Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1884-08-01

that the railroad will, IL built, speedily
develop into commercial highway.
Our southern people have rather en-
loved the fall in value of breadstuffs,
Cheap food for their ill-paid labor was
advantageous to them. Their agricul-
ture was secure from assault. They had
the cotton trade of the world in their
hands. They had vanquisbed the COM
petition of all foreign fields. They ig-
nored the fact that the determining
factor in their struggle was the climate
of the other fields that rendered the
cotton fiber harsh and unfit for the
manufacture of the goods the trade de-
manded. Soon after the completion
of this strictly military African road
the southern people will have the
pleasure of gratifying their love for
strife by a trade conflict with foe
worthy of their most serious Considera-
ton. The railroad projected is in every
sense of the word commercial high
way, and it is intended to develop the
Soudan cotton-felds. That England
hesitates to squander men or money
in war is not true. If it was war only
that she meant, her troops would be
pushed across the desert and the Sou
dan, and they would conquer it as
quickly as the Moorish musketeers did
in the sixteenth century. No, nation
bent on the chastisement of semi
civilized people, job of short dura-
ton, does not build line of railroad
into that peoples land. England means
to occupy the land.
A country where slavery is es-
tablished, and where the price of slaves
is nominal (they can be had for the
catching), and where the soil and eli
mate are suitable for cotton culture, is
a land that can cause the suspension of
cotton cultivation in our southern
states. 1t is this competition that the
developed Soudan will afford, and that
the English government will ask us TO
meet. Our southern planters can no
more compete with the cotton-tielJs of
the Soudan, once they are developed
by railroads, than our breadstuffs- s-pro-
ducers can overcome the Indian COM
petition in the worlds wheat market
| Our newspapers have of late been
full of bitter denunciations of the cow
ardly policy of the Gladstone cabinet
Taunts and jeers have been the order
of the day. That the English govern
ment is seldom Overreached in diplO-
matte negotiations, and that that nation
is gifted beyond all others i'll being
able to manage it's business skillfully,
seem to have been overlooked by
American critics prone to discover
mares nests of weakness and imbecil-
ity in all things English. 1t is not proba-
BILE that the Gladstone cabinet foresaw
that the Egyptian trouble would re-
suit in the development of the Soudan
cotton-tield when they occupied Egypt.
But no intelligent man will deny that
they see it now, and that the plan of
building a railroad is the direct out
come of tb't foresight. 1t is blow
aimed at American supremacy in cot
ton-growing, and it will prove to be
a fatal blow.
The policy of our government has
been against internal improvements
executed at national expense, and
against any interference in the dispo-
sition European powers have seen fit
to make of such portions of the earth
as are not inhabited by white men
banded together into powerful nations.
1t has been an eminently safe policy
as far as our personal health has been
concerned. But if this policy is to be
continued in the future, our children
will be made to suffer for the political
blindness of their fathers. The time is
at hand for this nation to take a part
in politics of the world. If we con-
tinue to sit supinely and make a pre-
tense of believing that the finished
craft displayed by our politicians in
obtaining office for the political strikers
is statesmanship, it is highly probable
that in a few decades wn will sink into