The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-11-17

The business Future of the k0uih -i.e'
,iew Of ihe Injections by strictly
Vommercini JOurnni,
lNew York Hul olinl
Asthe present unproplllous. condl'
finn of Tie material Interests Of the
rouDlIy n largely due 10 The prOstra-
lion md general lmpOyerlshmcnl Of
lbe southern states, II may DO worth
while considering whether the re-
Variable revolution iupubllc opinion
IN which last Tuesdays elections bear
witness, h likely 10 produce In that
0uarler any change for the betler, We
are entitled 10 assume that II viii be-
cause the south has now u most con-
ylurIng assurance that the people Of
the north and west lave made their
carsc their own, II ths were not 10,
Massachusetts, especially, for thirty
ycnls or more the lrOn-Clnd embodl'
mcnt of lheslllIest New England sen.
tImcnt would probably have spoken
In different voice, The implication
IL, A speedy redress Of existing grlev-
unces, q restoration of the blessings Of
self government, the permanent paclil-
cation Of races on the sure basis ofmu-
tual interest, and, rs the certain results
OF these, IN early recovery of southern
prosperity.
with this conviction, then, there Is
no reason why all classes Of our coun-
trymen in that section should not now
take fresh courage and contribute In
every way possible, to the happy con-
summation of the good work which
has been so auspiclously commenced.
The great agricultural interests, the
merchants, the manufacturers, and the
press, all have nm important part TO
perform. They have 10 demonstrate
that there Is no such thing rs u real
ant0gonism Of races, and that, but for
the meddling of sell-seeking mischief
makers, the reconciliation of interests
rs between the whites and blacks
would be perfect. And, happily, the
indications are that the dcmOnstra.
ton will not be difficult. The latter, i!
so happens, have been quick learners
in the hard school of experience these
few years past, and know many things
now of which they had but feeble con-
ceptlon before. They have discovered
that their best friends, after all, are
the people among whom they
have have been born and brought
up; that one Of the conditions annexed
to acknowledgements is not eXemp'
ton from labor, rs implied in the
"forty acres and u mulep fiction, but
The honest industry which leads to
self-respect andpersonal independence,
and that finally as regards political
rights, there need no difficulty, pro
vided there be no outside interference.
If proof of this were needed we might
point to the fact that at the recentelect-
ion in Louisiana, the names of white
and colored persons were, i'll not
few instances, upon the same ticket,
and that, too, at the formal invitation
of the former. What better assurance
than this could be had that, aside from
sporadic cases of violence lying some
times at the door of the white, and
sometimes at the door of the black
inst as often among ourselves here at
thenorth--there is no such thing as an
antagonism of races, or that if the
country ever was menaced by q cal
amity of this character, the Peril has
passed.
1t is eminently desirable that dis
position of this kind should be assidu-
ously cultivated now more than ever
by both and all classes throughout the
south, in order that the feeling which
has found expression in the great
change in public opinion to which we
refer may have free play in performing
its part of the work of restoration. We
venture this suggestion in no spirit of
impertinence, but in the hope that it
will put all end to the occupation Of
evil men who, since the close of the
war; have Systematically filled the
public mind here with distorted views
of the feeling between the two classes.
The road will then be open for such an
influx of home and foreign capital into
all the long sluggish arteries of south
ern industries aud sou5hern'commerce
as cannot fail to work for them, as it
seem to us a wonderful transfor-
nation. The time is pecukRrly
propitlous for the diversion OF
capital in that direction F; MILL
ions of money are lying idle on both
sides of the Atlantic, but waiting the
opportunity, and if we are correct in
our estimate of the new departure
which must be the early consequence
of the political revolution, the opporu-
nifty will soon be presented. The pros
pect, therefore, is one upon winch not
only the south, but the whole country
may be congratulated. 1t foreshadows
the infusion of new life into decaying
markets, the recovery of lost industries,
the revival of enterprise i'll places
where enterprise has long since been
well nigh driven to the wall, the resto-
ration of credits, and in due time
large extension of trade, the animating
influence OF which must be felt in
every pulsation of commerce through
out the union. Boston, New York,
Philadelphia and San Francisco, not
less than Savannah, Charleston, Mobile
and New Orleans, have in this matter
great interests in common, and if the
Judgment of the people in all the lead
ing states on Tuesday last has any
Specification at all above and beyond
the party lines which for the moment
it seems to have well nigh erased, 1t is
an admonitiOn to persons in power,
and to persons to whom power is to be
intrusted, that the time is come
when the material interests of the
country must have precedence over all
other considerations. We are hope
full enough to believe that an admo-
milton so emphatically and impress
sively given will not be needed, and
that when we come to look back upon
the causes which most powerfully as
sisted in the general recovery OF the
country from protracted period of
commercial ard industrial derange-
ment, the popular verdict at the cleo
tions in the autumn of 1874 will de-
enr1rn nnnalninIlnIa rnnnnniiinn.