Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-04-05
New Series, Vol. 20, No. IA.
TEACHING BYEXAMPLE

HISTORY TEACHING BY EXAMPLE
New York Mail and Express.
Our fearless and aggressive contempo-
rary, the atlanta Constitution, continues
to fight the Bourbons and Bourbonism of
the South and to advocate Protection and
the repeal of the Federal direct taxes. for
reasons that must appeal to the intelli-
gence of the more brainy and enterpris-
ing Southern man. slavery and its en-
vironments,' urges the Constitution, with
irresistible force, compelled the South to
flavor Free Trade. Its capital was in
"vested in land and negroes, and the re-
"sult was that when circumstances drove
1.-THE two sections into an armed contest,
"the South was practically at the mercy
"Of the section that had been developing
its material resources and its industries.
" All this IS history, but it points its own
moral. Free Trade means dependence:
" Protection means independence"
This is history teaching by example"
in the most exemplary and unmistakable
manner, but it is hard to fight against the
Bourbon Democratic prejudices and in
stincts and against the tremendous polit-
ical power of the Southern Whisky Ring"
whose very existence depends on the con-
tinuance of the Federal tax on whisky
Yet, if the Republican Congressman will
hold caucus and unite on policy of re-
pealing all the direct taxes, even the whole
power of the Federal office-hOlders, of the
Whisky Ring and of political Bourbon
ism, combined, can not prevent political
revolution in the South, without prece-
dence anywhere, and far-reaching and al
%nc I'M &c, 1fc
We have the most trustworthy infOrma-
ton as to the fact that large majority of
the Republican members of Congress have
at length come to recognize this novel, ex-
traOrdinary and unprecedented Opportu-
nifty for extending the sway of the party
which is in fullest accord with the inter-
ests of The New South" and which can
be made successful in at least five South
ern States, if the Republican campaign is
adjusted to the entirely changed situation
in the South.
No filter text for Republican speeches
in the two VirginiaS, i'll North Carolina,
in Georgia, in Alabama, in Tennessee and
i'll Kentucky, could be taken than that we
have selected from the editorial columns
of the ablest and most influential South
ern journal Yet there seems to be re-
markable degree of slowneSS in the North
in appreciating the fact that, at last, the
changes in the business interests and
methods of the South have reached a point
where those who are in the vanguard of
the material enterprises of that region see
that Democratic Free Trade is as hostile
to Southern interests as it is to Republi-
can principles.
The sooner the Southern men who un-
derStand the new situation and who see
the vital relations between Protection and
are encouraged by demOnstra-
tiOns from the recognized leaders of the
party that will incite and JUS
tlfy political revolution, the better it
will be for the Republican party. for "the
New South and the country at large.
If there was less attention given to
up rival Presidential booms,"
and more attention given to measures cal
culated to attract to Republicanism the
best and brainiest elements of the State
and to enlarge and nationaliZe the party,
the outlook would be more hopeful No
one could have fOreseen two years ago
that Mr. Cleveland would have antago-
niZed "The New South" by simultane-
Ously threatening its protected industries
by Free Trade Message and insisting on
the retention of the internal taxes that
are especially odiOuS to all classes of Re
publican Southern men. Is it not time
for Republican Congressional caucus
that will make the most of this OppOrtu-
nifty for dividing the Solid South?