New-York tribune., 1886-05-27
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
rur sOI-rU; II. Industrial Financial ana per"cn'
An -onJ,,ion Ry A. X. MCCLURk l0mo PIP. zoo -
r. lippincott Company.

r,,t, so,TU, II. industrial, Financial and roIuc9
Condition. By A. X. MCCLURE lomo' Pp' 400 -
R Lppncott Company -.
- IVA rresu,ne 70 have becn originally newspa-
So lo,tc,s written from various Southern clties'
a,a treating of such aspects of the New South 's
trnck The eve OF rapid traveller. His conclusions
are often nteres ing, although his "bseNa'o"'
were evidently not very close. and the data upo"
which he POUNDS his opinions eeem 10 w
scapty. The great fault of the nooh Is
i;s lack Of precis on. 1t presents some 1aeus o"s
far fr,m enough to Justify Its title az s'nuy u
"lndustrial financial and political conu, ''o"''
The author finds IN the voung men OF 'no -
who have come 10 the front OF affairs sihc' ."0 ~
spirit of energy. thrift, enterprise al"
sense with only a harmless sentimental respect ioi
49, -, which their fathers fought for and
A., +,;s ,ovr ccnerafion he the fa'res nope i"l
.ho ro,cr;tv of the South and the obllteratlon "i
az .e.,ioral nrei1dlces. In most OF inc Sla'eS
acricu'ture. manufactures aud trade arc
all making extraordinary progress; virginia no"
over ,s held back by the rum OF her credit ""u
Alabemo has never recovered from certain changes
in the course of trade which took away the com
mercial importance of Mobile after the war Ala
hama and Tennessee. however, are destined 10 oe
come great coal and iron mining States ana u al
feet most seriously the industries of Pennsylvania
Colonel
his subject more carefully than any other; but an
,hoL h,sbooL ne is TOO easily satisfied with rapid
concentrations He writes of the political SITUATION
from the polnt of view OF who believes that
"intellgence virtue. property land wh"e
skinl "muSt rule and that the only salvation ol
The negro Is to keep out OF politics Inc TWO races
ar, getting along very nicely now, since the whites
have things all their way; but now ana theh
Colonel Mcclure lets slip sign that the arrange
ment has It's incOnVenieDces. OF Alabama ne says
"1he whites have majority of voters In the STATE,
but the color line has passed away, and the coh'roi
of the coloIed vote is more COM
plete In Alabama with less violence or
friction than IN any of the other cotton
States" in Louisiana the colored vote Is not
poiled IN most of tho parishes" betWeeh
their distrust of their leaders and the steady re-
pres,ions by the whites, thew the negroes feel no
interest IN politics They know that thev cannot
ru e. and they know that. as they are now situated
they should not rule" The furure. however looks
very dark TO Colonel Mcclure. Now that the
whites have got the upper hand so completely he
fears that they will split; each faction Will hd
for the coiored vote the negro Will return 10
poliiics :: and "the race problem Will then be
back again, as bad as ever. SO that the condition
ofharmonv In he New South that the coloredvoter
shall continue to enacc himself! Colonel Mcclure :
political opinions are those of a convert to Democ-
racy who has not yet worn of the first zeal
The style Of the book is ambitious and yet ex-
tremcy loose and although the author tells us that
his chapters have been "careiully revised" the
error, Of grammar and rhetoric are little surprls
ing New-Orleans und r General Butler, he says,
Twas ruled with the IRON heel that only war can
WELD" Welding IA heel Is something fresh, but
ruling with heels-why only a mue does that.