Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-05

Ouly planGlng states. None are eAcluu0o
from achieving that diversifcation OF pur-
suit among the people which brings wealth
and contentment The cotton plantation
will not be less valuable when the product
is spun in the country town by operatives
whose necessities call for diversified crops,
and create a home demand for 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 territory.
PROGRESS NOW HANDICAPPED.
Shall the preiudices and 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 incapacities it put upon their
| communities? look hopefully to the con-
tinuance of our protective system, and TO the
! consequent development of manufacturing
| and mining enterprises in the States, hither-
to wholly given to agriculture, as a potent
influence in the perfect unitcation OF our
people. The men who have invested their
capital in these enterprises, the farmers who
have felt the benefit of their neighborhood,
and the men who work in shop or ield, Will
not fail to find and to defend community
of interest.
Is it not quite possible that the farmers
and the promoters of the great mining and
manufacturing enterprises, which have re-
Gently been established in the South, may
vet find that the free ballot of the working
man, without distinction of race, is needed
for their defense as well as for his own? l
do not doubt that if those men in the South
who now accept the tariff views of Clay,
and the constitutional expositions of Web
ster, would courageously avow and defend
their real convictions, they wouldnot find 1t
difficult, by friendly instruction and CO.
operation, to make the black man their eff
cient and safe ally, not only in establishing
correct principles in our national admins
tration, 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 have
been fairly tried, the contrary conclusion
cannot be plausibly urged.
NO NORTH, NO SOUTH.
have altogether rejected the suggestion
of special executive policy for any section
of our country. 1t is the duty of the exec
utive to administer and enforce, in the
methods and by the instrumentalities
pointed out and provided by the Constitu-
ton, all the laws enacted by Congress.
These laws are general and their admins
tration should be uniform and equal As
citizen NAV not elect what laws he will
obey, neither may the executive 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 individ-
uals, corporations, or communities to nullify
the laws, because they cross some selfish or
local interests or prejudices, is full of dan
ger, not only to the nation at large, but
N Hrhn TSa
cious expedient to escape their just obliga-
tions or to obtain an unjust advantage over
others. They will presently themselves be
compelled to appeal to the law for protec-
ton, and those who would use the law as a
defense must not deny that use of it to
others. If our great corporations would
more scrupulously observe their legal limi-
tations and duties, they would have less
cause to complain of the unlawful limita-
tions of their rights or of violent interfer-
ence with their operations.
The community that by concert, open or
secret among its citizens, denies to a pora
ton of its members their plain rights under
the law has severed the only safe bond of
social order and prosperity. The evil works,
from a bad center, both ways. 1t de-
moralizes those who practice it, and destroys
the faith of those who suffer by it in the
efficiency of the law as a safe protector. The
man in whose breast that faith has been
darkened, is naturally the subject of dan
gerous and uncanny suggestions. Those
who use unlawful methods, if moved by no
higher motive than the selfshness that
prompted them, may well stop and inquire
what is to be the end of this. An unlawful
expedient cannot become permanent con-
dition of government.
CLASSES VERSUS MASSES.
If the educated and influential classes in
a community either practice or conniye at
the systematic violation of laws that seem
to them to cross their convenience, what
can they expect when the lesson, that con-
venience or a supposed class interest is a
sufficient cause TOR lawlessness, has been
we'll learned by the ignorant classes? A
community where law is the rule of con-
duct, and where courts, not mobs, execute
its penalties, is the only attractive field for
business investments and honest labor.
Our naturalization laws should be so
amended as to make the inquiry into the
character and good disposition of persons
applying for citizenship more carefully and
searching. Our existing laws have been in
their administration an unimpressive and
often an unintelligibIe form. We accept
the man as a citizen without any knowledge
of his fitness, and he assumes the duties of
cllALeusulp N1tuOub duy huOWleuge as 10
what they are. The privileges of American
citizenship are SO great, and its duties so
grave. that we may well insist upon e good
knowledge of every person applying for
citizenship and a 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 a threat to social
order. These should be identified and ex-
cluded.
We have happily maintained policy of
avoiding all interference with Europeon af-
fairs. We have been only interested spec
tators of their contentious in diplomacy and
in war, ready to use our friendly offices to
promote peace, but never obtruding our ad-
vice and never attempting unfairly
to coin the distresses of other powers
into commercial advantage to ourselves.
We have just right to expect that our
European policy will be the American pol
icy of European courts. 1t is manifestly in
compatible with these precautions of our
peace and safety, which all great powers
habitually observe and enforce in matters
affecting them, that shorter way between
our eastern and western seaboards should
be dominated by any European government,
that we may confidentially expect that such
a purpose will not be entertained by any
friendly power.
POLICY FOR THE FUTURE.
We shall, in the future, as in the past,
use every endeayor to maintain and enlarge
our friendly relations with all the great