The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-08

coming more important than protection at home. Protection may stiii De what General Hancock termed 1t, locai is- sue. but it Is something more. It Is world issue and where 1t bars our over production from foreign market, our laws will have to yield
 This has always been, and long after our day will continue to be. country of unparalleled opportunities. That some have grown rich from the opera tion of laws, none can deny; but many more have grown so through their own efforts and foresight to grant and utii- ize wonderful resources. If we are a nation of millionaires, we are also na- tion of industrious and prosperous peo- pie. Nowhere, in any vocation or Ile are there more persons well clotneo' well housed, well fed. better educateo, and independent than in the United States. whether we are going to the bow-wows or not Is question or the newspaper a man IS accustomed to read"
 Referring to the increase of our navy and to $3O,0O0. 900 having been spent the year preceding the Spanish Ameri- can war, and to over $10O.0OO0OO now being spent annually the speaker said. "Foreign comerce always has increased with naval strength, and there wii' be no exception In our case.
 Referring to the Panama Canal ne said Tt will open up to this port the rim of the Pacific. where lie the great populations of the world, and put It far closer to the West Coast of South America than Europe. whither the bulk of the trade now goes. and closer than any American port. either on our East or West coast, and will open to you easy water communications with our entire West coast" and he spoke or the inferiority of the coal on the Pa- cific Coast, and the trade that will be opened up in coal. as well as in cotton goods, iron and lumber. and the Work that had thus far been done. prepar- ing for the construction of the Canal, saving, Much of the underbrush has now been cleared away, and all can rest assured the Canal will be con- structed whether it be sea level or lock; whether the government digs 1t itself O. by contract. and whether 1t costs a few millions more or less, and to help in the construction means great oppor- tunities for bushes to this section and especially to this port" He cited what had been done by the commission to give the whole country. including the Gulf ports an equal opportunity for furnishing supply.
 AS a. nedT route lO tue by June next, he referred to the rail road of 190 miles about completed across the Tsthmus of Tehauntepec' Also to the Erie and Ohio River Canal. as opening up the trade of the great lakes and Canada to this port and continuing said, When seriously in auiring why American enterprise has not sought these countries, ] have been told Americans who go there have gone too much to teach. that they have tried to force their goods. stand ards and ideas upon these people, in stead of learning the requirements or their markets. and trying to furnish goods to meet those requirements. On the other hand. the Englishman and the German study what these people are accustomed to and want, and turn out from their factories what they demand. That we have not hitherto studied these markets is natural, for until recently we have not been con cerned with foreign markets We go to trade with these people, not to con duct a propaganda of new Idea; learn their ways. not to force ours upon them I know of no people more Ill ted to appreciate the importance or this than the people of the South
 Confidence Is the basis of conner, cial life. It is of slow growth and can not be developed in an hour or d day. Between these Latin Americans and ourselves there are the most mark ed racial differences. Their forms ol government are modelled after ours but their ways are not. our. ways, then