Experience has shown that such a work cannot be executed, especially on foreign soil, without the support and aid of a powerful government.
John Sherman
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John Sherman was an American politician from Ohio who served in federal office throughout the Civil War and into the late nineteenth century. A member of the Republican Party, he served in both houses of the U.S. Congress. He also served as Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State. Sherman sought the Republican presidential nomination three times, coming closest in 1888, but was never chosen by the party. Between 1861 and 1897, John Sherman served in the U.S. Senate for nearly 32 years and holds the record for longest serving senator from the state of Ohio.
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The conditions proposed would have made it an international work of great importance to all commercial nations, while ample authority was reserved on the part of the United States to protect its investment with tolls sufficient to pay the…
By the treaty negotiated in 1884, between the United States and Nicaragua, the canal was to be built by the United States.
When California was acquired as the result of the Mexican War, and gold was discovered in its soil, the necessity for some means of speedy transit from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast became imperative.
The vast object, if it should ever be accomplished, will be interesting in a greater or less degree to all parts of the world; but especially to this continent will accrue its greatest benefits; and to Colombia, Mexico, Central America…
A canal for navigation between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans should form a proper subject of consideration at the congress.
The route by Lake Nicaragua was early regarded by the American people as the only adequate, efficient and practicable passage.
One of the most important subjects considered by the Senate within the last ten years, to which I have given special attention, is the construction of a ship canal across Central America.
I then, at considerable length, stated the objections to the free coinage of silver and the revolution it would create in the financial condition of the country.
At the very outset of this discussion I appealed to the sober judgment of Senators to consider the responsibility which they take in adopting what I regard as a revolution more full of injury, more dangerous in its character, and more…
Will you remonetize silver and place it back where it was before it was excluded from the mints of the United States and Europe?
The amendment I have offered presents the question naked and simple.
As to the general result of the congressional elections, I have seen such convulsions a dozen times or more, but they have had no permanent effect.
The Democrats fixed up the congressional districts so we would get six Congressmen only, but we got eight.
Last year we lost our governor, this year we carry the state by a splendid majority.
Now, the great issue between the parties, not so great as in the past, but still worthy of discussion, is how shall we levy the taxes to support the national government?
In 1876 the object of the Republican party was to make good the promises contained in our notes, and to make all our money as good as gold and silver coin.
Afterward, in 1861, the only object of the Republican party was to maintain the union of these states, to preserve our country as an inheritance for your children and your children's children.
When, in 1853, you or your ancestors organized the Republican party, our only object was to resist the extension of slavery over our western territory.
I defended the latter as a protective measure that, while reducing taxation, maintained the protection of all American industries impartially.
I looked upon this as evidence that I had arrived at that period of life when a difference in political opinions was no longer regarded as a ground of personal disfavor.
That is the first rule, and I believe that that rule has been carried out, and I think liberally, and so as to secure increased production at home and a larger market.
We think that this tax ought to be put at such a rate as will give to our people here a chance to produce the articles and pay a fair return for the investment made and for the labor expended at prices higher in this country than in any…
It has come down to us, and we are trying now to carry out that idea, to encourage home productions by putting a tax upon foreign productions.
We believe that whenever a new industry can be started in our country with a successful hope of living, with a reasonable protection against foreign manufactures, we ought to establish it here, and that this is a good policy for the…
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