Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-05-01

prosperity, SO We nave satdi ua'es ''"le VIC
sbapdoo ment Of tie Southern policy
Tbich Gsn. GOFF now says 5bould be
adopied Where, then, is GOFF's argu-
men,9 He has none. His assertions are
false We do not ike TO number Gen.
GoFF among those Republican politicians
who irish the South to remain solid: bat we
zee no wsv cut oft. There Is no South
eru question" hut what grows cut Of the
political necessities Of the Republican par
Nv. 1.-THE K publican politicians fad II
necessary to stir up their ignorant voters
DUNG campaign they straigetway begin
10 discuss the Southern question" after
The manner Of Cory and their discussion
is for the pur ole OF showing that every
southern white man has constituted him
self cor miit,e o. ono, and, armed viii
a shotgun. BE- keepirz he cOloret voters
away fom re polls.
Tterasl sou bern question IL how ;hs
freedman car make an honest living End
sst nm education. and this e. every ser
sible p srsor knows 80 quss ion atsll-
a. least g., .s q question that is rapi lily e.
dirgitsslf. as thef cures above given show.
now ths, the politicians 81 Washington
Isav. he so1lh alone
There il antsron.sn bet Eeen The whit'
rrl Ore c.'orti pop risfion 81 the Sou'h
,- 81 natural md a. there would be 81 ths
IS -,h urd.r similar conditions, bui POLL
r,s Oh. rothire to Co eth DO The atti
tui. .f Che sh.tss i aaumtd rur.ly ioi
-.lf pee. rtar--. TIE South cares ni
mDr- ir te p-estrva'ion Of rli'- -u'e Of
-a sonih than B, care. tor Democratic rule
W4h. rou They have bad long suC
Sitter tl.ie Cd che othsr hing sud ar solo
ara determined against recuusncs Of %
Ana 90 log 81 TIE Republican party, viii
i.s CHANnLEgs ard FoRAEERs and GoFF
ihrelteu them with a re. Urn Of it inst e
locz viii the South remain politically
solid
No northern man can prescribe 70
The lis of the South. De cannot tel
what course be would pursue if dan
gsrof this kind were constantly hsUgiui
over him or his children. Says Mr GOD
KIN.
/ As the management of our afairs i5 nov
divided between the State aud nations
/ . vernments. no man is called on to legis
late about ~oes which he does not feel, o.
90 strive for pre- ii g which he is not to share
When we in New York are voting o.
taking on State matters, we are voting
and taking or what concerns all New
. Yorllegs about equally. When We arr
voting and talking abOut federal matters
weare voting and talking on what con
Germs all citizens Of the United
States about 'qually. But when
New Yorker is discussing Msssachu
setis or South Carolina affairs, h'
j. discussing thirgs which concern hin
only slightly, and about which therefore
his opinion is of comparatively small
value. For in politics, even more than il
private life, 1t is true that every mar
knows his own business, and that Il
Nuke an opinion really weighty, mar
should be prepared to back If by some
sort of risk or sacrifice. Advice which en-
tails no responsibility has been, from the be
ginnirg Of the world, considered a cheaJ
article and therefore it is that the gTeates
misfortune which csn bsfsll a community
is 10 be covered by the opinion of another
which does rot share its trials or necessities
In It's grosser form this sort ofTule is called
the will of the conqueror, but there are
many lesser degrees of it. We see on,
/ form of II in the lOng-proiracted attemp
made by Euglishmen to force Irishmen tC
settle their land question in the way Eng
| lishmen settle It at home, without re
gard to differences Of circumstances
We should see another form Of it if W,
could by any sort of penalty compel thu
South 20 settle its Negro question in tn,
way in which We, who have no Negro
question, think we would settle it If il
came in our way. Bat no man at the
North who has no Negro question to face
really knows how he would settle it if hC
had 20 face it. II is not possible for any
community in which the ignorant are and
always have been in q small minority, tC
say with any degree OF pOsitiveness how il
would behave If it suddenly found all its
great interests, both moral and material,
placed at the mercy of majority cOmpOs-
ed of hali-bArbarous labOrers acting through
the forms of law.
Such law, Mr. GoDEIN rightly concludes,
would not be American law. 1t has been
tried once and public opinion both North
and South compelled its abandonment.
The milk in the cOcOanut is this: The
Republican politicians care not a snap OF
their fingers for the South or what becomes
Of it, They can use It's misfortune to ex-
cite, through total Misrepresentation, the
snimOsities of their voters, who are iguor-