The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-11
WATTERSON : HANNA
BOTH SPEAK AT BOSTON MER-
CHANTS BANQUET.
HANNA FOR sHIP-sUBslDY.
WATTERsON ON KENTUCKY AND
MASSACHUSETTS.

master General Smith Discussed
Reciprocity, and KoEara Taxa
hira, the Japanese Minister,
Talked of Commercial Relations.
Boston. Dec 10.-The Boston Mer-
chants Association met at the Ven
dome this evening in celebration of its
| twenty-fifth anniversary and was en-
| tertained by four men of national rep
utation. who made spirited addresses,
chiefly along political lines. Postmas-
| ter General Charles Emory Smith
spoke Oh reciprocity; Kegaro- -Takahira.-
the japanese minister, spoke upon the
subject of Commercial RelationS;''
| Senator Marcus A. Hanna on the ship
subsidy bill, and Henry Watterson of
Kentucky on Kentucky and Massa-
chusetts."
Lieut.. Gov. John l.. Bates. the first
! speaker. represented Gov. Crane. He
extended the welcome of Massachu-
setts to the guests.
Postmaster General Smith follow
ed in an address commendatory of
the reciprocity ideas of the late Presi-
| dent Mckinley
| Kogaro Takahira received genuine
American welcome. of which he show
ed his appreciation.
Henry Watterson of Kentucky was
greeted with three cheers.
He said in part:
Boston, believe, is in Massachu-
setts, and the Bostonians, / am told,
! possess the conceit of themselves. 1t
| Is a handy thing to have about the
| house, and in your case happens to
| be founded on fact / at least shall
not deny your claim to many good
| things which have come to pass since
the birth of Benjamin Franklin and on
down to the completion of the subway
| and the new passenger stations. And
yet back in the neck of woods where
| abide there are those who think
that Kentucky is mo slouch." A story
is told of an old darky in slave hold
ing days who declared that his young
master was the greatest man that
ever lived. rs he greater than Henry
Clay?" "Yas. sir" Greater than Gen.
Jackson?" "Yas, sir" well. come,
now, Uncle Ephraim, you won't say
that he is greater than the Al
mighty" Uncle Ephraim was stump
| ed for a moment. Il won't say dat,
sab; no, sab. but he berry young yit"
Keptucky may not be all that Massa-
! chusetts is, but Kentuck Is "bery
| young yit!"
Two Kinds of Free Trade.
beg you will not be alarmed
am not going to discuss the tariff.
| Twenty-Five years ago, / ventured in
a modest Democratic platform, and in
other simple, childlike ways. to ad-
vance the theory that Custom House
| taxation" and l might have added all
| taxation, shall be for revenue only"
| in other words, that the government
| has no constitutional right nor power
| in equity, to levy a dollar of taxation
| except for its own support, and that,
when the sum required has been OBJ
| tained the tax shall stop. They called
| me names. They said / was a revolu-
| zionist. They even went the length of
intimating that ! was a Radical, mad
that, you know. down our way. is
equivalent to telling a man he is a SON.
of~a-gun from Boston! Worse than all,
/ was heralded and stigmatized as a
Free Trader Hoary old infant in
| dustries, exuding the oleaginous sub
stance of subsidy out of every pore,
climbed upon their launches and with
tears in their eyes exclaimed, What,
would you deprive us children not only
of our pap but take from us the
| means of aiding the poor workingman
to earn a living?" Being a person of
tender sensibiities there were times
L
and weep. Lo! the scene shifts, and
what do / see? | see the Republican
party, which was SO aghast at the old
fashioned allopathic treatment l pre-
scribed, coming out as a full-hedged
Free Trader on the homeopathic plan;
it's hands full of protocolic pill boxes
loaded with Reciprocity capsules; each
capsule nicely sugared to suit the
fancy of such infants as accept the
treatment, each pill-box bearing the old
reliable Protectionist label!
should be disingenuious If l affected
surprise. Indeed, the event fulfills
prophecy Of my own. Many years ago,
talking to a company of manufacturers
at Pittsburg, / declared that the day
was not far distant when Pennsylvania
would be for free trade, whilst a Pro-
tectonist party would be growing in
Kentucky; that with plants perfected,
with trade marks fixed and patents
secured, Pennsylvania seeking cheaper
processes and wider markets, would
say, away with the tariff whilst
the owners oe raw material, the coal
barons and the iron lords of Kentucky.
would cry out, hold on, we don't want
the robbing to stop until we have got
our share of it,"
/ have lived to see--and / do not
deny portectonism its share of the
credit-my contention being that IL was
bound to come and might have been
had cheaper-I have lived to see the
American manufacturer able TO meet
his foreign rival in every neutral mar
ket in Christiandom. sure at least OF
recovering and controlling those mar
kets that geographically belong TO
him: because. from a collar button to
a locomotive, the finished product OF
the American manufacturer to-day
beats the world.
That which they call expansion-cov-
eted by some, deplored and dreaded by
others-is a fact The newly acquired
territories are with us, and they are
with us to stay; a century hence the
flag viii be floating where II now floats
unless some power stronger than we
are ourselves turns up to drive us out.
The very thought Of the vista thus
opened to us should give US pause,
should chasten and make us humble
in the sight OF heaven, should appall
us with the magnitude and multitude
of its responsibilities. II we are to
turn the opportunities they embody
only TO the account Of our avarice and
pride: IL we are to see in them only
the advancement of our private for
tunes, at the expense of the public
duty and honor, IL we are to tickle
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