The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-11
PROMINENT MEN SPEAK.
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 added. "Let us look at the resem- blances in the country rather than at the minor differences. It seems that the whole country might be moulded to be the perpetual home of one people.
 Passing to the negro question Senator Daniel pointed out that although the north and south were in unity there was one subject on which they were divided, the color question. He said:
 You have never seen slavery from the standpoint of some of us. If you destroy slavery and abolish it, what are you going to do with the corpse? The American people has never had prob lem to deal with, for which their cour- age and skill were insufficient"
 Without going further into the ques- tion Senator Daniel suggested that if the south were permitted to settle the question he believed they would do i. In conclusion the senator bespoke the sentiment of sympathy which exists between "Old Virginia" and Massachu- setts.
 Charles F. Hamlin was then called upon to read the address of Governor Cummins. The governor laid down two propositions: That he believed profoundly in a system of protective duties on imports as distinguished from system of duties for revenue only, and that he believed that system of protective duties when deliberately ad- justed ought not to be changed eitber directly by revision or, indirectly through reciprocal trade arrangements for light or trivial reasons. He argued, however, at length in behalf of reci- procity with Canada.
 Senator Quarles, in responding to the toast, "Chamberlain's Revolution" said in part:
 From the American standpoint this British agitation is significant. not so much because it threatens tariff walls around the islands as because it prom ises the reorganization and regenera- tion of colonial policy -...
 MT. Chamberlain deprecates the present loose colonial compact as be- traying structural weakness and as re- sponsibIe for the general lack of, sym lpathy and national unity. It Is also | true that Canada and Australia are fast developing local manufactures and local lpolicies, that may not rteadily fit into an ambitious imperial scheme.
 Viewed from this distance it would lappear that MT. Chamberlain had fall. Zen short of just conception of the American system. In common witt Imany of our own people, he seems te have overlooked the fact that absolute free trade between the states and unre. lstricted competition at home are quite as distinctive and essential clements oi Jour policy as discrimination against for. eign trade imports. ,M... E..-.
 Tt is hardly conceivable that British lprejudice and inertia can be overcome in a single campaign. But revolutions never go backward. Sooner or later Chamberlain will be successful and free trade as an international policy will loose it's last and most ferveIlt adherent We have no reason to be Respondent lover the outlook. We still have the American market which no foreign leg. Iislation can imperil." 5m
 Speaking of the New York, New Ha. lyen and Hartford railroad, President Mellen said:
 "There is much to regret in the affairs of every corporation and ours is no ex. lception. We shall try, however, to make an improvement and meet your reason liable desires and labor with you in goo6 mature over those that are unreason. liable. Many of the suggestions thai Ihave reached me have been acted upon land many more are undergoing investi. gation as a result of which further ac. tion may be expected later.
 When I am asked what are my plans for the improvement of the trade O Iyour city, am much like the rest ot you-perhaps not able to definitely say but sure I shall not be found wanting when the time comes and something i: to be done for the general good of all"
 In speaking of reciprocity with Can ada, Congressman Mccall said:
 'The sun and birds do not more nat urally migrate to the one country in tn summer and return again to the othe in the winter than do the natural cur rents Of trade run across the borde which separates Canada from tn United States. If we are to keep apar it must be purely by the decrees of tn statesmen and in defiance of all tn laws of nature."