Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-03-16

Men were maze Tree and material things De
came our better servants.
The sectional element has happily been
eliminated from the tariff discussion. We
have no longer states that are necessarily
only planting states. None are excluded
from achieving that Investigation of pur-
SUIT among the people which bring wealth
and contentment. The cotton plantation
VIII not be less valuable when the product
Is spun III the country towns by
operatives whose necessities call for diversi-
fed crops and create a home demand for
garden and agricultural products. Every
new mine, furnace and factory ~ an extern
sion 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 and tolerate the in
capacity 1t put upon their communities
look hopefully TO a continuance of our
protective system II TO the consequent de-
~velopment OF manufacturing and mining
enterprises In the states hitherto wholly
given 10 agriculture as a potent influence in
the perfect unitication OF our people. The
men who have invested their capital in these
enterprises, the farmers who have felt the
benefit TO their neighborhood and the men
who work in the shop or field will not fail to
una and defend the community
CIFib AAitiN Wv Nv -
ing enterprises which have recently been es-
tabllShed IN tue south may yet find that a
free ballot of the workingman, without dis
~tinction of race, Is needed for their defense as
well as for his own. ] do not doubt that if
those men III the south who will not accept
the tariff views and the constitutional expo
sltions of Webster would courageOusly show
and defend their real convictions they would
not find it difficult by frank instruction and
cooperation TO make the black man their
efficient and safe ally, not only III establish
ing correct principles In our national ad-
ministration, but III entwining for the local
communities a wreath of social order and
economical and honest government. At
least until the good Offices of kindness and
education have been fairly tried a contrary
conclusion cannot be plauslbly heard.
| have always rejected the suggestion Of
Partially for any section OF the country and
hold that it is the duty OF the executive to
administer and enforce in the methods and
by the Observation-Disclosures pointed out n
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 the citizen may not
elect what avs he will obey. neither may the
executive elec5 which he will enforce. The
duty TO obey and TO execute embraces the
constitution in Its entirety and the whole
code OF laws enacted under it.
A WORD ABOUT TRUSTS.
The evil example Of permitting individual
corporations or communities to nullify the
laws because they cross some selfish or local
cares or prejudices is full of danger, not
only TO the nation at large, but much more
to those who use this pernicious expedient to
escape their just obligations or to obtain
unjust advantages over others. They will
presently themselves be compelled to appeal
to the law, and those who would use the law
as a defense must not deny that use Of it to
others. If our great corporations would
more scrupulously observe their legal limita-
tons and duties they would nave less cause
to complain of the unlawful limitations of
their rights or of violen. interference with
their operations.
FIRE EXPRESSION AT ELECTIONS.
The community that by concert, open or
secret, among its citizens denies to q por-
ton of its members their plain rights under
the law has severed the only safe bond of
social order and prosperity. Evil works
from a center both way. 1t demoraliZes
those who practice it and destroys the faith
of those who suffer by the incfficiency of the
law as a safe protector. The man IN whose
breast that faith has been darkened is
naturally chary of the dangerous and I'M
canny suggestions of those who
use unlawful methods, if moved
by no higher motive than the selfishn ess
that promoted them, may we'll stop and in
quire what is to be the end of this unlawful
e~xpedient cannot become the permanent
condition of government. IL the educated
and influential classes in q community
either practice or connlve at the
systematic desecration of the laws
that seem to them TO cross their con-
venience, what can they expect when the
lesson that convenience or supposed cross
interest was sufficient cause for lawlessness
has been well learned by ignorant classes.
The community where law is the Will of
conduct and where courts, not mobs, exc
cute its penalties, Is the only attractive field
for business investments and honest labor.
~ NATURALIZATION LAWS
should be Sc amended as 10 make inquiry
into the character and good disposition of
persons applying for citizenship more are
ful and searching than our eN ing
laws have been in their administration
and unimpressive and often unintelliCIble
form. We accept n man As a citizen. With
out any knowledge of his fitness, and when
he assumes the duties of n citizen, he IL
without any knowledge of what they are.
The privileges of American citizenship are
40 great and its duties are so grave that we
may we'll insist upon a good knowledge OF
every person applying for citizenship, anc
a good knowledge by him of our insti-
buttons. We should not cease TO be hos
DllhDIS ~ stlDllgl dtlOuJ Dul We Slculu ttdSt
to be careless rs 80 the character of it.
There are men of all races, even the best,
whose coming is necessarily a burden upon
our public revenues or a threat to social
order. These should be identified and ex-
Guided.
THE FOREIGN POLICY.
We have happily maintained the policy OF
avoiding ak interference with European af-
fairs. We have been only interested spec.
tators of their contentious in diplomacy and
in war, and ready to use our friendly offices
to promote peace, but never o~btruding our
advice and never attempting unfairly to coin
the distress of other powers into commercial
advantage TO ourselves. We have n Just
right to expect that our European policy will
be the American policy of European courts.
1t is so manifestly incompatible with these
precautions for our peace and safety, which
all great powers habitually observe and en-
force in matters affecting them. that n
shorter waterway between our eastern and
western seaboards should be dominated by
any European government that we may con-
fidently expect that such u purpose will not
be entertained by any friendly power. We
shall, in the future as In the past, use every
endeavor to maintain and enlarge our
friendly relations with all the great powers,
but they will not expect Us to look kindly
upon any project that would leave US subject
TO the dangers of hostile observation or en-
vironment. We have not sought TO doml-
nate or absorb any of our weaker ~neighbors,
tablish free and stable governments. resting
upon the consent of the people. We haye
the right to expect, therefore, that no
E,ro,oo, ,oyarpynapt will sock IN establish