The Republican journal., 1901-10-17

origin, ana are only maze possible by
. the genius of the inventor and the
courage of the investor. It took a
special messenger of the government
:, with every facility known at the time
for rapid travel, 10 days to go from
the city of Washington to New Orleans
with message to General Jackson that
the war with England had ceased and a
treaty OF peace had been signed. How
different now We reached General
| Miles in Porto Rico by cable and he
graph, to stop his army on the firing
line with the message that the United
States and Spain had signed protocol
suspending hostilities. We knew
almost instantly of the first shots fired
at Santiago, and the subsequent surren-
der of the spanish forces was known at
Washington within less than an hour of
its consnmmatiOn.
The first ship of Severa's fleet had
hardly emerged from that historic har-
Dor when the fact was flashed to our
capital and the swift destruction that
followed was announced Immediately
through the wonderful medium of the
telegraph. So accustomed are we to safe
and easy communication with distant
lands that its 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 nations in China cut off from all
communication inside and outside of
the walled capital were surrounded by
an angry and misguided mob that
threatened their lives; nor the joy that
thrilled the world when the cable mes
sage to the government of the United
States brought through our minister
the first news of the Safety of the be-
sieged diplomats.
PROGRESS OF RAILROADS.
At the beginning of the min eteenth
century there was not mile of steam
railroad on the globe. Now there are
enough miles to make it's circuit many
times. Then there was not 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. AS we are
brought more and more in touch with
each other the less occasion is there for
misunderstanding and the stronger
disposition when we have differences to
adjust them in the court of arbitration,
which is the noblest forum for the
settlement OF international disputes.
Fellow citizens, the trade statistics
indicate that this country is in 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 men throughout the
United States, bringing comfort and
happiness to their homes and making it
possible to lay up savings for old age
and disability
UNEXAMPLED PROSPERITY.
That all the people are participating
in this great prosperity is seen in every
American community and is shown by
the enormous and unprecedented de-
posits in our savings banks. Our duty
is the care and security of these de-
posits, and their safe investment de-
mands the highest integrity and best
business capacity of those in charge of
the peoples earnings. We have vast
and intricate business 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 manufacturers and producers will
be required to hold and increase it.
Our industrial enterprises, which
have grown to such great proportions,
affect the homes and occupation of the
people and the welfare of the country.
Our capacity to produce has developed
so enormously and our products have
so multiplied that the problem of more
markets requires our urgent and imme-
diate attention. Only a broad and en-
lightened 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
future, strengthening the weak places
in our industrial and commercial sys-
TENS, that we may be ready for any
storm or strain
By sensible trade arrangements which
may not interrupt our home production,
we shall extend the outlets for our in
creasing surplus.
For our increasing surplus a system
which provides a mutual exchange of
commodities is manifestly essential to
the continued 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. If such thing were possible it
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 established
What we produce beyond our domestic
consumption must have 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-
ductions and thereby make greater
demand for home labor. The period of
exclusiyeness is past. Expansion of
our trade and commerce is the pressing
problem. Commercial wars are un-
profitable 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.
One of the needs of the times is di-
rect commercial lines from our vast
fields Of production to the fields of con-
sumption that we have but barely
tOuched Next in ADVANTAGE to having