The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-20
AN ALL-v1TAL WISH.

And now, in ending, shall we not ln-
 duIge another and all-Vital Wlsh TOT thls new agency of American industry! Let us not grow jealous of the larger ana freer commerce which the canal Is to bring Shall We not, rather, before the first steamer mounts it's mighty stairway of locks strive, in part at least, to re- verse the one amazing inconsistency of our economic and political history Nhlle
 we have struggled with wholesome and imperative ambition to make the lncofne ing to our harbors of the argosles or peaceful commerce, have we not often forbidden them when at the docks 10 land their goods they wished to do, that so doing, they might take away ours While at mighty epxense we lave opened the mouths of the Mississippi 10 the safe passage of the ships of he world, while we have invested vast sums m improvements of rivers and harbors or the Atlantic Gulf and Pacific coasts-Whlte the American people has not shrunk rom rom the construction of great waterways ike the Erie and Sault Ste Marie Canals neV- ertheless have we not cunningly forbid, den them a great part Of thelr lntendeu uses? The American people during the past forty years has no sooner made an apDropriation to open wider and better a portal of commerce, than 1t has passed some other law to hang in that portal a door of inhospitality difficult to open 1T, 4, indeed We have not ordained that It should be tightly shut. The future VIII bring welcome contradiction of the past If the opening of the canal snail not m EDlre some udfTOWt dlNIlDhbh PoNA Americans seek to exclude the very traI- fife for which We shall build if. snail we not. rather, welcome every purcnasef from a Pacific coast or island coming 10 buy what you in the Gulf States or we at the North and West shall produce? Shall We not welcome him,-and to both our profit and his,-when we tender him the goods which we can.produce cheaper and better than he, and let him pay us In the goods which he can produce cheaper and better than we. Between this Gulf coast of yours and the Canadian border extends the greatest area of untram- meIled trade which the world has ever
 tnown Here are nearly fifty wealthy
 and powerful States dozen of them important kingdoms in themselves Here in tbe United States is an internal com merce vastly surpassing the entire free trade of England over all oceans and seas Borne upon the sustaining impetus borders has come the noblest development of wealth and industry and commercial, manufa curing and financial power the world has ever known. And why? Is 1t not because the American domain be- tween the two great oceans and between the Gulf and the Great Lakes Includes the varieties of climate and soil and in- dustrY fit for unlimited interchange; and because the interchange Is unobstructed? Have we not in this imperial domain of ours forbidden the hostilities or dispar- agements of custom frontiers to check the course ordained by the Almighty? Will not you of the Gulf make ready, there commerce of the Isthmian Canal which in such large part Is destined for you?
 Tn the building of the Isthmian Canal the American Republic will humhlY but gloriously promote the brotherly neigh borhood between the nations and tribes