The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-26
Notifying Hon. Henry Gassaway Davis Of His
Nomination. for the Vice1Presidency.
LF-MADE MAN, NOT YET TooPRoUD OF HIS MAKER
Unique Discussion and brief Historical Disposition Upon Some of the
Blenders of OR Ancestors, as Viewed From the Standpoint Of
the Wisdom of Republican Statesmen Who Have En-
braced the Strenuous Lie1- Uncle Joe Can eTsxaT
- non Touched Up Along the Way.

''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 connnes
of Carolina or within the depths OF the
woods of Maine-safe neither In our per
sons nor our properties, nor ip the pursuit.
of our happiness-the very difference be
tween a free government and a despotlsn
being that a free government operates with
in the prescribed forms of law and a despot
ism Is a government in accordance witt
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 wantor
fury. even though the cabinet answered
This concerns nobody EXCEPT the town OF
Boston," Our ancestors could not be Quoted
but got worse and worse, until their mis-
guided counsels led to the foolish result OF
'insurrection' and a free and independent
American government.
We have. however, made the dniende hon
Ordble for this silly business. by our gov
ernmental strenuosity at Indianola. Missis
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 to indict
and a United States petit jury to convict
that certain people in the town of Indian
ola, Mississippi, had conspired together fol
the purpose of preventing an OF
a Federal office from continuing to hold thai
office. True, there is a plain statute 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 al
legged 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 au
thority. The necessary and righteous con
sequence was that, recurring to the prece
L.. q h- &y,nf r.fraa1A ~ wisdom
George of Hanover. and his cabinet. we
promptly and S~trenuously 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 9
white house decree, communicating then
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, an6
still hung on with miraculous fanaticism tc
I the belief that only the guilty ought to BIZ
punished and even the guilty only after Q
fair trial not so with our wiser generation
in the Indianola case. Again l wonder how
we managed to prosper, as we have pros
pered so m~iraculously in all our history, In
spite Of a historical folly like this, uncon
fessed even unit a very recent date; but
q folly which We have now, thank God, nobly
shaken OF.
spite of which, strange to say, we have. a.
| can not too often repeat, prospered righi
along in every step OF our history, witt
now and then a temporary drop-back. was
the immolation by our ancestors of the ma
tons industrialism upon the altar of free
trade within the common domain, notwith
| standing already existing State lines fur
nished convenient place, opportunity ano
temptation to establish custom houses
those potent encouragers of
What we ought to have fought for during
colonial days was a high protective tariff
to keep British products ont of the Ameri
| can, and another high protective tariff to
keep American products out Of the Brit
ish market thus enriching both Britain and
America. Then after we had accomplished
our independence, and each State had be-
come a separate sovereignty, South Caro-
lima ought to have protected herself against
| Pennsylvania and New England Pennsylya
mia ought to have seen to it that a line OF
custom houses prevented the invasion of her
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 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 univer
sal prosperity"
What an enormously rich country the lit
tie 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 pauper labor! How
rich Florida would have been, if. instead OF
raising pineapples- aAd 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 North.
ern States out of her confines and had
created" at some little expense to her peo'
pie. it is true. but still with much pride and
self gloriication, purely "Floridian 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 possibly can" regard
less of the cost to its people of making
and raising it, and if they will not make
and raise everything, of their own accord
then the people ought to be taxed until
new-created industries for the altruistic
purpose of giving them away to America
Polish, Hungarian and other labor.
have known people foolish enough to
answer, that IF New Jersey had created
a great New Jersey banana industry, we
raised there under glass and In forcing
beds), it. would have made bananas very
much more costly than common people
would like and that perhaps it is better fol-
new JeISty W IdlSC pOldtOCo dho PtdNANa
and manufacture various things naturally
profftably and, with the profits of the CAPT
tai and labor thus plebeianly employed. buy
bananas" But the men who say that, oil
| course. are lacking in patriotism-"a CHEAP
banana makes a 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 pre-
vent the pauper banana, raised by paupei
| labor, grown on pauper soil. nourished by
| pauper sunshine-vile foreigner, as it is
from invading New Jersey. l know there
are a lot of old fashioned, out of date PEG.
pie, principally Democrats, who say that
the watchword of Industrial progress among
communities is not isolation and independ
ence, but reciprocity and interdependence OF
productivity that isolation leads to feel
ings of estrangement and enmity among peo-
pie that industrial interdependence consti
tutes a sort of world-effective bond to keep
| the peace. l need not stop to tell you
that such men are mere theorists" One
of them might be granted plenary power for
a thousand years and at the end of that
period would not have given any change OF
occupation to such capitalists and working
men of Maine as are, or might be, made
to be, DESTROYS of raising sun-kissed plants
ingmen In Maine and Vermont 'unprotect-
ed" to devote their labor selfshly to Other
things, merely because the cultivation OF
Manufacture Of these other things is nat
urally more profitable!
How in the world it has happened
Though / confess it did happen) that dur
Ing colonial times, when there were no Gus
tom houses between the several colonies
and when all the products of Great Britain
1 had FREQ access to- our markets, our la
borers yet mworked at wages very much
higher than those which then prevailed in
Great Britain, / can not understand. How
it Ehas happened, since we became a Fed
eral ration, that the comparatively paupel
| negro labor OF Central mississippi has MOI
been able to ran the high priced white labor
of Central New York out of the farming