The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-04-14


rountry the canals must be improved be-
wound any limit yet officially proposed
| Canada IL at work deepening her ctnais
| with n View TO having OF least fifteen feet
of water from Lake Michigan TO Mon
ltreul and the reby enabling the lake steain-
en- loaded at tho heart OF the contihent 70
| lend her cargo without breaking bulk AT
Montreal, ready for distribution from
there upon the ocean steamer 10 the rest
! OF the world. When we shall have com
pleted az ever) the improvements now IN
progress on the Erie canal connecting
| New York City, by way OF the TUCSON riv
| er, with Lake Erie and beyond that with
the whole chain of the great lakes, We
shall have depth of Just seven ieet.
| What invite our merchants to consider 10
| whether as men of enterprise they think
| It safe TO leave the State and metropolis
| at so manifest n disadvantage That the
| railroads can not be depended upon TO
make good TO our port and its auxiliaries
what the canals lose has been proved IN
the most unmlstakabl FORM The stats
/ tics of the port prove that we are not
holding our own with Canada in the mat
/ ter of lake traffic despite anything that
| the railroads may have done, and similar
! ly we find In the matter of railroad trans
| portation, we are for some purposes less
| happily situated than several ports to the
| southward. ! learn with pleasure OF
conference which Is to he held before
many weeks under auspices of our board Cf
trade and transportation. and most ear
nestly hope that the confereas VIII not
! adjourn without having taken some steps
towards securing for the State facilities of
access to her vast inland trade equal al
least to those soon to be at the service OF
our Canadian competitors
This pressure OF English competition
along the entire northern boundary of our
country at the very time when 1t las
become SO fashionable for a certain class
1 OF political leaders and after dinner SPEAK
ers TO thoughtlessly advocate political
1 and commercial alliance offensive and de-
1 fensiye between these two countries, IT.
/ will not be deemed amiss to caution cur
people against hasty action. Let us be in
iuenced by the natural as well as me
fixed policy of that nation towards us Tor
century and half, rather than by their
profuse expressions OF friendship during
the Spanish war. In 1741 Admiral Vernon
commanded the English expedition against
Cartagena on the northern coast of South
America. then fourishing Spanish pos
session. His forces included thirCs-siH
companies of American troops from the
thirteen colonies; among them We're some
OF the Washington family, who afterwards
gave his name to their place on the Poto-
, mac, and also Smollett who described the
incidents of the disastrous attempt In his
Roderick Random.
The defeated forces rcndezvoused at
Jamaica in the West Indies and from there
Admiral Vernon cold bloodedly wrote to
his home government that he would dis
band and settle the battaions from the
thirteen colonies in East Cuba rather than
restore them to their home where they
would wish to establish manufactures,
which would injure those at home" lin
England). From then to now her policy
has been one of sharp rivalry and COM
petition with America; it impelled the
revolution of 1776. fought for business as
, well as political independence; brought on
the war of 1872 waged against the insolent
claim of England for the right to search
our ships OF commerce while riding the
, highways of the ocean; caused her to con-
test every inch OF our Northern boundary
line from ocean to ocean; made her en-
, courage our family troubles in 1860 to
1865, for which she was compelled to pay
, lis millions and admit her wrong; and
actuated her, In violation of the Monroe
I, doctrine TO attempt an unwarrantable
, encroachment upon the territory of Vene-
4, zuela, until ordered by the American gov
, eminent to halt, notwithstanding that our
new ambassador at the court of st, James
, seemed to think that his first duty was to
, apologize to the English people therefor
and she has paralleled our inland water
, ways and railroads from ocean to ocean.
= separating us from our Alaskan possess
! sions. She is now and will ever be our
/ principal competitor In the commerce of
; the world. Under such circumstances 1t
would be her greatest boast in diplomacy
to cngender the animosity of the other
nations of the world toward us by such
an alliance. For then in case the emer-
gency should ever arise that our country
= should feel 1t necessary to command her
! 10 halt again in any of her future agrees
! sions and she should refuse the United
a States would find herself without a friend
in the sisterhood of nations. A lively ap-
= probation OF the true bearings of both
nations will be the surest guarantee of
. lasting friendship and peace between them.
Let the good old American International
, policy of each nation attending to its own
: business In the spirit of fair play to the
f others assert itself and let these knee
Blenders to all that is English remember
the advice of the matchless Washington
g given in his farewell address. In which he
r says: THE greatest rule Of conduct for
q us, In regard to foreign nations, Is, in
n extending our commercial relations to
4 have with them as little political con-
= neXion as possible" sit Is our true policy
Q TO steer clear OF permanent alliances with
g any proportion of the foreign world. "
IS FROM that moment the spirit of peace,
: commerce and honest friendship with all
: nations, entangling alliances with none
u
y re-echoed down the corridors of time. Let
: the lovers Of peace and friendship in both
Il countries familiarize themselves with that
G part of Washington's address relating to
d foreign relations and It will promote good
II VIII between these two nations.
4 Suner me in bringing these remarks TO
y a close to indulge the hope that the demo-
: cratic party will act in its National coun-
: ellis with lively recollection of what is
= due to the commercial interests of our
: country that the resources OF our soil may
, be brought more and more under the com.
u mand of our people, that labor in every
y department may have an increasing and
,, not lessening reward, that our merchant
u nag may be restored with honor not less
. liluslrious than that which accompanies
II the standard OF our flghtlng ships, that the
: inventive genius OF the land shall be pro-
a Inc OF good to the millions and not mere
"A ly TO the millionaire, that the typical
" American. full OF self-rcliance and seorn
: ing all government paternalism. shall as
7 sert himself, that the credit of the Nation
= snail be untarnished. and, as in the mast
:, liberty and property shall be alike secure
-" i is indispensable that the commerce nj
our country be rooted. as it was. in ms.
II ice tanned by tho winds OF liberty. kent
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