The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-09-10

State for the Democracy now. 1t toll
lows that the question Of 1889, rather
than those which ardent Democrats may
anticipate for 1892, should be the topics
OF debate. The gentlemen who manage
the associations, although mostly young
men, have already acquired experience IN
politics, and they will no doubt fully re-
alize the necessity that an auxiliary force
should conform to the lines OF operation
pursued by the main political bodies. we
look for excellent political results from
the expert and ardent work OF these
Young Democrats.-New York Star.
The fact is, we have for too many years
grown prosperous through trading with
ourselves that we have not looked much
in the direction of foreign commerce.
But the business of buying from and sell
ing only to our own immediate nelghbors
has about reached its limit, and seasons OF
over production come upon us very ire
quently, causing business depression and
other evils. To remedy this we have got
to look for foreign markets, and we have
got to look for them without delay We
can find that market and the increase OF
trade which our manufacturers are de-
handing in South America. Geographl-
cally and in every other way that trade
belongs to us, but we cannot have 1t
without lines Of steamships and that
thorough knowledge on the part of our
manufacturers of these markets that will
enable them to supply their peculiar
needs as we'll as Europeans, or even bet
er-Congressman Bingham, of Pennsyl-
vania.
So important have become the evils of
hasty, crudely framed legislation that
there is general demand for some plan
of reform. A large number of bills, often
of great Importance, are found to be de
fective or of entire different effect from
what was intended, while many are found
to be unconstitutional. This is the case
not in any particular State, but in every
State. One of the Territories about to
be admitted talked of constitutional
provision for submitting all laws to the
Supreme Judges before final action. This
is Objectionable, since it is a coupling of
the Legislative with the judicial junction.
At recent meeting OF the American
Bar Association i. was decided that the
most practical plan would be for each
legislative body to appoint a committee
of five talented members to revise all
bills before their final adoption, seeing
that they were framed in accordance with
their purpose and in conformity with ex
listing legislation. Such committee
would prove of great value at any ses-
sion Of legislative OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Record.
Here are the New England and Penn
svlvania manulacturers-the men who
were supposed to be getting the very
cream Of the benefits and aids Of high
protection-and yet it IS they who are go
ING down in quick succession, dragging
others with them, and threatening some
thing like paralysis on all New England
interests. II is high time that we in New
England began to face the facts honestly.
1t is high time for us 10 in 4uire whether
we have not been deceived in our tradi-
tional belief that high duties are the cor
ner stone Of our manufacturing prosper
ity. 1t seems to have been something
very like quicksand that we have been
building on. The unfortunate events in
the business world, succeeding one an
other with startling rapidity, may well
unsettle New England's confidence in the
virtues Of taxed raw materials and rigid
exclusion from the foreign markets. BY
our own laws we have shut ourselves up
to an industrial life of isolation and self
consumption; and, like the bear in the
spring, who has subjected himself to
similar enervating lite during his hiberna-
ton, we are coming out very lean and
dissatisfied Providence Journal.