The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-08-20

law were amenable to punishment under the
law. through its usual processes. amongst
which were Indictment by q grand jury and
trial by a petit jury. none doubted. with
a wisdom, however, eQualed only by that of
the present occupant of the chief executives
chair In these United States. these usual
remedies by law, against law breakers, were
Ignored by that Sapient statesman, King
George, as being reeds too weak to depend
upon in an extreme like that. The
consequence was that the entire population
of Boston, men. women and children, oo-
servers of the law as well as law breakers,
were punished. and the Boston port bill was
passed thus In a fashion royalty
n~icating the little town, commercially and
industrially. Then came that strange and
unaccountable outbreak of popular hysteria
to which l have referred. 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 government can disregard the forms of
law, whenever, 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 confines
Of Carolina or within the depths of the
woods of Maine-Safe neither in our per-
sons nor our properties, nor in the pursuit
of our happiness-the very difference be-
tween a free government and a despotism
being that a free government operates with
In the prescribed forms of law and a despot-
ism is a government in accordance with
some individuals discretionary notion of
Justice or necessity" You Will remember
that all the wisdom of King Georges cabi-
net could not put an end TO this wantOn
fury. even though the cabinet answered ::
This concerns nobody exc pt the town or
Boston," Our ancestors could not be quieted,
but got worse and worse, until their mis-
guided c~ounsels led to the foolish result of
instruction" and q free and Independent
American government.
We have, however, made the 0mende hon
ordbIe for this silly business, by our gov
ornamental strenuosity at Indianola, Missls-
sippi. Not long since 1t was alleged. though
not proven, Notwithstanding the fact that
there was a United States marshal to ar
rest, a United States grand jury 20 indict
and a United States petit jury to convict.
that certain people In the town of Indian
ola, Mississippi, had conspired together for
the purpose Of preventing an of
a Federal office from continuing to hold that
office. True, there is d plain statute OF the
United States. writ large" on the pages OF
the revised statutes, providing punishment
for those guilty of that Identical crime. 1t
was, perhaps, however, thought that the al
legged crime could not be proven in q 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 au-
thority. The necessary and righteous con-
sequence was that, recurring TO the prece-
dent established by that miracle of wisdom.
George of Hanover, and his cabinet, we
promptly and ~strenuOusly deprived the lit
tie town of Indianola OF all mail facilities,
proceeded to punish for the law breaking In
tent of a feW-if indeed such intent ever ex-
isted-which frankly admit Is questioned
all of the toWn-men and women, doctors,
lawyers, merchants. black and white. by
cutting off their mail facilities thus by q
white house decree. communicating them
from the intelligence of the world. Our an
~cestors. incomprehenSibly, even after they
had had the wisdom Of the Boston port bill
fully explained. persisted In their madness
and folly, refusing to be enlightened. and
still hung on with miraculous fanaticlsm to
the belief that only the guilty ought to De
punished and ever the guilty only after a
fair trial not so with our wiser generation
In the Indlanola case. Again | wonder how
we managed to prosper. as we have pros
pered so miraculouSly In all orr history, IN
spite Of a historical folly like this. uncon.
fessed even unit a very recent date but
a folly which we have now. thank God, nooiy
shaken off.
The next great historical biunder. In
spite of which, strange to say, we have, as
I can not too often repeat, prospered right
along In every step OF our history, WITH
now and then a temporary drop-back. was
| the immolation by our ancestors of the ma
lions industrialism upon the altar of free
trade within the common domain, notwltn'
standing already existing State lines fur,
| nished convenient place. opportunity and
| temptation to establish custom houses
| those potent encouragers of
What we ought to have fought for during
colonial days was a high protective tarln
to keep British products out OF the Ameri
can, and another high protective tarin to
| keep American products out Of the Brit
ish market thus enriching both Britain ano
America. Then after we had accomplished
our independence, and each State had De
i come a separate sovereignty. South caro-
lima ought to nave protected herself against
Pennsylvania and New England Pennsyiva
MIA ought to have seen to it that a line OF
custom houses prevented the Invasion OF hel
| sacred soil by the products OF the Jersey
| man. Marylander and Delawarean. We ought
to have encouraged interstate trade by stop
ping It as much as possible. thus pursuing
in that regard the enlightened policy whicf
| p~rcvails in regard TO our internationa
Trade then after forming the present union
The constitution itself ought to have pre-
scribed to the States mutual protection
by mutual taxation aud consequent uniYer
sal prosperity"
What an enormously rich country the lit
tie State of Rhode Island would have beer
now but for the influx of the cotton raised
by the pauper labor Of South Carolina anC
Georgia, slave labor for a long time anc
therefore worse than pauper labor! How
rich FLORIDA would have been, Ii. instead Ct
| raising pineapples and oranges and such
products as an unreasonlng sun seems tC
recommend, she had kept the rye and barley
and wheat and wooden goods of the North
ern States cut of her confines and hac
1aL "a oCAAS AALAAO ~ ~ ~
pie. it is true, but still with much pride ant
| self gtoriication, purely "Fforidian indus
! tries" of these and all other things!
Ea.h community on the face of the earth
sir, should raise everything and make
everything, which 1t possibly can" regard
less Of the cost to it's people of making
and raising 1t, and il they will not make
and raise everything. Of their own accord
| then the people ought to be taxed" unit
somebody consents to accept the profits OF
lnew-created industries for the aItruistiC
| purpose of giving them away to America
| Polish, Hungarian and other labor.
/ have known people foolish enough II
answer, that IF New Jersey had created
a great New Jersey banana Industry, We
will say (because bananas could be easily
raised there under glass and in forcing
beds), it would have made bananas very
much more costly than common peoplt
would like and that perhaps it Is better fol
New Jersey to raise potatoes and peaches
and manufacture various things naturally
proftably and. with the profits of the CAPT
tai and labor thus plebeianly employed, buy
bananas" But the men who say that, OF
course, are lacking in patriotism-"a cheaI
banana makes a cheap man." and we bur
foul scorn at those, who are so lacking In
seIf-dependence as not to be willing to pay
whatever is necessary to be paid out OF
the pockets of consumers in order to pre-
vent the pauper banana, raised by paupel