St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-24

Col. A. X. Mcclure, q Philadelphia
editor, now in New Orleans, said to a
Times-D Democrat reporter:
eve of the North need the South
fully as much as the South needs us.
That is by no means just view OF the
motives of Northern people in coming
to New Orleans and the exposition,
which puts Northern people in the attl-
tude of the well-tO-dO OF the nation
visiting and helping the Impoverished
The North needs the South for its sur
plus products, which can be used more
DrOfitably in the South than anywhere
else on the continent.
"The South has got to get capital
and pODulatiOu and the North has to
GET new markets at home for every
thing it produces. An energetic and
industrial population in the South to
take our machinery, thrifty people
to wear our fabrics is as Important TO
us as to you"
The South found ont twenty years or
more ago, that the North needed her
more than she needed the North, when
she tried to get away from the North
and the North would not let her go.
It may be charitable for the well-to-
do" people of the North to visit" and
help the impoverished" South, for
Southern editors and others have
howled about the genial climate, rich
lands, and lazy poor people OF the
South, till all the rest Of the world has
come to believe it-that with the best
climate and most productive lands in
the world, we have the most lazy, thrift
less. good-for-nothing people. The
South came out of the war with all
slave property destroyed, and also
great deal of other property in the
shape of fencing, live stock. work stock,
and agricultural implements but she
had no debt, except individual ones,
and that saddled on her by the North
as penalty of her subjugation. The
ruling element at the north has been
Sc down. upon the South ever since !;
and the South has worked out her own
salvation independent of the North.
The South does not need the visits
and g help" of the well-to-do" peo-
| pie of the North, any more than she
wants the horde of starving tramps
| that the North sends down upon her
every winter. For each "well-to-do''
visit, may be scored a hundred tramps.
The combined visit does aot pay. The
people Of the North who come South
to better their condition, as good citi-
zens, are and have always been well
come. The North may hive surplus
money, surplus products, surplus CAPT
tai, surplus population, ETC., that it
wants to transfer to the South for a
consideration but she has also sur
| plus paupers in proportion, She has
surplus products to export, because she
does not feed her paupers at home
There is no surplus in the South, OF
capital, of money. of population, n0l
of paupers-except the colored people
during an overflow, when the Govern
ment feeds them but they are the Ma
tion's wards, and live more sumptuOus-
| " during an overflow than any other
time. We are tired of hearing the
South characterized as pauper and
beggar, especially by those who set
themselves up to represent her; and we
will be sorry to see the day when the
causes Of the poverty, distress and star
walton at the North, prevail here. The
South, not the land-mouthed politicians
but the working people, the farmers
have worked themselves up to a point
where they are able to buy of the sur
plus products of the North and hence
these visits of well-to-do people te
help them-they want to sell theil
goods, and that's what's the matter
with Hannah" If they want to really
help Southern farmers, let them take
off the high protective tariff.