The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-11-28

.hc CONSERVATIVE party which
now dominates Congress and i there
Tore responsible for the action Of Con-
gress. must instantly grid up their
loins Tor the serious work which will
begin at Washington next month. The
real business men and the educated men
OF the land must not allow themselves
70 fall asleep over public affairs because
they voted yesterday. They must DO
up and doing pcrsistently to put and
keep Congress In the right path. Moth
ing can change or destroy the fact that
the issues which the stalwarts have
raised against the South since March of
this year have been false and feigned
issues. II was not the States which
engaged in rebellion that brought
about the extra session" and INDUCED
In the tail talk" ON which the stall
warts have lived and traded during the
summer. The States which seeded
have no thought or purpose but to re-
main hereafter and forever in the Union.
represented in Congress and obedient
70 whatever the Supreme Court may
say that the Constitution demands Of
them. The ballot will not be uncon-
stitutionally and illegally taken away
from any lawful voter, white or black,
by the Democratic party North or
South. On the other hand the South
must and shall not be Africanized and
delivered over TO the horrors which
have desolated and ruined the
once hourishing island of Hayti.
The influences of the white
race which founded and established
Virginia and the other Southern colo
mics Of Great Britain in America, acting
in perfect conformity with the require
ments Of our National Constitution,
alone can protect and develop educa-
ton, civilization and Christianity in the
Southern States Of our existing Union.
The burden and the responsibility Of
this work are and must be laid upon the
white men and white women of the
South. Under the then unlimited and
then illimitable "war power" Of the
United States Radical Congress re-
constructed the Union after the civil
war in its own way. For good or for
evil in that way, as defined and limited
by the Supreme Court, the South will
faithfully tread. Insane agitators who
clamor now that the South must leave
its work, fall on its knees and confess
itself criminal for what il did from 1861
to 1865, clamor for what can be attain
ed only through another civil war, and
that war will not be waged. The States
OF the South are now in the Union.
They are States coequal with the North
ern and the Western States. Like
Massachusetts and Ohio. they are pro-
tectcd by the Constitution. They are
indestructible States in an indissoluble
Union. They have as good and clear .
right to be Democratic States as Yer
mont and Minnesota have to be Repub-
lican States. Mr.. Hill and Mr.. Hamp-
ton have the same privileges and Inn
munities in the Federal Senate which
Nr. Hoar and Mr.. Conkling have. IL ID
both 70 be expected and to be desired
that the South will be solid" against
the ideas symbOlized in the "bloody
shirt" just so longas the stalwarts wave
that odious emblem in the air.
When Congress assemblies next month
h is to be hoped that the South, taking
Its true position for granted, will man
fully step to the front for economy in
the public expenditures, that il will re-
sist "the lobby and denounce corrupt
money jobs. put public thieves and
plunderers Of its own section. and Of
every section. under foot. and set its
face as flint against all scurvy. dishon-
orable schemes for getting money out
Of the common Treasury to fatten any
special section Of the Union. The South
in Congress, il is TO be hoped. viii mer-
cilessly vote to cut off all useless offices
and to reduce all salaries which are now
too great. Let il speak out rcsolutely
Mt all times for faithful execution Of
the "supreme laws Of the land" in
every State and every Territory. Let
Il arm the President with proper power
10 enforce such supreme laws in spite
Of State boundaries and State authority.
Let it recognize the Federal Constitu-
ton as part and parcel Of each State
Let II fight. in a word,
its own true fight for indestructible
States in an indissoluble Union.
What else? Our tax laws and our
tariff laws and our shipping laws must
be reformed. not in partisan sense or
exclusively in frce-tradc sense, GER
tainly not in any protective sense, but
in the interest Of the whole country and
Of every business enterprise in the coun-
try, to the end that farming may be
cheaper and more productive; that the
foreign demand and foreign prices Of
our exports. reduced through the dead
II Influences Of our own policy, may be
that the import Of foreign
raw materials may be promoted In or
der 10 stimulate and strengthen our do-
nestle manufactures; that the prices Of
the tools and implements Of agriculture.
mining, manufactures and the cost Of
BY land and water may
be diminished None but idiots can
think or say that this America Of ours,
between the worlds great