Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-12-12
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south, will no longer fri9hten sensible
men. It was an unpatriotic and disloyal
notion at most, and the moral and ma
terial interests of our common country
will be promoted by its subsdence. That
the South needed to learn and practice
greater liberation will not be gainsaid,
but that 1t has rapidly come to this since
its right OF local self government was
granted, is a fact so patent that the most
hidebound partisan will scarcely deny
it. The best answer 10 the old campaign
stories OF race oppression and political
violence has been furnished by the
impressive fact that with the withdrawal
Of bayonet rule and the restoration to
the people Of the states OF their right to
rule them, order, good and economical
government, the protection of popular
rights and all that was lacking before,
have come about. No decent fraction Of
the people Of the United States would to.
day vote for return of the order Of
things in the South which oppressed that
section and disgraced the whole country
during the ten years succeeding the war;
when the Republican carpet bsggers and
scalawags controlled and plundered the
Southern states and harassed the people.
The political solldity of that section is
no menace to the country. It's represent
atives are men OF as good average char
acter as any other. and they seem to be
actuated by as patriotic impulses. 1t is
true that in the recent organization of
the House of Representatives their local
pride was to some extent successfully
appealed to In Mr. Carlisle's behalf, but
the same kind of influences operated in
behalf of Mr. Randall in the Mid
die states and for Mr.. Cox's beneht in
New York and Ohio. The fact that
Mr.. Carlisle was a Union man during
the war and that he is quite as near the
North as the South-residing only across
the river from c ncinnati-takes the
sting out of the alleged sectional signif-
canoe of his slectiOn; while at this time
1t Is universally recognized that his sue
cess was made possible mainly by the
almost unanimous support which he re.
oeived from such distinctly Northern
states as Indiana, Iowa. Michigan aud
Wisconsin.
They err widely, too, VII, apprehend
that ia the consideration OF the tariff
ques tion any line Of demarcatinn can be
drawn, upon one side Of which will be
found the South and on the other the
North. l. Is true that local interests
largely affyst tariff sentiment, and that
the dem Iud for revision Of ths existing
scale of duties comes mainly row from
the West aud South. Blu: in all debate
OF this issueit has been found that the
"shrieks Of locality we're evoked
rather by a dispute as to what class
OF arLiclss should be the subjects Of
taxation rather than by the protective
principle. The distinguished senator
from Delaware, accused Of free trade
proclivities, disclosed a desire To put a
tariff on matches; Randolph Tucker
waived his economic notions 10 advocate
high I'm 1nrt duty on sumac, the pro
duct Of V tilia's m)untdlGs ; Louisi-
xna's representatives, for 4 tariff on
nothing else, want their sugar raising
industry protected aS vigorously a
Pennsylvania pig iron and steel rails de
mand it ; while the Philadelphia Press,
and Senator Mitchell and other high
protection advocates would remorseless.
ly sacrifice the sugar tax with the same
heroic self abnegation with which Arte
mus Ward consented that all his wiie'S
relations should 90 TO the wars
Happily for discussion of this ques
ton freed from the ordinary sectional
features which are 50 disastrous to an
unpreiudiced view of legislation, the
South has developed measure os lului
trial activity OF late years that gives
most OF its states community of inter-
est with the manufacturing sections OF
the North. The CJal and iron mines of
Virginia, its cotton an1 tobacco facto
ries the fifty cotton mills, eight hun
dred lumber mills and more than A
thousand grist mills of Georgia Ala
bama's cotton factories realizing twenty
per cent. dividends, its iron mines of
fabulous wealth, its Birmingham prom
ising to put manufactured iron into
Philadelphia cheaper than 1t can be
made In the Schuylkill Valley, its l3 900
square miles of coal fields and two billion
feet OF standing timber; Florida re-
claiming Its swamp lands, building cot
ton mills and with seven billion feet of
pine ON the stamp; North Carol ma with
imperial natural resources and un.
limited water power yet to be
harnessed to the mill wheels; South
Carolina running twenty six cotton fac
tories at prodt, and nearly five hundred
lumber mills; Mississippi and Louisiana
progressing in the same direction IL not
in like degree, and the vast domain of
Texas, quickened with development and
blooming with prosperity, tell OF a new
and greater South never dreamed OF in
the hazy dolce far nients OF "beloh de
wah.' They tell, too, OF a time not far
on when Alabama will enter into com
petition with Pennsylvania, and Georgia
with Massachusetts In industrial an
ergy. In the anticipation of that IL ia
plain enough that no sectional lines
can be drawn In the determination ot
the tariff question and, with the grad.
ual shifting of the centre Of manufacture
ing, all interests can he more and more