The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-08
Tile Obstruction to Prosperity.

From the Boston Post.
Any political party that, after three years.
absolute control of a large section like that
comprised within the Southern States, has
proved its utter inability to bring i. back to
the road of industry and prosperity, ought to
be but too glad to withdraw from further
Iuckless experimenting and give up its place
to another. This faction which strives with
such energy to sweep all power, and the very
sources of all authority, too, into its destroy
Ing hands, has been furnished with abundant
opportunities and unlimited means for lifting
up that naturally rich section OF our country
from its PROSTATE condition, and for rein
stating those influences to industry aud enter
prise which are the simple secrets of its
prosperity. And the same faction ought to
have seen that, by the revival of industry
throughout the South, like revival of busi-
ness would have taken place in the other Sec
tions, each being mutually independent by
an arrangement which partisans happily can
not overthrow. But with their absolute power
with the whole revenues in their hands
with both the military and civil machinery at
their service-untrammelled by any opposition
in Congress-having both Executive and Judi
ciary reduced practically to subjection-they
have nothing to show after three costly years,
during which debt is accumulating upon debt,
but whole class of laborers unemployed and
dissatisfied, no resources developing, no wealth
in process of creation no help offered the
Northern laborers in paying the taxes for both
sections, and no prospect ahead but dreary
blank for the South and settled doubt for the
North. ....
Let the tax-paying people of the country
well comprehend this important fact, that they
will never obtain relief from their burdens
until that country of marvellous natural re-
sources and wealth again feels the nspiripg
influence of industry. Before the war labor
was in constant demand there for the produc-
ton OF those great staples which supplied
abundant and regular business for our mercan-
tile marine in transporting and for our mer-
chants in exchanging them and commerce
idly waits for nothing but the renewal of that
productive industry, for which the same class
of iaborers at the South are as we'll adapted as
ever. Nay, the field has so greatly widened
since the events OF the war that there are null
jplied incentives to industry on every hand.
1t is marvel, not to be reconciled with any
view of sound or safe government, that while
the demands OF the worlds market are press
ing, and the labor that is capable of producing
the staple OF those demands Is idle and in want
supported, in fact, by the charity of the
impatient and needy North-the channels are
persistently Obstrueted through which both
labor and products would otherwise freely pass.
And this obstruction is not by any means
the work wholly OF blindness ard ignorance.
In the main 1t is the result of partisan hatred
anu pdrtsau dlnDlJlOn. lt Is pr6p0Ster0uS
that any party should thus prey upon the
yeIy life of the country, eating out its vital
forces, and do it knowingly too. But 80 the
party in power is doing, and has been doing
ever since the restoration of psace. When all
depends on the replacement of those free rela-
tlons OF the different sections, under the opera
ton OF uninterrupted self government, to dis
charge the necessary expenditures, pay the
taxes, provide for the steady reduction of the
debt revive industry in every quarter, and set
the wheels of prosperity in motion again-it
must be wonderful party that can furnish
satisfactory reason for not completing so sim
pie work, that is to be the parent of such
great and necessary results. Nothing but the
blindest passion and the most intense self
seeking could account for conduct which, in
any political organization, is synonymous with
suicide. f. 7I-',.Il
II, with more pewer than any like organi-
cation in our history ever held this one
shows itself imbecile for any purpose but self
aggrandizement, and still presents it claims
to an extension of popular favor, it deserves
such rebuke as will stand for punishment
as well as disapproval. Its temerity is out of
all proportion to its ability, and an example
should be made of it that shall last for all
coming time. The people want precisely
what radicalism has demonstrated both its un-
willingness and inoapacity to supply. Three
years of such expensive and weary waiting as
they have had, they can i'll afford to repeat.
There must be an instant end OF this costly
playing with the guarantees of civil liberty.