The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-01
3 -Mlouopulist.
THE SOUTHERN TROUBLES.

and there lett to howl and foam, naked.
amid his straw; and occasionally. to
subdue the devil within him, his brutal
keepers inflicted upon him terrible
.scourgings. Now, thanks to the en-
lightenment of our age, it is understood
that the violence Of the maniac is SIM
ply the outward expression of the dis
order of some organ Of the body; and
instead of scourging and pounding the
poor wretch, the skillful physician pre-
scribes for the stomach or the kidneys,
or resorts to some other mild and gentle
means, to restore the balance Of nature.
The same rule holds good in states
manship. The philosopher looks below
the violent symptoms of the communl-
ty to ascertain the cause and prescribe
the remedy. The charlatan would cure
the disease by attacking the symp-
toms.
1t is conceded that the Southern
States are in wretched condition vio-
lence and discomfort prevail. The Re-
publcans argue that you must resort to
scourgngs, chains and bayonets; that
the only remedy is a perpetual stand
ing army. If the man has headache,
caused7by a diseased liver, the cure,
they say, is to cut o fl the head.
Let us enquire what has caused this
violence and universal discomfort, be-
cause if we can find the seat of the dis
ease, We may prevent its expression.
We find the following in a recent ex-
change:
Gov. Lewis Of Alabama, with view to
pleasing the negroes, has appointed to the
Office OF Judge in Dallas county, negro
named Oscar Hunter, arh0 cannot "r1fc, and
q,ho Signs his name to the minutes or the
court auth u cross mark
In another exchange we find the fol-
lowing:
One OF the causes of the dissatisfaction of
Southern white men with the existing state
of things is very succinctly told in anaddress
which has been recently issued at Port Glib
son, Miss, from which it appears that the
Governor of the State is from Massachusetts,;
the Lieutenant Governor is a negro from an
other State the Superintendent. OF Educa-
ton is negro now on trial for felony. In
the county Claiborne where the address
was issued, the sheriff can neither read nor
aDrite; the negro County Treasurer cannot
add up a column Of figures the negro Coro-
ner is under indictment for burglary the
Board of Supervisors haze no real estate IN
terest in the county; and most OF the ma5ls-
trates are negroes, many OF whom cannot
read, and Of course cannot even comprehend
the laws they pretend to administer. 1t would
be hard to conceive more desperate polit;-
cal condition than this.
If these were isolated instances, they
would amount to little; but they are
symptoms of an universal disease.
What must be the condition Of a
country where its ignorance rules; and
where its taxes are imposed and collect
cd by men who pay no taxes! lmag-
inc Minnesota governed by uncivilized
Indians; a majority of its Legislature
made up Of them; all its township,
county and State Offices filled by them;
a few white men, like Seeger and Nell
rath, leading them; and all living in
riotous squalor upon the plundered tax
payers. Such a rule would simply
mean universal confscation Of all the
property of the State.
This is the condition Of the South.
Take the census Of 1870 and compare
the State debt of one or two southern
States with one or two northern States.
Fer instance, compare the empire
State of the North, New York, with the
empire State of the South, Georgia.
The first has population of 1882, 80
the latter population of l,l94,OS9.
New York has, therefore, nearly four
times as much population as Georgia.
Now let us compare their a sessed
wealth:
New ork $500. $3.50. go, ooO, - ,so4
Georgia -. ...... ...... -. 26S, i69, 207
Thus is appears tina: New York has
four times as much population as Geor-
gia, ana twentytour times as much
wealth. New York is full of CONNER
cial and manufacturing enterprise and
activi- y ;-Georgia is naturally quiet,
conservative, agricultural State. We
would, therefore. expect to find the
State debt of Georgia less than one
twenty-fourth that Of New York.
What are the actual figures
New York, State debt, 1870 -. .Sa7, SIS, $50
GEORGIA, STATE DEBT, 1870. ~, 500, U0t
Now let US divide the sum total of
New York assessed wealth by the
sum total of her debt. and we find that
for every dollar of State debt there are
Sl1l.00 of wealth.
Try Georgia by The same test. Di
vide her total debt into her total wealth
and what is the result! We find that
for every dollar Of State debt Georges
possesses S6.33-100 of wealth!
GEoRG1A'S STATE DEBT Is EQUAL. Te
.ONE-sIxrH THE ENTIRE WEALTH OF ALL HE
PEOPLE.
But this is not all. To this State
debt we must add the county and town