The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-01-16
PROVO CITY. JAN. Is. 1854
FUTURE SECTIONALISM.

sectionalism in this vast nation of
wonderfully diversified and wide
spreading geographical conditions, but
it is absolutely impossible to weigh
matters affecting the majority, the gov
ernment as a nation, or the people
locally without taking into the matter
purely sectional considerations. Last
fall we were all edited by Governor
Vests reasons for not wishing to ap-
point delegates from Utah to the Pan
American convention at st. Louis Oh
the score that the purposes of that con-
vention were purely sectional. In the
abstract the governors reasoning was
good, but in the concrete it was bad.
1t is all very noble to sacrifice ones
self for the good of the nation, our
neighbor, or a great moral principle,
but as business proposition it won't
hold water at all. Sound rolitics like
acceptable charity should commence at
home. Our first duty is due to our
self, family and neighbor. After that
comes the outsiders. 1t does not take
a violent effort to deduce rather yig-
orous states-rightS argument from this
proposition. Allegiance due first to
self, then tosfamily, then to neighbor
and neighborhood very soon takes in
the state in which one lives, and by the
same soundlY moral rule, group of
states with which we are banded, as
with hooks of steel, by our common in
terests, common associations, and CON-
mon sympathies.
A lot of people planting potatoes
have common interests and common
sympathies. A policy which is obvi-
ously to their advantage would be sus-
Would very probably be opposed by
Others not engaged in the same pur-
suit. So is it that the cotton
states are sectional in the
same sense, that the potatoe,
wheat raising, or wool producing states
are sectional in the sense to which we
allude. New England, New York and
Pennsylvania are sectional in this, that
they are engaged almost exclusively in
manufacturing enterprises. They
stand for tariff while the west and
south stand practically for free trade
or at least for tariff for revenue only.
Our willing disregard for sectional in
terests has robbed us of our silver.
Had we made a fight, call it sectional
or whatever else you like-had the
west and the south stood together and
battled earnestly as an unit, section
allied if you will, we had had our good
old money of the ages yet potent fac
tor in trade. The entire west and the
south would have had money with
winch to carry on their trade, our sill
yer mines would be actively at work.
There had been no idle, starving men.
no armies OF tramps, no mortgage fore
closures, no pinching hard times, no
panic conditions. This fair western
land of plenty would have been smiI-
ngly content had the sort of section
alism we have limited at been prac-
ticed.
The sectionalism of the future must ,
not be predicted upon moral or re-
igious principles, but upon those which {
Ire purely economic in their nature,
The sectionalism of the future will not
un her lines of demarcation east and
vest, they will be- drawn from the i,
lorth to the south, with a decided |
EASTERN trend. South and west will
ule, and rule for the prosperity of th e
Whole, while the petted industries
nd protected trusts and corporate s
harks of the northeast will have to be b
atlsted with what the generous and c
rosperous west and south gives them. l
Organized thus the generous sections q
7e have named will soon have enough t
warrant the most liberal, just and u
division with our less fortu- 3
ate fellow citizens of the east and h
Orth. We need little of the section L
lism which is necessary 20 enable us II
utilize our advantages and the womb :.
the future is pregnant with the in ip
1ences which are to work this mighty kl
nd sadly needed revolution. al