Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-03-05

ehMnated from the tariff discussion, We
have no longer States that are necessarily
only planting States. None are excluded
from achieving that diversiheation of par-
suit among the people which brings wealth
and contentment. The cotton plantation
will not be less valuable when the produe,
Is spun in the country town BY operatives
whose necessities call for diversified crops
AID create a 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
anu more valuable than added territory,
shall the pr, juice and paralysis of slavery
continue TO hang upon the skirts of pro,ressp
How long will those who RI joice that slavery
no longer exists cherish or tolerate the inca
pac'ties II put upon their communiticsg
A rruly American Policy.
look hopefully TO the continuance of
our protective system and 10 the consequent
development of manufacturing aud mining
enterprise IN the States hitherto wholly giv-
en- to agriculture, rs a potent iuhucuce In the
perfect unihcstion of our people. The men
who have Invested their capital In these en-
terprises. the farmers who have telt the ben.
eht OF their neghhorhood, and the men who
work in shop OF field will not fail to find and
defend a community of interests Isl not
quite possible that the farmers and the pro-
inoters OF the great mining and manu- fsctur-
ing enterprises which have recently been es-
'ahlished in the south may find that the free
ballot OF the workingmau without distinction
OF race, Is needed for their defence As well
as for hlss do not doubt that il these men
| In the south, who nov accept the taria Wow.
of Clay, and the constitutional exposition of
Webster, would courageously avow aud de-
fend their real convictions they would not
md II difficult by friendly instruction and
cooperation 10 make the black man their
ehcient and safe all, not only in establish
ing correct principles in our national adj
ministratlon. but in preserving for their To-
cal communities the benefits of social order
and an economical and honest government.
Al least until the good offices of kindness
and education have been fairly tried the con-
trary conclusion cannot be plausibly urged.
have altogether rejected the suggestion
OF special executive policy for any section
of our country. II is the duty of the cxecu-
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 gen
eral and their administration should be uni
form and equal. As n citizen may not elect
what laws he will obey, neither may the ex-
ecntve elect which he will enforce. The
duty to obey and execute embraces the CON
sutution in its entirety aud the whole code OF
laws enacted under 1t The evil example of
permitting individuals, corporations o. com
munites 10 nullify laws because they eros.
some selfish or local interests or preiudices
is full of danger not only to the nation at
large but much more to those who use this
pernicious eIpedient to escape their Just OBJ
legations, or to obtain an unjust advantage
over others They will presently themselves
be compelled 10 appeal To the law for pro-
lection aud those who would use the law asa
defense must not deny that use of II to 9TH
ers. II our great corporations would more
scrupuiousiy observe their legal obligations
aud duties they would have less cause to
complain of the uulaw ful limitations of their
rights or of violent Interference with their
operations.
The community that by concert, open or
secret, among Its citizens denies to n portioi
of It's members their plain rights under the
law, has severed the only safe bond of social
order and prosperity. The evil works from
a bad centre both ways 1t demoralIxes
those who practice it and destroys the faith
OF those who suffer by 1t. The man in whose
breast that faith has been darkened is natur-
ally the subject of dangerous aud uncanny
suggestions.
Those who use unlawful methods If moved
by no higher motives than the solhshness
that prompts them, may well stop and inquire
what is to be the end of this. An unlawful
expedient cannot become permanent con
dlt0n of government. If the educated and
and Influential classes in u community either
practice OF conutvs At the Systematic viola
ton of laws that sccr' To them TO cross their
convenience what can they expect when the
lesson that convenience or n supposed class
interest is "A sufficient cause for lawlcssness
has been well Learned by the ignorant classes
community where lev is the rule Of con
duct and where courts, not mubs. execute
its penalties, is the only attractive field for
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