Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-03-08

| encourage the production of needed
things at home. The patriotism of the
! people which no longer found field OF
exercise in wsr was eaergeticslly directed
TO the duty of equipping the young
republic for the defense of its
independence, by making its people
! seir-dependent societies for the
! PROMOTION OF HoMs MANUFACTURES.
and for encouraging the use of 6omestiss
IN the dress of the people were organized
! in many of the states. The revival ST
the end of the century of the same pat
! riotio interest in the preservation an i
| development of domestic industries and
the defense ofsourworking people against
| injurious foreign com peutlon is a. in
cident worthy of attention.
| 1t is not the departure, but the return.
| that We have witnessed. The protective
| policy had then its opponents. Ths
| argument wss made, as now, that its
benefits ensured TO particular classes or
| sections. If the question became in sny
sense or at any time sectional, it was only
| because slavery existed in some of the
| states. But for this there was no reason
why the cotton producing states should
not have led, or worked sbreast, with the
New England states in the production of
cotton fabrics. There was this reason
only why the states that divide with
PennnsI lvanis the mineral trea> ures of
the great southeastern and central noun
tain ranges, should have been so tsrdy in
bringing TO the smelling furnace and to
the mill, coal and iron from their new op-
posing hillside. The mill fires were
LIGHTED AT THE FUNERAL PILE OF SLAVERY.
The emancipation proclamation was
heard in the depths of the earth as well
as In the sky. Men were made free and
material things became our better ser
vsnts. The sectional element has happily
been eliminated from the tariff discussion.
We have no longer states that are neoes-
sarIly ,only planting states. None are
excluded from achieving that diversitica-
ton of pursuit among the people which
brings wealth and contentmept. The cot
ton plantation will not be less valuable
when its product is spun in the country
town by operatives whose necessities call
for diversified crops, and create home
demand for garden and agricultural pro-
ducts. Every new mine, furnace and
factory Is an extension of the productive
capacity of the state more real and valu-
a9le than added territory. Shall the
preIudices 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 ipcapacities it
put upon their communities? |
LOOK HOPEFULLY TO THE CONTINUANCE OF
OUR PROTECTIVE SYSTEM,
and to the consequent development of
manufacturing and mining enterprises
IN the states hitherto wholly given to agri-
culture, as potent Influence in the per
feet unirication of our people. Men who
have invested their capital in these en-
terprises, farmers who have felt the beDe-
fit of their ueIg ghbOrhood, and men who
work in the shop or field, will not fail to
find, and to defend, a community of in
terests.
Is it not quite possible that farmers
and promoters of the great mining and
manufacturing enterprises which have
recently been established in the south
may yet find that the free ballot of the
workIngman without distinction of race
Is needed for their defense as well as for
mis- Own. | do not dOu0t that if those
men III the south who now accept the
tarIf views of clay and the constitutional
expositlons of Webster would courage
ousiy avOw and defend their real conDec-
JIoas they would not fnd 1t difficui {,
by friendly instruction and evaporation
to make the black man their efficient
and safe ally, not only in establishing
correct principles in our national admin
istration but in preserving for their
local communities benefits of social order
and economical and honest government,
at least until the good offices of kindness
and education have been fairly tried.
contrary conclusion cannot be pIausi-
bly, urged. L have altogether
REJECTED SUGGESTION OF SPECIAL ExECU-
TIVE POLICY
for any section of our country. 1t is the
duty of the executive to admir- mister and en-
force in methods and by instrumentalities
pointed out and provided by the consti-
tuition, all laws enacted by congress.
These laws are general and thir admins
tratiOn should DO uni itorm and equal. As
citizen may not elect what laws he viii
obey, neither may the executive elect
which he will enforce. The duty to obey
and TO execute, embraces the constitution
in its entirely, and the whole code of laws
enacted under il. The evil example of
permitting individuals, corporations or
communities, TO nullify laws because the y
cross some selfish or local interest, or
pref judices, full of danger, not only to
the nation at large but much
more to those who use this
pernictous expedient to escape the ir Just
obligations or to obtain an unjust ad
vantage over others. They will present
ly, themselves, be compelled to appeal to
law for protection, and those VINO would
use law AS defense must not DENY tn at
use of it to others. If our great corpor-
alton would more scrupousIy observe
their legal limitations and duties they
would have less cause to complain of un-
lawful limitations of their rights or of
| violent Interference with their opera
| ations. community that by concert,
open or secret, among it's citizens, denies
| to portion of its members their plain
rights under the law, has severed the
only safe bond of social order and pros
| perity. Evil works form bad center
! both ways. 1t demOralizes those who
| practice it and destroys the faith of those
who suffer by it in the inefficiency of law as
safe protector. The man in whose
| breast that faith has been darkened is
naturally a subject of dangerous and un-
| CSnDy suggestions. InO5e VINO use un-
| lawful methods, and are moved by no
! higher motive than than the selishpess
that prompted them, may well stop and
| inquire what Is TO be the end of this IN
! lawful expedient. 1t cannot become a
| permanent condition of government. If
| educated and influential classes in com
| munitjes either practice or connive at d
| systematic violation of laws that seem to
| thsm 10 cross their convenience, what can
| they expect when the lesson that convent
ence or supposed class interest is sufficient
! cause for laTlesSness, has been vel
! learned by the ignorant classes? com
munity where Law is the rule of conduct
| and where
! coUBTs NOT AoBs EXECUTE ITS PENALTIES
! investments and honest labor. Oul
| natar aliz alton laws should be so anne Ddec
as to make the inquiry into the charac
ter and good disposition of persons ep-
| plying for citizenship more careful and
searching. Our existing laws have beer
| lax in their administration and unim-
pressive and often unintelligible,,in form
/ We accept man as a citizen without an,
| kBoEledge of his fitness and he assumes
the duties OF citizens without any know
| ledge as to what they are. The priv
liges of American citizenship are so gres
and its duty so grave that se may vel
insist upon good knowledge of ever.
| person applying for citizen
| them of our Institutions. We should no