Morris tribune., 1889-03-06

Our people will not fail at this time to recall the
incidents which accompanied the institution of
government under the constitution, or to find in
spiration and guidance and teachings and exam
pie of Washington and his great associates and
hope and courage in the contrast which thirty
eight populous AMI prosperous states offer to the
thirteen states, weak in everything except cour-
age and the love Of liberty, that then frnged our
Atlantic Seaboard.
The territory of Dakota has now population
greater than any of the original states Except
virginia) and greater than the aggregate of five
of the smaller states IN 1890.
THE CENTER OF POPULATION,
when our national capital was located, was east
of Baltimore, and it was argued by many well in
formed persons that it would move eastward
rather than westward. Yet in 1880 it was found
to be near Cincinnati, and in the new census,
about to be taken, will show another stride to the
westward. That which was the body has come to
be only the rich fringe of the nations robe. But
our growth has not been limited to territory, pop
ulation and aggregate wealth, marvellous as it has
been in each of these directions. The masses of
our people are better fed, clothed and housed
than their fathers were. The facilities for popu-
lar education have been vastly enlarged and more
generally diffused The
VIRTUES OF COURAGE AND PATRIOTISM
have given recent proof of their continued pres
ence and increasing power in the hearts and over
the lives of the people. The influences Of relg-
ion have been multiplied and strengthened The
sweet offices of charity have greatly increased
The virtue of temperance is held in higher esti
nation. We
HAVE NOT ATTAINED THE IDEAL
condition: Not all of our people are happy and
prosperous; not all of them are virtuous and law
abiding. But, on the whole, the opportunities
offered to the individual to secure the comforts of
life are better than are found elsewhere aud
love aTx-b bofto fhon thoux hora1
The surrender of q large measure of sover-
eighty to the general government, effected by the
adoption of the constitution, was not accom-
pfshed until the suggestions of reasons were
strongly reinforced by the more imperative voice
of experience. The merchant and shipmaster
and the manufacturer discovered and disclosed to
our statesmen and to the people that
COMMERCIAL EMANCIPATION
must be added to the political freedom which had
been SO bravely won. The commercial policy Of
the mother country had not relaxed any of its
hard and oppressive features. To hold in check
the establishment and growth of manufactures in
the states, and so to secure the American market
for their shops, and the carrying trade for their
ships, was the policy of European statesmen. The
patriotism of our people, which no longer found
a field of exercise in war, was energetically di-
rected to the duty of equipping the young repub-
eli for the defense of its independence by making
its people self-dependent Societies for the
PROMOTION OF HOME MANUFACTURES
and for encouraging the use of domestics in the
dress of the people were organized 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 at
tertion. It is not departure but return that
we have witnessed. If the question became in
any sense or at any time sectional, it was only
An
states. But for this there was no reason why the
cotton producing states should not have led or
walked abreast with the New England states in
the production of cotton fabrics. There was this
reason only why the states that divide with Penn
sylyania 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 hillsides.
MILL. FIRES WERE LIGHTED
at the funeral pile of slavery. The sectional ee-
ment has happily been eliminated from the tariff
discussion Every new mine, furnace and fac
tory is an extension of the productive capacity of
the state mere real and valuable than added ter
ritory.
Shall the preiudices and paralysis of slavery
continue to hang upon the skirts of progressi
How long win those who rejoice that slavery no
longer exists cherish or tolerate the incapacities
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to the continuance of our protective system and
to the consequent
DEVELOPMENT OF MANUFACTURING
and mining enterprises in the states hitherto
wholly given to agriculture as q potent influence
in the perfect unifcation Of our people. The emer
who have invested their capital in these enter
prises, the farmers who have felt the benefit OF
their neighborhood and the men who work in
shop or field will not fail to find and defend 9
community of interest,
Is 1t not quite possible that the farmers and the
promoters Of the great mining and manufactur
ing enterprises which have recently been estab-
lished 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 his own?
Ihave altogether rejected the suggestion of q
special
EXECUTIVE SECTIONAL POLICY
for our country. It lis the duty of the executive
to administer and enforce, in the methods and BY
the fnstrumentalities pointed out and provided
for by the constitution, all the laws enacted By
| congress These laws are general and their ad
ministration should be uniform and equal.
If the educated and influential classes in q com
munity either practice or connive at the system
attic violation Of laws that seem to them to cross