidences of a coming
immense expansion of our foreign
trade We're not present, no student
could fail to prophesy the inevitable
No nation exists With equal facilities
or equal necessities for an unpreCe-
dented commerce. We not only have
in soil and minerals an easy and
cheap abundance heretofore unknown
in n like combination, not only has
nature lavishly equipped us, but we
have people unprecedented I'm man
ufacturing ana commercial gifts. We
have capital that is ample and grow
ing. and workmen of practically a new
race We have population of vast
ard constantly growing proportions,
with scarcely a drone in the great hive,
Such are tn" elements of our facilities
for foreign trade. our necessity is the
most tyTannOus conceivable. We must
have foreign trade, because our ener-
gios have outgrown the consuming
capacity of our own nation. Long ago
our soil grew more than We could con-
/ sumo. and we have become the great
est of EurOpc's sources of supply. We
have now come 10 the time when we
| manufacture more than we can con-
sumo and already We have begun to
supply the world from our abundant
and growing production. We simply
must sell our manufactures, and we
therefore must be entering new era
of foreign commerce. There will be
no seas without American ships. and
no ports without American goods ear
ried there under our own dag. For
in the growing chtapnoss and excel
leaCe of our manufactures nothing
will be moro cheaply and eNcellently
built than ships. And with an eX-
banding commerce and broadening
merchant marine what are more In
evitablc thar universal relations be-
tween our nation and the whole of
mankind?
THE IMPULSE OF DEMOCRACY.
Another of the three forces which
are carrying us on to extended rela-
tons with the world is the force of our
institutions and political ideas. As
said at the beginning, there is "A grow
ing issue between our institutions and
ideas and those opposing institutions
and ideas which they are steadily sup
planting throughout the world. Amer
| lea especially stands for these institu-
tions and ideas. We could not see them
defeated. We must defend them, They
have served well our prosperity, our
happiness and our manhood, Hence
forth we shall serve well their domina-
tion of the world. Free government,
free commerce and free mcn-those first
essentials of demOcracy-are the great
est good, the greatest blessings the po-
Htlcal world can know; and there is in
our democratic people that inherent
and abiding fidelity to democratic in
sututlons which has kent us faithful
within our own borders, and is forcing
us, as In this war with Spain, To be
faithful on the larger stage of the
world. our cry for free institutions i'm
Cuba was the cry OF democracy speak
ing through the voice of our nation.