The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-04-09


clothing material beware of shoddy, and
put your faith in an honest tailor."-N
Y Sun.
Beecller on the South.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher deliv.
cred lecture one night last week in
Atlanta, Ga, on Evolution. While be
was in that city he was interviewed by q
reporter for the Constitution, and exhaust.
ed his opinion about men and things
without reserve. What he said about
the South and the colored people will be
of general interest.
II know of no section of the Union"
said Mr.. Beecher, "with grander future
than the South. Now that disturbing
political issues and the curse of slavery,
stood as a barrier between it and the civ.
ilized world, have been removed, the
country will begin to grow and develop
in such way as to put in the shade the
wonderful progress made by Western
communities. But have seen 80 little
with my own eyes that perhaps I should
leave the statement of its advantages to
Others"
"What direction will Southern pro.
gress take ?"
"The building up of its manufactures
first Money always seeks profitable in
veetment. l find that many progressive
men of the South, who have the ears of
Northern capitalists, have secured large
influx of money, the result of which can
be seen in Atlanta, Chattanooga and
Birmingham. In time this draws popu.
lation. The South, though the richest
portion of our national heritage, was
walled in by slavery, in contact with
which free labor could not come without
degrading itself. The hardy peasantry
of Europe who sought our shores, did 80
with view of bettering their condition.
Consequently they would not 60 near the
slave line. Take Mississippi, for in.
stance. There is q State blessed by ma.
ture, fortified by human inventive genius
and made attractive by wealth, the natu-
raj centre of the United States. Her
lands, her minerals, all were inviting.
Yet the great food of immigration rolled
over it and kept on until Kansas was
reached, where labor was the freeman's
heritage, and the community was not
weighted down by an incubus from o
barborous age. But the events Of the
last twenty years have changed all this,
and the incoming of the present Admin.
istration has set in motion a new era in
which the South will play an important
part"
"Four years ago." said Mr.. Beecher,
after pause, "when the Garfield cam
paign was in progress, I said to my peo'
pie 1 hoped to see the day when might
vote for Southern man for President.
What was then a wild dream has now
come to be reality. There are South.
ern men now before the public-Demo.
crats-whom 1 would vote for to place
in the Presidential chair. I have no
names to ofer-it is too early to name
men for the next race, and many things
may happen in four years to change the
drift of public opinion-but if the elec-
ton were to take place to day under the
present influences, there are Southern
men who would be we'll thought of in
the North for the Presidency"
"What are the prospects of the Demo
cratic Administration and its continuance
in power"
Conducting the Government on the
high plane which DIR. Cleveland has
marked out for it, hearty adherence to
the principles of the civil service law,
giving the country peace and prosperity,
there is no reason why it should not have
half dozen terms in the Presidency.
The worst danger that could befall the
Democracy now, would be the removal
of Cleveland. The accession of Hen
bricks, representing the ultra Bourbon
Democracy, disposing of the offices as
rewards for political services, would
throw the country back-recall Republi-
canism into favor. The conduct of the
South during the last two weeks has been
remarkably heroic. With the Presiden-
cy in its possession, it has not hampered
him by pleading for Office, but has stood
by in q digni6ed manner and allowed
him to shape affairs in his own way.
The Presidents plan is to fiji the respon-
sble bureau chiefships with representa-
tive Southern men, such men as have
influence at home, and whose appoint
ment will have more influence than a
hundred clerks. The enforcement of the
civil service rules will not destroy party
organization. The men who fill the
offices are but barnacles who really do
nothing for party success, are noisy, and
have little influence at home. If some
men who do not get into Office are disap.
pointed thereat, and threaten to kick out
of party traces, those who keep in Office
will become Democrats, and thus time
will make all this even. Besides, what
are office holders, when set up against
sixty million peopleY If Cleveland ad-
heres to civil service, be will be re-
elected to the Presidency-he does not
want it; but, like many other men, he is
willing to serve his country"
Referring to the negro problem, MIR.
Beecher regarded it as settled. The war
went through the South like plough
throgh a prairie field, turning over the
turf of society with the whites under and
blacks on top. II was terrible state Of
affairs, which the Southern people en-
dured with heroism unequalled in histo-
ry. That they deported themselves so
we'll then proves that they are equal to
the problems of the future. The future
of the races will be controlled by educa-
ton.
The Penalty of Scepticism.
"come mighty nigh KILN fine buck