The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-02-16
Public Opinion.

St. Louis Republican,: Mr.. Blaine
says in substance that the South is grow
ing prosperous, and that prosperity is at
once the cause and the sign of good gov
eminent. This is not only confession
that the South has good and peaceful
government, but the plain inference
from it is that there is no reason for any
extraordinary and unnatural alliance for
the purpose Of efecting change.
New York Sun: We regard the recur-
renee of an old-fashioned commercial
crash as highly improbable, if not impos-
sible. There will doubtless be fall in
stocks which have been carried by spec.
ulation above their value as dividend
paying investments, and in merchandise
which has been in like manner arti-
ficially enhanced in price. An over-pro-
duction of railroads and of new build
ings may lead to revolution in those de-
partments of business and in the
branches connected with them, while
financial troubles in Europe may cause
rise of interest on money here which
will hamper enterprises of all kinds.
But, we repeat, the country is rich, and
growing richer every day, and can now
resist successfully shocks which thirty,
twenty, or even ten years ago would
have Frustrated it.
Nashville American: Malicious persons
will say of Blaine's letter to the South,
through the Atlanta Exposition, in which
he said: 1--WE are brethren" that Mr..
Blaine is Just now in need of Southern
brethren. While that is so, it is not to
be forgotten that Blaine, notwithstanding
his speech against Hill on Southern pris-
ons, is about the only Republican leader
who has been uniformly liberal in action,
although he has been little too vivid on
the verbal exercise. We do not regard
Blaine in the light of a combination can
didate in 1884, or expect anything but
straight Democratic nomination for
Democrats to support; but we do regard
him as valuable statesman, q powerful
factor in politics, and the only truly
liberal Republican among the old lead ers
of the party.
Boston Commercials: The South with
its immense cotton, rice, tobacco and
sugar fields has, with but few exceptions,
blossomed as the rose. White labor,
industry, united with Northern capital
and enterprise, have been steadily at
work developing its agricultural, COM
mercial and manufacturing resources in
nearly all the principal departments of
human activity. Producing the largest
cotton, wool, rice and tobacco crops in
any previous year of its history, it has
not rested content with these, but has
been steadily extending it's commercial
efforts in other directions as we'll, de-
veloping and charging its manufactur-
ing facilities in various departments, and
- AL - hat in nctknn unndc
ductiop the building of railways, and i'll
cultiyating q more intimate commercial
union with the North and West, and its
foreign neighbors. The establishment
of fuller steamship communication with
the various parts of the new and old
worlds has further added to the
increased prestige and success which it
now so largely maintains. The Cotton
Exposition at Atlanta proved q most de-
sirable, grand undertaking, and opened
the eyes of the world to the unequaled
possibilities possessed by this most fav-
ored section of this country. The people
set resolutely and determinedly to work
to rehabilitate their fallen fortunes and
to the development of their ample nat
ural resources, and if proof be needed
that they have succeeded beyond the
most sanguine expectations, tits furnished
not only in the improved condition of all
interest there, but also by the fact that
Southern States, as o whole within the
past year or so, have been made several
hundred millions of dollars richer. The
drouth, then rains and freshets brought
them temporary disadvantages in lessened
crops and business in some parts, but
these were more than Offset in the main
by the improved prices which the pro-
ducts Of the soil, the shop and the fac
tory brought in general.