The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1888-11-24
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
THE NATIONS DECREE REVIEWED.
The Political Future-The Nations Chief
to be Honored-Commerci Develop
ment-Iabor Protected-Political
and Civil Deliverance at Hand.

ment-Labor Protected-Political
and Civil Deliverance at Hand.
Messrs Editors THE Baltimore san did me the
honor to give publicity to my views upon the
tissues and Outlook in its issue of Oct. 3Oth.-
From what conceived to be an intelligent, bust
ness and patriotic standpoint claimed 1t to be
the interest of American voters to elect Harrison
and Morton. l have determined to ask. THE
UNION of my native county to say for me that
have thought that the 100000 Republican: 100000
Democratic and 4,500 Prohibition voters OF Mary,
land might with profit review the situation, and
as one who claims first to be patriot thena Re-
publican voter, venture this National toast
tion's prospective chief both alike to be honored
and protected as the Republics exalted rulers,
in esse and in posse" 1.-THE powers that be are
l. AS to our President defeated: Into his hands
as our executive head the great interests of this
Republic are committed until March 4th, 1883
The great verdict of November 9th was the final
embodiment of the Nations criticism upon the
politics and personnel of the Southern Demo-
cratic administration. With the prospective
legislative branch of the Government in sympa-
thy with the President elect the American peo-
pie expect of Congress such dignitied considera-
ton to our President as his executive acceptance
of the election verdict justiies of our President
elect Harrison.
2 1t was my lot when retired from Kentucky,
the battlefield of the West, after eight years.
residence there, to settle in Indiana in the pur-
suit of my profession. This was in 1865. The
young lawyer Harrison prior to 1850 had en-
barked in his profession at indianapolis. But
when patriotism called, with dominant profess
sional influence at that bar and section adverse
to the patriotic CALL he staked all to protect his
country. In 1865 he resumed the oihceS OF his
profession and soon the Websterian Senator,
Oliver p. Morton, the legal and political bulwark
of the nation, as President Lincoln was its i'm
mortal executive chief and Gen. Grant as its inn
mortal military leader with others OF Indiana,
ed general as the Indiana statesman upon whom
the mantle of Indiana's great Governor and Sen
ator and political leader should fall Among
those of the dead the citizen friends of Morton
who were conspicuous was Chaunf-ay R0Se OF
Terre Haute, whose millions, honess?- ccumula-
ted, donated to the Rose NewSboyS' Home in New
York and elsewhere. He was one like our i'm
mortal Enoch Pratt also Col. Blake, Vim. Sheets,
Gov. Baker, &C., of Indianapolis These were
some of the men, seconded by the people, who
twenty years ago called Gen. Harrison to the po-
liticalarena. Our President-elect never has been
q politician in the common acceptance OF the
term. He was scholar, student. a man OF con-
viction, a statesman, patriot, a Republican, a
citizen of and with the people. He moved calm,
resOIute, discriminating on a higher plane of
politics. His Senatorial career, his recent utter
ances from his home as candidate as classics, as
political deliverances are immortal and will rank
with Websterian productions. This is the Amer
lean citizen, the true, the cultured the great, the
righteous one among his brothers of American
citizens whom the people have called to be Pres
ident.
Mr. Harrison was elected by the people and not
by the politicians. The purpose and will of the
voters were too great to be manipulated. With
and without organization patriots in the patriotic
states North and West, patriots in the South, Re-
publicans, Democrats Prohibtionists sustained
the Republican nominees. (b) Itmeans in behalf
of the main issue on the face of the political con-
troversy that our Nation, the states, are to be
materially developed under policy OF protec-
ton for home industries and American labor and
that National revenue is to be largely de-
rived from import taxes This policy becomes
necessity. 1t became an integral though change
able part of the commercial life of the Nation in
1860 as much as the maintenance OF the unity OF
the Nation against the armed rebellion was
constitutional and patriotic obligation. 1t means
that our National Bank system, which gives the
nnTNIn
shin-plasters should be preserved, as the Nation
al Banks were necessarily coupled with the Gus
tody and disbursements of the peoples and Ma
tion's money accumulated under the protective
system. Cabinet Officer Lamar in November, 1887,
President Cleveland in December, 1887, the Mills
bill in 1888, but crystaliZed all the spasmodic at
tackS Of Democrats, Congresses and congressman
and Senators and politicians for twenty-eight
years. Democratic administration formulated
their tariff legislation and it unsatisfactory
for two reasons: because not wisely adjusted to
the Nations commercial needs and because in it
were germs which developed into free trade
The merits of the issue were enough, but besides
this the patriotic voters of the Republic have de-
clared that the tariff schedule shall be framed
and operated by those who are friendly to the
Republican or American doctrine. 1t means
therefore that patriots have decreed that we
shall have the system and that our protective
and revenue system" shall be adjusted and exc
cuted by a Republican administration. 1t meanS
the strictest comfy with free trade England
protective Germany, and so with all OUTSIDE
countries and people, and it means home market
development and safe 1ngress to foreign mar
kets. 1t means restricted emigration. (c) 1t
means no obstruction on the part of the National
authorities on the line of accommodating by wise
business measures money in the U. ). Treasury
and then the honest disbursement of it among
the people by paying our National debt and of
internal improvements such as coast protection,
harbor facilities, &C. I'D 1t means that the great
and prosperous North shall not be prOsstaated by
the fossil policies of the Southern Democrats,
but that all our Southern States, as West Vir-
ginia, Maryland and Missouri have done, shall
catch the contagion of the commercial, agricul-
t11ra Tlap educational 0pVelODmpnt
of the North. (e) 1t means the political and civil
deliverance of patriots of the southern States.
There is to be no more solid South. 1t is to be
no more the tidal political wave of the Southern
Democracy deluging the Southern States and
threatening to Submerge the North. The politi-
cal methods of the Southern Democracy domi-
nant in the Southern States with 100000 voters
out 100000 of white and 100000 of colored pa
triots can no longer prevail. But the political
rights of American citizens are everywhere to be
protected or the SeVereSt penalties be inflicted
upon inimical states. This is the deliverance for
which II 100000 of Southern patriot population
have been agonizing twenty-three years and this
is what is pledged to us by the recent decree of
the Nations patriot voters. 1t means no hard
ship to any citizen who loves country more than
state or section. 1t means no shaking of the
bloody shirt, but it does mean that the American
citizen must submit to the Nations decree of
1860 and 1865 and honor it. ItmeanS punishment
to the transgressor of law. 1t means honor to
the aw-abiding. Also among the civil rights it
means that educational provision must be made
one-third of the Southern voters continue abso-
lutely illiterate. ltmeanS no recriminatlon, but
brotherhood, self-respect, workmanhood, patri-
otism to all alike. GEORGE MORRISON.