The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1884-04-24
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WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, D. c..

The Danville investigation by
Senator Sherman's special commit
tee, is attended at intervals with
some interesting tilts between mem,
bers Of the committee, and the
witnesses, and some of them are
something more than exciting.
The evidence of Mr.. Dezendorf
last Tuesday, and that of citizens
of Copiah county last week, will
furnish Mr. Lamar with all the pab-
ulum requisite for an interesting
speech. He has been watching
these Investigations with eager in
terest, and he doubtless intends to
give US the results of his observa
tions. He finds that most of the
Northern people are ignorant of the
real conditions of that sentiment
in the South among the negroes
that interprets Democracy to mean
that slavery is to be restored and
negroes again reduced to bondage.
Tie Democrats in Mississippi,
while in . numerical minority of
10000, go on year after year secur-
ing victories, to the surprise of
those who take it for granted that
the 80, 900 negroes, in excess of
the whites, are all Republicans,
and that Democratic success must
therefore come through fraud. This
theory is not by any means correct;
for the negroes ale not organized
as are the whites, and they are apa.
thetic at elections unless impelled
by some strong sentiment. They
conceive that their interests and
those of the man who, possessing
the wealth, the learning and the
governing experience and conserva.
tive opinions, have striven for the
control of power, the collection and
expenditure of taxes and the main.
terance OF good order. In the
elaboration of these points; Mr..
Lamar will invite long and it may
be a most interesting controversy.
The end, aim and object of the
Democratic party is to protect labor
from the reaction Of enormous and
grinding monopolies. The argu-
ment that is urged against tariff
reduction is that it will tend to re.
duce American labor to the condi,
tion of the ''pauper labor of fore.
ign countries, which if true should
put an end to any debate on tariff
reform. But, see if it is true. To day
the spinners of FallRiver,t to the mum.
Der $4,000, are working on to-thirds
time, while every loom in England
is running full time, and while our
cotton manufacturers enjoy the pro-
lection of average fifty per cent du;
ties, the wages of American opera
ti7es are no higher than chose of the
English spinners. Mr.. Shaw, the
counsul at Manchester, England, in
his last report says: "Ope.atiyes
here are the best paid and most
comfortable working class il En-
gland. and their influence and
wealth are increasing at a rapid
rate" Mr.. Shaw is a Republican,
and yet he gives this unbiased evi-
dence in regard to what we are
pleased to call ';pauper labor" in
free trade England. The Manchcs
ter operatives are happy and con-
tended, while the Fall River spin
ners are fighting, and fighting con.
tinually, against reduction of
wages that has aggregated in three
years more than sixty seven per
cent, and more now threatened.
The contrast is one worthy the
study of the politician as we'll as the
political economist. When proper
ly studied out, it is possible that
the American operatives may desire
to shake off a system that robs them
Of their earnings under the swind-
ing pretense of protecting them.
Everybody remembers that when
the old public functionary, James
Buchanan, was President, bis beau.
tiful niece, Harriet Lane, presided
at the White House, and never,
since the days of Mrs. Madison,
have the honors of the Executive
Mansion, been administered with
more grace. She at once became
so popular that a revenue cutter
was christened after her, and once
upon lime she accepted an invit-
alton to take passage in the vessel
from Washington to New York.
This simple act, which was in viola
tion of all precedent in the history
of the Republic, called forth a most
stern rebuke from the President,
about whose ears came animadver-
sions from all parts of the country
How different things are in these
days, though hardly two decades
have passed since this simple social
innovation! The successors of Mr.
Buchanan, with the exception of
Mr.. johnson, have used the ves-
sells of the navy for purposes Of
pleasure without regard to time,
season CT expenditure. Grant led
off in the business, Hayes followed
it up, and Arthur has outdoae them
both by using one vessel &C." him,
self during the summer of las; year
and the year before, while he sent
his daughter on junketing tour
in another, nor is this all of it, nor
worst of it, for three weeks ago the
=. S. man-of-war Yantic was dis