The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-08-02
of gold and silver coinage, would be measure
Of peculiar advantage.
INTER STATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE AND FOR
EIGs kELATIoNs.


or peculiar advantage.
INTER STATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE AND FOR
EIGs RELATIONS.
The subjects embraced in the resolutions re-
speotiyely looking to the promotion Of our inter
state and foreign commerce and to the matter
of our foreign relations fraught with great
Importance to our people. In respect to inter
state commerce there is much to be desired III
the way OF equitable rates and the facilities of
transportation, that commerce may dow freely
to the states themselves, to the diversity Of in
dustrles and employments to be promoted in
all sections Of our country, and that the great
granaries and manufacturing establishments of
the interior may be enabled to send their prod
ucts to the seaboard for shipment to foreign
countries, relieved of yexations restrictions and
determinations, in relation to which it may en-
phaticaly be said "Ilme is money" snd also Of
unjust charges upon articles destined to meet
close competition from the products of other
parts of the world.
AS to our foreign commerce, the enormous
growth of our Industries and our surprising
production of cereals and other necessities of
life imperatively require that immediate and
effective means shall be taken through
peaceful, orderly, and conservative methods
to open markets which have been and are now
monopolZed largely by other nations. This
more particularly relates to cur sister repub-
lies, Spanish America, as also to our friends,
the people OF the Brazilian Empire. The re-
the very closest and waImest feelings,
based upon 8 similarity of institutions
and government, common aspirations, and
mutual hopes. The "Great Republic" as they
proudly term the United States. Is looked upon
by their people with sffectionate admiration
and as mode for them to build upon, and We
should cultivate between them and ourselves
closer commercial relations, which will bind ali
together by ties Of friendly intercourse and
mutual advantage. Further than this, being
commonwealths IN the military and naval sense
OF European powers, they look to Us as at least
moral defender against system Of territorial
and other encroachaments which. aggressive in
the past, have not been abandoned at this day.
Diplomacy and intrigue have done much more
to wrest the commerce of Spanish America
from the United States than has legitimate
commercial competition. Politically we should
be bound to the Republics OF our continent by
the closest ties, and communication by ships
and railroads should be encouraged to the full
est possible extent consistent with wise and
conservative public policy. Above all, We
should be upon such terms of friendship as to
preclude the possibility of national misunder-
standings between ourselves and any member
of the American republican family. The best
method to promote uninterrupted peace be
tween one and al would be il a meeting of q
general conference or congress, whereby an
agreement to sumbit all international differ
euces to the peaceful decision of friendly arbi-
this kind would give to our sister republics
confidence IN each other and in Us, closer COM
munlcation would at once ensue, reciprocaly
advantageous commercial treaties might be
made whereby much of the commerce which
now floats across the Atlantic would seek its
legitimate channels and innre to the greater
prosperity Of all American commonwealIbs.
The full advantages OF policy OF this nature
could not be stated in bTIef discussion like
the present.
FOREIGN POLITICAL RELATIONS.
The United States has grown to be a govern
ment representing 100000 people, land In
every sense excepting that OF mere naval power
Is one of the first nations OF the world. As
such its citizenship should be valuable, en-
ttilng its possessor to protection in every part
of the globe. l do not consider it necessary
that our government should construct enormous
fleets OF improved ironcIads and maintain a
commensurate body of seamen in order to place
ourselves on war footing with the military
and naval powers Of Europe. Such course
would not be compatible with the peaceful
policy of our country, though it seems absurd
that We have not effective means to repel the
wantou invasion of our coast and give
protection to our coast towns and cities
ag INST any power. The great moral
force OF our country is so universally recog-
nlzed as to render an appeal to arms
by u.s. either in protection of our citizens abroad
or IN recognition of any Just international
right quite improbable. What we most need
IN this direction is a firm and vigorous asser-
ton OF every right and privilege belonging to
our government or its citizens, as well as an
equally firm assertion Of the rights and privi-
leges belonging to the general family of Amer
lean republics situated upon this continent,
when opposed, If ever they should be, by diff
ferent systems of government upon another
continent. An appeal to right by such a gov
ernment as ours could not be disregarded by
any civilized nation. In the Treaty of Wash
lngton we lead the world to means of escape
from the horrors Of war, and 1t is to be hoped
that an era when all international i1erences
shall be decided by peaceful arbitration is not
far off.
EQUAL RIGHTS OF CITIZENSHIP.
The central idea of the republican form Of
government is the rule of the whole people as
opposed to other forms which rest upon the
privileged class. Our forefathers, in the at
tempt to erect new government which might
represent tho advanced thought of the world at
that period upon the subject Of governmental
reform, adopted the idea of the peoples SOW
ereignty, and thus laid the basis Of our present
republic. While technically government Of
the people, 1t was In strlctness only the govern
ment OF portion of the people, excluding
from all participation certain other portion,
held IN condition of absolute despotic and
hopeless servltude, the parallel to which, for
tUnstely, does not now exist IN any modern
Christian nation. With the elimination, how
ever, OF another cycle of advanced thought, the
American republic suddenly assumed the full
character of the government Of the whole peo-
pie, and .00O,060 human creatures emerged
from the condition OF bondsmen to the full
status Of freemen, theoretically invested with
the same civil and political rigats possessed by
their former masters. The subsequent legisla-
ton which guaranteed by every legal
title the citizenship and full equal
lty before the law in all respects of this previ-
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quirements aud secures to them so far as legis
lation can, the privileges of American citizen
ship. But q dlsagreeabe fact of the case, is
thai while, theoretically, we are in the enjoy
ment of government of the whole people,
practically We are almost as far from il as we
were in the antebellum days Of the repu bic.
There are but few leading and indspdtabe
facts which cover the whole statement of the
case. In many Southern states the colored
population is in large excess of the white.
Tue colored people are Republicans, as are al
90 considerable portion Of the white people.
The rem aiming portion Of the latter are Demo
Gratis In the face of this incoDtestsble truth.
these states invariably return Democratic ms
jOrities. In other states OF the South the col
ored pc ople, although not majority, form
a very considerable body of the popu-
Iation, and with the white Republic
ans are numerically in excess of
the Democrats vet precisely the
same political result obtains, the Democratic
party invariably carrying the elections. 1t is
not even thought advisable to allow oc
casional or unlmportant election to be carried
by the Republicans as 90 blind, or as q stroke
Of fnesse Careful aud impartial investigation
has shown these results TO follow the systematic
exercise of physical intimidation and violence.
conjoined with the most shameful devices ever
practced in the name Of free elections. So
confirmed has this result become that are
brought face to fsee with the extraordinary
political fact that the Democratic party of the
South relies almost entirely upon the methods
stated for success in the national elections.
This unlawful perversion of the popular
franchise, which desire to state dispassl0nate
" and in a manner comportlng with the proper
dignity of the occasion, is one of deep gravity
to the American people in double sense:
First-It IL IN viOlation-open, direct and
iagrant-of the primary principle upon which
our overnment is supposed to rest-viz.: That
that the control Of the government Is psrtic-
pated 10 py all legally qualified citizens IN &C
cordance with the plan Of the popular govern
ment that msjorities must rule il the decision
Of all questions.
Second-It is in violation Of the rights and
interests of the states wherein are particularly
centered the great wealth and interests OF The