The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1894-07-28

America ShOul8 be 1mdepWmd0mfs
The purpose of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence was to
procure the complete separation of
the people of this country from the
political influences of Europe. On
the one hand the Atlantic placed a
barrier between our Eastern shores
and the old world. On the other
hand the Pacific interposed even a
more formidable obstacle between our
Western coast and the low civilization
of Asia. Here, upon this isolated con-
tinent, seemed to be the appointed
place in which people strong, brave
and wise, with an ardent love for free
dom, should proceed to create ma
ton upon now theories of the rights
of men and of the processes which en-
able human being to engage, without
vain endeavor, in the pursuit of hap
piness.
It was part of the project of the
founders of the Republic that the ma
ton should be self contained and self
dependent so far as those conditions
might be reached by persistent effort
to develop its resources and to build
up manufactures. No fact is more
clearly presented in the writings and
in the legislation of the mon who
framed our government. But the
European interests which were hostile
to American industry in Colonial times
have been continuously adverse to
til EN-, and an active propaganda, con-
Quoted from England, has succeeded
an persuading many Americans that
free trade is to be preferred to that
policy of protection to home industry
by which alone self dependence may
be reached. The final result of the
promulgation of this heresy is that the
nation to-day suffers because certain
OF It's people have been willing to try
to apply to this country of vast resour-
ces an economical policy which was
devised by European nation living
In narrow territory and compelled
to fnske foreign trade its main OBJ
ject.
The harm that has been done by the
influence of this doctrine has been sup
plementsd by that inflicted by the ap-
plication of the European theory Of
gold mometallism. The American peo-
pie have within their boundaries great
. stores of gold and silver. 1t is strange
indeed, that, in defiance of the prac-
tice of mankind in all ages and of the
precedent deliberately established by
the men who achieved American in
dependence, the nation should have
demonetized and rejected one of the
money metals. The Same European
interest that urges us to allow the
destructive competion of foreign man
ufacturers in our own market has pro-
cured the adoption of q currency policy
j which feeds English people and fur
nishes English mills with raw material
at our cost, while it permits our Eng
lish creditors to exact from US heavy
tribute that is not fairly due.
The American people have gained
little that is worth having except by
repudiating European theory and prac-
tice and by shaping their domestic
policy in accordance with their per-
ception of their own requirements.
Almost every failure they have made
supplies proof that European prece-
dent is an unsafe guide in the condi-
tions of their environment. Every
success they have achieved offers dem
onstration that they have highest
= prosperity when their political methods
are based upon American ideas. N.
Y. Press.