The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-02-21
AFRAID OF THE SOUTH.

has studied the industrial changes in
this country in recent years that,
even under the present tariff system,
expressly designed 10 build up the
Northern manufacturers, the South
is rapidly advancing towards the
point where she will become a
formidable competitor of New Eng
land. She can produce more cheap
ly, and already factories for the
cruder forms of industry are spring.
ing up all over the South. There
is rapidly~increasing migration of
Northern capital and labor south
ward, and Northern capitalists real
ize that there is serious danger of
the transportation of industrial SUI
premacy to the Southern States.
They naturally do not wish to
see this take place, and it is the
opinion of thoughtful observers
that the revival by Mr.. Evarts and
other Republican leaders OF the Sec
tional issue is prompted solely by
the desire to check the industrial de-
velopment of the South. If they
were sincere in their pretended SEN
sitiveness to election frauds and so-
called inequalities and outrages upon
suffrage at the Sonth they would
turn their attention to similar
wrongs and injustice in New York
and the New England States, which
are notorious and not denied. The
Republican party numbers among
its members many fair-minded peo-
pie, who fully recognize the fact
that the war is over, and that it is
the rankest injustice to continue the
policy of marrying the South.
Unfortunately the party has COM
mitted its leadership to men who
seem willing to lend themselves to
the narrow and selfish purposes of
the greedy monopolists who have
waxed fat and overbearing in the
enjoyment for years of the taxing
powers of the nation, which ought
never to be used for the benefit of
any class, but solely for the actual
needs of the public service.
In contradistinctlon to this gen.
eral feeling among the Northern Re-
publican leaders is the alleged
friendly feeling for the South which
Mr.. Blaine is said to now entertain.
Col. Julian Allen, of Statesville,
who has just returned from a visit
to the incoming Secretary Of State,
whose particular friend he is, was
interviewed by the Charlotte Chron-
icle last Saturday.
Col. Allen says that Mr.. Blaine
assured him that the next admins
tration would positively not elevate
negroes to the federal ofiqsnin the
South, and added:
"Mr. Blaine told me most une-
quivocally that the position of the
Administration would be to let the
South manage the negro question
that the South knows how to deal
with the negro, and that it is only
fair and proper that it should be al
lowed to manage its own affairs"
You are convinced, then, Colonel,
said the reporter, "that the Southern
people will not be mortified by hav-
ing negroes placed in office?"
"I am sure of it." was the reply.
Mr.. Blaine told me that such a
thing would not be done, that he
was out and out opposed to it, and
that he would use all his influence
in aiding the South; and you know
that Mr.. Blaine's influence in the
incoming Administration is not likes
ly to be very small"
We credit Col. Allen with be-
lief in all that he said. But we do
not expect anything particularly
good from James G. Blaine, in his
dealings with the South. We shall
be agreeably surprised if he proves
himself true friend of this section.