The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-05

have vent abroad. The excess mus
 be relieved thru a foreign outlet, anc
 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.
 'The period of exclusiveness IS past
 The expansion of our trade and com.
 merce is the pressing problem. Com
 merCial wars are unprofltable. 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 perehance. some of our tariffs are
 no longer needed for revenue or to en- courage and protect our industries at home, why should they not be employed to extend and promote our markets abroad.
 'Then, too we have inadiquate steamship service. New lines of steam CTS have already been put in commis- sion between the Pacific coast ports of the United States and those on the western coast of Mexico and Central and South America. These should be followed up with direct seamship lines between the eastern coast of the United States and South American ports.
 '''One of the needs of the times is di- rect commercial lines from our vast fields of pro duction to the fields of con sumption that we have but barely touched. Next in advantage to having the thing to sell is to have the conven- fence to carry it to the buyer.
 "We must encourage our merchants 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 a commercial sense; they they will be messengers of peace and amity where they go.
 "We must build the Isthmian canal, which will unite the two oceans and give straight line of water communi- cation with the western coasts of Gen. tral and South America and Mexico, Tie construction of Pacific cable can not be longer postponed.
 In the furtherence of those objects of national interests and concern you are performing an important part. This ex- position would have touched the heart | of that Anne rican statesman whose | mind was never alert and thought ever constant for a larger commerce and a truer fraternity of the republics of the new world. His broad American spirit is felt and manifested here. He needs no indentification 10 an assembly Of Americans anywhere, for the name of Blaine is inseparably associated with the Pan-American movement which finds this practical and substantial ex- pression, and which we all hope will be firmly advanced by the Pan-American congress that assemblies this autumn in he Capital Of Mexico.
 "The good work will z" on. It cannot De stopped. These buildings will dis appear; this creation of art, and beau- y, and industry will perish from sight, put their influence will remain to Make it live beyond it's too short living With praises and thanksgiving.
 ''Wbo can tell the new thoughts that rave been awakened, the ambitions fred, and the high achievements that will be wrought thru this exposition? Gentlemen let us ever remember hat our interests Is in concord, not con- lict, and that our real eminence rests n the victories of peace, not those of var. We hope that all who are repre- tented here may be moved to higher md nobler effort for their own and the worlds good, and that out of this city nay come, not only greater commerce md trade for us all, but more essential han these, relations of mutual respect 1 confidence and friendship, which will leepen and endure.
 "Our earnest prayer is that God will { ,raciously vouchsafe prosperity, happi- { less and peace to all our ne;ghbors and { ike blessings to all the peoples and s 'owers of earth"