Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-03-15

Beue wealth., marvellous as 1t has been in
each of these 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 diff lsed.
The virtues OF courage and patriotism have
given recent proof of their continued pres
ence and increasing power in the hearts and
over the lives of our people. The influences
OF religion have been multiplied and strength
ened. The sweet offices of charity have
greatly increased. The virtue OF temperance
is held in higher 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 outside 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 surrender of a large measure of SOW
ereignty to the general government affected
by the adoption of the constitution was not
accomplished until the suggestions of reason
were strongly REINFORCED by the more i'm
perative voice of experience.
Commercial Emancipation.
The divergent interests of peace speedily
demanded more perfect union.n The mer-
chant shipmaster and the manufacturer dis
covered and disclosed to our statesmen am 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 its hard and oppressive features To
hold in check the development of our COM
mercial marine, to prevent or retard the es-
Enlistment and growth of manufactures in
the states, and so TO secure the American
market for their ships, and the carrying
trade for their ships, was the policy of Euro
pean statesmen, and was pursued with the
most selfish vigor. Petitions poured in upon
congress urging the imposition of dscrimi-
mating duties that should encourage the pro-
duction of needed things at home. The
patriotism Of the people, which no longer
found field of exercise in war, was ener-
getically directed to the duty of equipping
the young republic for the defense of its in
dependence by making its people sef-depend-
ent. Societies for the promotion of home
manufactures and for encouraging the use Of
domestlcs in the dress of the people were or
gained in many Of the states.
The revival at the end OF the century Of
the same patriotic interest in the preservation
and development Of domestic industries, and
the defense of our working people against in
worthy of attention. II is not q departure,
but a return that we have witnessed The
protective policy had then Its opponents.
The argum mt was made, as now, that its
benefits Injured to particular classes or
sections. If the question became, in any
sense or at any time, sectional, it was only
because slavery existed ia some of the states
But for this there was no reason why the
cotton producing states should not have led
or walked 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 southeastern and GEN.
trail mountain ranges should have been SO
tardy in bringing to the smelling furnace
and the mill, the coal and iron from their
near opposing hillsides.
The Protective System.
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 servants. The
sectional element has happily been eliminated
from the tariff discussion. We have no
longer states that are necessarily only plant
ing states. None are excluded from achiey-
ing that diversification Of pursuit among the
people which brings wealth and contentment
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who have invested their can,taI in thaSo an
terprses. the farmers who have felt tho hon
eft of their neebborbood and tho mon u,ho
work in sbop or field. will NOT fail to 6nd and
defend q communitv ot Interest
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