The Delta independent., 1889-03-12

was energetically directed to theSduty Of
equipping the young republic for the de-
fence of its independence by making its
people self-depehdent. Societies for the
promotion of home manufactures and for
| encouraging the use Of domestics In the
dress of the people were organized In many
States, and the revival at the end Of the
century Of the same patriotic interest in
the preservation and development Of do
mestic industries and defense OF our
working people from injurious foreign com
petition, Is an incident worthy Of attention.
THE PROTECTIVE POLICY.
It is a not departure but return that
, we have witnessed. The protective policy
| had then itr opponents. The argument was
made as now that its benefits Injured TO par
| tcular classes or sections II the question
\ became in any sense or at any time sec
| tional it was only because slavery existed
in some of the States. But for this there
was no reason why the cotton producing
States should not have led or walked
| abreast of the New England States in the
| production of cotton fabrics. There was
| this reason only why States that divide
with Pennsylvania the mineral treasures Of
| the great southeastern and central mountain
ranges should have been so tardy in bring
| ing to the smelling furnace and TO the
mill, coal and iron from their near oppos-
ing hillsides. The mill fires were lighted
at the funeral pyre OF slavery. The
| emancipation proclamation was heard
| in the depths Of the earth as well
| as in the sky. Men were made free and
material things became our better sery-
| ants. The sectional element has happily
been eliminated from the tariff discussion.
| We have no longer States that are necessa-
rily oaly planting States; none are e1clud-
| ed from achieving that diversitication OF
pursuit among the people which brings
| wealth and contentment The cotton
plantation will not be less valuable because
the product is spun in the country town by
| operatives whose necessities call for diver
sified crops, and create a home demand for
garden and agricultural products: Every
| new mine, furnace and factory is an e1-
tension of the productive capacity Of the
State more real aud valuable than added
| territory. Shall the pre1udices and paraly-
| sis OF slavery continue to hang upon the
| skirts of progressi
slavery no longer exists cherish and toler-
| ate the incapacities it put upon their com
munitiesi look hopefully 70 q continu-
ance of our protective system and TO the
| consequent development Of manufacturing
| and mining enterprises in States hitherto
wholly given to agriculture. As potent
| influence in the perfect unificaton Of our
| people, men who have invested their capi-
| tai in these enterprises, farmers who have
| felt the benefit TO their neighborhood, and
| men who work In the shops or the field will
not fail TO find and defend community of
| interest. Is IT not quite possible the farm
| ers and promoters of the great mining and
| manufacturing enterprises which have re-
| Gently been established in the South may
| vet find that the free ballot of the working
| man without distinction " race Is needed
| for their defense, as w.I as for his own
| / do not doubt II those zen In the South
| who now accept the tariff view Of Clay and
| the constitutional expressions of Webster,
would coarageously avow and defend their
real convictions they would not find 1t dif-
| ficult by friendly instruction and cooper
alton, to make the black man their efficient
| and safe ally. not only in establishing cor
| rect principles in our national adrninistra-
tion, but in preserving for their local com.
| munitics the benefits Of social order and
| economical and honest government At
] least until the good offices Of kindness
| and education have been fairly tried a
| contrary conclusion cannot be plausibly
urged.
NO SECTIONAL Foley.
have altogether rejected the suggestion
OF a special executive policy for any section
| of our country. II is the duty Of tho exc
| cutiye 10 administer and enforce in method
and by instrumentalities pointed out and
provided by the Constitution, all laws
| enacted by Congress. These laws are gen
eraI, and their administration should be
uniform and equal. As citizen may not
| elect what laws he will obey, neither may
| the executive elect which he will enforce.
The duty to obey and to execute en-
prtGgS tuiFtlN. anu
| the whole code OF laws enacted under IT.
| The evil example Of permitting individ'
uRls, corporations or committees TO nullify
| laws because they cross some selfish or
| local interests or pre!udices is full of dan
| ger. not only TO the nation at large, but
| much more 10 those who use this pernicious
| cSpcdicnt 10 escape their Just obligations
or obtain unjust advantage over others.
| They will presently themselves be com
| PEELED 10 appeal TO law for protection and
| those who abuse law as defence must lot
deny that use Of it 10 others.
THE CORPORATIONS AND THE LAW.
II our great corporations would more
scrupulously observe the legal limitations
| and duties they would have less cause of
complaint OF unlawful Limitations of their
rights or violent Interference with their OPP
| eratious A community that by concert,
| open or secret, among its citizens, denies to
| a portion of its members their certain
| rights under the law, has severed the only
safe bond of social order and prosperity.
Evil works from bad center both ways.
| II demoraliZcs those who practice land de
| stroys the faith OF those who suffer by it in
| the efficiency OF law as safe protector.
| The man in whose breast that faith has
been dnrlSened is naturally the subject of
| dangerous and uncanny suggestions,
| Those who use unlawful methods, If moved
| by no higher motive than the seltishness
| that prompted them may well stop and in.
Qulft WlAt Is 70 pt tilt Gnu VI tiilst All ul'
lawful cxpedient cannot become apermaneni
condition of government. IL educated and
| influential classes in the community either
practice or conuive at u systematic violation
| of laws that seem to them to cross their
| convenience, what can they expect when
| the lesson of that convenience or supposed
class interest sufficient cause for law
| lcssness has been well learned by the ig.
| norant classes of the communityt Where
| law is the rule Of conduct and where
| courts, not mobs, execute the penalties, is
| the only attractive field for business in
vcstmonts and honest labor.
SATuRALIzATIoN LAWS.
Our naturalization laws should be so
amended as to make inquiry into the char
acter and good disposition of persons np-
plying for citizenship more careful and
| searching Our existing laws have been
| in their administration unimprcssivo and
often unintclligblc in form. We accept a
man ns u citizen without any knowledge of
his fitness, and he assumes the duties of n
citizen without any knowledge ,as TO what
| they are. Theprivileges of American citi-
| Zenship are so great, and its duties so grave,
| that we may well insist upon u good knowl-
edge of every person applying for citizen.
ship and n good knowledge by him Of our
| institutions. We should not cease to be
hospitable to immigration, but We should
cease TO be careless as to tho character Of
/ IL. Those mon of all races, whose coming
is necessarily burden upon our public rev.
cnues, are n threat to social order, They
should be identified and excluded.
THE MONROE DOCTRINE.