Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-01-25

war, but for the purposes of trade.
To successfully carry out these great
policies and control these great mar
Kets, we must have our merchant
marine. With our vast preponder-
ance in manufacturing and productive
ability, it is a sad commentary upon
the mercantile laws of the land which
gives to England, our great rival, the
practical carrying trade of the
world The south wishes
a navy sufficiently powerful to entitle
this country to respect in every sea
and cline. The control of the gulf of
Mexico and the Caribbean sea is es-
sential to our commerce. Without
these seas under our control we will
have built beautiful house and left
the door wide open with the jewels in
full view of those who wish to take
them. In this demand the south for
100 years has urgently persisted Says
Napoleon, as colossal in his mastery
of trade as of war, whatever nation
holds the Mississippi and the gulf of
Mexico would be the most powerful on
earth
Here, at the mouth of the MISSISSIPPI
pi is garnered the wealth of the great
valley, and through the gulf of Mexico
and the Caribbean sea every vessel,
laden with the product of your manu-
factories must take it's way to the east
and the south. Here your cotton, your
wooden, your iron products, your thou
sand products of loom and manufac-
tories of the north will meet the rare
wood, rich spices, indigo, quinine, the
India rubber, the coffee, the sugar and
cocoa of the rich valley of South Amer
lea and the various products from the
far east. In these two seas, the Medi-
terranean of America, meet and COM
mingle the mighty floods of the ANA
zon and the Mississippi, with their
products so essential to our civiliza-
ton. What will be the effect of the
south's steady help towards consum-
mating these great policies. Our own
beautiful country will know no north
and no south, no east and no west, but
nal bonds of busy and prosperous
commercial life which has bound to-
gether beyond question of division ev-
cry section of this mighty union. The
seas of the world will be white with
our sails and the laugh of the Amer
lean sailor will be heard in every port
known to trade.
I'VE ask in return for our devotion
to your interests more liberal treat
ment of the south in the expenditure-of
the public money. Ungrudgingly we
have voted to deepen your harbors and
widen your rivers until now the
worlds commerce can ride in safety in
your harbors and at your wharves.
The south needs your help. Your
commercial supremacy is as closely
bound up in deepening our rivers and
our harbors as is that of the south.
You are leading the vanguard for the
capture of the trade of the world. To
succeed against the nations you must
have raw material for manufacture
at the lowest cost. The granary
of Africa was no more nee
essary to Rome than the cotton, the
coal, the coke, the iron, the lumber and
the oil of the south is to you. The
deepening of our southern harbors and
rivers that our products may reach
your furnaces and mills at a minimum
price means your underselling the
world. 1t means more than cheap raw
material to you. In night the south
has grown into great manufacturing
region. 1t must be the sensible policy
of the north to give the various manu-
featured products of the south the
greatest opportunity-throug your
own de- harbors to reach the people
of the world rather than to cast this
great trade inland to become a COM
petltor of your mills. We do not wish
this condition to arise. Instead of be-
ing your competitor in business, we
wish to go through our own ports out
into the world as our handmaiden and
helper.
1--WE ask broader Americanism on
your part and a better understanding
and appreciation of the great section
which | represent. In all tenderness
and love we ask that you will not take
NAhO obNhNCAhChI VI tut oCAcluluS
gogue with this fame of fire, nor that
of the partisan newspaper, whose
highest ambition is to obey the die
tates of party. The south comes today
with clean hands and asks you own
judgment, your own investigation.
We trust you implicitly. The honest,
substantial sentiment of the north is
what we crave. With the great growth
OF the south We are part and parcel of
your life, industrial and social.
I'VE are brothers in this republic of
trade. We are co-heirs in the greatest
civilization which the world has ever
seen. We are the same in blood, in
race, in Cody traditions. Together
we have blazed out the broadcast path
in the worlds civilization. Together
we have builded a government more
glorious than any ever touched by hui
man hands or inspired by human
thought. Together We have stood In
the ranks in defense of its eternal
principles. Then, sir, as a people
united, not alone by the bonds of mere