The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-06

l
 brought through our minister the frs news of the safety of the besieged dip l lomats.
 | At the beginning of the nineteenth
 century there was not a mile of stean railroad on the globe. Now there art
 enough miles to make it's circuit many | times. Then there was not a line o1
 electric telegraph; now we have vast l mileage traversing all lands and al seas. God and man have linked the ma | tions 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 occasion is there for misunderstanding and the
 stronger the disposition, when we have
 differences. to adjust them in the court
 of Arbitration, which is the noblest fo- rum for the settlement of international disputes.
 UNExAMPLED PROSPERITY.
 My fellow citizens: Trade statistics
 indicate that this country is in 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 happiness
 to their homes, and making it possible
 to lay by savings for old age and dis
 ability. That all the people art partici-
 pating in this great prosperity is seen in every American community, and shown by the enormous and unprece- dented deposits in our savings banks. Our duty is the care and security of these deposits, and their safe invest ment demands the highest integrity and the best business capacity of those In charge of these Repositories of the peoples earnings.
 We have a vast and intricate busi- ness, built up through years of toll and struggle, in which every part of the country has it's 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 manufactur- CTS 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 welfare of the country. Our capacity to produce has developed so enormous ly and our products have so multiplied that the problem of more markets re- quires our urgent and immediate at- tention. Only broad and enlightened policy will keep what we have no other policy will get more. In these times of business energy and gain we ought to be looking to the future. the weak places in our industrial and commercial systems, that we may be ready for any storm or strain.
 NEED OF RECIPROCITY.
 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 is manfesiiy essential to to the continued and healthful growth 1f our export trade We must not re- pose in fancied security that we can forever sell everything and buy little or nothing, If such a thing were pos sible, it would not be best for us or for those with whom we deal. We should take from our customers such of their products as we can use without harm to our industries and labor. Recip- rocity is the natural outgrowth of our industrial development un- der the domestic policy now firmly es- tablished. What we produce beyond 1ur domestic consumption must have vent abroad The excess must be re- ieved through q foreign outlet, and we should sell everywhere we can and buy | wherever the buying will enlarge our | sales and productions, and thereby | make a greater demand for home la | DOT. The period of exclusiveness is ,ast. The expansion os our trade and | commerce. is the pressing problem. wars are unprofltable. A policy of good will and friendly trade citations will prevent reprisals Recip- ocity treaties are in harmony with the | pirit of the times; measures of retail ation are not.
 If, perchance, some of our tariffs are 10 longer needed, for revenue or to en- and protect our industries at lome, why should they not be employ d to extend and promote our markets broad? Then, too we have inadequate teamship service. New lines of steam rs have already been put in commits ion between the Pacific coast ports of he United States and those of the ,estern coast of Mexico, and Central nd South America. These should be ollowed up with direct steamship lines etween the eastern coast of the Unit q States and South American ports. ,ne of the needs of the times is direct lines from our vast fields f production to the fields of consump- lon that we have but barely touched. Text in advantage to having the thing ) sell is to have the convenience to arry it to the buyer. We must en- ,