Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-02-04

suppose he should speak to-day, what would
lac say? our daughter beyond seas has over
taken her mother, us she has distanced her
i'm the race, and can only see her now by
looking backward from the dust raised by
the winds of our own magnificent industries
tremendous applause)
awe have the best home market in all the
world, our people consuming percapita ut
least one.third more than any others. You
are trying to reach another market. The
first market you are trying TO reach is the
market of the orient. You don't purpose to
leave that to be closed against you. Is there
any way you can shorten distance, reduce
freight, lessen time in your search for the
Orient market? Let the Nicaragua Canal be
constructed by the United states ana YOU
have got it. applause. say by the United
States, because the government can construct
that canal for one.half what any private
corporation could do it for unaided. Gap.
plause)
GLOW far are you from the Orient to day as
compared with your competitors? You are
from 5000 to 1000 miles further OIL from
Japan, from China, from India, from the
southwest coast of South America, New York
Island that is the United States of America
pretty near daughter and applause)-than
Liverpool, your great competitor.
"The moment that Nicaragua Canal has
been constructed New York is as near Hong
Kong rs Liverpool is (applause), POO miles
nearer the nearest ports of China, 800 miles
nearer Japan, 1000 miles nearer Australia,
nearer British India, and 200 miles nearer
the western coast of South America. ZAP.
plause) think Yankees can take Advantage
of all such things as these. applause and
laughter)"
Whether we are ahead of England i'm
commercial expansion is a question open
to great deal of argument. That we
are at present far behind her in the vigor-
Gus protection aud developments ot our
foreign trade is u fact which cannot be
success fully denied. England is really
to fight for the retention of her opportuni-
ties in Asia. We are tamely permitting
ours to perish by default MIR. Frye con
tnued
"1here is a treaty pending i'm the United
States senate to-day for the annexation OF
the hawaiian islands. (Appausel You are
business men. ana ! am not going to
/ sentimentailZc with you.
"You are hunting for markets? DO you
want to lose that one; Wei, if the United
States senate does not give Il two.thirds vote
in favor of annexation you have lost it. WIN
do say that? LAY that if the treaty is not
ratified by the United states senate i'm less
than a year the Hawaiian islands will be
under the protectorate of Great England
"Your Nicaragua Canal which is certain
to be built, would more than tenfold increase
the value of those islands. They look right
exactly into its western mouth. In the hands
of an enemy, your canal would not be worth
a cent; would he utterly useless to us. In our
hands, with a naval and coaling station
there, we could protect that canal and our
entire western coast against the world.
"Now will you help us in the senate?"
! (Cres of Eyes, yes, we win'D awe only
lack two or three votes, and if you will help
us we will get them.
"Gentlemen, if were dictator with alb
y
the Nicaragua canal, ! would annex the
Hawaiian islands, would aid in the con
struction of railroad from our southern
border down to Tcrre del Fuego, / would
establish swift steamship lines to China ana
Japan, to Australia, and to every commercial
port in South America, ana then, by recip-
] TO cal treaty or in any other lawful way in
which it could be done, | would participate
! largely in the trade of the Orient, and / void
take entirely the trade of Mexico, of South
America, and of the Central American states
by the free admission of all our goods into
them. (Appause.)
| costly, say you? Yes, costly. There was
never anything worth purchasing yet that
| does not have its price. Costly? Not so
costly as to find yourself decreasing in profit
| from year to year and decreasing In demand
/ ut home from year to year; cutting down
wages of your intelligent workmen from
year to year and finally degrading ana re
ducng them to the condition of the workmen
/ of Europe. Why, gentlemen, that is so costly
| that it might-it might, l say-risk the life
of the republic itself. (Cries of Hear"
| Heart and applause)
| "Gentemen, in the name of the intelligent
workman of America, of our industries, of
country, bid you godspeed in this crusade
upon which you have entered. Great ap
plause and cheers J"
That is the kind of speech it does one
good to hear. That is the brand of
craftsmanship we need in every ramifi-
cation of our Washington
| Post.