The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1867-12-06

favor of placing the negro on fair
footing with the white man, that
he may have an equal opportunity
to w,rk out his destiny.
We don't see bow any such obli-
CATION rests upon this people. This
country was founded anl freed by
the white race, and government
is established for them.
1t did not propose to do any i'm
possibilities, or set up any utopian
universal republic. 1t was intend
ed that it should he an American ma
tion, just as France is French ma
tion. 1t received foreigners, and
when they had signified their inten-
tion to become American citizens,
abjuring their former allegiance,
they were clothed with the rights of
citizenship.
1t did not make this offer to In
dians, Chinese. Malays or negroes
They could not become citizens. 1t
was a benefit intended for the white
race alone. 1t was to be a country
of the white man for white men. If
others, like the Indians and negroes,
were here, it was their misfortune.
fla joint stock company grants
certain rights and privileges to
members, is it any injustice to 9TH
ers W ho are not members that they
do not share in them: This joint
stock company, the Governm
proposed to receive mono in it hut
white men; had they not right to
do so, and had any one a right to
complain? We propose to do equal
justice to all men who are Ameri-
cans-but we do not propose to do
as much for citizens Of other States.
We did not propose to make this a
universal republic. On the contra
ry. we give certain positive benc-
fits and privileges to our own citi-
zens over foreigners, in the way Of
holding property, protection. voting
al t..e Ike.
Is it any injustice to your guest
that you refuse to admit him to your
bedrooms, use your. horses, your
stock your money, as you do your
self? 1t is your house, bought by
Yen, governed by you, to which you
give visitors certain welcome Or cor
sileration, without raising them to
equality with you in the contro!
and dis lpline of your family.
That is the state Of the case pre-
cisely. We do not consider the ne
gro part of the American family.
We do not intend to be just to him
in making him equal with us in rule
and control. If he doesn't. like it,
the world is wide, let him go else
where 1t is what the white man
does when he becomes dissatisfied.
The foreignerleayes his native place
=1l comes to America because be
likes this country better. If the
negro is badly y treated here, lot him
leave. If he is equal to the white
man, let him take the white mans
remedy of getting rid of expressions.
We don't let the negro vote, sit
on juries, bear witness and the like.
Well, it doesn't suit us for him to
have those privileges in our country.
In his country, Africa or Hayti, it
does not suit for the white man to
have these equal privileges, Who
shall say each country has not the
perfect right to act as it thinks wis
est for it's own citizens?
We don't think there is any legal
or moral obligation on US to do any
thing but TO- look primarily to our
own interests, and let other races
Look to theirs. AS long as the ne
gro is with us, we will do the best
for him we can; but as We do not
want him to be an American citizen.
We will not clothe him with privil-
eyes we grant to our own people
alone. louisville Democrat.
COOP EcoNoMY.-W clip the
following from the New York Econ
omist
- The New York Tribune asks:
Gould there be any better public
economy than to return ,, 500 SOL
diers to productive labor in civil
life, and lend on perfect security the
principal Of tie sum of which their
pay and maintenance is the interest
to he used in settling the rich plains
with farmers and stock -raisers and
developing the wealth of New Mex
leo, Southern Colorado, Northern
Texas, Arizona and Southern Cali
fornia? All this the Pacific railway
| (Kansas branch) when completed,
and as it progresses. will surely ac-
complish, beside etfectually and per-
manently settling the Indian ques-
tion.
s"There is great deal of sound
political economy in the Tribune's
suggestion. 1t rarely pays, in the
long run, to keep soldiers. 1t is
generally an unsound state of things
that requires them, and the loss Of
labor attendant upon their diversion
from industry tends to impoverish
and distress the people. BY the
way, how would tho Tribune's whole
some principle apply to the South?
/ We have a military force in that
section which costs us some thirty