The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-10-19
THE MONEY POWER IN POLITICS.

The Republican papers of the country lay
grost stress upon the fact that in the pro
cession in New York city, gotten up in hon
or of General Grant few nights ago and to
strengthen the cause of Garfield tor the pres
idency, there we're princely merchants, rich
brokers, the officials ofpowerful corporations
and the owners of big manufactures; that
this class ofpeople had come long distances to
thus give evidence Of their sentiments in the
great contest now pending and to be settled al
the balot-box. With this demonstration of
the money power behind Garfield and Arthur
and backing them up, the question arises
will the people or will money settle tfr lues-
ton on the I'd of November next, the ques-
ton in our opinion of constitutional
government, or centrilzaion. II sugurs
not well for the future happiness, prosperity
md perpetuity of this government, TO see
so much money glittering around the ballet
BIKES, and being showered out as though it
was dross, to secure voteS, The merchant
princes of the northern cities may give boun-
tifully of their gold, to elect Garfield, but
while the are doing it they should remember
that thousands and thousands of the money
that fills tier Golfers WAS mid to them by
their southern patrons and that by aiding in
the election of Garfield, they are doing MI
they can to crush the hopes IF their southern
friends tor pace an fraternity, and good
will and the forget ILLNESS of sectionalsm.
The cotton and wooden mills, the wagon and
carriage manufactures, he boot and shoe
establishments, in fact every industry of
whatever character In tho north count tho
southorn'people as their best patrons and make
every year Of of them millions Of dollars.
The amount spent by the southern people
for wagons and agricultural implements
alone every year runs up into the millions,
and tho proprietors of these establishments
ignoring the wishes Of the people of the
south, needless of their desires, callous to
their entreaties pay out the money they get
from the south TO keep the south ehslaved,
to retain in power the political party that
has for fifteen years trampled with Nh iron
heel upon the hearts of the southern people
that has no words for them save words Of
bitterness, Of contumsly, of hatred, of SANDER
and ofabu:e, and all upon the false, the base
less idea that change Of political
parties viii affect .detrimentally the pros
pority OF the country. A change of the
party in power will affect the prosperity Of
The country, but 1t will do SO advsntageously'
With Hancock as President, and peace is
restored to the country-peace, in fact, no,
the hollow mockery that sounds only from
the liE,, while ii is dead in the heart. The
country can never be happy, nor reach the
utmost of thrift, while sectionalism prevails.
There is no sectionalism on the part Of the
southern people. They wave no bloody
shirt; they conjure up no silent memories
but, instead, with pallid lips, press back their
grief for their dead, strew not their grsves
with the flowers of affection, and dry their
eyes Of tho tears that well up at the remer.
brance Of "the touch of vanished hand, the
sound of voice that lie STILL" for fesr
they may be misunderstood, and that it may
DO used against them politically. Are the
southern states to become to this govern
ment what Ireland is to Great Britaint Are
they to be mere dependencies, ruled with
rods of iron, swayed by despotic hands, or
are they to stand upon an equal footing with
the other states of the union' They can
never do the latter until the republican party
is swept from power. The bird that futters
in the talons of the eagle might as well pray
for and expect mercy as for the south
to expect justice or respectable treatment a t
the hands Of the republican party. OF
northern merchants and manufacturers will
spend the money they receive from the
south to help forge new chains with which
TO bind the southern people, why then let
the southern people in self defense keep
their money a, home. Do without north
ern manufactures and northern merchsn-
disc rather than enrich people who eI.
pend their substance to keep w in the