The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-02-22
THE SEATTLE PosTTELLGENCER FEBRUARY ~ 1891

the scaffolds of her martyrs and have Wit
messed the cOmbats Of her heroes in heart
and mind that / have always taken the
Republican side in American affairs.
When the slave-holding Babylon fell, l
breathed more freely than before, just as
our own liberty. But as publicist it -
my duty to speak the truth to my broth
ers, and / say it frankly, the protectionist
policy they have adopted places the Repub-
icans today in that position with regard
to the problem Of the economical relations
OF humanity, which, to their sorrow, the
Democrats occupied formerly before that
question Of the universal liberty and
equality of labor. Having said this
which it was important should be said in
IN examination of the grave phenomena
which the economic position OF America
presents-let rs pass on TO other consider
atoms
My diagnostic Of human society may be
an erroneous one, but believe in the SUI
periority of the American nation as far as
the organization of labor Is concerned. A
grand correlation exists between society
and the universe. Precisely as there are
Carnivorous and other species, so there are
conquering races and industrial races.
Hyenas, eagles and falcons, tigers and
lions are incapable of aiding in the crea-
tons which virtuous labor produces. Like
the heraldic animals on old armorial bear
ings they represent the empires destined to
conquer and nourished by war, whereas,
the bees and their honey, the beavers and
their dams, the silkworms and their silk,
occupy in the animal world the place filled
in human society by free, democratic and
republican peoples.
The American nation rises above all
other nations precisely in that it repre-
20 h vI,otS-
tuition of workmen for warriors which con-
stitutes the essential Characteristic of her
marvellous entity. And if this be accepted
as an axiom 1t is not easy to understand
why the United States Ii fomenting war in
the commercial and mercantile world,
where harmony is indispensable and inn
perative, thus belying its social mission,
ence and consequently exposing itself to
irreparable woe, as do all who neglect to
accomplish the good which, by the OBJ
servance Of natural laws, consuInmates
our proyidential destiny. An economic
war, in fact will result in as great evils as
any other kind of war. The lower we de-
scend in the animal scale the sfiercer do
we find the strife and mutual hatred be-
tween animals; in the same way, as we
descend in the social scale, we ind war
tiercest between those tribes in whom
reason and conscience are not yet fully
developed. A people of the unreasonable
greatness recognized-of the
United States cannot, at so adj
vanced period of human development,
consent to retrogression which will
render it counterpart, on the continent
of democracy, of republicanism and of lib
erty. to what China is on the continent of
monarchy, of privilege and Of retrogres-
sion-condemned by its historical associa-
tions to complete intellectual and econom-
ic stagnation.
In second letter, will enter more into
simply an introduction to my views con-
corning free trade and protection in the
new world and the old.
EMILIO CASTELAR,.