Helena weekly herald., 1889-09-12
MINORITY RULE.

established among men Is 10 Pioteeo 'n0
lives, liberties and property of those VINO
live under and support it. In all forms OF
popular government the majority rules.
To say that the minority should rule the
majority may be good doctrine in Arkan-
sas, Mississippi, Louisiana and few other
Southern States, but it is as far from being
| Democratic as Republican, and those who
hope or undertake to introduce any sucn
order of things in Montana have struck
the wrong latitude 1t is not question
about respecting the rights of the minority,
but among these rights of the minority Is
not included the right to rule and dictate
to the majority. The leading industrial
interests of State should dictate its policy
and they surely will in the end. 1t is nat
ural. right and reasonable. Arkansas is
as naturally interested in the policy that
fosters cotton raising IS Montana is in
growing WOOL If we were to move from
Montana to Arkansas, we should expect to
be Influenced in our choice of political
creeds by the leading interests OF
Arkansas, and we can see no good reason
why an Arkansan moving to Montana
should stick to his cotton growing policy
and antagonize the wool industry and the
mining industry. We are told that pro-
lection is a selfish policy. So is free trade
Just as much 80 to those whose interest it
is to advocate it. We are quite willing to
concede that it is a selfish policy, but not
in any nrrrow or unworthy sense. We are
for protecting American labor in preference
to that of any other country. American
labor supports our government and deserves
It's first and constant consideration. We
are in favor of protecting American capital
also against foreign capital, American in
dustries of every kind in preference to for
eign industries. What is the use of our
government except to protect our
interests. 1t is for the English govern
ment to protect Englishl interests.
Governments are not benevolent institu-
tiops, primarily sacrificing the interests
of their own subjects for the benefit of
others If people living in other. lands
want to enjoy the benefits of our laws and
policy, it is for them to come here and
place themselves under them.
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Under Republican policy of protection
we have protected southern rice and south
ern sugar and many other products, and If
the time should ever come that cotton
should need protection it will not. be neg
lected because it is southern product.
1t so happens that southern cotton, like
northern corn, needs no protection. The
South has been slow to introduce manufac-
turing because it has not the skilled, in
telligert labor fol such industry m 1t would
Just as surely be for its interests to raise
less cotton and do more manufacturing.
1t is coming to see it's true interests, and is
prospering just in proportion as it adopts
the new policy. If the South would ad-
drees itself earnestly to the education OF
its ignorant masses, white and black
there is no doubt that the same results
would appear there as everywhere else
Educated labor is the most profitable even
| in the raising of raw material. The people
of the South say they are poor and cannot
afford to raise such amounts as are appro-
priated for schools IL the North, but it is a
fact that general ignorance is one OF the
chief causes of this poverty. Poverty will
continue as long the causes remain that
produce it.
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In the same way as the South might
prosper by use of the same means that
promote prosperity everywhere, the people
of the South might influence and control
the votes of the negro by conciliatory and
honorable means much more effectually
and completely than they do now by fraud
and violence These latter are not any
more necessary than they are hu-
name and honorable. The policy
must change some time or there will be
a race war of determination. The methods
suggested by civilization and christianity
are Just as effectual among men of black
skin as white Ages of ignorance and op-
preston have left their traces no doubt
and they obliterate manhood in whites as
we'll as blacks.
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There is no use at present to thresh ovel
old straw on this subject. But the policy
of projection is essentially living and per
tinent issue. 1t is the policy under which
the Northern States have prospered, and il
would be madness for them to abandon it
Constituting the large majority of th'
nation, it is right that this majority should
stand by the policy that promotes its inter
ests. If the South obstinately persists il
raising raw cotton and buying its manu-
factured goods in England, it is not policl
that will please IT, When it knows, as i
will very soon. that this policy is to be per
manent, it will conform to it and be thu
better for it in every way.
Outside of those interested in foreign
importations, there are very few fre'
traders in the country outside of the South
That portion of the Democratic party il
Montana that seems to believe in free trad
is from the South and quite naturally ad
heres to the principles IN which they wer
raised, but they are as much exotics il
Montana as the growth of cotton and can
would be.
NEITHER Carter nor any member of tn
Republican legislature, nor any Republi
oan of Montana ont of the lepislatur{