El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-31

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Industrial Era Starts.
The embargo and non-intercourse
acts of the jefferson and Madison re-
gime, hated as they were by the COM
mercial interests, afforded a complete
protective system which encouraged
home industries. Pennsylvania espe-
cially began to build up manufactures.
being followed by New Jersey, New
York and New England. The invention
of the cotton gin in this country and
the improvement of spinning machinery
in England created such a demand for
cotton that slave labor in the cotton
states became immensely profitable and
the financial interests of the south did
not discover the need of investing mon
ey in anything except cotton pIanta-
! lions. The result of the war Of 1912,
the overthrow of Napoleon the begin
ming Of the long peace in Europe, the
rapid growth of the United States and
the development of the territory be-
tween the Alleghenies and the Missis-
sippi, all operated to make the Repub-
lie more independent of foreign affairs
In the meantime the Federalist party
had collapsed. and the Republicans were
in entire control OF the government by
virtue of their position with respect to
foreign policies Then, for the first
time, domestic problems arose and
behest OF Pennsylvania, congress en-
acted a protective tariff which result
ed in further stimulating the Ameri-
can industries. The strict constructions
lists and the latitudinarians again clash
ed upon the question OF whether the
federal government possessed the pow
er under the constitution to appropriate
money for roads. canals and other in
ternal improvements
Clay Leads Protecfionists
Henry Clay, who had come into ma
tional prominence in the Young Repub-
liean revolt in 1910. placed himself at
the head of the progressive faction He
formulated q protective tariff doctrine
which he named the American sys-
tenn. He was heartily in favor OF In
ternal improvements. and he was so
thoroughly devoted to the business OF
advancing the material prosperity OF
the country that he deprecated the ir-
lection of purely political questions
into the national forum. Thus he AZ
ways was ready with a compromise
measure to stave off the fina' Ieck-
oring on political questions, that he
might save his Industrial program from
disturbance. He was a prOtectiOnist.
because he believed protection would
enrich the north; he was for internal
improvements because they wouII de-
velop and enrich the west, and he was
for slavery because IL would enrich the
south He flattered himself, and the
country agreed with him. that he had
forever taken the slavery question out
OF politics by the Missouri compromise
Of 1920 In his ardent Young Repub-s
Hcan days he had defeated the bill to
recharter the Bank of the inter
States, but the panic of 1916 caused
him to change his mind. and in conson-
ance with his general faith in the
material future of the country he be-
came a staunch defender of the bank
and therefore an ally of the money
power.
New Democrats In Power.
But, unfortunately for Clay. there
were important political questions
which could not be compromised and
which. in the minds of a great MAORI
ty of the people. were more important
than the economic and fiscal questions
which Clay thought to make the par
amount issues In state after state
the ruling classes had been compelled
by popular revolutions 10 grant new
constitutions which extended the right
of suffrage. which abolished or re-
duced property qualifications. and
which embodied reforms demanded by
the new Democracy. The oligarchies
overthrown in the states were not
clearly different in form from that
small number Of men at Washington
who had assumed the power and au
thority to select presidents and adj
minister the affairs of the government.
1t was inevitable that this general
Democratic revolution should attack
the national government Defeated In
1924 by what they were pleased TO be-
lieve q corrupt bargain, the new Demo-
Gratis. with a war hero for their leader.
gained control OF congress in 1926, and
OF the presidency two years later.
The Wings, under Adams and Clay,
unable to. combat openly the Democrat
ic demand for popular participation IN
government, sought to create a diver
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