Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-05

elgnty 70 the general government, effected by the adoption of the constitution, was not accomplished until the suggestions of reason were strongly enforced by the mortkimpera- tive voice of experience The divergent in- tercsts of peace speedily demanded a s.mere perfect union" The merchant, the shipmas- ter and the manufacturer discovered and dis closed to our statesmen and to the people that commercial emancipation must be added to the political freedom which had beens 80 bravely won.
 The commercial policy of the mother country had not relaxed any of its hard and oppressive features. To hold in check the development of our commercial marine, to prevent or retard the establishment and growth of manufactures in the states, and so to secure the American market for their shops and the carrying tSade for their ships, was the policy of European statesmen, and was pursued with the most selfish vigor. Petitions poured ill upon congress urging the imposition of discriminating duties that should encourage the production of needed things at home
 inc patriotism of the people, which no longer found field of exercise in war, was energetcally directed to the duty of equip ping the young republic for the defense of 4s independence by making its people self dependent.
 Societies for the promotion of home man. ufactures and for encouraging the use of do- mestics ill the dress of the people were organ ized in many of the states. The revival at the end of the century of the same patriotic interest in the preservation and development of domestic industries, and the defense of our working people against injurious foreign competition is an incident worthy of atten- tion It is not a departure, but return, that we have witnessed
 The protective policy had then its oppo- nentS. The argument was made as now, that Its benefits mured to particular classes or sections. If the question became ill any sense or at any time sectional it was only because slavery existed i'll some of the states. But for this there was no reason why the cotton pro ducing states should not have led or walked abreast with the New England states ill the production of cotton ia brics There was this reason only why the states that 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 and iron from their near opposing hill sides.
 Mill fires were lighted at the funeral pile of slavery. The emancipation proclamation was heard i'll the depths of the earth, as we'll as in the sky. Men were made free and material things became our better servants. The sec tlonal element has happily been eliminated from the tariff discussion. We have no longer states that are necessarily only plant ing states. None are excluded from achieving that diversification of pur- suit among the people which brings wealth and contentment The cotton plantation will not be less valuable when the product is spun ill the county town by oper- whose 3aI crops and create 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 and valuable than added territory.
 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 inca pacities it put upon their communities? l look hopefully to the continuance of our protective system and to the consequent development of manufacturing and mining enterprises ill the states hitherto wholly given to agriculture, as a patent influence in the perfect unification of our people. The men who have invested their capital in these ell ter prlses, the farmers who have felt the benefit of their neighborhood, and the men who work Ill shop or field will not fail to find and to defend community of interest. Is it not quite possible that the farmers and the pro motors of the great mining and manufactur- ing enterprises which have recently been established i'll the south, may yet find that the free ballot of the workingman, without dis. tinction of race, is needed for their defense as well as for hls own:
 l do not doubt that if those men ill the south who now accept the tariff views of Clay and the constitutional expositions of ahSta ,lo fend their real convictions. they would not find it difficult by friendly instruction and CO operation to make the black man their eff clent and safe ally, not only in establishing correct principles ill our national admnistra- ton, but i'll preserving for their local commu- mites the benefits of social order and eco nomlcal and honest government. At least until the good offices of kindness and educa- tion have been fairly tried, the contrary con- clusion cannot be plausibly urged
 HE WILL ENFORCE THE LAWS
 have altogether rejected the suggestion of speculative policy for any section of our country. It is the duty of the executive to administer and enforce, in the methods and by the instrumentalities pointed out and pro- vided by the constitution, the laws enacted by congress. These laws are general, and their administration should be uniform and ~-S - he may obey, neither may the executive elect which he will enforce. The duty to obey and to execute embraces the constitution in its entirety and the whole code of laws en- acted under it.
 The evil example of permitting individual corporations or communities to nullify the laws because they cross some selfish or local interests or prejudices is full of danger not only to the nation at large, but much moro to those who use this pernicious expedient to escape their just obligations or to obtain an unjust advantage over others They will presently themselves be compelled to appeal to the law for protection, and those who would use the law as defense must not deny that use of it to others.
 If our great corporations would scrupu- lously observe their legal limitations and duties, they would have less cause to com plain of the unlawful limitations of their rights or of violent interference with their operations. The community that by concert open or secret, among its citizens denies to a portion of its members their plain rights under the law, has severed the only safe bond of social order and prosperity.
 The evil works from a bad center, both ways It demoralizes those who practice it and destroys fhe faith of tboSo x,yh, .,,F.r Au