Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1878-10-30

liticial institutions of your State
| One of the great social compact
that so brilliantly illustrates tn
government of the western world,
government of, for, and 10y the PEG
pie with whom, under our system
the great residue of the grea
powers of any government resides
The whole people make and un
make laws, they make and unmalI'
constitutions and governments
And when our government fails tC
promote the best interests ofthe peo
pie, it becomes their right and duty
to abrogate it and erect another in
its place. Uuder our system the
people are the government and the
State is but their appointed agent
1t is always in their control, and
the people should look well that nc
over-weeniug centralized power
should ever become the master OF
the State instead of its servant.
Three fourths Of the people of
the United States and probably of
this State are agriculturists, thus
forming large majority of the
voting population. To you, there
fore, belongs the responsibility of
perpetuating our system. TO dis
charge the duty, you should know
well what it is. Study and ponder
well the writings Of the founders
of the system we so much admire I;
moreover divest yourselves of po-
litical prejudices of the local and
sectional politician. Prepare your
selves TO act well the part of n
great American juror, who shall
sit and deliver the verdict that
shall assure our freedom and indie
pendence for centuries to come, or
hand us over to celtraliZed dis
chief cause of the
fall of all other republics that ever
have existed heretofore. Strange
it is that centralism and republi-
canism are the natural enemies Of
each other. Where one exists the
other cannot be. You must and
will decide, and ultimately deliver
your verdict, and on that verdict
hangs the momentous question of
law or anarchy, freedom or slavery,
union and peace, or disunion and
confusion.
We are beyond all precedent for
tunate in our political institutions,
both State aud national. And in
this nation of well paid labor, OF
free institutions and cheap lands,
good markets and low Transports
ion, we stand largely in the atti-
.ude of the feeders Of the world,
with the prospect of still greater
demand upon us for our cereal pro-
ducts to feed the hungry and dense
of the old world. a
new enterprise is developed. The
Of live cattle and sheep
has recently sprung up, and with
in the last eighteen months an ex-
pertinent has developed into a 81
gantic branch of commerce. a
few months since simple par
agraph announced that refrige-
rators had been placed upon some
steamer, and that fresh slaughtered
beef could be exported to Eng
land " No particular attention or
interest seemed to be manifested
in this. Within II months it was
briefly announced that a steamer
had been loaded with beef cattle at
New York for Liverpool, England.
Six months since an. enterprising
firm of the commercial metropolis
of our State, made a heavy ship
ment of beef cattle to England,
and now the Treasury department
report the exports of beef cattle
and sheep by the millions of dol
lars. And within the past twenty
days it has been announced that
the giant ship of the earth will i'm
mediatcly become liner between
Galveston in the great cattle and
sheep raising State of Texas, and
Liverpool, England, and that her
exclusive business will be to carry
live stock, that her cargo will con-
sist of about six thousand animals
per trip. What is in the future
of this trade for the agricultural
and stock raising interests of this
country seems 10 lie beyond the
comprehension of the most en-
thusiastie. Already the price of
beef has arisen from two-thirds the
price Of pork to one third greater
price, and the price of mutton
from being drug on the market
at a dollar per carcass, is become a
luxury that only the rich can af-
ford. And yet in the face of all
this and while there are wild grass
es and heritage in our comfy to
feed aud )fatten from $4,000 to 75,-
900 head of cattle annually, no'cf-
fort seems to be made, or even
thought of, to enter into the stock
business, but year after year the
narrow contracted policy OF our
farmers continues in each and