The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-24
General News.
PRESIDENT MoKINLEY,s LATEST
SPEECH"

Outlook two days before the death
OF the President and when his re-
covery was expected, gave this out.
line of Mr.. McKinIey's notable
speech of September 9th:
The day before the assault on Presi-
dent Mckinley he delivered an ad-
dress at the Pan-American EXPOSE
ton which marks, more ditinctly
than any address before delivered
by him, his desire to see the Repub-
lican party initiate an international
industrial policy in conformity with
its policy of political expansion. In
this address he speaks, as is his
wont, in somewhat general terms,
yet they are so explicit that it is i'm
possible to misunderstood their sig
nifcance. The kernel of this speech
will be found in the following para
graphs taken from it:
ga system which provides a mutu-
al exchange of commodities is mani
fesly essential to the continued and
healthful growth of our export
trade. We must not repose in fan
cied 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
those with whom we deal. We
should take from our consumers
such of their products as we a use
without harm to our industries and
labor. Reciprocity is the natural
outgrOWth of our wonderful indus
trial development under the domes-
tic policy now firmly established.
What we produce beyond our do
mestio consumption must have a
vent abroad. The excess must be
relieved through a foreign outlet,
and we should sell everything we
can and buy wherever the buying
will enlarge our sales and produc-
tions and thereby make a greater
demand for home labor. The period
of exclusiveness is past. The expan-
sion of our trade and commerce is
the pressing problem. CONNER
cial wars r Improbable. A policy
of good will and friendly trade re-
lations will prevent Ieprisals. Re-
oiprocity treaties are in harmony
with the spirit of the. times meas
1909 - 800 -~L
If this requires a modification of
our protective system, why not modi-
fly it? Why should it not "be en-
ployed to extend and promote
markets abroad? Industrial ex-
pansion will require new lines of
steamships, especially for Pan
American commerce, which must be
carried on in ships "under the Amer
lean flag, built and manned and
require an Isthmian canal (which
will unite the two oceans and give
a straight line of water communioa-
ton with the western coast of Cen
trail and South America and Mexico"
The President does not say, as we
wish that he did, that this canal
must also be ''under the American
flag, built and manned and owned by
Americans" With much, perhaps
with all of this address, The Outlook
heartily agrees-wibh all of it, if it
does not imply governmental sub
sides to privately owned steamship
lines, TO which we are u~nalterably
opposed. We heartily agree that
the ''periOd of exclusiveness is past )"
and though we should favor a much
more radical freedom of trade than
the President here outlines, we favor
such freedom as probably the best
and certainly the most practicable
step toward one much larger. The
address throughout is characters
tic of the Presidents temper: his
desire for commercial peace his de-
frank recognition that changed cir
oumstances call for a change in pol
icy his proposed modification of
the protection principle without ex
citing apprehension by formally
proposing to abandon it altogether ;
his opportune hitting upon the CO.
casion of the Pan-Amer1can EXPOSE
tion as the time and place for the
exposition of this doctrine of recip-
rocity and his conservative rebuke
of the pseudo conservatism which
desires to ''repose in fanoied security
that we Can forever sell everything
and buy little or nothing" all adj