The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-24

Senator Hampton, In an interview which
was published in the Washington dispatches
of the MORNING News a day or two ago,
touched upo several things which are OF
interest in the south. He does not believe
for instance, that the Republican party can
gain control If one or N re # the southern
S ates by mea IS of the plans which the ad-
ministration has in view to acco L.
plish that object. Tue southern
people are bound together by
a determination TO have honest and efficient
local government. They nave experienced
the results of carpet-bag rule, aud their ex-
perience was such that they will not permit
Themselves TO be divided on the tariff q les
ton, or any other, as long as there IS
danger Of their county, city and state gov
ernments passing to the control Of such
men had possession of them during the
reconstruction period.
There Is no reason why the high pro-
tective tariff policy Of the Republican party
should find favor in the south. The farm
ers are not benefited by it, They would be
much better off if the tariff were eatly
reduced They would not then be oppressed
by the jute bagginG ami other trusts. The
manufacturers and mi lie owners do not, a'
rule, favor protection. Tley derive
no eneft from it. Indeed, it is
an injury to them, because it enables the
northern ma iufacUurers to compete with
them. Such things as the south is maui
featuring can be produced much cheaper in
the south than in the north. Iron is pro-
duced at much less cost IN Alabama and
Tennessee than IN Pennsylvania, and the
cotton mills Of Nav England cannot con-
pete with those Of the south in the manu-
facture Of the coarser kinds of cotton goods.
Why then should the south desire a high
protective tarifra
Senator Hampton does not think that
there's much probability that congress will
place Congressional ele tons under the con-
trol of federal supervisors and inspectors,
although the Republican party's plan is to
urge legislation of that kind. The senator
declares that such legislation would be un-
constitutional, and, besides, he says there is
growing sentiment in the north against
Legislation calculated TO create discomfort in
the south. Northern capitalist, are invest
ing money in southern industries and bust
ness enterprises, and they Object to legisla-
ton calculated to create bad feeling and
political dis urb lnces.
The senator does not view with alarm the
exodus of the colored people from North
Carolina. He thinks the south would be
greatly benefited if she could gradu-
ally get rid of the colored people,
and he says that he would willingly
vote for a large appropriation to pur-
chase Cuba and send all the c)lored people
IN the south there. There is no use of talking
about colonzing the colored people any
where, however. They are in thu south to
stay, and they appear to be dol * very
well at present. If the northern
republican politicians would let them
alone aud the northern republican
press would not continually seek
to make them dissatisfied they would be
conteuted and would gradually improve
their condition. 1t would DO better for the
south probably if she were populated en-
tirely by white people. but as there is no
probability of such tling it is simply a
wnste of time to discuss it. 1t is probable
that inside of a quarter Of a century some
parts of the south will be freq from colored
people, and that other parts will be very
thickly populated with them. The move.
ments in progress now certainly indicate
such condition of affairs. Perhaps the
race problem may be partly, if not wholly,
solved in that way.