The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-20
POLITICAL NOTES.

DEsoTo Mss. Times: Farmers have
sown more oats than common, prepar-
ing for the scarcity of feed in the sum
mer.
LITTLE Rock Democrat. Now and
then the opinion is expressed that
Arkansas might have had much
larger slice of the official pie if our
Senator's and Representatives had
fought for It.
LITTLE Rock Democrat: The greater
the spread of knowledge among the
people the better are they enabled to
take care Of themselves. 1t is igno-
rance that causes so much restitution
and distress among the poorer classes
in the South.
NASHVILLE Hmbemdn The crying
want now is for some patriotic crank
to inaugurate fashionable craze that
will create a heavy home demand for
a southern hardwood. There is a mon
ument waiting for the man who will
supply thsg want.
Holly SPRINGS MSS. Democrat ::
The President has only had occasion
so far to veto one little bill, but he
will doubtless show Congress what he
can do in the veto line before the SEES
sion closes. He is not afraid to say
"no, when he considers it necessary
or advisable
FoRT SMITH Tribune: Conflicts be-
tween capital and labor are gradually
but surely assuming serious proper
tons, and there is either a defect in
our laws or an improper enforcement
OF them, and unless the proper
remedies are soon applied the results
may prove most disastrous.
FoRT Smith Times. The Presidents
message to the Senate has been the
topic OF conversation of our men this
last week. 1t is the unanimous con-
clusiOn that President Cleveland has
put ON his lighting garb," and
charged the Republicans ring and
knocked Edmunds out in the first
round.
LITTLE Rock Democrat: There is one
most commendable thing in the pres
ent railroad strike. 1t is the "boycott"
which the strikers have instituted
against intemperance. 1t has been fire.
quently noted, during the present
strike, that the participants have kept
away from the saloons and remained
quiet and ord rly.
VICKsBURG Herald, Yes, farmers at
the South will do well to see to it that
there is a short crop by one-half, at
least, next fall. 1t is their only saliva
ton from the hands of the cotton fut-
ure gamblers. AS we have before said,
let the Southern planter disappoint
them in their crop estimates, by pro-
duclng short crop. Let the cotton
planters bull the market for once.
THE Jackson Mississippidn says of
the option law now in force there: 1t |
amounts to complete prohibitory !
law of all towns of less than one or |
two hundred voters. After county
is carried against prohibition it still
requires that an applicant for license
shall present a petition signed by
twenty-five real estate owners in the
town, or supervisors district'if he be
not in an incorporated town.
LITTLE Rock Democrat It will
soon be time for the planters to plant
their crops. What will they plant?
Will it be the same old song, cotton,
credit, mortgages, poverty and starva-
ion? Or will it be corn with mill
ons in it" Aswe plant go shall we
'eap. There is time yet, At least two
,r three weeks, for planters to reflect
lpon the ruinous policy which the
'all cotton" system brings in its train.
NASHVILLE LuRt5ermdm The work
ngmen and the corporations are the
Ictors while the general business of
he country is the principal sufferer.
The workingmen and the corporations
understand this, and hence ii is that
10Th are anxious to Justify themselves
,efore the business public. The only
olution OF the difficulty is in the
lands OF the wOgkingmen andthe cor
'orations. The plain duty Of both
Ito agree to an immediate arbitration.