The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-10
Baleful Republican Influences.

Baleful Republican Influences.
The northern republican pre- and poll
| ticians are pursuing a course that IS calcl-
! lated to cause trouble between the VIII ei
and blacks in the south. II ey are ma ing
! the blacks dissati,fsd with their condition
| by their speeches and new spaper articles.
| Their purpose Is not 70 improve the blacks
Intellectually and morally, bat to use them
TO strengthen the r publican party. Tney
are not philanthropIc in their aims in any
respect They are simply and purely Sc
fish. If they were iDhlencel by prals =
worthy motives hey would seek 10 improve
the condition of the white pc pie to 6e
found in the large cities and the mining
and manuf icturing towns of the north.
Vermont, Rhode Island and Massachu-
sets, for instance, which are safe repub-
licaA states are virtually owned by com
paratively few wealthy manufacturers and
capitalists, that is, few hundred men con-
troll them politically. These men name the
ticket for which their employees shall vote at
each important election. Tie empi yes are
little letter than slaves, because they must
do as their employers direct, or take the
chance of starving. They are not half so
free and independent as the blacks Of the
south, because the blacks vote as
they want to, aud in other re-
spects do pretty much as they please.
The republican leaders, through the mine
AID mill owners, having almost absolute
control Of the lab T vote Of the north, want
to control the black vote of the south. Thus
far they have succeede only in making the
blacks hostile to the whites, which ho tility
crops out in race riots and other violent
disturbar ces. They show no signs Of aban-
dOuing their purpose, however. They have
n plan which they intend to press upon the
ate ton of congress next winter. 1t is to
put congressional elections under control of
federal agents.
Suppose the democrats of the south were
to create dissatisfaction among the mine
and fact lry workers of the north by poi t.
ing out TO them that they were oppressed,
intimidated and bulldozed by their employ
ers-that they could not vote for whom
they pleased without running the risk of
losing their places. Suppose the dissatis-
faction thus created showed itself in riots.
rapes and o,her kinds of violence, would
Lot the northern people feel that they we're
recei ing very unfri nily treatment fro
the south, and W uld they not resent it,
If the northern republican political and
press will review the situa ion carefully and
candidly. they will DO forced to admit that
they are dong things whic if done by the
press and people of the south, and the north
was the sufferer, they would condemn in
the strongest terms.
II southern congressman, for instance.
were to visit be north and talk to factory
operatives and the workers in the mines in
a way that tended to produce disturbances,
would there not be an cutlery in that section
against them at oncel Would not southern
democrats be char ed with trying to excite
in the north ill-feelling between employers
and employes9 And if the ill-feeling thus
aroused should result in the burnt e of
faclorle and assaults upol women, would
not the south be held responsible9
How long would the northern people
permit poll ical agents from the south to
SOW the s. eds of discomfort among the
laboring elias es of the north2 When they
saw that their property and homes were in
danger would they not take steps to protect
themselvesi Would they not employ means
to get rid of su h agents?
The republican press and POLITICAL must
know that they are chiefly responsible for
the race dis urbances in the south. Their
tie chinss make the blacks restless, and
their efforts to get full benefit of the
block vote are productive of much of the
lawlessness Of which the blacks Q guilty.
The Whites and blacks will get along very
well together if the northern republican
press aud politicians will let the blacks
alone. The blacks will be- permitted to
every right to which, as citizens, they are
entitled, and their privileges will keen
abreast of the improvem ent in their condi.
ton. The uortherl Republican party is
responsible for the attitude which the
whites and the blacks maintain toward
each other in politics If that party were
TO ler the blacks alone, the would be les,
friction between the two races, and there
would, in all probability, be some remark.
able Ranges in their political relations.
The Slugger's Am biuion.
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