New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-24
sCRAMBLINe FOB OFFICE CRUMBS.

The St. Louis Republican, which is the
very head and front of Missouri; Dem.
ocracy, comments on Southern Office
Seeking with evident disgust at the dis
play made at Washington. It repeats
the assertion that there are more OF these
Office beggars from Virginia than any
other State" but that is accounted for by
the fact, perhaps, that Virginia is nearer
to the seat of government, and can be
reached by walking, now that there is no
Union soldiers to prevent the approach Of
tie Confederate army Of Northern vir-
gina. Missouri is differently situated
and her Democrats, who have some in
dustrial enterprises on hand, and work to
do at home, are not slow to say that the
Office scramblers in Washington are "po-
itcal tramps who deserve as little mercy
as the footpads of the highway"
The Democratic Republican is on the
right track whea it undertakes to show
that the South needs something great
deal more than federal Offices" some
thing more than the "scant crumbs dis
pensed by Democratic House." but it
has undertaken herculean task when it
undertakes to make those misguided
place-hunters see their own degradation.
The rag-picker who has been reared to the
work OF searching for small gains in
garbage barrels, can rarely be made to
engage in better business, to enjoy the
sunlight, to clean himself and look for
higher things in life Young Democrats
are growing up in the schools of ward
politics, all hoping to graduate at some
caucus commencement with a diploma
which shall secure them Office whenever
they may decide to practice.
The st. Louis Republican is published
in busy city and State; although DEM
oclatic, it breaches doctrine not hurt
full to material prosperity. 1t sees and
says Of the Southern section of our coun-
ty, that sit needs the wealth that steady,
persistent productive labor alone can
give, and if the idle young men of the
South were to so to work resolutely at
home, instead Of tlocE;ng to Washington,
we would hear less of the repudiated and
disowned debts that are the constant SUBJ
ject of complaint in that region"
The EepuJlican should know that idling
and reputation encompass the real po-
sition and hopes of Southern Democracy.
The average young man of the South will
not put his hand to the pillow, and he is
reasonable enough to shoot even the
negroes who are disposed to work. Mis-
sissippi has been made a Democratic
State through the influence of shotguns
in the hands Of Idle young men. The
fall Of the Confederacy decided that COL
ored men were no longer wild beasts, to
be hunted, driven and shot in the fields,
and we now see them deserving the plan
tations Of Mississippi by thousands, to
find work in other fields, leaving unculti-
waited lands, unpicked cotton, and a few
Offices to the Democrats. Such result
is not unnatural.
Theindustrial Democracy of the North
and West may for time run in the same
channel with the murderous and mendi-
cant Democracy of the South, but the two
can no more mix than oil and water.
Honest industry must win in the end
against all enemies, while sin and idle
ness must surely come to grief Men
thrive and prosper and increase their
wealth and brains away on the bleak hills
of New Hampshire and Vermont. There
workingmen are encouraged and their
rights respected. In many Of our Southern
States, which rich vegetation makes the
very lap of luxury, the pale face complains
that starvation stares him in the face, and
be cries, "Give me office, or sink" Are
the laboring men duly respected here, are
they invited to join the oranges organized
by the doctors and traders, are they pro-
tected in their rights? Not much. The
colored men who till the soil are trying
to educate their children agairst the
wishes Of "the PEG pie. =" and they are par
ticular'y than " to Heaven and Wheeler
compromises if they are allowed to work
during an entire season without being
fred at by Democratic gunners. This is
all wrong, and the States thus offending
justice must suffer for it. Laborers will
go where they can live in peace; and when
and where political shotgunners have
things oil their oW u way, the Office hunt
ers will find only themselves TO shoot.
The reputation most needed in the South
is the reputation of Democrats, with
their shallow platforms and ruinous prac-
tees.
PRINCIPLE P0Rs0oK!