The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-03-07

offered to the individual to secure the comforts of
life are better than are found elsewhere and
largely better than they were here 100 years ago.
The surrender of a large measure of sover-
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 bravely 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 market
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 theoretically di-
rected to the duty of equipping 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 domesticS in the
dress of the people were organized in many of
the states. The revival at the end of the century
of the same patriotic interest in the preservation
and development of domestic industries and the
defense of orr working people against injurious
fore ign competition is an incident worthy of at
NblAo- - !" " " W. INNNS NiS 'NS - iSca'A Al tALbst
we have witnessed. Ii the question became in
any sense or at any time sectional, il was only
because slavery existed i'll some parts of The
states. But for this there was no reason VIII the
cotton producing states SHOULD not have led or
walked abreast with the New England states i'll
the production OF cotton fabrics There was this
reason only why the states That divide with Penn
syivania the mineral treasures OF the great
southeastern and centrl mountain ranges should
have been SO tardy in bringing 10 the smelling
furnace and to the mill the coal and iron from
their near opposing hliisides.
MILL FIRES WERE LIGHTED
at the funeral pile of slavery. TIE sectional ele-
ment has happily been eliminated from the tariff
discussion. Every new mine, f'Endc2 and fac
tory is 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 viii those who rejoice that slavery no
longer exists cherish or tolerate the inc&pac.ties
it put upon their communities: look hopefully
to the continuance of our protective system and
to the conSeq tent
DEVELOPMENT OF NANUFACTURING
and mining enterprises in the states hitherto
wholly given to agriculture as Il potent influence
in the perfect unifcatiou of our people. Thenen
who have invested their capital in these enter
priSeS, the farmers who have felt the benefit OF
their neigliborhOod and the mon vino work in
shop Or field will not fail to find and defend a
community OF interest,
Is it not quite possible that the farmers and the
promoters of the great mining and manufacture
ing enterprises which have recently been estab-
lished in the South may yet find that the
FREE BALLOT OF Fl NORWEGIAN,
without distinction of race, is needed for their
defense as well as for his own?
have altogether rejected the suggestion of a
special
EXECUTIVE SECTIONAL POLICY
for or country. 1t is the duty of the executive
to administer and enforce. in the methods and by
the instrumentalities pointed out and provided
for by the constitution, all the laws enacted by
congress. These laws are general and their ad-
ministration should be uniform and equal.
II the educated and influential classes in a com.
manity either practice or coDnive at the system
atic violation of laws that seem TO them 10 cross
tEesr convenience, what can they expect when
the lesson that convenience or a supposed class
interest is a sufficient cause for lawlesspess is
learned by the ignorant classes? A community
where law is the rule of conduct and where courts,
not mobs, execute its penalties, is the only att
tractive field for business investments and honest
labor. u
OUR NATURALIZATION LAWS
should be so amended as to make the inquiry into
the character and good disposition of persons APP
plying for citizenship more careful and search
ing. We should not cease TO be hospitanie to
immigration, but we should cease TO be careless
as to the character of 1t. There are men of all
races, even to the best, whose coming is recessa-
rily a burden upon our public revenues or a
threat to social order. These should be identified
and excluded.
We have happily maintained a policy of avoid
ing all
INTERFERENCE WITH EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.
We have been only interested spectators Of their