The Opelousas courier., 1888-12-22
Beware of Gift Bearing
Greeks.
Monroe Bulletin.

South is still aquestion of niue,
conjecture and solicitude to I
great many newspapers and peo4
pie.
Will the policy be hostile or
gnciliatory? is being asked on
1t seems to have been pretty
we'll settled that it will be con
ciliatory.
Mr.. Harrison has said, and it
was a grand and patriotic senti-
ment If SINCERE, that he knew no
South.
Past experience has taught
the Republican party that coer-
Give measures and the race issue
only tended to solidify the
South, aud the leaders of that
party are to be given credit for
sufficient political acumen and
sagacity to profit by that ex-
perlence.
Hence the conclusion that Mr..
Harrison's administration will
bury the old method and at
to win the South by kind
ness.
It is proposed, to accomplish
this, to build w. a respectable
Republican party in the South.
Carpet-baggers and disreputa-
BILE scalawags are not to be re-
cognized, butrespectable South
ern Republicans, and respecta-
BILE weakened Democrats are
to receive all the honors and
emoluments of office. A policy
of tbs kind, it is thought, will
make a break in the solid South
and insure Republican ascend
ency for years to come.
The question that confronts
the Democracy of the South,
then, is how to meet such ii
policy?
1t would seem that the princi-
plies of the party for which the
people of the South have SO long
contended would be sufficient to
} hold it together AS solid as ever,
but the race issue out OF poll
i tics, some hold that the white
!. men Of the South will divide OF
questions of government, es'
f pecially where local self-interes'
! is involved, aud it is undeniablt
! that patronage will cnt no small
D figure in making converts t
Rapublicanism. 1t is not con.
sofing to ones finer feelings t.
think of it in this light, but i.
the past, in the times that trle'
a mems souls, some whom W.
thought our tr,iest fell before
d the god of mammon. In those
days ii cost one his position il
society; he forfeited the respec
!. and esteem Of his neighbors.
q Will the sentiment OF tn
II country sustain, such IA proscrIp
tive policy against apostates to
e dag?
t., With an injunction 10 on
/; people to beware OF Greek
"a bearing gifts, we await tht'l
y coming, and will watch til
) sequel with no NtIe interest,
The struggle of the cou,ttr.
% editor with the skilIfnl advel
le Using agent, whose business
ts has been to plan methods
a. getting advertising space ut til
o. lowest possible rates, has bee
All unequal struggle. Editor;
,e associations, and the discussion
is at their meetings and throug
is the National Editorial Journa
lvlist. have ttffned the tide Of BIZ
TX tie under which country put
m fishers seemeeh9ibont to sink 4
az TO still greater impecuntosit
nd and helpIessness. II has bee
in found that not only greed b'
an a belief that it was necessary.
al the protection of their own bus
- ness. have impelled advertiser
he agents to crowd down the p
MS ces paid q the lowest possih
ri starvation figures. The renee
found was apsly and brief
stated by French Upton, ~ !
ID lating before the Kenfnel
ry Press Association the meth
his pursued by himself. he sal
ed IL deal with zone but rellal
lie agents, and have = fixed pr
nd from which | do not vary.
in an agent offers me one dol
re- for a fye-dollar adverilsemell
IA / write him my price. Ii ne
ge, creases the offer to two or tn
fa- dollars, | consign his letter
the waste-baskete II hes sen
theunoney with his offer, a
does not send enough, ! send
Or back. This frequently reqtll
i . considerable nerve to do, but