Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-17

ton port bill was passed. thus in a fashion
royalty accommodating the little town.
commercially and industriaily; Then came
that strange and unaccountable outbreak
of popular hysteria to which have refer
red. Not only all New England rose In
wrath. but distant Virginia and remote
South Carolina caught the frenzy and said,
in effect, this foolish thing: If govern
ment can disregard the forms Of law when
ever. in governments opinion, the forces
of law are too weak. and can punish the
innocent without trial, because of the
deeds Of violators of the law, then are we
none of us safe. even to the remote con.
fines of Carolina within the depths OF
the woods of Maine-safe neither In our
persons nor our properties, nor in the pur-
suit of our happiness-the very difference
between a free government and despot-
ism being that free government operates
without the prescribed forms Of law and
a despotism is a government in accordance
with some individuals discretionary no
ton of justice or necessity.
You will remember that all the wisdom
of King Georges cabinet could not put an
end to this wanton fury. even though the
cabinet answered: This concerns nobody
except the town of Boston, Our ancestors
could not be quieted but got worse and
worse. until their misguided counsels led
to the foolish result of instruction and
free and independent American govern
ment.
We have, however made the amende
honorable for this silly business by our
governmental strenuosity at Indianola,
The Mississippi Incident.
Not long since 1t was alleged-although
not proven, notwithstanding the fact that
there was a United States marshal to ar
rest, a United States grand jury to 1ndict
and a United States petit jury TO convict
that certain people in the town of Indian
OLA Miss. had conspired together FOR the
purpose of preventing an 1ncumpent OF a
federal Office from continuing TO noid .Iat
Office True, there is plain statute OF the
United States, writ large on the pages OF
the Revised Statutes, providing punish
ment for those guilty of that 1dent1cai
crime 1t was. perhaps, however. thought
that the alleged crime could not be proven
in court of justice under the ordinary
forms of law; that the forces of law, as IN
the precedent cited in Boston were too
weak. or not to be altogether relied upon
by those in authority.
1.-The necessary and righteous conse-
auence was that, recurring to the prece-
dent established by that miracle OF WIS
dom, George of Hanover and his cabinet.
we promptly and strenuously deprived the
little town of Indianola of all mail facll-
tiles. proceeded to punish for the law
breaking intent of few-if, indeed, sucn
intent ever existed-which l frankly admit
is questioned-all Of the town, men ana
black and white. by cutting off their mail
ia ciities; thus by a White House decree,
communicating them from the intelH-
gence of the world. Our ancestors. incom-
wisdom of the Boston port bill fully eX-
planned persisted in their madness ana
folly refusing to be enlightened. and sui
hung on with miraculous fanaticlsm to the
belief that only the guilty ought to be pun
ished, and even the guilty only after
fair trial Not so with our wiser genera
ton in the 1ndianola case. Again l won
der how we managed to prosper, IS we
have prospered miraculously In all our
history, in spite of folly like this. uncon-
fessed even. until a very recent date: but
folly which we have now, thank God, nobly
shaken Off.
The Altar Of Free Trade.
"The next great historical blunder. in
spite of which, strange to say, We have
as 1 cannot too often repeat, prospered
right along in every step Of our history.
with now and then temporary drop
back was the immolation by our ancestors
of the nations industrialism upon the altar
of free trade within the common domain, |
Notwithstanding already existing state |
lines furnished convenient place. opportun-
ity and temptation to establish custom
hOuses-those potent encouragers OF COM |
merce. What we ought to have fought for
during colonial days was high protective |
tariff to keep British products out of the |
American market and another high pro- |
tective tariff to keep American products |
out of the British market; thus enrichiuS |
both Britain and America
Then after we had accomplished our in
u
separate sovereignty. South Carolina ought
to have protected herself against Pennsyl-
vania and New England Pennsylvania
ought to have seen to 1t that line CT Gus
tom houses prevented the invasion OF her |
sacred soil by the products of the Jersey |
man. the Marylander and the Delawarean.
We ought to have encouraged interstate
trade by stopping 1t as much as possible,
thus pursuing in that regard the enlighten- |
ed policy which prevails in regard to our
International trade.
Then. after forming the present Union.
the Constitution itself ought to have pre-
scribed to the states mutual protection.
by mutual taxation and consequent uni
versal prosperity
What an enormously rich country the
little state Of Rhode Island would have
been now but for the influx of the cotton
raised by the pauper labor Of South Caro-
lima and Georgia, slave labor for a long
Dor. How rich Florida would have been IT,
instead of raising pineapples and oranges
and such products as an unrea Soning sun
seems to recommend. she had kept the rye
and barley and wheat and wooden goods OF
the northern states out of her confines and
had created at some little expense to her
people, 1t Is true, but still with much pride
and disqualification, purely 'Flordian in
dustrieS of these and all other things
Each community on the surface of the
earth. sir. should raise everything and
make everything which it possibly can.
regardless of the cost to it's people of MAX
ing and raising it, and II they will not
make and raise everything. of their own
accord then the people ought to be taxed |
until somebody consents to accept the prof
Its of newly created industries for the al
truistic purpose of giving them away to
American. Polish. Hungarian and other
labor.
Protection and Local Conditions.
Il have known people foolish enough to
answer: That we will say because ba-
nanas could be easily raised there under
glass and in forcing beds it would have
made bananas very much more costly than
common people would like and that per-
haps 1t Is better for New Jersey to raise
potatoes and peaches and manufacture
various things naturally profitable and
with the profits of capital and labor thus
plebeianly employed, buy bananas But the
men who say that. of course are lacking
In patrtotism-'a cheap banana makes
cheap man., and we hurl foul scorn at
those. who are so lacking in self-dependence
as not to be willing to pay whatever is
necessary to be paid out of the pockets
of consumers In order to prevent the pau
per banana, raised by pauper labor. grown
on pauper soil. nourished by pauper sun
shine-vile foreigner, as it is-from invad-
ing New Jersey
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