Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-03-14

ready worthily observed ths centennials OF the
Declaration Of Indepen dence, of the battle OF
Yorktown, and of the adoption of the Constitl-
tion, and will shortly celebrate in New York the
Institution of the second great department OF
our constitutional scheme of government. When
the centennial of the Institution OF the judicial
department by the organization of the Supreme
Court, shall have been suitably observed, as 1
trust it will be, our nation will have fully en-
tered its second century.
The Nations Glory.
II will not attempt to note tho marvellous and,
In great part, happy contre SITS between our
country as it stops over the threshold into its
second century of organized existence under the.
Constitution, and that weak but wisely ordered
young nation that looked mechanically down the
first century when all its years stretched oat
before 1t.
sour people will not fail ut tIA time to recall
the incidents which accompanied the institu Jon
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 AMI prosperous States
offer to the thirteen Safes weak in everything
except courage and love Of liberty, that then
fringed our Atlantic seaboard The Ter
ritory of Dakota has now population greater
than any Of the original States except Virginia..
and greater than the aggregate Of Aye Of the
tion, when our national capital was located, was
east of Baltimore, and it argued by we'll
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
robs. But our growth has not been limited to
Territory population and lag agregate ave wealth.
those directions. The masses of our people
are better fed, clio he'd, r., and housed than
POPULAR education have been vastly ' enlarged
and more generally diffused The virtues
of courage and patriotism have gi ven recent
proof of their continued presence and increas-
people. The influences OF religion have been
muf .iplied and strengthened The sweet Offices
Of temperance is held in higher estimation.
We have not attained an ideal co ndition. Not
all of our people are happy and prosperous;
not all of them are virtuous an d law abiding.
But, on the whole, the emporium tiles offered 10
the individual to secure the com forts OF life are
better than are found elsewhere, and largely bet
ter than they were 100 years ago.
@The surrender OF large measure of sover-
eighty to the General Government, effected by
complished until suggestions Of reason were
strongly REINFORCED by the moro imperative
voice Of experience The divergent interests of
peace speedily demanded q 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 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 comm srcial marine, to
prevent or retard the establishment and growth
Of manufactures in States. and so to secure an
American market for their shops and a carrying
trade for their ships, WAS the policy OF European
statesmen and was pursued with most self
ish vigor. Petitions poured in upon Congess
that should encourage the production OF needed
tnings at home. The patriotism Of the people,
which no longer found field of existence in war,
was theoretically dirscted to the duty of equip
ping the young republic for the defense of its in
dependence by making the people self depend
emit. Societies for the promotion OF home man u
features and for encouraging the use Of domes-
tics in the dress of the people were organized in
many Of the States. Revival at the end of the
century of some patriotic interest in the pre-
servation and Development of domestic indus
tries and the defense of our working people
against injurious foreign competition is an in
cident worthy of attention.
at is not a departure but return that we
have witnessed A protective policy had then
its opponents. Argument was made as now
that It's benefits Injured to particular classes or
sections. If the question became in any sense
or at any time sectional IL was only because
this there was reason why the cotton pro-
ducing States should not have led or walked
abreast with the New England States in the pro-
luction of cotton fabrics.
aThere was this reason only why the States
that divide with Pennsylvania the mineral treas
| res of the great southeastern and central
| mountain ranges should have been so tardy in
bringing to the smelling furnace and to the mill
coal and iron from their near opposing hillsides.
| The mill fires were lighted a. 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 material things
became our better servants. The sectional elo-
| ment has happily been eliminated from the
tariff discussion We have no longer States that
Gre necessarily only planting States none are
pursuit among the people which brings wealth
and contentment. The cotton plantation will
not be less valuable WIN the product is spun
ties call for diversified crops and create homo
demand for garden and agri lultural products.
| Every new mine, furnace and factory is an ex-
/ taua productive State
| more real and valuable than added territory.
Shall the prejudices md paralysis Of
Of progresss How long viii those who
rejoice that slavery no longer exists cherish or
tolerate the insaPac a,. Elm T. put upon ,
tinuance of our protective system and to the
consequent development OF manufacturing and
mining enterprises in States hitherto wholly
given to agriculture as Potent influence in the
perfect unification Of our people. Men who
have felt the benefit of their neighborhood, and
find and TO defend a community Of interest. Is
it not quite possible that farmers and the pro-
| motors OF great mining and manufacturing en-,
terprises which have recently been established
| In the South may yet find that q free ballot Of
the workingmen without distinction OF race, IA
needed for Their defense as well as their own2
II do not doubt that If those mon in the South
who now accept the tariff views Of Clay and the
constitutional expositions OF Webster would
.courageouely avOw and defend their real con
4 victions they would not find 1t dtfiicult, by
friendly instruction end cooperation, to make
the black man their efficient and safe ally, moi
only in establishing correct principles In our
national administration, but In preserving fol
their local communities the benefits of socia
order and economical and honest government
At least, until the good Offices OF kind.
ness and education have been fairly tried,
contrary conclusion cannot be plausibly
urged. have altogether rejected any sugges
tions OF special executive policy for any see
ton of our country 1t is the duty Of the execu
tive to administer and enforce, in methods ant
by ipstrumentalities pointed out and providet
by the Constitution, all laws enacted by Con
gfess. These laws are general. ana their al
h ininistfation should be uniform and equal 4
citizen may not elect which he viii enforce. Tn.
atitution ia Its entirety and the whole code d
laws enacted upderit
4 Down on Mogopoiies,
sThs eyfl example Of permitting inaiyidqals