The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-07-04

out Of our neghbors TO pay the national debt.
Five hundred d fifty millions the last
year. AS our population increases we must
trade more with foreigners, or we must re-
duce our home comforts. We are looking
for the opportunity according to our plat
form. We will build the isthmian canal.
That means easy access to the western coast
of the United States from our eastern cities,
as we'll as to the western coast of South
America; but 1t means more, not only in
war but in peace. 1t means that Just across
the Pacific from our shores lies China the
most enormost center of population and the
greatest field for trade in the world. II
means that Manila lies at its gate, and that
we are coming to be known in China and
that, as a speaker well expressed 1t at the
Philadelphia convention, "our trade Is
growing there by leaps and bounds" 1t il
but the harbinger OF commerce that under
good management in the near future the
Pacific will bear upon its bosom from its
farthest bounds to the Golden Gate and the
isthmian canal that will rise above the At
lantic Ocean traffic as the trees of California
rise above the trees of Maine
We are Anglo-Saxons. Our mother land
is capable, by its own products OF feeding
about 100000 of people, yet she has
3S. 900 900 people at home, and she governs
385, 100000 OF people, covering one-ffth of
the habitable surface Of the globe. Her
commerce covers the seas. Her navies po-
lice and control the oceans. We are OF the
same blood and OF greater genius. With
| 70, 900, 900 OF people, with greater wealth
than any nation in the world, we are not
| inclined to stay at home. The Republican
| party believes we are old enough to 60 on
| the water, and it stands for a navy that ia
| sufficient 10 protect US everywhere, and for
| the encouragement of our merchant marine.
| The people want 1t. II any people stay at
home because they do not dare to go on
| the water, it will be the sons of some other
| nation. We are progressive people. Spain
| discovered America in 1882 She discov-
| cred it, as / heard a Decoration Day orator
| say, second time in 1898 when Cervera
| sailed out from Santiago, and it was new
| thing. Instead of Indian canoes 10 was
modern ships of war with Anglo-Saxons on
| board. Our Captain Clark was on one of
| Them fresh from his trip round the Horn,
| and Spain suffered the humiliation OF see-
| ing the Ve-monter run down her swiftest
cruiser with coast line battleshipin sixty
| mile race. The American development Of
| the Anglo-Saxon was aboard OF her feeding
her engines with the oil of progress, and the
| Christobal Colon, the Viscaya, the Oquendo,
| the Teresa, the Pluton and Terror, six In all
went down before progressive America.
With the ten sunk by our Admiral Dewey
| in Manila Bay, 1t makes sixteen, all for our
one poor battleship, the Maine. This is the
| only 16 to that Vermonters have ever be-
| lieved in.
| The war developed another thing that is
| new. There are men with carefully trained
and discriminating intellects, and men with
marvellous physical courage, bravery and
| cordality-popular men. There always
have been; but they are different. This