Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-08-17

Boston. Our ancestors could not b'
quoted. but got worse and worse, unit
their misguided counsels led to the
foolish result OF instruction" and &
free and independent American gov
eminent.
Have Made Amends.
We have. however. made the amcndC
honorable for this silly business. by o;u
governmental strcnuOsity al Indianoia
Miss. Not long since il was alleged
although not proven, Notwithstanding
the fact that there was United States
marshal TO arrest. a United States
grand jury to indict and a Unite
States petit jury to convict, that Ger
tain people in the town of Indianola
Miss, had conspircd together for the
purpose of preventing an incumbent of
= federal Office from continuing 10
hold that Office. True there is d plain
@tafHtc of the United States. writ
large on the pages of the revised
statutes. providing punishment for
those guilty of that Identical crime.
II was perhaps, however. thought that
the alleged crime could not be proven
in a 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 alto
Eothcr relied upon" By those in aU-
thOrity. The necessary and righteous
consequence was that recurring 10 the
precedent established by that miracle
of wisdom, George of Hanover. and
his cabinet. we promptly and strcnu-
OusIy deprived the little town of In
- Of .,II Il
10 punish for the law-brcal,ing intent
of a fcw-if indeed. such intent ever
existed which I frankly admit is
ion"d-all of the town. men and
women, doctors. lawyers. merchants
black and white. by cutting off their
mail facilities. thus. by White House
decree. communicating them from
tn" Intelligence of the world. Our an
C"StOrS, inCOmpTchcnSibly. even after
they had had the wisdom of the Bos-
ton port bill fully explained. persisted
in their madness and folly. refusing to
II" Cnlightcucd. and still hung on with
miraculous fInatiCism to tn" belief
that only the guilty Ought 10 Be- pun
i%hCd and even TN" guilty only after 4
fair rial. Not - with our wiser goncr-
alton in Tho TudianOlI case. Again. !
wonder how We managed to prosper.
as We have prospcrcd 80 miraculoU~ly
in all our history. in spit" of a folly
lik" this unconfcsscd oven. until
very recent date; hut Il folly which
We have now, thank God, molly shak-
on off.
Early Free Trade.
The next great historical blunder. in
spite of which. strange 10 say. ""
have. as ! cannot too often repeat.
prospCrcd right along in every step of
our history. with now and then a ten
porary drop-hack, was the immoIatiOn
by our ancestors of the nations indus
trialism upon the altar of free trade
within the common domain, n0twith-
standing already existing state lines
furnished convenient place. opportun-
ity and temptation to establish Gus
tom houses those potent onCOUragcrS
of commerce. What "" ought to have
fought for during colonial days was a
high protective tariff to keep British
products ont of the American market
and another high protective tariff to
keep American products out of the
British market: thus cnriChing both
had accomplished our Independence.
and each state had become separate
sovereignty South Carolina ought to
have protected herself against Pcnnsyl-
vauia and New England. PcnnsyIva-
MIA ought 10 haV" seen to il that =
line of custom houses prevented the
invasion of her sacred soil by the
products Of the JCrSCymCn. the Mary
lander and the pelawarCan. We ought
To have encouraged Interstate trade
by stopping il as much as possible.
thus pursuing in that regard the en-
lGhtcnCd policy which prevails in re
gard 10 our international trade. Then.
after forming the present union. the
constitution itself ought To have pre-
scrihed To the states mutual protcc-
ton. ny mutual taxation and Conse-
qucnt universal 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 paupcr labor
of South Carolina and Georgia. slave
labor for a long time and therefore
worse than paUpCr labor. How rich
Florida would have been. if. instead
of raising plnGapplCS and oranges and
such products as an unrcasoninE sun
seems 10 recommend. she had kept the
rye and barley and wheat and wooden
goods of the northern states ont of
her confines and had created at
some little expense 10 her people. il IS
true. but still with much pride and
self qualification. purely "Floridian in
duStrieS" of these and all other things.
Each community on the surface of the
earth. sir. should raise everything
and make everything which 1t posi-
bly, can regardless of the cost To- its
people of making and raising II. and
if they will not make and raise every
thing of their own accord. then the
people ought to De taxed. until some
body consents 10 accept the profits Of
nCwIy-CrCatcd industries for the altrU-
istic purpose Of giving them away TO