The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-19

discretionary notlon or justice or nee
esSity. You Will remember that all
the wisdom of King Georges Cabinetl
could not put an end to this wantoal
fury, even though the CABINET answer-i
ed: This concerns nobody except the |
the world Our ancestors inoompre-,
not be quieted, but got worse and
worse. uutil their misguided counsels
ton and free and independent
American Government.
I'VE have. however, made thel
amende for this silly business, by ourl
governmental strenuoSty at Indianola a,I
Mississippi. Not long since il was!
alleged, although not proven, notwith-
standing the fact that there was al
United States grand jury to indie:
and United States petit jury to con-
Vfct, that certain people in the town
of Indianola. Mississippi, had conspr-l
ed together for the purpose of prevent
ing an incumbent of a Federal office
from continuing to hold that office.
True. there is a plain statute of the
United States, writ large on TIE
pages of the Revised Statutes, provid-
ing punishment for those guilty of
that Identical crime. 1t 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 altogether relied
upon by those in authority. The nee
essary and righteous consequence was
that, recurring to the precedent es-
tablished by that miracle of wisdom.
George of Hanover and his Cabinet,
We promptly and strenuously deprived
the little town of Indianola Of all mail
facilities, proceeded to punish for the
| law-breaking intent of a few-if in
| deed such intent ever existed-which
frankly admit is questioned-all of the
| town, men and women, doctors, law
yers, merchants, black and white, by
| cutting off their mail facilities; this,
| by White House decree, excommuni-
| eating them from the intelligence OF
the world. Our ancestors incOmpre-
hensibly, even after they had had
| the wisdom Of the Boston port bill
| explained, persisted in their madness
| and folly, refusing to be enlightened.
| and still hung on with miraculous
| fanaticism to the belief that only the
| guilty ought to be punished and even
| the guilty only after a fair trial. Not
50 with our wiser generation in the
| Indianola case. Again I wonder how
we managed to proslra, as we have
history, in spite of folly like this,
| unconfessed even, until a very recent
| date; but a, folly which we have now,
thank God. nobly shaken off.
| The next great historical blunGer.
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
a temporary drop-back, was the i'm
| notation Of our ancestors of the na-
| tion's industrialism upon the altar of
/ free trade within common domain, not
I withstanding already existing state
| lines furnished convenient place, op-
portunity and temptation to establish
! custom houses, those potent encoura-
| gers of commerce. What we ought TO
| have fought for during colonial days
| was a high protective tariff to keep
British products out of the American
| market and another high protective
tariff to keep American products out
| Of the British market; thus enriching
| both Britain and America. Then, afte"
| we had accomplished our independenca
and each state had become a separate
sovereignty, South Carolina ought to
| have protected herself against Penn
| sylvania and New England. Pennsyl-
vania ought to have seen to it that a
line of custom houses prevented the
| invasion Of her sacred soil by the
| products of the Jerseyman, the Mary
+ lander and the Delawarean. We ought
to have encouraged interstate trade by
stopping it as much as possible, thus
pursuing in that regard the enlignter-
ed policy which prevails in regard to
our international trade. Then, aI.er
| forming the present Union, the Con
stitution itself ought to have prescribed
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 Carolina and Georgia, slave
labor for a long time and therefore
worse than panper labor! How rich
| Florida would have been, if, inStead
of raising pineapples and oranges and
such products as an unreaSoning 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, it is true,
but still, with much pride and sell
qualification, purely 'F1oridian indus
/ tries Of these and all other things
Each community on the face of the
earth sir, should raise everything
and make everything, which it posi-
bly, can, regardless Of the cost TO its
people Of making and raising it, and
If they will not make and raise every
thing, of their own accord, then the
people ought to be taxed, until some
body consents to accept the Profits OF
newly created Industries for the al
tru1stic purpose OF giving them away
to American, Polish, Hungarian and
other labor.
'I have known people foolish enough
to answer: that il Cew Jersey Rad
created a great New Jersey banana
industry. We will say, Cbecause bana
mas could be easily raised there under
glass and in forcing beds) it would
have made bananas very much mere
costly than common people would like
Il and that perhaps il fssE(tar for New
| Jersey to raise potatoes and peaches
and manufacture various things natu
rally profitable and, with the profits OF
capital and labor thus pIebianly en-
ployed, buy bananas But the men
| who say that, of course, are lacking
in patriotism-'a cheap banana makes
| q cheap man. and we hurl foul
Il scnrn at those who are lackine,