Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-23
try he might reach, while if charged with
robbery he can, if caught, be brought back
and properly dealt with.
4 SECTIONAL PARTY.


this country should not be overlooked by
the intelligent citizen, and that is that the
Republican party is a sectional party; that
its theories of government and its practices
are adapted only for the government of
narrow and limited class, not for the whole
land and the whole people. 1t is this sec
tional character, the narrow prejudices that
control it, which emphasize the necessity
that exists for the complete and radical over
throw of the Republican party, and ought to
lead to the union of all good citizens for the
purpose of establishing permanently party
cosmopolitan in its ideas, holding principles
adapted to the needs and necessities of the
whole country, South as we'll as North, West
as we'll as East.
Look at the past course of the Republican
party, and examine its legislation with the
purpose of ascertaining what class Of men
are benefited by it. In the first place the
high protective tariff was devised for the es-
pecial benefit of few wealthy manufac-
turers at the East. The farm ers of the West
and the laborers of the whole country were
obliged to pay double prices for their imple-
ments that these manufacturers might be
protected. Revenue was only secondary
consideration; protection was the all-power-
full motive that actuated the Republican
Congress in framing the customs laws.
What has been the result? The poor work
lngmen have been made poorer by the oner-
GUS taxation indirectly imposed upon them,
and the rich manufacturers have been made
richer through the robberies which they
were authorized by law to commit. The
financial legislation was also enacted in the
interest of section and class. Laws have
been framed with view to creating in
stability in our currency and thus stimulat-
ing speculation in Wall street. The national
bank system was framed to give monopoly
of the money power to few wealthy capital
ists They were granted practical immunity
from taxation and the people commanded to
receive their promises to pay at their face
value, although practically irredeemable.
controlled by the moneyed nabobs of the
East have been subsidized, and the wealth of
the rich few has been greatly augmented,
while the poor have had other burdens
thrust upon them.
These things have been accomplished.
Let us see what is proposed by the party for
the future. If we may judge of the purposes
of the party by the utterances of it's public
men and the newspapers which owe it al
legiance, we are forced to the conviction that
naught but sectional benefit is to be expected
from it. 1t is the evident purpose to stir
up sectional strife-to awaken the animos-
tiles of race at the South and provoke armed
conflicts that the North may be solidifed to
oppose the interests of the Southern people.
"Ihe South is united,' they exclaim. eve
must interpose solid North or the rebels
will soon have control of the government
They persist in regarding the South and the
North as two separate and distinct countries
whose interests are inimical to each other.
They seem to forget that the South is
part of this nation, and has as good right
to voice in the control of the government
as any other section. No effort is made to
promote homogenity between the people of
the two sections. To have the South and
the North united in their aims--to see them
living together in fraternity-would be re-
garded as a calamity by the leaders of the
Republican party. To widen the breach be-
tween the sections is the means by which
they hope to retain control of the govern
ment.
10 support such party, built up by Sec
tional and class legislation and making of
sectional hatred it's chief corner stone, is
manifestly wrong. No one who sincerely
desires to preserve the Union and to pro-
mote the growth of the nation can give his
adherence to party controlled by such mar
row prejudices. The party that shall seek
to make of the whole nation one people,
common in their desires, their interests and
their aims, must be the party of the future,
and no party of the present so fully merits
these requirements as the Democratic organ
ization. 1t is broad, liberal, unsectional,
eminently national party, and under it's
guidance our country will soon be united as
one family, knowing no North, no South, no
East, no West.