, 1875-01-25

IA nEAt. nANHER y

tion OF AIr. OKuno.
IA REAL DANGER"
The Louisville t0urfer-Journal has at Inst
found real danger md Is extremely glad,
apparently, to bo rclioved of the necessity
for beating tho tonl-tom and pounding the
how-gag over tho various sham dangers at
which 1t pretcnds to be frightened from day
to day Wo nrc thankful for respite from
editorials on tho imminent risk OF Cnsariam
aud of a dissolution Of tho Kentucky Legsla-
turo by tho armed myrmidona Of tho
modern HAYNAu," which, ia tho Kontucky
method Of describing corroral's gunrd Of
national soldiers. A half-column editorial
hoaded "a Rea1 Danger" brings
sigh of relief. We haston to SEQ
what this genuine caso Of scare
mny be. The nation will bo relieved to henr
that it is simply that Southern congressman
differ from other Southern men in not dis
playing great zeal for ToM Scorr's subsidy
stoal-sehcmo for building tho Southern Pa-
citlc Railroad. We were aware that soma diff
ference existed. Mr.. BEcK, for instance, hns
never indu1ged in tho pasti1no Of Ku-Klux-
ism, which, according to tho CouTaer-Journal,
is the favorite Kentucky sport. Tho Cottr.-
Jour. says, indeed, that BEcH has not "gono
clear daft" This il another difference be-
tween Mr.. DEcK md the average Kontuekian,
80 far as the doings Of ToM SCOTT or Gen.
SHERIDAN aro concerned. Tho Dluc~Grass na-
tives aro daft On both those topics.
Tho Courer-Jo'traal, in order to avert this
real tanger, tells Southern atntesmen and the
world in general that '' the measure [ScoT7's
subsidy is Of more Importance to the South
than all other questions united" Wo fear
2lr. WAT7Easoa wns absorbed in his lottery
business when this wondrous statement was
penned and left some rash subordinate to do
the job. "Of moro Importance to the South
than all other questions united" Is it more
important, then, TINT Ton ScoTT's dishonored
paper should DO taken up with tho peoples
money; that his OredLS1obilier construction
company, which is MI almost exact copy Of its
Union Pacific prototype, should be enriched
from the same source; md that q track
should bo laid through the great barrcns Of
America, again with the peoples nloney,-is
this catalogue Of blessings to ToM ScoTE more
important to tho South than anything and
everything else? Then is the South wonder
fully happy md prosperous, since the very
best thing tho milton can do for her is to put
one railroad gpeculator on lis legs. What
tho South needs is education, law and
order, fair treatment of the negroes,
honest voting, less need Of Federal
interference, and less of that interference.
We fail to SEQ why one useless road through
4t,11r IL
South as we'll as North, sc, $50 900 year for
forty years, md then u lump-sum Of $685.
100000, will compass these needs or be Of
more importance than their satisfaction.
The Courisr-.Iouraaz quotes from private
letter written by "a distinguished member
Of Congress" tho remarkable assertion that
building ToM ScoTr's rond for him :" will
give the South market for all our
products such as we have not had
since the War" It is kind in
Mr. WArrEnsoN to suppress tho nsme Of
tho anthor Of this flight Of fancy. He might
| mako good novelist, Judging by his skill in
fiction, but the less CHIN he makes to pro-
found craftsmanship the better. Every mar
| kot open to the South before the Civil War ID
open to it now, and the largely y-ineroasea de-
mand for goods by the e1-slaves has
greatly strengthened tho home market. Docs
it expect to ship its cotton, sugar, and tobac-
co to the Indians Of the alkali plains, or tho
grasshoppers, whom railroad communications
with those valuable donizens Of our
arid uplan1s las been established
The Digger Indians at present chew
c1ay, but they would doubtless substitute to-
bacco for it if the weed were furnished free.
As for the grosshopposs, they will eat every
thing sent tl1om, and may whet their apo
tites by lunching on the ties and tho rails,
but neither they nor tho Indians can pay
anything for whnt they consume. It needs
| eyes such rs SAN WELLER described to sec
what good either Of these "n,artets" has to
do to tho South. We trust the real danger
is roal, and that Southern Congressman are
therefore moro sensible than Southern con.
stitueucies.