Indeed, I believe that in the future, when we shall have seized again, as we will seize if we are true to ourselves, our own fair part of commerce upon the sea, and when we shall have again our appropriate share of South American trade, that these railroads from St. Louis, touching deep harbors on the gulf, and communicating there with lines of steamships, shall touch the ports of South America and bring their tribute to you.
ATTRIBUTION:
Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901), U.S. president. Speech in St. Louis, October 11, 1890. Speeches of Benjamin Harrison: Twenty-Third President of the United States, p. 269, Kennikat Press (1971).
