New-York tribune., 1885-10-21
INCISITE POLITICAL COMMENTS.
THE REV. y. Y. DALE on THE SOUTHERN QUESTION
AND PROTECTION.


tyo,, bfs addr,ss IN Boston before the Norfolk CIud
am not q partisan, but | am a student ol
history OF the United states aud that history po
told this give il TO you in the woris josiah QaiaGy
used TO The MISTAKE We made we inhhe AZ tne
besnnng WHEN we united sE h GspIE' nyr onrce, n
were treated rs II they were republics. Ihey dld hot
know what republic meant men an; a. lar oicr a. ran
ront government of the PEOPLE for III" people ana
gsoe Tor inc higher classes and by ie higher glasses
My friend there who ia taking notes VIII say nave
oT u"n hve ~ LOT Of educated men courteous refined
gentlemen the business OF whose vos mas nren 10 ue
and make Jew barrels Of sugar aud send tlicai away
say such men do not understand the government o.
great country IKE the umtcd states. FROM INC uny
when Tom Jefferson con nittef fanlts aud Andrew
Jackson and Van Kuren involved their county ~ n
cucs--for tho greater part or THIS century JhHt
States has very badly governed because II ntrstri
it, government lot Of ogarchsts. Instead OF intrust
I AIN OLD enough to have the country oto The
dos because the manufacturers OF Manchester Wrrc
permitted L, make tarn laws FOR year or two. The
change which taken lace since 1861 siuce business
men wcrc called TO man age the country has been such
mai II can hardly be expressed. The wealth nf tue
Emitted States has increased threcfnd III twenty IOuT
vr.rs Yon takr everything accumulated since tho
landing nj Plymouth Rock ana yon will lind that 800
per cent has been added to that IN the pas t"chN l
ieorle Northern busiucs5 govern aud manage Tie
country for you II Il such men as IRA Davehppr VINO
is going to be Governor Of New York load appau,c j.
and George Hoar- such men as The ucnhefs Ot thc
NOrfol6 Club-that are needed Tor managing inc anr,
of a great Nation Ike this But leave your country
without any road tO the West, without any peruacht
system OF manufactures, and you leave II without Gov
ernnlcDt at all. 81, ,.....
There arc, Of course, yOnng men who wear kd gloves
talk with accent, ana nkc you 10 mistake them
for Eugishmeu that tell to let these gentlemen ot
the south carry your Government Tor You Ihls S the
whole story OF my Muswump friend. such mrn 40 nor
believe IN the American people, do not know tue Amer
can peoI h have been 10 the West aud have never
managed grant concern Our young men arr Htio
I'm danger OF forgetting that all the evils tins country hAs
had for eighty years have through the ntushe Z"
tho Government tneorst- who arc not lllttested III
practical affairs while all the good done III tlAt tinc was
owing the placing Jf the country business III tnG
hands OF men o alirs-ren like JOhn Hancock @dulncl
Adans Henry Knox and George Washington The men
who know nOhiug about the country are the men VINO
have always led 1t toward its ruin. The question Il
whether you should have the country governed ny thc
Horklngncn of the North or by the theorists ot tHo
Sonth. What tne MuRwumpa will yet do know not bu
IL IA certain that they have not had much Irdctira
eXperience. do not know Northera Han VINO wouIu
have nae such mistake as that OF Nj Garland Whlcn
II ,ok all tho good nature OF President Cleveland To al
through. J dOu't know ANY man OF experience ""o
wonld have sent Mr. Kelley toa pare Therc he wac not
wanted Briefly I don't think II wise u ilirnrt the
Government OF great Nation Ike TINS 10 lot Oi men
who have done little better than make stump speeches
At country perhaps worn belts 0f breacr
generals, but who know nothing about tho National
In OF the country.