The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-10-19
The Conservative Party Bars out Labor
and Capital.

Hio 10 lllC lCdoOh why w oSh WIN os MY
cents bushel, and buy it back as starch at
twenty five cents a pound. In the meantime
our rivers run idly to the sea, and our lands
are washed away under an unthrifty, culture.
And this is the policy of Conservation. 1t
is not the blunder of Conservatism it is its
crime. [~r
No man can come from the North to this
State and maintain his manliness without
exposing himself to insult. Of course, if
he votes the Conservative ticket, or hides
in obseurity. he is unmolested But let him
take any responsible, public position, and
he is Carpet Bagger and a Yankee Sneak,
a wretch" and must be got rid Of"
Hundreds of enterprising young men, and
hundreds of thousands of dollars of capital
have been in this way driven out of the
State already And surely it is not the Re-
publican party that thus makes North Caro-
lima good State to emigrate from. 1t IS
an old fashion here, which the Conservative
party is trying to conserve. 1t has the
cadaverous look and the charnel house smell
so agreeable to Conservative senses.
The Kuklux Klan with its "wild justice"
fostered by the Conservative leaders, whose
object, to quote its own chaste language,
was "to put down the Republican party and
keep down the nigger," has given such an
impression of the insecurity of lie and pro-
perty in this State, as can not be removed
in five years. We say again it is the fault
of the Conservative party that capital and
labor do not flow into this State.
The same result would be produced and
is produced by Conservative opposition to
our public school system. The old system
of g old field school houses for the poor,
and University exclusively for the rich, is
not the system upon which an intelligent
Prussian looks with appreciation. 1t is not
the system which enables Prussia to put
map in the hands Of every private soldier,
in the assurance that he will know how to
use it. 1t is not the system which has ena-
bled the Prussian soldiery to unite the men,
tai power of the Engllshman with the vigor
of the old Spartan. 1t is not the system
which the Prussian sees in New York and
which he knows prevails in Michigan. 1t is
not the system upon which a republic can
securely rest, and the Prussian turns sorrow
fully from North Carolina where good
school system is novel and offensive to the
party in power, to where it is no novelty,
and where no amount of opposition can up
root it.
The Conservative party keeps out immi-,
grafton by casting contempt upon labor.
(" Let no poor man hold an Office" That is
its battIe.c cry. ITO secure this, make the
pay so small that no honest poor man will
take office. With rich Conservatives in
power, we can pay ourselves by fat jobs and
log rolling legislation. But man that will
work Ike niger, ought to be treated like
niger. Let us keep our offices for gen.
tlemen" This is the spirit of conservatism,
1t avows it where it dare, and acts it every
where.
The Conservative party keeps out immi-
grafton by the refusal of equal rights to all
classes of population. If we have ten thou
sand Germans in this State, some of them
will be like Carl Schurz and Gen. Sigel,
gentlemen, scholars, statesmen. The Con-
servative party don't want them. They
would interfere with the aspirations of the
cold families" To foreign and Northern
money conservatism has no objection what
ever, but foreign brains and Northern brain
it cannot abide. .,-...,'.. r.,..l.s
Self-respecting, intelligent people will not
willingly expose themselves to social ostra-
cism. To-be-sure this is double acting
weapon, and is -g... .,r 5...-
6" Like certain guns, that aimed at ployer,
Recoil, and kick the owner;" r. ~
but the animus which is displayed in clumsy
attempts at using it, is sufficiently disgust.
ing. There is certain fetid animal which
prudent men do not kick None but a Con-
servative would think of making pet of it.
The statement that it is Conservatism that
keeps out immigration, is further proved by
the fact that in localities where. Republi.
canism is dominant, immigration is coming
in that Republicans have always encou.
aged it; and that only the persistent, vic.
lent and diabolical opposition of conserva.
tism has been able to keep it out
We, therefore, indict the Conservative
party with this crime against North Caro-
lima. We say that the tone of the Conserv.
ative papers, the organization of the Kukluz
Klan, the opposition to our public school,
system, the dishonor of labor, the refusal Of
equal rights, together with persistent and
unchristian social ostracism, have kept out
of the State both capital and labor, to the
crippling of the finances of the State and
the discouragement of all good citizens
We say that this policy has defrauded- the
public treasury of sum not far from five
millions dollars annually, sum that in six
years woald have paid the entire State
debt. The State of Ohio has paid such g
debt since the war. The State of Missouri
has paid over seventeen millions of debt
since the war. Both these States are purely
Republican; and both stimulate immi
grafton.
We charge that this crime against the
State has been committed in violation o
the spirit of that article of the Constitution
of the United States, which declares thai
"the citizens of each State shall be entitled
to all the privileges and immunities of citi
zens of the several States" We aver that 6
carpet Dagger, even in the sense OF tran
STORY and needy adventures, if citizen O
the United States Comes IN North Cor,,l;re