Evening journal., 1899-10-25

has no longer left any available land
for homesteading. Uncle Sam is no
longer rich enough 30 give us all a
farm
For the first time since the English
LANDED at jamestown, the Dutch at New
York and the Swedes at Wilmington,
the American youth born without for
tune does not have the illimitable
West, in Which TO find a farm and
found a home. Barring the arid and
mountain lands, a whole continent has
been appropriated by a people, who
have grown from three millions to
seventy-fiye in century and a-quar-
ter
What now will the American youth
do, not born to fortune? A century
and a-quarter OF national life has been
absorbed in affairs of domestic con-
cern; in self contemplation profound
and continuous. in our politics, and in
reducing a continent to possession. At
last We are forced to turn our gaze
abroad II our youths are to find oc-
cupation, If our people are to find pros
lperity, il must be in supplying not only
our surplus products of agriculture, but
also OF our manufactures to the mar
kets of the world. We are entering on
new epoch. America is at last and in
the fullness of time taking her true
place among the great powers Of the
earth.
Neither time nor the exigencies Of
the occasion permit me to enter upon
all the themes that are open to this
uniting field. We are here to-day to
recognize and honor one Of them. Eu-
rope. Asia and South America furnish
the three great foreign markets. The
great surprise is in respect to the first
Of Europe To-day we have conquered
our way into this very stronghold of
competition. The unparalleled wealth
Of the resources of our mines of iron
and coal, and our fields OF cotton, the
unparalleled wealth of our invention
genius, and Of the skill and enterprise
of our artisans, enable us to-day to lay
down in Europe a wide range of manu-
factured products that are both cheaper
and better than any Europe can pro-
duce. The annual balance of trade in
our favor exceeds che enormous sum Of
5000 GOO, 600. and is growing larger
every month.
This favorable balance OF trade
gives us the easy command OF the gold
supply of the world, and IL, as some
contend, the world is hurt by the de-
monitization of silver, it is not we who
will have to walk the floor.
But the American people are not
content to stop there, nor have been
the enterprising, the far-sighted, the
patriotic business men Of the city of
Philadelphia. South Of us lie not only
Mexico Central America and the is
lands of the sea, but all Of the mighty
continent of South America. It's people
are all our friends and we theirs. They
4 won their freedom under the shadow
of our wing, and we have stood their
constant and mighty protector ever
since. While the United States lives
and the Monroe Doctrine is maintains
ed, no power on earth is so strong as
to dare assail the independence Of the
feeblest of their states. But we want
not merely their friendship; we want
1 their trade.
Hence the Philadelphia Commercial
i Museums. Hence this exposition
/ Hence our visit from Delaware here TO-
day. The authorities of the museums
have caused studies to be made OF the
Il requirements Of South American COM
merce; Of the peculiarities of its trade;
what goods they want; how they should
be made to suit the habits of the peO-
pie; Of their system OF credits and pay
ments.
Not resting there, they have created
this exposition, where the manufacture
ers of the United States are exhibiting
their products. and demonstrating the
ingenuity OF the makers, and the eX-
cellence and cheapness OF what they
make.
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sitiOn will be followed by another large
extension of American trade. The ma
tiOns of the earth have sent here the
representatives to meet in Congress
and to report at home what has beer
exhibited and what they have learned
But this is but one step to max,
things both good and cheap. Next vii
, follow the establishing of American
lines of shipping between our own anC
J South America and indeed all foreign
! lpOrts. and also of international banks
I and exchanges. To this great worl
and achievement, we of Delaware pre-
] sent our tribute of respect and admira
] ton to-day We congratulate Phlladel
phia and the managers of this enter
, prise upon what they have accomplish
} ed. And more, that we expect to shar
I
our state may expect to see extende'
E their already large market in Soutl
E America Nearly all the steamboat
- that navigate the South American
[ rivers were built in Wilmington, yer.
5 many of the cars upon their railway
r were also built there. The youth of on
e state and all through the countie
e forced from home for opportunity an
career, will find it in that enlarged ma
( tional outlook Of which this exposition
I is at once the harbinger and the assur
4 ance."
y Mr.. Vandegrift then announced:
There has come into the CONNER
= cial and manufacturing life of our stat
r many sturdy citizens Of the Germa
! lfatherland They have brought to on
shores not only the industry. integrit
Il and solidity of character which in
J. sures material success, but they ais
l. come bearing with them to us tn
n sweet charms of music. Desiring alsl
IS when it is possible that you sha
lt share with us in our delights we hay
brought with u.s. the Delaware Saa
II gerbund."
: Under direction of Professor. c. 1