Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-06-21
The Effect on the South.

The enemies of the Republican party
hope to accomplish its defeat at the Ma
tional election by means of the Southern
States, over which they have gained con-
troll. But the victory of the Southern De
mocracy would be the worst thing which
could happen to the material and social
interests Of the South. That the old OF.
flee hunting, hot-headed politicians who
once recklessly plunged the South into Sc
cession and rebellion, against the will of
its sensible people, should get into Office
again, would Go the people of that Sec
ton very little good. What the South
needs is the new commercial life which
can only spring ont of order, tolerance Of
free thought and free speech, education,
money, prosperity and business enterprise
These 1t cannot have under policy die
tated by the Southern wing of the Demo
cratic party.
AS an able Republican journal remarks .
ut is the reign of shotguns which keeps
the South poor. Capital and industry fly
from their murderous aim" This coun-
try is wide, and though the Southern eli
mate is captivating and healthful her
mines inexhauslibly full of wealth wait
ing tor development, her soil rich, with
crops remunerative, and, in many places,
railroads and water ways sufficient for the
purpose of conveying all the productions
OF the country to market, men OF capital
and business ability will not stay, nor at
tempt to make permanent homes, where
peace, protection and order do not rule.
The hot-headed men who rule the
Democracy of the South have been taught
nothing by the sutferings of the war
They are unchanged except as fate has
changed their outward condition. They
now give no more security to the lives
and property of men going there from
abroad than they did when every man
from the North was regarded as an in
cendiary. Social prescription is even
harder to bear than the violence of the
brutal. Southern families who would
deal fairly with and treat kindly new
corners into their neighborhoods, dare
not exercise their hospitable desires for
fear of being themselves prescribed.
Capital, of course, cares little for pol
tiles. A merchant, himself Republican in
politics, will locate in Democratic com
munity as readily as in one in which his
own party has control, if he can do bust
ness successfully. But to do this he must
have peace and protection of law. He
may ask no questions about the politics
OF his neighbors, but he does not want
them " catechise him impudently about
his. Much less does he wish to slumbcr
on volcano of intolerance and persecu
ton, which malicious dcmagogues or
business rivals may at any time explode
under him. Consequently the South
wants not offices for its msguiding lead
| ers, but such state OF order and security
as will give new life to its business.
When the war closed many Northern
men with money, brains and skill went
South. With very few exceptions they
have all come back TO their former homes.
They were abused as carpet baggers. The
| country was not worthy Of them, and they
| left it 10 its fate This was the work of
the men who have control of the Demo
cratic party there. This reign of intoler-
ance will be intensified more and more
under Democratic rule, and the fate of
the South will be sealed tor an age to
come.
Things are bad enough now, but the lit
tie hope left OF ever Ieviving the South
will be gone if he negro-kiliing, school
master prosecuting regime is to be in
stalled into power supreme. This is a
feature Of the political situation we can
| not overlook Ioled0 Etads