Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-06

enterprises in states hitherto wholly give
to agriculture as potent influence in th
lperfect uniticstion OF our people. Men VIII
have Invested their capital in these enter
prises, farmers who have felt the benefit o
their neighborhood and men who work il
the shop or field, win not fail To find an,
defend q community Of interest. Is it NJ
quite possible that farmers and promoter
Of the great mining and manufacturing en-
terprises, which recently have been estah
lished in the South. may yet find that th
free ballot OF the workingmen, without dis
tinction Of race, is needed for their defens
as well as for his own? / do not doubt
those men in the South who now accept
| THE TARIFF VIEW OF CLAY
and the constitutional expositions o
Webster. would courageously avow and de
lend their real convictions they would no
find it difficult by friendly instruction aDt
cooperation to make the black man their
deficient and sale attorney, not only ii
Establishing correct principles in oul
national administration, but in preservin,
for their local communities the benefits o
fgovernment. At least until the good officei
OF kindness and education have been fairly
| tried, contrary conclusion cannot b,
plausibly urged. have altogether reiectet
the suggestion OF q special executive policy
for any section OF our country.
1t is the duty oil the executive to admins
ter and enforce in his methods and by tn,
instrumentalities pointed out and provided
by the constitution all laws enacted bJ
Congress. These laws are general and thsil
administration should be uniform and
equal. As the citizen may not elect what
laws he may obey neither may the execu
tive elect which he will enforce. The duty
to obey and to execute embraces the con
stitution in it's entirety and the whole code
OF laws enacted under it.
The example OF permitting individuals
corporations or communities to nulhfy
laws, because they cross some selfish OF
local interests or prejudices is full Of dan
ger not only to the nation at large, but
much more to those who use this PERM.
cious expedient to escape their just obi
cations or obtain unjust advantage over
Others. They will presently themselves be
compelled to appeal to the law for protec.
tion, and those who would use law az a
defense must not deny the use OF it to
others. II our great corporations would
more scrupulously observe their legal
limitations and duties they would
have less cause to complain of the
unlawful limitations OF their rights or vio-
lent interference with their operations. A
community that by concert, open or secret
among its citizens, denies to portion OF
its members their rights under the law, has
secure the only safe bond OF social order
and prosperity. Evil works from bad
center from both ways. It demoralizes
those who practice it, and destroys the
faith OF those who suffer by it in the eff
cheney OF the law as a safe protector. A
man in whose breast that
FAITH HAS BEEN DARKENED
is naturally subject of dangerous and un-
canny suggestions. Those who use uR-
lawful methods, unmoved by higher mo-
tive than the selfshness that prompted
them, may well stop and inquire what is to
be the end OF this?
Unlawful expedients csnnot become per-
manent condition OF the government. Ii
the educated and influential classes in a
community either practice Or connive at
the systematic violation of laws that seem
to them to cross their convenience, what
can they e .pect when the lesson that con.
venience or supposed class interest is suf-
ficient cause for lawlessness has been well
learned by the ignorant classes? The
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
omended as to make an inquiry into the
character and good disposition OF persons
applying for citizenship be made careful
and searching. Our existing laws have been
in their administration unimpressive and
often unintelligible in form. We accept a
man as citizen without any knowledge of
his fitness and he assumes the duties of
a citizen sometimes without any knowledge
as to what they are. The privileges Of
American citizenship are SO great and its
duties so grave that we may well insist
upon good knowledge of every person ap-
plying for citizenship and good knowledge
by him of oul institutions.
We should not cease to be hospitable to
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 q threat to social order.
They should be identified and excluded.
We have happily maintained a policy of
avoiding all
WITH EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.
We have been only interested spectators in
their contentious in diplomacy and in
war. and ready to use our friendly Offices
to promote peace. But, never obtruding
our advice and never attempting unfairly
to coin the distresses OF other powers into
advantages to ourselves, we
have just right to expect our European
policy to be the American policy OF Euro.
pean courts.
1t is so manifestly incompatible with
those precautions for peace and safety
which the great powers habitually observe
and enforce in matters affecting them, that
a shorter waterway between our eastern
and western seaboards should be dom
mated by any European government.
We may confidently expect that
such purpose will not be entertained by
any friendly power. We shall in the future
as in the past use every endeavor to main.
tain and enlarge our friendly relations with
all the great powers, but they will not ex-
pect us to look kindly upon any project
that world leave US subject to the dangers
OF hostile observation or environment. We
have not sought to dominate or absorb
any of our weaker neighbors, but rather
aid and encourage them to establish free
and stable government resting upon the
consent of the people.
We have clear right to expect, there
fore, that no European government will
seek to establish colonial dependency
upon the territory OF these independent
American states. That which the sense of
justice restraints us from seeking they may
be reasonably expected willingly to forego.
1t must not be assumed, however, that
our interests are so exclusively American
that our entire inattention to any events
that may transpire elsewhere can be taken
for granted. Our citizens, domiciled for
purposes of
TRADE IN ALL COUNTRIES
and in many OF the islands Of the sea, de-
mand and will have our adequate care in
their personal and commercial rights. The
Of our navy require con enient
coaling sta tions and dock and harbor privi-
leges. These and other trading privileges
we will feel free to obtain only by means
that do not in any degree partake OF coer-
cion, 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 to
any modification or Improvement or con-
cession. We shall neither fail to respect the