People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — AMERICAN COMMERCIAL POLICY [ARTICLE]

AMERICAN COMMERCIAL POLICY

ft* HoMUf of a Pm • America* Coatw* Approved la the Sooth Citizens of Florida who have been holding at Jacksonville, in that state, a convention to indorse and urge action In favor of the construction Of the Nicaragua ship canal, took action in favor of an unfflnching maintenance by the government of a distinctive American policy, says the New York Picayune. Besides the demand for the canal, the convention favored an early reassembling of a pan- American congress to formulate means intended to produce the permanent peace, independence and prosperity in and to protect all American territories from foreign invasion, interference or control; to promote commercial intercourse, and to provide for the settlement of all differences that may arise between American republics by arbitration. The convention also urges the establishment of international railway and steamship intercourse and ■ connection between the republics and the territory allied thereto, as well as the promotion of adequate banking and exchange facilities and commercial and business relations to the end that all American republics may reap the full benefit of the various resources and Industries to their betterment, now so largely directed into foreign hands. Congress should take the cue. Now Is the time to take such action as will secure a proper hold upon the commerce of Central and South America, and this can only be done by close trade association by means of ample transportation and banking facilities. For this country to assert a political American policy, and not to follow it up by a corresponding commercial policy, mutually beneficial to all the American countries, would be the height of absurdity.