The Dickinson press., 1889-03-09

offered to the individual to secure the omfort of
life III" better than are found ~sewhere and
largely letter than they We're here lO years ago.
The surrender of n large measure Of sover-
eighty to the general government, effected by the
adoption Of tho constitution, was not accom-
rIisl!cd until the suggestions of reasons wero
strongly reinforced by the more imperative voice
OF experience. The merchant and shipmaster
and the manufacturer discovered anddisclosedt to
OAR statesmen and to the people that
COMMERCIAL EMANCIPATION
must lie added To the political freedom which had
been so bravcly won. The commercial policy of
the mother country had not relaxed any of its
hard AMI opprcssiv" features. To hold in check
the establishment and growth OF manufactures in
the states, and so TO secure the American market
for their shops. and the carrying trade for their
ships. was the policy of European statesmen. The
patriotism of Our people, which no longer found
a field of exercise in war, was cnergetically di-
rectcd to the duty of equippins the young rcpub.
eli for I'll" defense of its independence by making
its people self-dcpeEdcnt. Societies for the
PROJECTION OF HOME MANUFAcTURES
and FOR encouraging the use of domcstics in the
dress OF the people were organized in many of
the states. The revival ut tho end of the century
of the same patriotic interest in the preservation
and development of domestic industries and the
defense of or working people against injurious
foreign competition is an incident worthy of at
lIliO II Io lOl ~ uClJlllulG Dll IL ICIuIu llll
We have witnessed. If the question became in
any sense or ut any time sectional, it was only
because slavery existed in some parts Of tho
states. But for this there was no reason why tho
cotton producing states should not have led or
walked abreast with the New England states in
tho production of cotton fabrics. There was this
reason only why the states that divide with Penn.
sylvania the mineral treasures OF the great
southeastern and central mountain ranges should
have been so tardy i'll bringing to the smelling
furnace and to the mill the coal aud iron frc
their near opposing hillsides.
MILL FIRES WE'RE LIGHTED
ut the funeral pile of slavery. The sectiona, -
mert has happily been eliminated from the tariff
discussion. Every new mine, furnace and fac
tory is an extension of tue productive capacity of
the state more real and valuable than added ter
ritory.
Shall the prejudices and paralysis Of slavery
continue to hang upon the skirts Of progress!
How long will those who rejoice that slavery no
longer exists cherish or tolerate the incapacities
1t put upon their communities? look hopefully
to the continuance Of our protective system and
to the consequent
DEVELOPMENT OF MANUFACTURING
and mining enterprises in the states hitherto
wholly given to agriculture as n potent influence
in the perfect unitication of our people. The men
who have invested their capital in these enter.
prises, the farmers who have felt the benefit of
their ncighborhool and the men who work in
shop or field will not fail tn find and defend a
community of interest,
Is it not quite possible that the farmers and the
promoters of til. great mining and manufacture
ing enterprise; which have recently been eStab-
lislled in the South may yet find that the
FREE BALLOT OF TIE woRK1NdMAN,
without distinction of race, is needed for their
defense as well as for his own?
Ihave altogether rejected the suggestion of a
special
EXECUTIVE SECTIONAL POLICY
for our country. 1t is the duty of the executive
to administer and enforce, in the methods and by
the instrunentalities pointed out and provided
for by the constitution, all the laws enacted by
congress. These laws are general and their ad
lDiniStrntion should be uniform and equal.
If the educated and influential classes in u com
n,unity either practice or connive at the system
attic violation of laws that seem to them to cross
their convenience, what can they expect when
The lesson that convenience or n supposed class
interest is u sufficient cause for laWleSSness is
learned by the ignorant classes? A community
where law is the rule of conduct and where courts,
not mobs. execute its penalties, is the only at
%tractive field for business investments and honest
labor.
OUR NATURALIZATION LAWS
should be so amended as to make the inquiry into
the character and good dispositi N of persons APP
plying for citizenship more careful and search
ing. We should not cease to be hospitable to
immigration, but we should ceasct to be careless
us to the character of it. There IRE mon of all
races, even to the best, whose coming is necessa-
rily a burden upon our public revenues or q
threat TO so i'll order. These should be identified
and excluded.
We have happily maintained q policy Of avoid
ingall
INTERFERENCE WITH EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.
We have been only interested spectators of their
contentious in diplomacy and in war, ready to use
our friendly offices to promote peace, but never
obtruding our advice and never attempting to
coin the d~istresses of other powers into CONNER
| cia1 ADVANTAGE tn ourselves 0tr citiynnS lomi,