The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1880-09-03

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TRoh. \. V, Aug 20.
Pennsylvania is not, like the other
States naIned, Democratic a. bottom |
The iron and coal interests. together
with the Pennsylvania railroad, have
ranged themselves with Republicans,
and have usually put up large sums of
money for political purposes, and driven
the voters under their control TO do their
bidding. But we have reason to believe
that important changes are taking place.
The manufacturers are beginning TO see
that their interests will be served best
by opening the Southern markets to
their trade, and that this can be done
only by letting the Southern people work
out their salvation in peace and quiet
The new census shows an immense ad-
vance i'll that section, and proves that
while Republicans We're abusing North
ern ears with stories of anarchy and
outrage below the line, the people there
We're cnergetically ut work building up
the waste places and putting themselves
in condition to become the best possible
customers to our merchants and manu-
Iacturers. 1t is plain now TO the dullcst
apprehension that in intlicting upon
these States the evils of carpct-bag and
negro governments, sustained bv FEEDER
al bayonets, and thus subiccmg them to
years of cruel misrule and terrible spoil
alton, we were gratifying the partisan
passions OF portion Of our people, at Il
frightful expense to the business of the
country. When you touch man on the
pocket nerve. his conscience generally
responds; and it is believed that the ewes
of Pennsylvaniaus are opening to these
momentous facts Had Ilancock's plan
of recostruction been adopted--the sim
Pile plan of cOnceding to the States and
all the people thereof the rights which
belonged to them under the Constitution
the material condition of the South
would be ten years i'll advance of what
it is now; our business would have re.
pealcd the incalculable advantages Of re
ciurocal trade with that vast agricultural
region, developed in I'm orderly mann el
under stable and intelligent govern aent
aud the burden of Federal taxation woll,
long since have fallen lighter upon al
parts OF our common country. With Mr.
Wallace addressing these wcightv arnr
mcnts to their common sense, and Mr.
Randall showing them how the Demo
!, cratic party under his leadership has re
duced the expenditures of the Fedora
Government, it would not be remarkably
Y if the business men of PNnnsylstni
a should abandon the idols whose shrine
= have consumed so much of their snl
= stance, and take wiser as well as
justcr view of the situation
The oil interests of Pennsylvania hoy
suffered long and grievouSlv at the hand
of the Republican party. The Pcnnsy
c vania railroad and other transpo,tatlo
: companies, in collusion with the Stan,
: ard Oil Company have crushed indepeu,
II ent production, as well as indeuende,
y refining and handling, until they ha,
Is mUnopollzed the whole business mn,
p" their own terms, and wcll-nigh strangl,
II leading industry of the State. TN
1t was accomplished by arbitrary freigI
determinations, in the teeth of the Co
!" slltuuun OF the State--a system of abu
!" cs Tor which the legal remedy was We
IL plain, and would have been rompt
:. | ''ll'''' "h '''llllllllNll bNlbll not ullu
~ the absolute control of the Rings N
IT corporations concerned But it ney
'e was applied Notwithstanding the Diet,
II mined struggle OF the oil producers |
Y fore the Legislature, the courts. and t
'S Executive, SO tar forth the Constit
~ ton is dead letter. aud the oil int
,'i n' est has no hope of relief, ,aesent or
y" tire, CNCpm i'm The overt hrnu, of ia. =.
VI ty which has combined with its enemi
i' The seat of the Standard Oil Gonna
q" is at Cleveland, Ohio, and Gen. Garii,
~ is known To he under its influence. a ,
NV cunstance which lifts this above the |
el of u local issue,
lis The Pennsylvania Railroad Comps
lar has measurbly withdrawn from poit
i've 1t has issued circulars to its employ
which indicate purpose 10 refrain Fl