Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-03-21

whose neceSs ties call for diversified crops
and create 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 ard valuable than added territory
Shall the prejudices and paralysis OF
slavery continue to hang upon the
skirts of progressl How long will those who
rejoice that slavery no longer exists cherish
or tolerate the incapacites it puts upon their
communities. look hopefully to the con
tnuance 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 unfication of our
people. The men who have invested their
capital IN these enterprises, the farmers who
have felt the benefit of their neighbor-
hood, and the men who work in shop
or Held will not fail TO find and to defend a
community of interest. Is it not quite
possible that the farmers and the promoters
OF tue great mining and manufacturing
enterprises which have recently been estab
iished In the South may yet find that the free
oslot OF the workingman, without dis
JUNCTION OF race, is needed for their defence
as well as for his own! l do not doubt that
II these men in the South who now accept
the tariff views of Clay aud the con-
stitutional expositions of Webster would
courageously avow and defend their real
convictions, they would not find it diff.
| cult, by friendly instruction and co-opera-
tfon, to make the black man their efficient
and safe ally. not only in establishing correct
| principles in our national Administration,
| but in preserving, for their local commune
ties, the benefit of social order and econom-
| cal 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 altogether rejected the suggestion
| OF special executive policy for any section
| of u try I lie ft,aI utxy ~ . 10
! tive to administer and enforce, in the meth
! DDS and by the instrumentaities pointed out
and provided by the Constitution, all the
| laws enacted by Congress. These laws are
general and their administration should be
| uniform and equal As a citizen may not
elect what laws he will obey, neither
may the Executive eject which he
Will enforce. The duty to obey
and to execute embraces the Consti-
tion lii its entirety and the whole code of
laws enacted under it, The evil example of
| permitting individuals, corporations or com.
| munities to nullify the laws because they
| cross some selfish or local interests or pre-
JUDGES, is full of danger, not only to the
nation at large, but much more to those who
use this pernicious expedient to escape their
just obligations or to obtain am unjust adj
| vantage over Others. They win presently
themselves be compelled to appeal to the law
for protection, and those who would use
!ne law as defence must not
great corporations would more scrupulously
| OBSERVE their legal obligations and duties.
| they would have less cause to complain OF
the unlawful limitations of Their rights or of
violent interference with their operations
| The community that by concert open or
secret, among its citizens, denies to a portion
| OF It's members their plain rights under the
law has severed tine only safe bond of social
order and prosperity. The evil works, from a
bad center, both ways 1t demoralizes those
I ~ t.ss.ln ttYr axxI
those who suffer by it in the efficiency of
| the law as safe protector. The man in
! whose breast that faith has been darlened is
naturally the subject of dangerous AMI un-
canny suggestions. Those who use unlawful
methods IT moved by no higher motive than
the selfishness that prompts them, may we'll
stop and inquire what is to be the end of
this An unlawful expe lient cannot becoms
q. permanent condition of government
Ii the educated and influential classes
IN community either PRACTISE or
connive at the systematic violation
Of laws that seem to them to cross their con-
| venIence. what can they expect when the
lesson that convenience or a supposed class
/ interest is sufficient cause for lawlessness
has been well learned by the ignorant classess
| A community where law is the rule of con-
| duct, and where courts not mobs execute
the penalties, is the only attractive field for
business investments and honest labor
our naturalization laws should be amended as
position OF persons applying for citizenship more
careful and searching. Our existing laws have been
IN their administration an unimpressive and often
an unintelg1ble form. We accept the man as a
citizen without any knowledge of his fitness, and he
assumes the duties of citizenship without any
knowledge as to what they are. The privileges OF
American citizenship great aud its duties so
grave that we may well insist upon good know-
edge OF every person applying for citizenship and u
good knowledge by him of our institutions. We
should not cease to be hospitabe to immigration
but we should cease to be careless as to the char
acter OF it. There are men of all races even the
best whose coming is necessarily burden upon
our pubic revenues or threat to social order
These should be identified and excluded
we have happily maintained a policy of avoiding
Oil interference with European affairs. We have
been only Interested spectators of their contentious
IN diplomacy and IN war. ready to our friendly
ofhces to promote peace, out never obtruding our
advice, and never attempting unfairly to coin the dis
tresses of other Powers into commercial advantage
to ourselves We have q iEst right to expect that
our European policy will be the American policy of
European courts. 1t is mauifestly incompatible
with those precautions tor peace and safety,
which all the great Powers habtually observe and
enforce in matters affecting them, that a shorter
| waterway between eastern and western sea-
| boards should be dominated by any European Gov
, w not :. tn saca
! Power. We shall, in the future as in the
past, use every endeayor TO IN .ntain and enlarge
our friendly relations with all the great Powers,
| but they will not expect lis to look kindly upon
| any project that would leave subject to the
dangers OF a hostile observation or environment.
| our weaker neghbors. but rather to aid and en-
courage them to establish free and stable govern
ments, resting upon the consent OF their own peo-
| pie. We have clear right to EXPECT therefore,
that no European Government will seek establish
colonial dependencies upon the territory Of these
/, independent American States That which sense
| Of Justice restraints from seeking they may be
| reasonably expected willingly to forego.
IL must not be assumed however. that our inter
ests are so exclusively American that our entire in
attention to any events that may trausprc else.
where can be taken fos granted Our citizens. domi.
cietl for purposes of trade in all countries and in
many of the islands OF the sea, demand and will
have our adequate care in their personal and com.
mercial rights. The necessities of our navy re.
! quire convenient coaing stations. and dock and
harbor privileges. These and other trading priv
cges we will feel free to obtain only by means that
do not in any degree partake of coercion. however
| feeble the Government from which we ask such
| concessions But having fairly obtained them by
| methods and for purposes entirely consistent with
| the most friendly disposition toward all other
| powers. our consent will be necessary any modi
| fcaton or impairment of the concession.
| We shall neither fail to respect the flag of any
friendly nation the just rights of its citizens mo-
to exact the like treatment Of our own. Calmncss
| Justice and consideration should characterize our
| diplomacy. The offices Of an intelligent diplomacy
or OF friendly arbitration in proper should be
adequate to the peaceful adjustment of all interna-
tonal difficulties. BY such methods we will make
our contributions TO Che worlds peace, which
ton values highly, and avoid the opprobriuIn
which must fall upon the nation that ruthessly
breaks it,