The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-11-20
Causes and Effects.

Election Is over. The intense enthusiasm
is quoting. The over-strained nerves are
relaxing. The anxious, excited look of the
citiZen-politician has given place to an en-
preston of satisfaction or of settled disap-
| pOintment, and the whole community
breathes assign of relief that the momentOus
day is past, and that certainty takes the
place of conjecture.
Thoughtful people can now look the facts
in the face and inquire whatmay be learned
from the results of last week. The bright
est hopes of the Republicans, and the
glOomest forebodings of the Democrats,
have been realized, and the question comes
home to the Democrats and Republicans
alike, what has brought about this result
What is the underlying cause that changed
so many votes all over the north, and
brought such sweeping victories for Re-
publicans?
Democracy and disloyalty are by no
means synonymous terms, but for years the
war cry of Republican leaders has been
treason and disloyalty. Brave as were
| northern Democrats before the ramparts of
rebellion, they shrank back at the sheer
and abuse when their late enemies became
their allies. Alas for the south that she
gave but too frequent causes for suspicion
and attack.
Slowly but surely, however, the business
men of the North and South are learning
across Mason and DiXOn's line. With this
campaign the Southern issue will go,
and hencefortl new issue will be made
and new line be drawn. Solid north and
solid South alike will be divided by ques-
tons of more vital Importance, and the
tariff or Chinese will claim its advocates
from all ranks, Whether true or false land
presumably with color of TRUTH the
widely announced report that immigrants
were not welcome to Southern States unless
content to foregO politics, has influenced
the tide of immi grafton to sbun the South
and seek the greater privileges of the West.
Oh late, however, most of the Southern
States have made an effort, feeble though
it be, yet still an effort, to encourage imm-
grafton. Mississippi has solved one prob
lem in her quandry, and is building rail
roads as fast as she can-the surest and
best way to bring immigration. The South
needs wOrkers-mGn of Drawn as well as
brain, She hungers and thrsts for both
capital and labor to develop her natural
resources, and when we consider that
Georgia, Mississippi and Louisiana have
more lands lying unprOductive than either
Kansas, Nebraska or Minnesota, we must
find some reason why the immigrants from
the East and across the water does not
find his home on the idle lands of Dixie.
The reasons must be in their nature pOliti-
cal, and il behOVes us to consider them
carefully. No man likes to give up his
right Of free speech and the right to vote as
he pleases.
True or false, then, be the story of po-
litical oppression in the south, still the
result has been to turn the tide of new
corners to other places where no question
could arise. 1t is now the province and the |
privilege of north and south to break up
this feeling-neither part can do it alone. |
Let 1t once be known that equal rights and |
American fFanhnn
equally with Iowa and her rich river bot |
toms and fertile valleys will ring with the |
sound of new life.
The common sense of the people has |
been manifested in their treatment of the |
financial ISSUES. Business prosperity has
again come to us and apparently come TO .
stay. The people have waited long for il |
and murmured loud because it came not.
and the Greenback movement was the ex-
preston of their grievances. But now
tue business activities of the country feel
the thrOb of new life and business men of
every party eOncede that fairer prospect
for business success has never dawned
upon the country. In this condition Of
affairs the people have wisely concluded to
let well enough alone, and since the new
deal has gwen the Republicans control Of
the legislation Of the country the fault
viii lie at their own door IL they do NOT re-
move any reasonable objection that Green
hackers may have to the currency Of the
1t is familiar law in financial circles that
rulnor once fairly started concerning a
banks solYency, IL might a. well close lis
iooTs. TO no one cause, aside from tariff.
10 Democrats owe more surely their defeat
man the scare given to business men
w here started, by whom started. or how.
matters little. Gathering volume with
zach succeeding day, it was not long before
u proved a silent, but resistless factor in
-ohing up pig majority in business circles
igainst "change." That this r. moi eV-
iggeTated opinion Of its influence we NAV
Ute a conversation had this week with =
prominent merchant Of this city. said he
U conversation. Il gave large order elee,
ion day TO travelling man Of an eastern
i'm, and, after seeing my order booked
gokingly remarked, We'll, suppose / ,
mould want TO eountermand that order in