Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-03-08

ouci 10 the Individual to secure The comforts Of
life are Batter than are tfo,ind: elsewhere and
largely better than they were here 100 years ago.
The surrender of large measure OF so2EEee.r-
eighty to the general government effected by the
adoption Of the constitution, was not accom-
plished until the suggestions Of reasons were
strongly reinforced by the more imperative voice
Of experience. The merchant and shipmaster
and the manufacturer discovered and disclosed TO
our statesmen and to the people that.
COMMERCIAL EMANCIPATION
must BE- added to the political freedom which had
been So hravely won. The commercial policy Of
the mother country had not relaxed any Of its
hard and oppressive features. To hold in check
the establishment and growth of manufactures in
the states, and so to secure the American mariet
for their shops, and the carrying trade for their
ships, was the policy Of European statesmen. The
patriotism OF our people. which no longer found
a field Of exercise in war, was energet:ally d
rected to the duty of equippiug the young repub
eli for the defense Of its independence by making
its people self-dependent. Societies for the
PROMOTION OF HOME MANUFACTURES
and for encouraging the use Of domesIics in the
dress of the people were organized in many Of
the states The revival at the end Of the century
OF the same patriotcinterest in the preservation
and development Of domestic industries and the
defense Of our working people against injurious
foreign competition Is an incident worthy of at
tention 1t Is not departure but a return that
we have witnessed. If the question became in
any sense at any time sectional, it was only
because slavery existed in some parts of the
states But for this there was no reason why the
cotton producing states should not have led or
walked abreast with the New England states in
the production Of cotton fabrics There was this
reason only why the states that divide with Penn
6yiyania the mineral treasures of the great
southeastern and central mountain ranges should
have been so tardy in bringing to the smelling
furnace and to the mill the coal and iron from
their near opposing hiIlsides
MILL FIRES WERE LIGHTED
at the funeral pile of slavery. The sectional ele-
nlent has happily been eliminated from the tariff
discussion. Every new mine, furnace and fac:
tory an extension of the productive capacity OF
the state more real and valuable than added ter
ritory.
Shall the prejudices and paralysis of slavery
continue to hang upon the skirts Of progress?
How long will those who rejoice that slavery no
longer exists cherish or tolerate the incapacities
It put upon their communities? I look hopefully
u the continuance of our protective system and
DhVELoPEMENr OF MASUFACrUR1NG
anu na. nmisng enterprises in the states hitherto
~nolS sHen to agriculture as potent influence
IN tne PEREZ un!fcation of o'r peone. The men
~no nave m'ested their capital in these enter
prizes, the farme.s who have felt the benefit Of
Their neightorhooo and the men who work in
shopper field Will not fail to find aud defend a
community of interest, .
Is it not quite possible tina the farmers and the
sprdntoters Of the great minins and mannfac+,,r.
sing enterprises which have re entlv been estsh.
saished in the South may yet find t-,t, the
D FREE BALLOT OF THE wORlsISoM,N
swithout distinction Of race, Is neede, eor ,,a;-
spefense as well as for his own?
+ have altogether rejected the sungestl., ~ :.
special
EXECUTIVE SECTIONAL POLICY
for our country. 1t is the ddty of the executive
to administer and enforce, in the methods and by
the instrnmantalities pointed out and provided
for by the constitution, all the laws enacted by
congress. The: laws are general and their ad-
n1il4istration sh,lld ue uniform and equal
Ii the educated und influential classes in a com.
nudity either practice Or connive at the system