Morning journal and courier., 1880-12-02
Thursday Morning, Dec. ?, 1880.
THE SOUTH AND ITS NEEDS.

 Some of the southern newspapers are
 much more pleasant to read than they for
 merly were They are paying less attention to keeping the South ''solid' and more to it's real interests. They perceive that if the South is to be properly developed immigra- tion must be encouraged and different or der of things established An interesting illustration of this gratifying change is fur nished by question asked by the Clarendon (Arkansas) Sun and the answers to it by two Memphis papers, the Appeal and AUalanche
 The Sup asked: ''Would it not be profitable for Monroe and Phillips counties to organize an immigrant society and send representative into the older States to advertise our counties and get the people to come and settle among us and help us develop our resources? The Appeol answered ''It would be profitable, and it is just the thing to do. First, form a society; second, purchase a large body of land, say 10000 10000 acres; third, colo nize thrifty emigrants from Europe or the older States, being careful to put up school houses as one of the essentials, and a bait that always takes with every true man eager for the future of his children" This is good as far as it goes, but the Memphis AcG2aache goes further and does still better. It makes the following truthful sharp and sensible re marks: Forty immigrant societies, with agents in every nook and corner of Europe and America, will not induce immigrants to settle in Monroe county, unless immigrants have assurance that they can exercise all the rights and privileges of an American citizen
 with perfect freedom. It is quite useless for southern newspapers to suppress the facts. Admitting that ma
 jority of the best citizens of Mon roe county are opposed to these bull
 dozing practices, yet it seems they are pow
 erless to prevent them. The southern press | may ignore the perpetration of these crimes against free suffrage, but the truth is widely | and universally known, nevertheless. The best immigration society for Monroe county will be society for the extinction of its bull dozers After the extinction of these pests 1 of the South. if it shall then appear in Mon
 roe county that an American citizen can ex- press any political belief that he chooses to
 profess, without sacrifice of his material in- I terests, and vote for any candidate he pleases | to vote for and have his vote honestly count ed, without being considered an enemy of 1 'ethe South, D then the delicious climate and l fertile soil of Monroe county, Ark, will not
 need the aid of an immigrant society to in- | duce thousands to seek homes within it's | borders.
 | This is plain language, but it is just what is needed. The southerners must forsake l their wicked political methods before their 1 lands will become very attractive to such im- migrants as they need and desire. That @
 large number of the more sensible and 1 thoughtful southerners see this there is nc
 doubt. Judge Lochrane, of Georgia, prob ably described the situation correctly when he said Public opinion in the South is rap l idly changing in favor of Republican policy.
 The southern people are beginning to believe 1 that the Republican party is likely to control
 this country for another quarter of century | The struggle in the South now is between the | leaders and the masses The latter do moi
 believe in southern statesmanship, so called | They have no confidence in tbeir own lead | ers They believe that their leadership fol 1 ten years has been failure. The thinking l men say that they have been forced to adopt 1 a policy that has resulted in disaster, and has driven away capital and discouraged immi grafton"
 Capital and emigrants will seek the Soutl as soon as it is safe and comfortable for then | there. The sooner, therefore, the people O.
 the South give evidence that they have come l to their senses the better it will be for al | concerned.