The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-08-27
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FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST p, 1875.
The Costs of Democracy.

We print below an editorial from The
st. Louis GlObc-Democrat, which con-
tains much matter for serious thought.
We commend it to all our readers OF
whatever politics, and when they have
read it, let them decide as to its truth
and act accordingly. We are fully con-
WINGED that no greater calamity ever
happened to this State than its surren-
der to the Democracy, and We can
prove it by facts and figures indisputa-
bic. Here is the article:
CAS- the Democrats Of Missouri are
largely engaged in the pleasant occupa-
ton of holding Our State up as a model
and illustration of the fruits of DcmOc-
racy, and ali encouragement to other
States to come and do likewise, it may
be worth while to take a survey Of the
situation and to see Just what we owe to
Democracy, or. perhaps, what DemOc-
racy owes TO Us; in any case, TO strike
the balance and arrive at 4 fair under
standing Of the question.
1.-The history of Missouri during the
past fourteen years may be roughly di-
yidcd into three periodS--four years of
war. five years Of Republican govern
ment, and five years OF Democratic GOV
eminent. What the years of the war
were we all know. Our railroads were
raided, bridges and buildings burnt,
tracks and rolling stock destroyed. Our
highways were cut and torn by the
tramp of artillery and of army wagons,
and were left to decay. Our fields were
trampled down, Il industries pr0stra-
ted, and worse than all the loss OF prop
erty and destruction of the peaceful re-
sources of prosperity was the loss Of Lu-
man life by open w3r and secret MUIR
der. Missouri sent fewer men out of
her population to the Union army than
were sent by other States, fewermen to
the Southern army, but counting ker
victims on both SIDES. her quota was
full, and in loss of life and property no
other State except Virginia suffered
more severely. What made the loss
seem less, was that it went on side by
side with a process of gain which left Us
1T the end Of the war very little poorer
than at the beginning.
Then began the golden days of the
State of Missouri. Under a Constitution
which has been denounced Us proscrip-
tive and hateful, order was restored and
law enforced. Under these plain and
sc!fevident guarantees, immi grafton
filled our State from border to border,
old roads were repaired and new ones
built, our railroad system took its pres
ent shape, the debt of the State was re-
duced, and its credit restored, and pros
perity arose ont Of the ruins of the war.
The census Of 1870 revealed that Mis-
souri, had jumped from the thirteenth to
the fifth in rank among the States, but
it did not reveal that this had been done
in five years. IN other words, if we ex-
clude the incidents of the war, and ex-
clude from comparison such States as.
like Iowa or Michigan. gained their
growth while Missouri was fighting her
battles, the State of Missouri, under
Radical rule, gained in every element of
prosperity more rapidly than any State
in the Union had Eve gained. That
fact will do to contrast with the fact
which follows.
I'VE have had five years ofDemOcrat-
ic rule since then, the State has been in
the hands Of those whom the old order
DISTINGUISHED. and what is the result
From the day when Missouri passed in
TO the hands of the Democracy, imml-
grafton fell off, until it had almost en-
tirely disappeared, ven before the pam
ic. Our Democratic brethren ma butt
at this fact as hard rs they please, and
paw around it, but they cannot over
throw it. The explanation Of it is, that,
just as before the war foreign immigra-
ton stunned contact with slave labor,
SO since the war, foreign immigration
and domestic migration alike shun Dem
ocratic ncighbOrhood. The Southern
erS are not a migrating. ~colonizing race.
IT it were otherwise, Texas, with It's rich
soil and varied resources, would not re-
main the most sparsely populated State
il the Union. But it is so, and Texas |
has more cattle than it has citizens, and
Arkansas IS the Bmotia OfAmerica.
Meanwhile, Michigan fills up, Iowa fills
up, Illinois fills up, but the population
which should fill our borders and till
our fields, give an impetus 70 our indus
tries and Il lUSter to our name, passes
north of us. stops short OF lis, or goes
boldly beyond us to irTigatc Colorado,
and ship us fruit and grain from Kan
SaS.
I'VE have no official census Of the
present year, butthoSe who are in the
best position to Judge. estimate that the
population of the State is very little
greater than it was five years ago. We
challenge disproof when we say that,
outside OF St. Louis and Kansas City,
the number of our population is almost
stationary. Against the slight increase !
III the new lead and iron mining dis