The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-05-04
AN ASTOUNDING STATEMENT.


Senator Hanna Tells of Enormous In
crease IN Balance of Trade in Favor { (
the United States and Points Out the
Power for Good it Gives the Country.
At the Ohio republican state con.
vention in answer to the repeated calls
of the delegates, Senator Hanna ad-
dressed the convention. His speech
aroused the greatest enthusiasm and
he was cheered to the echo. We give a
brief extract and ask all our readers to
consider carefully what the senator
said:
81 say the spirit of the hour is one of
absolute fearlessness on the part of the
republicans. We are conscious, as
your chairman has said, of having full
filled every promise made. We took
this country into our hands and under
our care after four years of the greatest
vicissitudes through which we have
ever passed in our history. At our
convention in St. Louis we announced
the policy and the doctrine of the re.
publican party, upon which had been
builded your material interests for
twenty odd years. We promised such
reforms and economic measures as
would produce material benefits to the
issue, and we went farther and said
that we will 90 beyond even the ideals
of our fathers in the great results which
must come from the perpetuation of
such policy. The best evidence of the
success of that policy is in what we
have accomplished and achieved as
effecting the material interests of this
country.
Your chairman made some state
ments with reference to the growth of
our export trade. Why, he did not
state half of it. The balance of net
trade in favor of the United States dur
ing the last century preceding this ad
ministration amounted TO s3l1, ZOO, 900.
In one hundred years that was the net
balance to the credit of the United
States in our trade with the world. In
three years of the administration of
President William Mckinley the net
balance, as shown by the books of the
United States treasury, is 81, 400, 600, 600.
Great applause and cries of Good. "
1t is 81. 100, 900, 900 more accomplished
in those three years than had been &C.
complished in 100 years preceding.
And then, looking into the face of such
results, l repeat your chairman's words,
DO we want changer
''Do we want any different business
combinations for us? Do we want any
different policy for the American people
than that which is building up and
making us the greatest, the richest, and
the strongest nation on earth? The
laws of commerce., regulated by the
best economic measures, are as infal-
lible as the laws of nature. We have
proved to this country and to the world
that our policy of economics is ir.
resistible and must succeed, and in the
few years of trial that we have had
under this administration we have
proved that in the ratio of progress,
every year looking ahead to our enor.
nous wealth and gain, we shall be
made stronger and be given far better
and wider opportunities to do good in
the march of Christianization and
civilization of the world.
"The results of the war with Spain
are not accidental. The destiny which
has been written for this country must
be fulfilled in the natural order Of
things. 1t was but one step forward in
the direction of the duty set for us tC
do, and no matter what influences may
be thrown around us to impede oul
progress, it can not and will not stop
(Renewed cheering)
81 do not care whether you call 1
imperialism or expansion. The destin,
of this country is written, and any part.
or combination of men that attempt
| Wy any ouutoiiuSo VI "anconhl IL
politics to stop the power and progress
of this nation will go down under 1t
just as the democratic party has gon,
down. (Renewed cheering.) We ar
proud of our record; we are proud o
our business experience, and we ar
glad to have had the opportunity t
demonstrate to the world that tn
policy and business principles of tn,
American people means the civilization
and Christianization of the Who'll,
world. Tremendous cheering) 1t /
that success in material things whic
gives US that opportunity and makes
possible to accomplish these great re
suits.