, 1900-05-19

years on this score? ! am going
to tell you the truth, though | hardly
you to believe it, the figures
so startling, in fact, so enormous.
The net balance of trade in our favor
in three years has been 81. 4O0, 000, 600
while the net. balance for a hundred
next preceding was not one-quar-
ter as much. In other words, III net
balance Of trade and our increased
riches from this source has been near
ly five times as much in three years as
the total for 100 years preceding.
Our exports for the first nine months
of the present fiscal year were away
over 81 900, coo, 900 in value and more
than so per cent of this was for manu-
f~actues. a point and a percentage never
before reached in the history of the
country. In March last alone we ex-
ported $45. O0O, 600 worth of our manu-
featured goods, while for March of 1896,
similar imports amounted to but $l9,-
geo. 600. or about 40 per cent. Figures
are dry and undressing. it is true.
but these are 50 startling that if we
can but comprehend them they become
dazzlingly Interesting.
And, my n]eighbors and friends, |
understand that while all this great
growth Of IN and trade is 60
ing OF, it is well with Wyoming, and
that she, too, feels the stimulating in
tiucnCes, and though slower to receive
the earliest full benefits of business
Improvement, yet we are moving for
ward in substantial prosperity, with
perhaps greater promise of increased
growth han any Of our ~reighboring
states.
1t is useless for me to p~articulariZe
as to WyOming's prosperity. You all
know the prices you are receiving for
wool and mutton, beef and hides, wheat
and alfalfa, and other crops, and you
know with what rapidity the figures
denoting our Goa. output are climbing
up and how our mining and railroad
interests are increasing. And referr-
ing to live stock, which is Wyoming's
main support, we fiLd that during
President HarrisOn's administration
We gained over $780, DOC 900 in value of
our domestic animals, and then lost
under Mr.. Cleyeland's administration
1925, 000, eco. Yet in three years, I'M
der McKinley's administration, we
have increased some $3.50, 600, 900, and
so it gees, up and down. Up when we
have a sound republican policy and
wise president, and way down when
the opposition is in the saddle.
As to expansion proper, which the
other side-"the feminist party"-are
pleased to call imperialism" and
which the democratic party proposes
to make their campaign against, we e
in the title. If our wise f%orefathers
mad not been expansionists, we would
not he lin it," | defy our respected
democratic friends to name a single
one of their great leaders of the past,
whose memory they delight to honor,
who was not in word and in deed, or
both, an expansionist.
The Puritans came to America and
founded the original thirteen states.
because they wished expansion of lib
erty and human rights as well as of
soil.
The democratic party, when in polit-
ical power and sometimes right in
olden times, did time and again, ex-
pand u national domain, and always
without the consent of the governed
the original inhabitants of the new
ly acquired territory. Look at Asto-
ria, Florida, the Louisiana purchase,
California and the Gadsen purchase!
And in 1860 the democratic party de-
manded Cuba, regardless of the "con-
sent of the governed" But that par
ty is of late years always in the wrong,
and it now inveighs against expansion,
clubbing it imperialism.
II l'publlldIlS thDdllueu anu pul
chased Alaska. Who is sorry that We
acquired that great treasure store
house? We have since annexed Ha-
wall, and acquired by conquest and
purchase Porto Rico, Guam and the
Philippines; all tropical countries
needing our manufactures. cereals and
general products. We in turn need
their coffee, hemp and other products
grown in the tropics, and which we
consumption in our own country pro-
per, and thus our trade and commerce
and wealth increases and expands.
We want the prosperity and expan-
sion of Mckinley times and not the ad-
versity and obstruction of Clevenland
times.
And, my fellow citizens, it is not
alone TO glory in what we have al,
ready accomplished and to congratu,
late each other %thereupon, that we are
now met, but to plan for the future
and to go on with stfadiness and Wig.
or to wider fields and higher levels
in national advancement, and in in
creased prosperity and happiness.
OF the past three years or more OF
success We are proud, but We propose
to go on and upward; to re-elect Nc
Kinley. to redouble our efforts, and to