The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-28

our treatment of the Philippine and CUBAN
questions. We are literally engaged IN a
worldwide war of We are able
70 wage this war successfully because we
rave developed such skill among our work
Lhsmeh, sucn a quality OF manhood among
our laboring classes and nave produced
such masses OF wealth that. with these ele-
nIents OF industrial power all combined ana
organized, we are given the advantage OF
every other producing nation. For example.
tne immense capital and wonderful organ
i1atloh OF the great meat-packing comolna-
uons OF america enable them TO sail re-
uiserdIns SHIPS TO every port ana 1eel
the world with American beef of a quality
anu az a price with which the inferior
ORGANIZATIONS of other nations cannot COM
pete. This Is true of many of the other
grlncipal lines OF trade. Therefore other
natlons VIII erect are erecting tariffs
against american products. Free-trade
England VIII not much longer remain free
trace. Within twenty-five years every
manuIactuTed article entering English
iorts VIII pay a heavy duty un-
less by reciprocal tariff arrangements
we Keep Great Britain's markets open
10 our products. The same is true OF
every otner European nation; and this pol
icy of self-preservation will be applied
10 their colonies also. II follows, therefore,
mat the American tariff must meet these
new conditions. But cur tariff will be
made 10 meet these new conditions along
the line of international reciprocity. While
the tarln will be readjusted. it will never be
revised on horizontal or uliversal reductions
or advances according to so-called principles
OF Scnooimen and theorists: ii will be ad-
Justed along the lines of International give
and take, with which practical nations,
like practical men, conduct practical bus
mess. The American people will never per
init ignorant enemies of the tdrin principle
TO modify II. The American people VIII de-
mand that our tariff adjustment, delicate
as a watch and affecting interests as wide
as commerce, shall be made by those who
understand it's workings at home and it's
effect abroad. To intrust il to reaction
aries and doctrinaries would be like putting
a crew of rock-breakers from our public
streets in charge of the vast and compli-
Gated engines Of a modern and
ocean steampship."
IN THE FAR EAST.
In discussing the situation in the far East
the senator said:
american trade throughout the Orient
]. increasing. while. in comparison, Great
Britain's trade Is diminishing. And SO a
system of protective devices throughout the
Orient appears inevitable. We can look for
nothing else from Russia; We expect this
method from Germany, and we shall have
t. meet il. even at the hands of England.
And if Japan shall assert her influence over
that great region of which Annoy is the
capital and chief port she can be depe- ded
upon TO secure to Japanese merchants and
producers trade advantages throughout the
districts she controls by effective methods.
In this serious situation a policy of drift
will never answer the demands upon Amer
lean craftsmanship. No American states
man can excuse himself for the exclusion
of America from the trade of the Orient
upon the ground that. while attending TO
our internal affairs. the territory where
that trade exists has gradually slipped into
the control Of our rivals without precauti0n
having been taken to preserve the adj
vantages we now have. 1t is no answer to
say that the danger is not imminent.
craftsmanship must consider the future.
craftsmanship must arrange conditions to-
day so that the result of those conditions
a decade or a century hence will be natural
and inevitable. And SO, while America
wants no part of China; while
America will decline to be an active
participant I'm China's commercial parti-
advantages being preserved in every prov
ince of the Orient where any other power
asserts its influence. America prefers that
the integrity Of China, commercially as
we'll as politically, shall be preserved, and
that the door of the far East shall be kept
open TO every merchant and manufacturer
of every nation of the world on equal
terms. But America will not go TO war TO
prevent England, Germany. Russia. France
or any other country from asserting their
respective spheres of commercial influence
in China. America wants no war any
where or at any time when ii can be avoid
ed without sacrificing the honor or interest
Of the American people. All that America
is concerned in is that when China's par
tition occurs the door shall be kept open
TO American goods, no matter how tightly
It is shut against any other nation. In this
situation the possession of the Philippines
makes us masters of the game"
Hon. John L. Webster. of Omaha. spoke
or '"The United States. the Nation Of Des-
tiny" Senator Dolliver responded to tho
toast, Ulysses s. Grant