St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-15


Ihe removal of foreign prOhibitOry laws
against American live stock interests
IS dWelt upon at length. The result of
recent negotiations with foreign coun-
tries is rapidly
Removing These Prohibitions.
through guarantees that shipments of
American live stock and animal and
meat products shall receive an iGSpec-
ton as thorough as that exercised over
food products in any foreign country.
The same integrity should apply to our
agricultural products. We must study
the wants of the markets of the world.
the tastes of the consumers and pre-
pare to meet these conditions. We
must cultivate demand for these prod
ucts In the most finished form, thus re-
duclng bulk and consequently the cost
of transportation.
Senator PETER, of Kansas, wrote that
the objects of the congress met his
hearty approval and expressed the hope
that 1t would result in bringing the peO-
pie of the West and South into closer
social and commercial relations. I'VE
have been kept apart so long," his let
ter continued, that it seemed almost
hopeless to expect a union. Now, l
understand that this commercial con-
gress to be held in Kansas City pro-
poses to assist in the inauguration of a
scheme which will unity the commercial
interests OF the South and West. That
being your object. l pray you God
speed"
Charles Francis Adams.
Of Boston, wrote that it would not be
profitable for him to prepare an address.
such as he had been invited to present
to the congress. His views. he said,
were so radical as well as positive. that
they would not prove acceptable to such
body as the congress proposed would
necessarily be. While he recognized
the hardships of the present situation
IN the West, he did not believe that any
action except individual action was nee
eSSary for remedy. Continuing. Mr..
Adams letter stated: "The very gen
eraI popular idea which now exists that
the government is the grand paternai
'do-aII to protect everyone and every
thing. and TO provide remedies for every
Ill that the body polite is subject to,
L Go not sympathiZe i'll. On the
contrary, 1 am so out of date
and antiquated in my opinions. as
to think that the world is governed alto
gether too much, and that it has never
been governed so much or so badly as
it has been in this country within the
last twenty-five years. What our coun-
try needs most of all, in my opinion. is.
in matters legislative. to be let Sc
veFeiy alone, and that the industrious
and thrifty people thereof be permitted
TO work out their and its salvation in
their own way. If so left they will
work out that salvation a great deal
quicker and a great deal more satsfac-
torily than they Will ever succeed in
doing while the government inces-
sanity encumbeTS them with its well
meant, but most ill-adYised assistance in
so doing" Dealing SingIy with the
subject prepared for discussion by the
congress, Mr.. Adams wrote that he did
not believe there was any general busi-
ness and agricultural depression, eX-
cept that due to natural and
Temporary Causes:
that he did not believe anv legislation
is required in affecting commerce. trans
portation and finance; that he thought
improved transportation by land and
water would provide for Itself under the
laws Of supply and demand if the gov
eTnment does not continually meddle
with it; that he thought Western prod
uets would find markets soon enough if
the government would leave the matter
severely alone; that the great trouble
with the currency is excessive trick
eTing. and. If the government
would leave it absolutely and entirely
alone, the internal currency of the
country would regulate Itself Just as
perfectly as international currency does:
that the manufacturing interests of the
country always had been most success
fully promoted by individuals wnen the
government had left them alone: and
that every interference Of the govern
ment in this matter. so far as he knew.
from 70 hcarr ir,p- of Tf1 III L.
bill, had been detrimental to the public
interest: that irrigation of arid lands is
settling itself in Idaho and i'll Colorado.
and IN other states where it is being
left alone by the government; that the
fewer commercial laws we have, in his
Judgment. the better, and that If there
were no commercial laws the cOmmu-
nifty would be far more prosperous
to-day than it is: that in the matter of
taxation, that which is the simplest and
most direct was best; and tnat he did
not see why Western lands should not
be best developed, ike Western corn
lands. or Southern cotton lands.
or Eastern coal lands. by being
left alone to those who go on
to their development as a matter of
profit: that interference of the govern
ment with immigration had been uni
fOrmly miSchieYOuS; that he had found
that business combinations and trusts
were dangerous to those who were in
side them. and that if left absolutely
alone by the government they would
work nothing but good unless they are
perverted TO some purpose opposed to
the laws of trade, in which case they in
evitably, soon or late. bring about the
ruin of those concerned in them; that
reciprocity and international trade ex-
tension had always developed them
selves most effectively when the gov
ernment had least TO do with them. and
that wherever the government had
meddled with them it had muddled
them; that the Indian question and
the opening of Indian lands had been
bronght into It's present unfortunate
condition by govern ment interference,
and that he knew Of no way of getting
1t out of the snarl into which it has been
brought,
PLATT Is IN 1T.