The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-07

II viii not attempt to note the marvellous and,
IN great part, happy contrasts between our
country as it steps the threshold into it's
second century of organized existence under the
Constitution and that weak but wisely ordered
young nation that looked umdaunt eddy down the
hrst century, when all its years stretched out
before it,
"Our people will not fail at TINS time to recall
the incidents which accompanied the Institution
OF government under the Constitution, or to find
inspiration and guidance in the teachings and
example of Washington and his great associates
and hope and courage in the contrast which
thirty eight populous and prosperous States
o1ter to the thirUee2a States, weak in everything
except courage and love of liberty that them
tringed our Atlantic seab0ard The Ter
Titory Of Dakota has now q population greater
than any of the original States except Virginia.
and greater than the aggregate of five of the
smaller States ia 1890. The center of po9sula-
ton, when our national capital was located was
east Of Baltimore, and it was argued by we'll
informed persons that it would move eastward
rather than westward Yet in 1880 it was found
to be near Cincinnati. and the new census
about to be taken Will show another stride to
the westward That which was the body has
come to be only the rich fringe of the nations
robe. But our growth has not been limited to
territory, population, and aggregate wealth,
those directions The masses of our people
are better fed, clothed, and housed than
their fathers were. The facilities for
popular education have been vastly ENLARGED
AND more generally .diffused The virtues
OF courage and patriotism have given recent
proof CT their continued presence and increaS-
ing power in the hearts aud over the lives of our
people. The influences OF religion have been
multiplied and strengthened. Whe sweet Offices
OF charity have greatly increased. The virtue
of temperance is held in higher estimation
We have not attain q an ideal condition. Not
all of our people are happy and prosperous !;
not all Of them irtuOus and law abiding
But, on the whole, the opportunities offered to
the individual to secure the comforts of life are
Better than ale found elsewhere, and largely bet
ter than they were 100 years ago.
THE surrender Of q large measure of sover-
eighty to the General Government, effected by
the sc, ption Of the Constitution, was not &C
complished until suggestions OF reason were
strongly REINFORCED by the more imperative
voice Of experience. Tue divergent interests of
peace speedily demanded more perfect union
The merchant shipmaster and 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 it's
hard and oppressive features. To hold in check
the development of our commercial marine to
prevent or retard the establishment and growth
of manufactures in States. and so to secure an
American market for their shops and q carving
trade for their slips, was the policy Of European
statesmen, and pursued with most self
ish vigor. Petitions poured in upon Congess
urging the imposition OF discriminating duties
that should encourage he production OF needed
Things at home The patriotism CT the people.
which 10 longer found IL field of existence in war
was energeticaly directed to the duty of eouip-
pllS the young republic tor the defense of it's i'll
dependence by making the people self-depend-
emit Societies for the promo ion OF home man u
tactures and for encouraging the use of domes-
tics IN the dress of the peeps were organized in
many OF the States. Revival at the end Of the
century OF some PATRIOTS interest i'll the pre-
servation and Developments of domestic indus
tries and the defense OF our working people
against injurious foceign competition is an in
cident worthy of attention.
1t is not q departure but O return that we
have witnessed. A protective policy had then
its opponents Argument made us now
that is benefits Injured to par ocular classes or
sections. II the question became in any sense
or at any time sectional il was only because
slavery existed in some of the States. But for
this there was no reason WHY the cotton Dro-
ducing States should not have led or walked
abreast with the New England States II the pro-
ductlon of cotton fabrics
There was this rea only why the States
that divide with Penns ylvania the mineral treas
noun. ain ranges should have been so tardv in
bringing to the smelling furnace and TO the mill
coal and iron from their near opposing hillsides
The mill fires were lighted the funeral pile OF
slavery. The eraancipat ion proclamation was
heard in the depths of the earth ell as in the
sky. Men We're made free and material things
became our better servants. The sectional ele-
menU has, happily, been eliminated from the
tariff discussion. We have no longer States that
are necessarily only planting States none are
excluded from achieving that diversification of
pursuit. among the people which brings wealth
and contentment. The cotton plantation will
not De less valuable VIII L the product is spun
i'll & country town by operatives whose necessi-
ties call for diversified crops aud create G home
demand Tor garden and agricultural products
Every new mine, furnace and factory is an ex-
tension OF the productive capacity of the State
more real and valuable than added TERRITORY
Small the preudices and paralysis of
slavery continue TO hang upon the skirts