Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-16

In yesterdays issue we commented
upon that sectional unfriendliness which
manifests itself in prejudicinp the
Southern States in the eyes of the world
to an extent which seriously interferes
with the immigration for MANY reasons
so desirable. This unfriendljnesa-
which it is hardly necessary to saw IL
almost exclusively confined to the Re-
publican party-shows itself in other
ways quite as inexcusable, if not equal
ly injurious. 1t is specially noticeable
in Congress and in the more pronounced
journalistic representatives of the par
'ty. If Southern Democrat asks an
appropriation for any public work in
his section. however necessary, It Is, in
nine cases out of ten. opposed by his
Republican colleagues. 7ostensibly be.
cause it is not of National importance.
but really. 1because.itl viii benefit the
South more than the North. The i'm
provement,of the Mississippi is nota-
BILE instance. Most, if not all, the op-
position it. has received has been due
to this cause and no other. If
the Mississippi ran from Maine
through New England. New York,
Ohio. Indiana, Illinois. and3a emp
tied into the Gulf somewhere
In Iowa or still farther West, il
would have been improved to the
utmost OF human ability long agec AS
many millions would have been voted
as the work required, and every Re-
publican paper in the land would have
encouraged and indorsed Gongression-
al action. But as the great river hap
pens to run from North TO South, and
as the South is perhaps more directly
interested in its good navigable acondi.
ton than the North, whatever Republic.
ans in Congress do for it is done grudg-
ingly, and in the face of sharp criticism
from the majority of theirparty organs.
What is true of the Mississippi is tSue OF
all enterprises in the South for which
Government aid is asked. Republican
opposition in and out of Congress could
sea celv be stronger or more persistent
it the South were a foreign country.
separated from the North by impossible
mountains or an unknown ocean.
Now this apparently firmly estab
lished feature Of Republican policy is
not merely ungenerous, but ridiculous
and suicidal II is an illustration OF
''bting your nose off to spite your face.''
Northern Republicans lose sight alto.
gether O. what ought to be and is suf.
(
all assistance rendered the South in de.
veloping its matchless natural resources
and advantages must and will be
returned to the North hun
dred fold in the shape of in
creased trade, taxable property,
etc. 1t is really only taking it out OF
one poke and putting it into the
other" North and South belong to the
same country; they are one and indivis-
IDLE, and must so remain. Whatever
advances the growth and prosperity OF
the Southern section must of necessity
benefit the Northern. There is no help
for or escape from that, even if it were
desirable there should be; and, on the
other hand, whatever retards Southern
growth and prosperity iniiictS more oil
less injury upon the North. When the
South was under the heel of carpet
baggers. its energies crippled and its
credit we'll nigh DESTROYED, every bust
ness community in the North was more
Or.less affected: and when the South
was released from carpet bag rule and
began the task of financial and com.
mercial reconstruction, what business
community in the North did not have
reason to reioice? 1t is certainly time
this latest and meanest form of section.
alism were hooted down and out. II
the blood and gold of four years wal
did not, after all, restore the Union, LEI
proclapation be made to that effect,
and the people govern themselves
accordingly. If the Union is restored.
if South and North are one country ano
not two, let Republicans treat the South
accordingly. -St. Louis Republican,.