The Washington bee., 1888-11-17
1T is SETTLED.

Harrison will, on March 4th next,
assume the duties of the High
office of Executive of the nation,
the people of all classes and races
are adjusting themselves to sac
cept the inevitable" and accommo-
date themselves TO such a line of
policy as may be marked out for
the ship of state. And without
hoping TO anticipate the character
and full scope of such a policy,
thereare a few important consider
ations which the BEE is quite cer-
tain will not be ignored by Mr.,
Harrison. Ii lis almost universal
ly conceded that the main cause
of Mr.. Cleveland's defeat was his
stubborn todyism TO the unsound
and pernicious doctrines urged by
the Southern wing of his party, in
spite of the opportunities of his
more judicious and patriotic friends
at the North. These doctrines,
the pet hobbies aud theories OF
the South, were evidently urged
with the view of paralyzlng the
material interests of the North to
their own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. They
savored Of the "rule or ruin" idea,
and were pressed with vehemence
and pertinacity hitherto unknown
In the history Of American poli-
tics.
Aney were the theories of Ca
houn and of Toombs and that class
who preferred national imbacility
and pauperization as a conse.-
quence of running Northern indus
tries and the establishing of foreign
monopoly, to system of economy
which tended to strengthen and
enrich the whole country, simply
because such policy could not be
devised to enrich the South with
out producing a corresponding
effect upon all sections of the
country. This disI ositlon in the
pant of a section OF our country to
league with a foreign power is
certainly one of the causes of the
recent political upheaval. But
this policy referred not only to the
N"rth. 1t was urged as means
OF controlling national power by
which to enable the South the
more surely to bind the sbackIes
OF political slavery upon the col
ored people. The gradual but
sure development of the colored
people out OF a condition of intel
lectual darkness, is the source of
disquletude and alarm to the
Southern ex-slave holder, and the
possibility of inauguratlng a poll
cy, which could furnish the power
to crush the rising manhood of
the race, helped to argument the
enthusiasm and persistency of the
democracy. But the seeming
possibility of such policy proved
a delusion and a snare-a pit dug
by them -elves only to become
their political sarcophagus. In
view of these pernicious tenden>
cies, and with a President, elect
whose record is clear in favor of
a protective system commensurate
with industrial growth; with q
record Ia favor of full civil and
political freedom: with a love of
National progress in all that par
tains to the development of man
hood and womanhood; with in
stincts strongly American and
with a moral heroism which quite
compasses his exalted convictions,
We may expect to see wise and
benefcent administration of af.-
fairs. We may hope for return
of the elective franchise so condi.
tional as to guarantee the best re-
suits of intelligent and patriotic
selection. We may expect to see
measures recommended, passed
and administered which shall es.-
tablish the true ideas of repubIi-
canism so firmly that race preju.-
dice shall be accounted a social
and political disgrace. An appro-
pirate educational bill will be pass
ed. Laws for the apprehension
and punishment ofballos- box stuff
fers aud rioters will be passed |
and a free ballot and a fair count |
will be had.
Colored men, who are compe-
tent and deserving, will be seen,
not only as clerks aud laborers in
the Executive Departments, but
they will be seen in PAGES of
prominence, wherein they may
show their executive ability and