| Show the purchase of cuba it will be seen by reference to our telegraphic intelligence that sir mr slidell as chairman of the senate committee committed on foreign relations has presented a bill in in the senate to authorize the president to renew negotiations for the purchase C of the isad illard rd of cuba and pa placing acing in in his hands the sum of thirty millions million 3 of dollars to be used for that purpose this chis is is one of the most important motions ever made in in congress and if tho the bill ill should be passed its ultimate benema ficiala effect upon the material aerial inheres in tereta li of every section of the union can ba exceeded only by those of the purchase of louisiana the true exchanges of commerce result from differences of lat etude which cause differences of chimato and production no prejudiced theories s 1 0 of f home protection ever interfere avit with W it and the greater the th exchanges between beaw een I 1 oun countries tries differing in in latitude the greater is 13 the advant advantages aes of both A like ike the pre present ent which throws down the existing barriers barners to our trade with ith cuba affects every e ery interest in in the court coun uy try the forest fisheries manufactures manufacturer and shipping of new england tho the farmers fan ners diary dearmen di armen men miners and hand band z workers of the middle states slates the lum her ber naval i al stores and rice rice of the south and the meats and grains of the west all find an appropriate exchange in m the markets of cuba in its political significance the measure is is of equal importance cuba overlies over lies the great routes between our allan atlantic tic and pacific empires and com mands the outlet of that vast i ast valley un equalled equal led in in the world v orld for territorial extent activity of its population and amigh ty destiny which is is drained by the mississippi 1 sis I sippi and its branches with their twenty thousand miles of river nier gaviga tion in acting acting upon this measure congress should consider not the five fio hundred millions of dollars of our trade that nou pass annually under the guns of cut cubi it should remember that in in thirty years we shall have sixty itty millions of people in in this union union and according to the ratio of our past commercial increase increase wo we shill hall then have hat e five thousand millions of dollars in m value alue flowing out of thu tha mississippi valley and passing between our atlantic and paci pacific fic shores h or es the purchase of cuba may be valuable now but it has an incomparably greater value for the generation enervation ene ration that is is to come after us statesmen will look to our future exigencies exigencies and legislate legi late in in view view of their requirements as well as of present necessities JV V Y herald |
