The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-13
RIVER AT s A. NJ.
LETTERS TO SENATOR MORRILL,

Senator Justin S. Morrill, is giving 10
the public some of the letters he re-
ceived from men who bore a prominent
part, helpful or mischievous, or both,
in that epoch of national development
that followed the breaking of the crusr
by the civil war. Among them is on
from that fiery old abolitionist, Joshua
r. Giddings, in 1863, then our consul
general at Montreal, on the revocation
of the reciprocity treaty of 1854, whicE
sympathy of some Canadians with the
South, but also because of what he
terms the mixed, mongrel population"
81 hope" he says, you will declare
that as an American statesman you
have no disposition to see the Canadas,
with their mixed, mongrel population
of French, Scotch, Irish, English and
American, annexed to the United
States until they cultivate a feeling Of
self-reliance and independence which
shall accept Of that separation from
the mother country which England is
so eager to establish" If the repre-
sentatves of the various races and ma
tions who then made up the population
of the Canadas had not sufficient self
reliance and independence to warrant
their Incorporation into the citizenry
of this country what, we wonder,
would be his judgment of the PROPOSE
L., %,I-.
nese, Japanese and Portuguese of the
Hawaiian islands, that mixed and
mOngrel' assortment, into our citizen
ship
Three or four other letters are from
Henry c. Carey, whose humanitarian
ism contemplated the mass and ignor-
ed the units that composed it, He had
that disposition of socialists to regard
people as a whole, to be directed.
guided, shaped, guarded, nursed by the
superior wisdom of some; motived
well, meaning their individual good
but wOefully disregardful of the laws
of human nature and of the vital fact
which all the progress made by any
and all races proves, that progress
comes only through development of the
units acted upon separately by appeals
to the sense of right, of honor, OF
kindliness, of justice. He saw, as
others who reject his proposed methods
see, conditions that may be improved
evils that may be lessened or abolish
ed, but he would invoke the strength
of law to bring about reforms that
those who understand humanity and
its course of development better, know
can only be secured by conviction
brought home to the individuals form
ing the social organization.
This spirit of impatience that invokes
the power Of the state is shown
in these letters. Even the move
ment of the power of congress is
too slow for Mr.. Carey. He suggests.
in the dark days of 90, when congress
was ransacking all the sources whence
revenue might be drawn or extorted.
that tax be placed upon the incomes
of nonresident owners of property.
ciled in Paris, where he spent the $780,
600 rentals derived from his property
Were 1 a dictator" says Mr.. Carey.
81 would make him pay one-half of /;
into the public treasury" In 1860 Mr.
Morrill, was representative in con-
gress, and the ways and means com
mittee was trying to frame a tariff for
protection. Mr.. Carey, writing about
the hitch in the progress of the bill
through the senate. said nothing less
than a dictator is required for making
a really good tariff He thus express
ed the aspiration of socialism in all its
forms and it's ultimate nature when
1t gains supreme power. Whatever form,
it assumes, it is in heart and action Il
dictator, imposing its will upon the