The Delaware City news. (Delaware City, Del.) 188?-18??, 1889-03-07

strengthened. Ine sweet 0tlice9 oil
charity have greatly increased. The
virtue of temperance is held in hig her
estimation. We have not attained an
ideal condition. Not all Of our people
are happy and prosperous; not all OF
them are virtuous and law abiding.
But, on the whole, the opportunities
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 BIRTH OF THE AMERICAN sYs-
TEN OF PROTECTION.
The surrender OF large measure of
sovereignty to the general Government.
effected by the adoption of the Constl-
tuition, was not accomplished until the
suggestions OF reason were strongly
reinforced by The more imperative voice
of experience. The divergent interests
of peace speedily demanded ssmore
perfect union.n The merchant, the
shipmaster and the manufacturer dis
covered and disclosed to our statesmen
and to the people that commercial em.
ancipation must be added to the politi-
cal freedom which had been so brayely
won. The commercial policy Of the
mother country had not relaxed any of
its hard and oppressive features. To
hold in check the development Of our
commercial marine, to prevent or re-
tard 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, and was pursued with most
selfish vigor.
: Petitions poured in on Congress urg
ing the imposition of discriminating
duties that should encourage the pro
,duction of needed things at home. The
patriotism Of people, which no Longer
found field of exercise in war, was en-
iergetlcally directed to the duty of equip
ping the young republic for the defence
.of its independence by making it
people self-dependent. Societies for the
promotion of home manufactures and
for encouraging the use Of domestics il
the dress of the people were organized
IN many of the States, The revival al
the end Of the century Of the SAINT
patriotic interest in the preservation
and development of domestic industrie.
land the defence of our working people
against injurious foreign competition il
an incident worthy Of attention. Il
is not departure, but return, thai
we have witnessed. The protective
policy had then its opponents. The
argument was made, as now, that its
benefits enured to particular classes OIL
sections. If the question became IN
any sense or any time sectional, 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 walhed
abreast with the New England States
in the production of cotton fabrics.
There was this reason only why the
States that divide with Pennsylvania
the mineral treasures of the great south.
eastern and central mountain ranges
should have been 50 tardy in bringing
ito the smelling furnace and to the mill
the coal and iron from their near op-
posing hillsides. Mill fires were light
ed at the funeral pile of slavery. The
emancipation proclamation was heard
in the depths Of the earth as we'll as in
the sky; men were made free. and ma
terial things became our better SER
wants.
RECENT EXTENSION OF ITS BENEFITS.
The sectional element has happily
been eliminated from the tariff discus
sion. We no longer have States that
are necessarily only planting States.
None are excluded from achieving that
diversifcation of pursuit among the
people which brings wealth and con-
tentment. The cotton plantation will
not be less valuable when the product
is spun in the county town by opera
tives whose necessities call for diversi-
fled crops and create home demand
for garden and agricultural products.
Every new mine, furnace and factory
is an extension Of the productive cap
aclty of the State more real and
valuable than added territory. Shall
the prejudices and paralysis of slav-
cry continue to hang upon the skirts
of progress2 How long will, those
who rejoice that slavery no longer
exists cherish or tolerate the in
capacities it imposes upon their
communitiesp look hopefully to the
Of our protective system,
and to the consequent development Of
manufacturing and mining enterprise
in the States hitherto wholly given to
agriculture. as a potent influence In the
erfect unification of our people. The
men who have invested their capital in
these enterprises, the farmers VINO have
felt the benefit Of their neighborhood,
and the men who work in shop or field
will not fail to find and TO defend
community of interest. Is it not quite
possible chat the farmers and the pro-
moters Of the great mining and manu-
featuring enterprises which have recent
ly been established in the South may
yet find that the free ballot OF the work.
ing man, without distinction of race,
is needed for their defence as well for
his ownP
NO DIsTINCTIVELY SOUTHERN
POLICY.
l do not doubt that il those men in
the South who now accept the tariff
views of Clay and the constitutional ex-
positions of Webster would courage
ously avow and defend their real con-
victions, they would not find it difficult,
by friendly instruction and co-opera-
ton, to make the black man their eff
ficient and safe ally, not only in estab.
fishing correct principles in our national
administration, but in preserving for
their local communities the benefits of
social order and economical and honest.
government. at least until the good
offices of kindness and education have
been fairly tried, the contrary conclu-
sion cannot be plausibly urged. have
rejected the suggestion of a
special executive policy for any section
Of our country. 1t is the duty of the
Executive to administer and enforce in
the methods and by the instrumentali-
Ties pointed out and provided by the
all the laws enacted by
Congress. These laws are general, and
heir administration should be uniform
ind general. AS citizen may not
slect what law he will obey, neither
nay the Executive elect what he will
enforce. The duty to obey and to exc
.ute embraces the Constitution in its
'ntlrety and the whole code of laws en-
lcted under it.
IN OUR NATURALIzA-
TIoN LAWS.
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