St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-10-19
production, we shall ATTEND the outlets


essential to the continued nealtn1uA
growth of our export trade. We must
not repose in fancied security that we
can forever sell everything and buy
little or nothing. If such thing were
possible it would not be best for us or
for those with whom we deal. We
should take from ovr customers such
of their products as we can use with
out harm to our industries and labor.
RECIPROCITY is the natural out
growth of our wonderful industrial de-
velopment under the domestic policy
now firmly established. What we pro-
duce beyond our domestic consumption
must have q vent abroad. The excess
must be relieved through foreign out"
let, and we should sell everywhere We
can, and buy wherever the buying will
enlarge our sales and productions,
and thereby make greater demand
for home labor.
Exclusive No Longer.
"The period Of exclusiveness 10
past. The expansion Of our trade
and commerce is the pressing prob
lem. Commercial wars are unprofit-
able. A policy of good will and
friendly trade relations will prevent
reprisals. Reciprocity 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 indus
tries at home, why should they not
be employed to extend and promote
our markets abroad?
Need Of Merchant Marine.
"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 Amer
lea. These should be followed up
with direct steamship lines between
the eastern coast Of the United
States and South American ports.
Zone of the needs of the times il
direct commercial lines from orr
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
buyer.
marine. We must have more ships.
They must be under the American
flag, built and manned and owned by
Americans. These will not only be
profitable in commercial sense;
they will be messengers of peace and
amity wherever they go.
Must Build Isthmian Canal.
1--WE must build the isthmian canal,
which will unite the two oceans and
give straight line of water COM
munication with the western coasts
of Central and South America and
Mexico. The construction of Pa
cifc cable cannot be longer post
poned.
''In the furtherance of these OBJ
iects of national interest and con-
Germ you are performing an important
part. This exposition would have
touched the heart of that American
statesman whose mind was ever alert
and thought ever constant for .
larger commerce and truer fra
ternity of the republics of the new
world. His broad American spirit is
felt and manifested here. He needs
no Identification to an assembly OF
Americans anywhere, for the name
of Blaine is insepsrably associated
with the Pan-American movement
which finds this practical and sub
stantial expression, and which we all
hope will be firmly advanced by the
Pan-American congress that assem-
bles this autumn in the capital OF
Mexico.
1.-THE good work will 60 on. It can
not be stopped. These buildings will
disappear; this creation of art, and
beauty, and industry will perish
from sight, but there influence will
lremain to
MAKE 1t live beyond its too short living
With praises and thanksgiving.
Victory Of Peace, Not War.
"Who can tell the new thoughts
that have been awakened, the ambi-
tions fired, and the high achieve
; ments that will be wrought through
this exposition? Gentlemen, let us
ever remember that our interest is in
concord, not conflict, and that our
real eminence rests in the victories of
peace, not those of war. We hope
that all who are represented here
NAV be moved to higher and nobler
effort for their own and the world's
good, and that out of this city may
come, not only greater commerce and
trade for us all, but, more essentia.
than these, relations of mutual re-
spect, confidence, and friendship,
which will deepen and endure.
"Our earnest prayer is that God
will graciously vouchsafe prosperity
, happiness and peace to all our neigh.
bors and like blessings to all the peo-
pies and powers of earth"
. President Mckinley.
!, William Mckinley, like Abraham
Lincoln, had sprung from the heart
of the common people. He was one
, of those who had taken part in the
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