The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-03-07

have broken tho spell. Hovolutlonu can NO
81 msiody The marching music Of the
isiss or the National anthem. but the high and
harmonious teachings Of the common school.
AMERIcANIsM THE FOE OF ANARCHY.
There 10 an intellectual awakening In this
land, and it's stimulants Affect the well being
The trades union IL q debating club; . session
OF the Knights, congress- OF labor; the Sab.
bath picnic is q school, not Of divinity but OF
their proper solution to the state, society and
the church Tho churches OF all creeds and
men Of every faith are doing magnincent work
In the conservation of the virtues and habits OF
liberty. but the preacher has lost his political
influence and the priest much OF the power ne
possessed In the more primitive period
Turn on the lights. Teach. first and last. Amer
icanism. Let no youth leave the school without
being thoroughly grounded In the history. the
principles and the incalculable blessings of
American liberty. Lot the boys be the trained
soldiers of constitutional freedom, the girls the
inteliigent mothers OF freemen, and the sons OF
the anarchists will become the bulwark of the
law.
THE STATES DUTY TO PROTECT THE BALLOT.
American liberty must be protected against
from oppression, civil and religious, who seek
our asylum with the honest purpose OF making
II their homes. we nave room ana hospitality
their condition by the adoption of our citizen
ship, with all it's duties and responsibilities.
paupers. or pests. The revolutionist who wants
to destroy the power Of the majority with the
same dynamite with which he failed to assas-
and must be SO treated. We are no longer in
need of the surplus populations OF the old
world, and must carefully examine our guests.
be conferred until by years of probation the
applicant has proved himself worthy, and then
q rigid examination in open court should test
his knowledge of its limitations we'll as it's
rrfv vi apa md ~ al
1t is monstrous that the time OF our courts and
the patience Of our juries should be occupied
and tried in the repeated prosecution of per-
sistent disturbers Of the peace who refuse to
become citizens. On the first conviction by
jury they should be expelled from the coun-
The youngest of cities, destined to be one of
the greatest ON EARTH in deadly peril of fire
and sack, with indomitable spirit and lofty
courage saved civilization in American mum.
cipalities, and the nation by wise laws should
prevent any possible recurrence OF the danger.
In governmentby majorities, the existence OF
the system depends upon the purity OF the bal
lot. The majority must know that 1t Is fairly
beaten, to peacefully accept its defeat A
crisis more critical than the civil war has twice
threatened us because there was doubt as to
the honesty OF the vote. In the first instance
it was averted by wise compromise, and in the
second the fears proved fallacious. But it Is
the highest duty to provide every safeguard
against repetitions of such dangers. The whole
power and machinery OF the state must be
used for the unbought and authenticated vote
and the fair count. Submission to the will OF
the m ajority has become universally the ac-
cepted faith of the people; and while that
faith is unshaken, no party will ever appeal
to the only other alternative, arms.
1t is the duty of the General Government in
all elections for Congress or President to pro-
tect at every cost, the voter and the ballot-box.
1t Is the duty OF every State to reduce to a min
imum the opportunity for fraud upon the citi-
zen, or the improper influencing Of his choice.
1t is q general and local scandal that the ex-
penses Of the candidate have grown beyond the
~ In hxtfh hon IN OF
can be right or safe under which the treasures
of the opposing parties must be filled with sums
30 vast that they equal the great accumulations
of prosperous corporations The ballots
should be printed by the Estate and distributed
at the public cost, under conditions which
would enable the most ignorant voter to select
his ticket without help, and deposit it with no
one knowing its contents but himself. Then,
as the republic grows in power and population,
its safety and perpetuity will be assured by
keeping pure tho channels through which the
ever-increasing millions Of freemen with moro
majestic and impressive force, express their
will.
The political mission of the United States is
purely internal. The wise policy and traditions
OF Washington against entangling alliances
with foreign nations has been happily strength
ened by our geographical position. The moral
effect OF our experiment upon the destinies Of
peoples and governments has been greater than
that Of all other causes combined. In preserv-
ing In letter and spirit our liberties in develop
ing our resources and adding to the wealth,
prosperity and power of the republic; in the
adoption Of those measures which favor hap
piness and contentment within our borders, We
are directly aiding the struggling masses and
furnishing arguments for, and inspiring the
hopes OF, the patriots OF every country OF the
world.
It is vital to the success of our mission tn at
all questions be boldly met, fearlessly dis
cussed, and promptly acted upon. The area of
arabic acres in the United States is 20 per cent
larger than that of China, which supports O
population OF nearly 4O0,OOO0Oo. AS time Is
reckoned IN the history of nations, in the near
future there will be 20l 900 900 of people in this
country. All of them will be dependent upon
industrial conditions, and the larger part Of
them will be wage-earners. Our problem Is
not, how can they be controlled? for they are
the majority, and the majority 10 the govern
ment but, now are they to be satisfied? Ma
caulays prediction has been supported by the
ablest political economists OF the Old World.
They claim that with the conditions OF crowded
populations always on the brink of starvation,
with hopeless poverty and chronic distress such
as prevail under European governments, the
Republic will end in anarchy. and anarchy in
despotism.
Whether there be much or little in these
gloomy forebodings, the least of them sternly
impresses the lesson of maintaining and pro-
noting, by every measure which experience
has tested and wisdom can suggest, that policy
which will keep wages above the line Of mere
subsistence, and in tho general prosperity of
diversified industries hold open the opportun-
tiles for every man to rise. This issue is
broadly National, and is of equal interest to
the North and South, the East and West.
Cheap transportation has obliterated the lines
| which formerly divided the planters and the
manufacturers, and engendered and embit-
tered the sectional controversies. the new
South thrills with the movement Of mighty
| industries which developing her mines,
utilizing her great forces and resources, and
| founding her cities. The flames Of busy fur
naces illumine her wasted fields. and near and
| quick markets awaken to hitherto unknown ac-
| tivities her dormant agriculture. The hum of
| the spindles and the inspiring music of machin-
cry sound over the prairies aud along the lakes
as well as among Now England hills and Penn
| sylvania mines.
A FORTUNATE CHALLENGE TO PROTECTION.
The theory of the wealth of nations has been
| discussed by the ablest and most competent OF
| philosophers and statemen, from the time OF
| Adam Smith, with the demonstrated result that
principles of political economy are not of uni
| versal application, but must be modified by the
conditions and necessities OF different nations.
| At the zenith of prosperity, when confidence
and credit were projecting enterprises which
| covered the continent, and we're fraught with
untold wealth and healthy expansion, or disas-
| ter and COLLAPSE. upon q scale of equal mag