. Book of the Royal blue . revent reprisals. Reciprocitytreaties are in harmony with the spirit of the times; meas-ures of retaliation arc not. If perchance some of our taritfs are no longer needed,for revenue or to encourage and protect our industries athome, why should they not be employed to extend and pro-mote our markets abroad? Then, too, we have inadequatesteamship service. New lines of steamers have alreadybeen put in commission between the Pacific Coast ports ofthe United States and those of the western coasts of .Mexicoand Central and South .America. These should be followedup with d
. Book of the Royal blue . revent reprisals. Reciprocitytreaties are in harmony with the spirit of the times; meas-ures of retaliation arc not. If perchance some of our taritfs are no longer needed,for revenue or to encourage and protect our industries athome, why should they not be employed to extend and pro-mote our markets abroad? Then, too, we have inadequatesteamship service. New lines of steamers have alreadybeen put in commission between the Pacific Coast ports ofthe United States and those of the western coasts of .Mexicoand Central and South .America. These should be followedup with direct steamship lines between the eastern coast ofthe United States and South American ports. One of the needs of the times is direct commercial linesfrom our vast fields of production to the fields of consump-tion that we have but barely touched. Next in advantageto having the thing to sell is to have the convenience tocarry it to the buyer. We must encourage our merchantmarine. We must have more ships. They must be under. STic prcsiftctits ^Trisf Itlcssiigc to titc people 21 the American flag, built and manned and owned by Ameri-cans. These will not only be profitable in a commercialsense; they will be messengers of peace and amity wher-ever they go. We must build the isthmian canal, whichwill unite the two oceans and give a straight line of watercommunication with the western coasts of Central and SouthAmerica and Mexico. The construction of a Pacific cablecannot be longer postponed. In the furtherance of these objects of national interestand concern, you are performing an important part. Thisexposition would have touched the heart of that Americanstatesman whose mind was ever alert and thought everconstant for a larger commercial and a truer fraternity ofthe republics of the new world. His broad American spiritis felt and manifested here. He needs no identification toan assemblage of Americans anywhere, for the name ofBlaine is inseparably associated with the Pan-Americanmo
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