Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-03-05
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and present influence was then referred
to by the president. The masses OF our
people are better fed, clothed and housed
than their fathers were. The facilities for
popular education have been vastly en-
larged and generally diffused. The virtues
of courage and patriotism have given
recent proof Of their continued presence
and increasing power in the hearts and
over the lives of our people. The in
iiuences of religion have been multiplied
and strengthened. The sweet offices Of
charity have been generally increased ;
the virtue of temperance held in highest
estimation.
TOUCHING THE TARIFF.
We have no longer states that are ne
cessarily only planting states. None are
excluded from achieving diversltication
of pursuit among the people, which brings
wealth and contentment. Cotton planta-
tions will not be less valuable. Products
are spun in country town by operatives
whose necessities call for diversified crops
and create home demand for the garden
and agricultural products. Every new
mine, furnace and factory is an extension
OF the productive capacity of the state
more real and valuable than added terri
tory. Shall prejudices and the paralysis
Of slavery continue to hang upon the
skirts OF progress? How long will
those who rejoice that slavery no
longer exists cherish and tolerate
the inequalities it put upon their
communities? look hopefully to the
continuance of our protective sl stem
and to the consequent development OF
manufacturing and mining enterprises, in
states hitherto wholly given to agriculture,
as a potent influence in the perfect uni
tication OF our people. Men who have
invested their capital in these enterprises,
farmers who have felt the benefit of their
neighborhood, and men who work in
shops OF field, will not fail to find and
defend community Of such interests. 1t
is not quite impossible that farmers and
promoters of the great mining and manu-
featuring enterprises which have recently
been established in the south may yet
find that the free ballot OF the working
man without distinction OF race is needed
for their defense us well as for his own?
SOUTHERN POLICY.
do not doubt that, if those men in the
south who now accept the tariff view OF
Clay and the constitutional expositions of
Webster would courageouslv avow and
defend their real convictions, they would
not find it difficult by friendly instruction
and cooperation to make the black man
their efficient and safe ally, not only in
establishing correct principles in our
national administration, but in preserving
for their local communities the benefits OF
social order and economical and honest
government, ut least until the good Offices
of kindness and education have been fully
tried. A contrary conclusion can not be
plausibly urged.
| have altogether rejected the sugges-
ton of
A SPECIAL EXECUTIVE POLICY
for any section of our country. 1t is the
duty of the executive to administer and
enforce the methods and instrument
talities pointed out and provided by the
constitution and all laws enacted by
congress. The laws are general and
their administration should be uniformly
equal. AS citizen may not elect what
laws he will obey, neither may the execu-
tive elect which he will enforce. The
duty to obey and to execute embraces the
constitution in its entirety and the whole
code of laws enacted under it. The evil
example of permitting individuals and
corporations or communities to nulify the
laws because they cross some selfish or
local interests or prejudices ise full Of
danger not only to the nation at large, but
much more, then, to those who use this
perniciors expedient to escape their just
obligations or obtain unjust advantages
over others.
MUST OBEY THE LAWS.
| A community which, 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 pros
perity. Evil works from bad center
both ways. 1t demoralizes those who
practice it, deceives the faith of those
who suffer 10y its ineflicacy of law as a
safe protection. The man in whose
breast that faith has been darkened is
naturally the subject of dangerous sug.
gestions. Those who USE unlawful
lueLuOuSJ IL luOVcu ny uO ulStlcI IuotiSe
than the selfshness that prompted them,
may well stop and inquire what is to be
the end of this?
Unlawful expedients can not become
the permanent condition of the govern
ment. If educated and influential classes
in the community either practice or con.
nive at the systematic violation of laws
that seemto them to cross their conven'
ience, what can they expect when the les
son that convenience or supposed class
interest is sufficient cause for law!essness
has beenwell learned by the ignorent
classes ofthe community? Where law IL
a rtile OF conduct, and where courts, no
mobs, execute the penalties, is the only
attractive field for business investments
and honest labor.
Our naturalization laws should be 81
: amended as to make inquiry into tn,
character and good disposition of person
applying for citizenship more careful ant
!, searching. We have Q clear right to -