Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-05

ton, or to find inspiration and guidance
in the teachings and example of Wash
ington and his great associates, and hope
and courage in the contrast which thirty
eight populous and prosperous States
offer to the thirteen States, weak in
everything except courage and love OF
liberty, that then fringed the Atlantic
seaboard. The Territory of Dakota has
now a population greater than any
of the original States Except Virginia)
the smaller States in 1870. The center
OF population, when our national capitol
was located, was east of Baltimore,
and, it WAS argued by many well-in'
formed persons, it would move east
ward 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 west
ward That which was the body has
come to be only the rich fringe of the
National robe, but our growth has moi
been limited to territory, population and
aggregate wealth, marvellous as it has
been in each of these directions.
MORAL AND MATERIAL PROGRESS.
The masses of our people are better
fed, clothed and housed than their fathers
were. The facilities of our popular edu.
cation have been vastly enlarged and
more generally diffused. The virtues oi
courage and patriotism have given re-
cent proof of their continued presence
and increasing power in the hearts and
the lives of our people. The influences
of religion have been multiplied and
strengthened ;sweet offices OF charity have
greatly increased. The virtue of temper
ance is held in higher estimation. But we
have not attained the ideal condition
not all of our people are happy and pros
porous, not all of them virtuous and law
abiding. But, on the whole, the oppor-
tunities offered to the individual to
secure the comforts of life are better
than are found elsewhere, and largely
better than they were here one hundred
years ago. The surrender of large
measure of the sovereignty to the gen
eral government, effected by the adop-
ton of the constitution, was not accom-
plished until the suggestions of reason
were strongly reinforced by the more
imperative voice of experience. The di-
vergent interests of States speedily de-
manded "more perfect union" Mer.
chant, shipmaster and manufacturer dis.
covered, and disclosed to our statesmen
and to the people, that commercial en-
ancipation must be added to the political
freedom which had been so bravely won.
The commercial policy Of the mother
country has not relaxed any of it's hare
and opp ressive features.
EUROPEAN ANTAGONIST.
To hold in check the develop ment O.
our commercial marine, to prevent OF
retard the establishment and growth o
manufactures in the States, and 30 tt
secure an American market for theil
shops and carrying trade for their ships
was the policy of European statesmen
and was pursued with the most selfish
vigor. Petitions poured in upon Con
gress urging the imposition of discrim
mating duties that should encourage the
production of needed things at home
The patriotism of the people, which no
longer found field of exercise in war,
was energetically directed to the duty of
equipping the young Republic for the he
tense of its independence by making its
people self-dependent. Societies for pro-
motion of home manufactures and for
encouraging the use of domestics in the
dress of the people were organized by
many States. The revival at the end Of
the century of the same patriotic inter
est in the preservation and development
of our domestic industries, and the de.
tense of our working people against in
furious foreign competition, is an Incl
dent worthy of attention.
SOME TARIFF TALK.
1t is not the departure, but the return
that we have Witnessed. The protective
policy had then its opponents. The
argument was made then as now, that
its benefits Injured to particular classes Oh
sections. If the question became in any
sense, or at any time, sectional, it was
only because slavery existed in some OF
the States. But for this, there was nc
reason why the cotton-producing States
should not have led or walked abreast
with the New England States in the
production of the common fabrics. There
was this reason only why the States thai
divide with Pennsylvania the mineral
treasures of the great southeastern and
central mountain ranges should have
been so tardy in bringing to the smelling
furnace and to the mill the coal anC
iron from their near opposing hillsides
Mill fires were lighted by the funeral
pyre of slavery. The Emancipation Proc
lamation was heard in the depth of the
earth as we'll as in the sky. Men were
made free and material things became
our better servants. The sectional ele-
ment has happily been eliminated
from the tariff discussion. We have nc
Fafn rilx In
planting States. None are excluded
from achieving that diversifcation OF
pursuit among the people which brings
wealth and contentment.
The cotton plantation will not be less
valuable when the production in towns
prospers. Those necessities call for di-
versided crops and create a home de.
mand for garden and agricultural pro.
duce. The new mine, furnace and fac.
tory are extensions of the productive
capacity of the State, and more real and
valuable than added territory.
HANDICAPPED BY SLAVERY.
Shall the prejudices and paralysis ol
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 il
put upon their communities? l look
hopefully to the continuance of our pro-
tective system and to the consequent de-
velopment of manufacturing and mining
enterprises in the States hitherto wholly
given to agriculture, as potent influence
in the perfect unifcation of our people.
Men who have invested their capital in
these enterprises, farmers who have felt
the benefit OF their neighborhood. and