The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-05


But for this, there was no reason VIII.
the cotton producing states should no
have led or walked abreast with the NeY
England states in the production of cottol
fabrics There was this reason only VIII,
the states that divide with Pennsylvania
the mineral treasury of the great south
eastern and central mountain ranges SHOULD
have been so tardy in bringing to tn,
. smelling furnace, and to the mill the Goa
and iron, from their near imposing hill sides
GREAT CHANGE
The mill fires were lighted at the funera
pile of slavery
The emancipation proclamation was hearC
in the depths of the earth, as well as in the
sky. Men were made free and materia
Things became our better servants.
The sectional element has happily beer
eliminated from tariff discussion. We have
no longer states that are necessarily only
planting states. None are excluded from
achieving that diyersificatiOn of pursuit
among the people which brings wealth and
contentment.
The cotton plantation will not be less
valuable. The product is spun in the
country town by operatives whose neces-
stiles call for diversified crops and create
home demand for garden and agricultural
products.
Every new mine, furnace and factory is
the state, more real and valuable than added
territory.
HOW LONG SHALL WE WAIT.
Shall the preiudices and paralysis of slav-
cry continue to hang upon the skirts of
progress! How long will those who re
| jOice that slavery no longer exists, cherish
and tolerate the incapacities it put upon
their communities! l look hopefully to the
| continuance of our protective system and
| to the consequent development of the man
ufacturing and mining enterprises in the
states hitherto wholly given to agriculture
as potent influence in the perfect unifca-
| ton 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 or field, will not fail to
find and defend a community of interest.
HOPE FOR THE SOUTH.
Is it not quite possible that the farmers
and promoters of the great mining and man
ufacturing enterprises which have recently
been established in the south may yet find
that free ballot of the wOrkingman, without
distinction of race, is needed for their de-
Tense as well as for his own!
do not doubt if those men in the south
who now accept the tariff view of Clay and
the constitutional eXpOsitions of Webster,
real convictions, they would not find it
difficult, by friendly instruction and COOP
GRAFTON, to make the black man their eff
Gent ally, not only in establishing correct
principles in our national administration,
but in preserving for their local communi-
ties the benefits of social order and econom-
ical and honest government, at least until
the good offices of kindness and education
have been fairly tried. A contrary conclu-
sion cannot be DlauSlDlV urged
| have altogether rejected the suggestion
of special executive policy for any section
of our country. 1t is the duty of the exec
utiye to administer and enforce in the
methods and by the instrumentalities
pointed out and provided by the constitu-
ton, all laws enacted by Congress.
These laws are general and their ad-
ministration should be uniform and equal.
As citizen may not elect what law she will
obey, neither may the executive elect which
he will enforce. Duty to obey and to
execute embraces the constitution in its
entirety and the whole code of laws enacted
under it.
THE GOLDEN RULE.
This evil example of permitting indiyid-
ualS and corporations or communities TO
nulify laws, because they cross some sell
fish or local interests or prejudices is
full of danger, not only to the nation at
large but much more than to those who
use this pernicious expedient to escape
their Just obligations, or obtain unjust ad
vantage over others. They will presently
themselves, be compelled to appeal to the
law for protection, and those who would
use the law as a defense must not deny
that use of it to others.
Olf our great corporations would more
scrupulously observe their legal limitations
and duties, they would have less cause to
complain of unlawful limitations of their
rights or violent interference with their
operations. 81 -
THE RESULT or EVILS.
A community that by concert open or Sc
cret, among its citizens denies to 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
1t demoralizes those who practice it, de-
stroys the faith of those who suffer by it
in the efficiency of law as a safe protector.
The man in whose breast that faith has
been darkened is naturally the subject of
dangerous and uncanny suggestions.
Those who use unlawful methods, if
moved by no higher motive than the selfish
ness that prompts them, may well stop and
enquire what is TO be the end of this. An
unlawful expedient cannot become per
maEentlcondition of government
a community either practice or connive at
systematic violations OF the laws that seem
to them to cross their convenience, what
can they expect!
When the lesson that convenience or sup
posed class interest is sufficient cause for
lawlessness has been well learned by the
ignorant classes, the community where law
is the rule of conduct and where courts, |
not mobs, execute penalties, is the only
attractive field for business investments
and honest labor.
BETTER NATURALIZATION LAWS.
Our naturalization laws should be so
amended as to make inquiry into the char
acter and good disposition of persons apply. |
ing for citizenship more careful and search |
ing.
Our existing laws have been in their ad- |
mlnistration unimpressive and often unin- |
telligible in form. We accept a man as a |
citizen without any knowledge ofhis fitness
and he assumes the duties of a citizen He |
is without any knowledge as to what they |
are. r.
The privileges of American citizenship |
are so great that we may well insist upon |
the good knowledge of every person apply |
ing for for citizenship, and 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 the |
character of it.
There are men of all races, even the best, |
whose coming is necessarily burden upon |
our public revenues or threat to social |
order These should be identified and ex-
Guided
HOW WE VIEW FOREIGN THINGS.
We have happily maintained policy of