Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-01-09

additional one, for the tireless vigil
lance of the south; for the over sensi-
tivcness of its political leadership
What was it that from the Delaware
to the Rio Grande made slave owners
boast of the faithful and trustworthy
attachment of their slaves. and in the
next breath scare their children and
tn. outside world with grave fears OF
a "nigger risin!" What was it that,
while listlessly passing questions of a
thousand fold more Importance,
caused the slave owner to become wild
with alertness and passion when sls-
very or even kindred question was
mentioned in the national congress
To these questions we answer-"The
worm that never dies" 1t was the can
ker of nationally degraded conscience
arising from robbery oflabor aud lib
erty In free country. Like the ghost
of Banquo it would not down. Sur
rounded by the fire of liberty and be-
ing political scorpion it stung itself
to death.
But unfortunately this old spirit OF
slavery is possessed yet with latent
forces for evil. 1t died twenty years
ago; but like phoenix it threatens to
rise from its ashes again. For tweu-
ty-four years no candidate has been
benefited by the support of the old
slave power: but at last they have
worn out the patience of the north
again and now constitute power
worth counting. Whoever runs the
political road now can read in unmis-
! taxable characters that the south is a
unit for him who washes the dirty
linen of The ruling classes down there.
Mr.. Sam Randall the Democratic
high tariff congressman from Penn
sylvania has read the sign. He turns
the finger of time back to where his
countryman Buchanan bid last for
southern help. He is now doing what
no man has dared to do for twenty
wears who was ambitious for the pres
idency. He is swinging around the
southern circle and bidding at
their own doors for the
support of the solid south in 1888.
There is new song in Mr.. Randails
mouth-that is, new, one TO the south
He sings to them of high tariff for
protection of American industry gen.
orally. Or as he puts it, a tariff for
revenue with incidental protection.
lie says by no act of his will American
labor ever be pat in competition with
Europe on an equal footing. Mr.. Ran
dali finds no warrant in the constitu-
ton for protection, but is willing to
give that honored old instrument the
dodge, by collecting all the revenue
from customs If Mr.. Randall be-
licves by enunciating this essential
principal of republicanism that he can
awaken for himself any support from
in the time and locality OF his utteran-
ces. He should bear well in mind that
he is speaking to generation whose
hatred to free, intelligent and skilled
labor, as opposed TO their darling sys-
tenn of british negro slavery led them
TO dsunion and war; that the power
of the factory and its intelligent
operatives crushed their rebellion, and
vet menaces the ignorant masses which
now alone constitutes the bulwark of
their political prefcrment as a class.
If Mr.. Randall, on general premises,
assumes that the working classes of
the south are like they are in Pennsyl-
vania; that they understand the true
relationship of the tariff to their best
interest and will on hearing his revala-
ton break away from their old lead
ership and extend aid TO his principles
and ambition, il would seem that such
assumption, on reflection, might find
answer in the fact that the very nu-
merous white class of the south who
owned no slaves and had to labor I'M
der equal, il not greater disadvantages
than the slave himself, did nothing
by the power of their ballots to me-
lierate either the condition of them
selves or the slaves during seventy
five years of such bondage. But rath-
er they furnished the political power
that so long intimidated the free north;
and finally lie military strength of
the rebellion that brought the repub-
lie TO the verge of destruction and
came near TO making The physical and
mental bonds of the south perpetual.
BY the first class of southern
people mentioned Mr.. Randall will be
treated and slyly fiattered
for the present, and severely let alone
when it comes TO practically endorse
his tariff doctrines. BY the second, he
viii not be treated at all save by
mere handful of northern workingmen
down there as a nucleus for starting
the new factories now under way.
The masses of southern laborers and
mechanics have literally no knowledge
upon any state questions. They have
not heretofore, and are moi now APP
pealed to by reason, but by passion
and prejudice. And thus, has he un-
iertaken what belongs to the school
aided by at least from one TO
.wo generations of time aud practice,
t not sooner supplemented bya very
arge immigration of northern capital
md labor to help them to the rights
If their manhood WATCHMAN.