Waterbury Democrat., 1901-09-05

HE. Il SuCu d were pOSS1OlC IL would not be best for us or for those with whom we deal. We should take from 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 won derful industrial development under the domestic policy now firmly estab- lished What we produce beyond our domestic consumption must have vent abroad The excess must be re- lieved through a foreign outlet and We should sell everywhere we can and buy wherever the buying will enlarge our sales and productions and there by make a 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 unprofitable A policy of good will and friendly trade rela- tions will prevent reprisals. Recipro- city treaties are in harmony with the spirit of the times; measures of re taliation are not.
 If perchance 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 employ ed to extend and promote our markets abroad? Then, too, we have made quate 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 Gen. tral 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 bare ly touched.
 Next in advantage to having the thing to sell is to have the convenience to carry it to the buyer. We must en- courage our merchant 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 will be mes sengers of peace and amity wherever they go. We must build the isthmian canal, which will unite the two oceans and give a straight line of water con- munication with the western coasts of Central and South America and Mexico.
 The construction of a Pacific cable cannot be longer postponed.
 In the furtherance of these objects of national interest and concern you are performing an important part. This oxnncifinr1 hox heart of that American statesman whose mind was ever alert and thought ever constant for a larger commerce and a truer fraternity of the republics of the new world His broad Ameri- can spirit is felt and manifested here. He needs no Identification to an as- semblage of Americans anywhere, for the name of Blaine is inseperably as- ciated with the Pan-American move ments which finds to his practical and substantial expression and which we all hope will be firmly advanced by the Pan-American congress that assemblies this autumn in the capital of Mexico The good work will go on. 1t cannot be stopped. Those buildings will dis appear; this creation of art and beauty and industry will perish from sight but their influence will remain to Make it live beyond its too short liv
 ing
 with praises and thanksgiving.
 Who can tell the new thoughts that have been awakened the ambitions fired and the high achievements that will be wrought through this exposi- ton?
 Gentlemen: Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord not con- fiict and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war. We hope that all who are represented here may be moved to a higher and nobler effort for their own and the worlds good, and that out of this city may come not only greater commerce and trade for us all, but more essential than these, relations of mutual respect, confidence and friend ship which will deepen and endure.
 Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafed prosperity hap piness and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of earths