Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1884-01-21

effect state like New York, with its mani
| fold industries and remembrance of sectinal
| troubles, so they could do nothing with il.
The moment the free trade system ia agi-
tated as if somebody had been robbed by
somebody else, one section plundsred by
| another section, it would affect the north
withenother secession conspiracy.
"Have you heard Mr.. Flower express any
view on this subject?"
''Yes; Flower says that before the next
nominating convention meets they will be
begging some man In New York to take
the nomination on account of having
stirred up so much apprehension about tho
tariff"
"Dld you hear Mr.. Flower say that?"
ST did. He said that the way they were
bowling about the tariff, from the south
and west, at present, they would be SO far
from having chance at the presi ieney
that they would come to New York and
give it away. [ think about the same
myself"
"Don't 20 think there should be soma
modification of the present long tariff?"
''Yes; but it must not he made the basis
of presidential campaign. In the Sc
lection of the executive officer OF this
country we want to look to stability, cour-
age, health, character and what Is required
in waiting. The man must represent the
genius OF the people. IF he is person
with a fixed legislative policy BE ought TO
go to congress where he can declare his
views"
"what is your estimate of Mr.. Car
lisIe?"
81 think he is one of those honest south-
ern men incapable OF learning any
thing from material age, who is still
immersed in his studies of the constitution
and kindred books, but does not grasp
he present character OF civilization at
tall. We should certainly have seen in
the state of New York some proof of en-
lightened policy. | understand their edu-
cstional system in that state is next to
nothing; and it must be so when we con-
tinually read of barbarous vendettes, the
killing Of people in presence of ladies,
fighting in ball rooms and on race tracks,
and 10 capacity in the law to regulate
anything of that sort. To us here, Ken
lucky stands as the most conspicuous
instance of brutalized state. The rough
est elements in Missouri emigrated from
Kentucky. The James boys were of Ken
tucky parentage. The chief judges of
Kentucky sit in fear OF being murdered by
an outlaw who has already killed one of
their number, and who goes at large be-
cause there seems 20 be in the state no
sffcient lnstrumentality TO detain him.
The reform Of the revenue does not come
from q source to inspire confidence in this
section"
"Don't you think that, Notwithstanding,
MIR. CarliaIes election TO the
speakership heg will bs defeated in
congress if he attempts to get up the tariff
issue~ "Yes; bat in what state will that
leave US, in the presidential struggle? 1t
viii be said that the speaker and the in
fuences which made him speaker all de-
sired to take up the tariff question and
were only prevented by the timidity of the
party. No; he shall have to run pfotec-
Zionist and probably on a protection ma
tional platform. The farmers in the
northwest will hardly vote in the present
year of our Lord for any free trade policy.
Two or three years after the
wer they were led in that direction for a
while, but the growth of manufactures
in western towns, and the consequent
creation of homo markets, and the preju-
dice of farmers against more competition
will easily break down any discussion of
radical free trade. That is not the great
question Of the day. Education is one of
the greatest questions of our time, especi
ally in the south, where education is abso-
lutely demanded, and until it comes about,
see but little hope for the. reviving of
society in the south, which at the present
time is as distant from the
rest of the country as if
ii were in Mexico. The whole thing looks
preposterous, to sac a simple, unlettered,
half developed people like those trying to
take hold of the craftsmanship of the
north and direct US what we shall do with
our industry. The aggressiveness of the
south has long been to the ruin of the
Democrats. They seem to have a temer-
ity in reaching over into our rich states,
as if by their political changes they cORld
set us back or put US somewhere where we
will not go. The south would do far bet
ter to rectify its affairs, learn progress
and modesty, and ask what they need to
make them better communities rather than
to want to change the destinies of cities
like New York, and states like Massachn-
setts and Ohio. The same radicalism
which induced them to lay hold of the
slavery question and keep at it until they
had turned the north upside down in
spires them to buck against our manufac-
lures. 1t is simple for northern Demo
Gratis to let southern Demo
Gratis make platforms for them.
The most farcical thing" said
any Democratic friend as he rose to
go, sis to see these southern leaders who
have led their people into a wilderness and
bog, cheating them out of the proceeds of
their slaves, now seeking suddenly to show
this rich and powerful north how little it
knows about money and prosperity"
Said 1: "But Mr.. Carlisle and his friends
believe they are right"
''Didn't they believe they were right in
taking up arms for slavery with the
opinion of the whole civilized world
against thsm?" said my friend. How
many prayers assembled every day snd
night to God for the protection of slavery!
The fact that they are right-that is sin
cere-only shows what absurd things SIN
cerity can do. The word moral rights
does not enter into the business calcula-
tion of people. If you will look at Sir
Charles Dilke's book which he wrote during