New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-06
rocity treaty, failing to see any advantage
tn be derived from it. He SAYS also:


While Canada remains part of the
British empire l think she ought to be
treated as such. and required to share its
fortunes and commercial relations. The
proposed treaty would give to her sub
stantially the advantages of being State
in the Union, while che still retains the
advantages Of the British connection, and
is to us in every respect foreign country
Her adherence to the British connection
springs out OF political considerations hos
tile to the United States. She does not
flourish in her present condition. With
Canada independent, we can treat as the
mutual interests Of the two countries may
dictate. Annexation must be postponed
till after that event.
i The Democratic convention having de
clared in favor of tariff for revenue, MIR.
Morton shows that if laid horizontally"
the same rate per cent on all articles, it
would not only be protective, but prohib-
itory, and would be exclusively for the
benefit OF foreign, and against home indus
try.
Justice, common sense and patriotism
alike dictated that, as a tariff was neces-
slty, it should be levied, not in the interest
of foreign or home monopoly, but so as to
afford fair and reasonable competltlonSbe-
tween home and foreign industries, relying
upon competition to bring about reduction
of prices to the people, and it is upon this
principle that the Republican party has
attempted to regulate the tariff.
He deprecates the policy that makes the
West, with its fertile soil, timber, coal and
ores, dependent upon foreign, distant and
costly markets, in Difference to the ':jargon
of free trade"
MI ~. L.
| to be regarded as mere outlying vegetable
gardens and truck patches, to furnish the
marketing of the older and richer commu-
mites of the East and have become opu.
| lent, powerful and intelligent communities,
| capable of forming their own policies, and
becoming, by the development of their
| resources, the most Independent and pros
| porous among the States.
He advocates the voting of the people
direct for President, and argues the injus
tice of the present mode.
| The railroad question receives considera-
BILE attention. Taking as text the power
given to Congress to regulate commerce
between the States, he considers that the
regulations Of the great lines of roads con-
| trolled in the East should be uniform. If
different regulations prevail in Ohio, In
diana and Illinois they may become vic
tins of unfriendly legislation, and the dis
orders and conflicts which existed among
| the States before the constitution was
| formed be reproduced. Railroads must &C.
cept their State charters on tie condition
that they are subject to the power of Con-
gress long before any railroad charter is
| granted.
| Cheapness and uniformity of operation,
| speed, convenience, prOmptness and safety
| all point to connected roads and through
lines, and these, throughout their length,
should be governed by uniform methods
| and laws.
He considers it in the power of Congress
to establish boards of railroad commits
sioners.
To be governed by general regula.
tions, within which they shall have the
power to supervise and regulate the rates
of freight and passengers upon the inter.
State railroads, SO as to prevent unjust dis
examinations between different localities or
classes of persons, to prevent combinations
between railroad corporations and other
persons to put up the prices of freights or
passenger fares; to prevent railroad cOrpO.
rations from taking advantage Of the OBJ
struction OF lakes, rivers, and canals, by
frost or by low water, to put up freights
and fares beyond what would be reason
able, fair, and honest profit; and, in short
to prevent extortiOns and impositiOns by
| railroad companies upon the people OF the
country, however attempted to be practiced
These powers would be no more than the
Supreme Court has already decided courts
may exercise over common carriers.
States may make regulations for the
commerce that passes over them, but they
must yield to the legislation of Congress.
He approves the decision of the United
States court. sitting in Wisconsin, that the
legislature has the power to alter or repeal
charter given. He believes the States
and Congress will protect the people from
oppression by capitalists, but says:
Great moderation should be exercised
and care taken that legislation should be
aimed only at real abuses, and interfere as
little as possible with the control of rail
| roads by their owners, so that there be no
| encouragement to the construction of new
roads and the extension OF the system.
He regards cheap transportation as the
great coming question, and one interesting
the whole country.
The improvement of the navigation of
the Mississippi river is Of deep interest to
more than dozen States, of which Indiana
is one, and was much considered at the last
session of Congress, and will doubtless be
definitely acted upon at the next.
Senator Morton concluded as follows:
In conclusion, 1 am proud to say that
while the Republican party may have
erred, it has not proved false to any great
principle, nor cowardly in the presence of
any great question. Its aims are noble and
patriotic, and it does not seek continu-
ance in power by pandering to vice and
prejudice, but refers to it's past record of
great actions in behalf of the union, of lib
erty, education, equality and the material
growth and improvement of the nation as
an earnest of what it seeks to accomplish
in the future. And there must be no cessa-
tiOn in it's lab0rs; it must not presume to
live upon the glories and memories of the
past. Its first and ever present duty is in
trospectiOn, ,self-examination, the correction
of errors, the introduction of reforms. 1t
must look to the execution and enforcement
of the constitution and laws; and while as
serting the existence of the nation and the
Just powers of the national government, it
should ever be vigilant to preserve in all
their Just extent the rights and powers OF
the States, ever carrying before it, as lamp
to guide its steps, those great fundamental
| principles which have given to the party
its power and glory-equal rights to all
equal and exact justice to all.
| Twenty.second Senatorial District.
A convention of delegates representing
| the twenty second senatorial district, COM
prising the parishes of De Soto, Natchi-