The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-06
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srcustomed are we to safe and easy
communication with distant lands,
mat it's temporary interruption even
in ordinary times results in loss and
inconvenience. We shall never forget
the DAYS of anxious waiting and awful
suspense when no Information was
permitted to be sent from Pekin and
the diplomatic representatives of the
cations in China, cut off from all COM
munication, inside and outside of the
walled capital, were surrounded by an
angry and misguided mob that threat
ened their lives. nor the joy that
thrilled the world when a single mes
sage from the government of the
United States brought through our
minister the first news of the safety of
the besieged diplomats.
Last Century's Advances.
"At the beginning of the nineteenth
century there was not a mile of steam
railroad on the globe. Now there are
enough miles to make it's circuit many
times. Then there was not a line of
electric telegraph; now we have vast
mileage traversing all lands and
all seas. God and man have
linked the nations together. No nation
can longer be Indifferent to any other
And as we are brought more and more
in touch with each other the less oc-
casion is there for Observation-Disclosures
and the stronger the disposition when
we have differences, to adjust them in
the court of arbitration, which is the
noblest forum for the settlement of in
ternational disputes.
My fellow citizens, trade statistics
indicate that this country is in a state
of unexampled prosperity. The figures
are almost appalling. They show that
we are utilizing our fields and forests
and mines and that we are furnishing
profitable employment to the millions
of workingmen throughout the United
States, bringing comfort and happi-
ness to their homes and making 1t pos
sible to lay by savings for old age and
disability. That all the people are par
ticipating in this great prosperity is
seen in every American community
and shown by the enormous and I'M
precedented deposits in our savings
banks. Our duty is the care and Sc
curity of these deposits, and their safe
investment demands the highest integ-
rity and the best business capacity of
those in charge of these repositories of
the peoples earnings.
I'VE have a vast and intricate bust
ness, built up through years of toll
and struggle, in which every part of
the country has its stake, which will
not permit of either neglect,or of undue
selfshness. No narrow, sordid policy
will subserve it. The greatest skill and
wisdom on the part of the manufacture
ers and producers will be required to
hold and increase it. Our industrial
enterprises which have grown to such
great proportions affect the homes and
occupations of the people and the well
fare of the country. Our capacity to
produce has developed so enormously
and our products have so multiplied
that the problem of more markets re-
quires our urgent and immediate at
tention. Only a broad and enlightened
policy will keep what we have. No
other policy will get more. In these
times of marvellous business energy and
gain we ought to be looking to the fu-
ture, strengthening the weak places in
our industrial and commercial systems,
that we may be ready for any storm or
strain
by sensible trade arrangements
which will not interrupt our home pro-
duction we shall extend the outlets for
our increasing surplus. A system which
provides a mutual exchange of COM
modities is manifestly essential to the
continued and healthful growth of our
export trade. We must not repose in
fancied security that we can forever
sell everything and buy little or moth
ing III such a thing were possible it
would not be best for us or for those
with whom we deal. We should take
IRON our customers such of their pro-
ducts as we can use without harm to |
our industries and labor. Reciprocity is |
the natural outgrowth of our wonderful |
Industrial deVeloment under the domes-
tic policy now firmly established.
What we produce beyond our domestic |
consumption must have a vent abroad |
The excess must be relieved through a |
foreign outlet and we should sell every |
where we can and buy wherever the |
buying will enlarge our sales and pro- |
auctions and thereby make a greater |
demand for home labor.
No Narrow Policy viii Do.
1.-THE period of exclusiveness is past.
The expansion of our trade and COM |
merce is the pressing problem. Com |
mercial wars are Improbable. A pol |
Icy of good will and friendly trade re- |
lations will prevent reprisals. Recip- |
rocity treaties are in harmony with |
the spirit of the times; measures OF |
retaliation are not. |
IF perchance some of our tariffs are
no longer needed, for revenue or to |
encourage and protect our industries
at home, why should they not be EN-; |
ployed to extend and promote our |
markets abroad? Then, too, we have |
inadequate steamship service. New
lines of steamers have already been
put in commission between the Pacific |
coast ports of the United States and |
THOSE on the western coasts OF Mexico |
and Central and South America. These |
should be followed up with direct |
steamship lines between the eastern |
coast of the United States and South |
American ports. One of the needs of |
the times is direct commercial lines |
from our vast fields of production to |
the fields of consumption that we have |
but barely touched. Next in advantage |
to having the thing to sell is to have |
the convenience to carry it to the buy |
er. We must encourage our merchant |
marine. We must have more ships. |
They must be under the American flag, |
built and manned and owned by Amer |
leans. These will not only be profitable |
in a commercial sense, they will be |
messengers of peace and amity wher- |
ever they 60 We must build the 18TH |
milan canal, which will unite the two |
oceans and give a straight line of wa |
ter communication with the western |
coasts of Central and South America |
and Mexico. The construction of a Pa |
cific cable cannot be longer postponed. |
I'm the furtherance of these objects |
OF national interest and concern you |
are performing an important work. |
This exposition would have touched |
the heart of that American statesman |
whose mind was ever alert and thought |
ever constant for a larger commerce |
and truer fraternity of the republics |