The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-28


familiar to me. | have been with yol
peiore: not as a guest as now but rath.
| er In the capacity of host | recall thai
as the governor of the state of Ohio il
| was my pleasure to welcome YOU to The
city OF Cincinnati, Jan. %. 1895. at the
initial convention of the Manufacture
efs association. l we'll remember the
| occasion.
| 1t Was n Cold Day.
1t was a cold day. You had lost
| everything but pluck, or thought YOU
mad, courage was the only friend YOUR
grief could call it's own | note with
satisfaction your improved appearance
now. iou are more cheerful in coun-
tehance, more buoyant in spirit more
hopeful in manner and more confident
IN purpose. Then, too. there are more
of You here than there were at your
nrst meeting. Distances are of course.
the same, but travelling has been re-
suneo: our speeches and resolution
at that nrSt convention were direct ed
mainly to the question of how to regain
what you had lost in the previous years
or, II more was found impossible then.
how to stop further loss. But your OBJ
lection now as | gather is to go out and
possess what you have never had be-
fore. You want to extend, not your
notes, but your business l sympa-
thlzed with your purposes then: / am
in full accord with your intentions now.
l Fentured to say at the gathering re-
ferred to, as reported in your published
proceedings, speaking both for your
encouragement and from profound
conviction, this great country cannot
be permanently kept in A state of re-
lapse l believe we will occupy the
heid temporarily lost TO us, and go
10 the peaceful conquest of new and
greater nelds OF trade and commerce.
Ihe recovery will seem slow perhaps,
out II VIII come, and when ii does we
VIII be steadier and will better know
now TO avoid exposure hereafter
nave abated none of the faith |
tnen expressed and you seem to have
regained yours. National politics can
encourage industry and commerce. but
1t remains for the people to project and
carry them on. If these policies stimu-
late industrial development and energy,
the people can be safely trusted to do
the rest. The government, however, is
restricted In its power to promote in
uustry. 1t can aid commerce, but not
create it. 1t can widen and deepen it's
rivers, improve its harbors and develop
lts great national waterways, but the
ships to sail and the traffic to carry.
the people must supply. The govern
ment can raise revenues by taxation
in such way as will discriminate in
favor of domestic enterprises. but il
cannot establish them. 1t can make
treaties, opening to our
agrlculturists the ports of other ma
tons. 1t can enter into reciprocal ar
rangements to exchange our products
with those of other countries 1t can
aid our merchant marine by encour-
aging our people to build ships of COM
merce. 1t can assist in every lawful
manner private enterprise to unite the
Two oceans with a great canal 1T can
10 all these things, and ought to do
them; but with all this ACCOMPLISHED
he result will still be Intellectual unless
by energy, enterprise and
industry of the people. 1t is they that |
must build and operate the factories,
-urnish ships and cargoes for the canal |
ma the rivers and the seas. 1t is they |
Who must find the consumers and OBJ |
am trade by going forth to win it.
Insufficient Facilities.
Much profitable trade is still unen-
Dyed by our people because of their
resent insufficient facilities for reach
ng desirable markets. Much of it is
ost because of a lack of information
nd ignorance of the conditions and
leeds of other nations We must know
ust what other people want before we
an supply their wants We must
Understand exactly how to reach them
With least expense. If we would enter
nto the most advantageous business
elat1ons with them. The ship requires
he shippers; but the shippers must
ave assured promise that their goods
ill have sale when they reach their
estimation. 1t is a good rule, if buy
RS will not come to us for us to go to
1em. 1t is our duty to make American |
nterprise and industrial ambition as
ell as achievement. terms of respect
nd praise. not only at home but
mong the family of nations the
orld over. There is another duty I
asting upon the national government {
} coin money and regulate the value {
hereof. !
This duty requires that our govern ;
ent shall regulate the value of it's
oney by the highest standard of com
ereial honesty and national honor
he money of the United States is, and
ust forever be unquestioned and un- I
'sailable. If doubts remain they must
; removed If weak places are discoy-
ed they must be strengthened. Moth
& should ever tempt us nothing will q
'er tempt us to scale down the sacred ]
lot of the nation through legal tech !
cality. Whatever may be the lam =
lage OF the contract, the United 9
ates will discharge all its obligations I
the currency recognized as the best J
roughout the civilized world at the
ne of payment. S
Nor will We ever consent that the q
ages of labor or its frugal savings be a
aled down by permitting payment i'm q
liars of less value than the dollars
cepted as the best in every enlighten- L
nation of the earth. Under existing Y
nditions our citizens cannot be ex- I
sed If they do not redouble their J.
orts to secure such financial legisla- r
n as will place their honorable inten- J.
ms beyond dispute. All those who n
present, AS You do. the great con- G
vative and the progressive business
erests of the country owe it not only
themselves, but 10 the people, to
'ist upon the settlement of this great r
estion now. or else to face the alter
tive that it must be again submitted
arbitration at the polls. This is our
lin duty to more than 1000. 900 v
ters who 10 months ago won a great d
itical battle on the issue, among a
lers. that the United States govern n
mt would not permit doubt to exist II
ywhere concerning the stability and q
egrity of tbs currency or the inviola- n
ty of its obligations of every kind. G,
He Wants Law. :.