The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-19
How to Break the sofia south.


Gen. Roger A. Pryor expresses the opin-
ion that PIE ident Harrison will have the
satisfaction of seeing the south divided,
politically, if he presses the doctrine of pr
lection to the front, appoints conservative
and respected men to office in the south and
eliminates the race question from politics.
The interview occupies about three columns,
but this is the substance of it. He thinks
that the south is inclined to favor protec-
tion because her agricultural interests are
not as dominating as they once were, and
ecause the south believes that the prospect
Of her becoming the great manufacturing
section of the country is very bright.
Gen. Pryor seems to forget that the
south's agricultural interests, although the
war brought disaster to them, are far
greater now than they were Immediately
prior TO the war. Now the cotton crop Is
nearly 100000 bales. 1t was only about
100000 then. With the exception of rice
and sugar, the south, from an agricultural
standpoint, is far greater than She ever was
at any previous period.
1t is true that manufactures Of various
kinds are being established all over the
| south, but all of those engaged in manu-
featuring are not in favor of the high pro-
tective tariff which the Republican party
demands. Sine of the largest manufact-
urers in this state are heartily in accord
with the tariff principles of the Democratic
party. Indeed, it is safe to say that the
| majority of those who are interested in
manufacturing in the south favor a low
u H., h ,rh
hurts rather than benefits them.
1t is true, probably, that if it was not for
the race question a good many white men,
who now act with the Democratic party,
would act with the Republican party, but
the number would not lie sufficiently large
to endanger the supremacy of the Demo
cratic party.
The greater part of Gen. Pryor's interview
is taken up with matters which have been
presented in one shape and another many
times before. The only notable feature of
it is the opinion that the tariff will be the
issue in 1892, and that protection can, and
probably will, break the solid south.
The Herald, in commenting on the inter-
view, doesn't seem TO understand it, or the
| situation in the south. 1t says that "a solid
south is a national misfortune" But why
is a solid south any more a national mis-
fortune than solid northl The north is
so nearly solid that it is hardly misstate-
ment to call it so. The particular, however,
in which the Herald appears to have no
definite purpose in view is in that part of
its article in which it says:
We of the north have also a race ques-
ton, but it settles itself from year to year
| and gives us no alarm. Hundreds of thou
| sands from all parts of the habitable globe
| annually flock TO these shores. They differ
from US in facial outline, in customs and
habits, in language and in many other i'm
| portant respects. But in less than gener-
alton they become indistinguishable ele-
ments of the general prosperity.
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In this respect what a contrast the south
presentsi
| Exactly what the Herald means by say
/ ing that the north assimilates the immi-
| grants that she receives from all parts of
the globe, and that the white and black
races in the south do not amalgauate, is not
clear, unless it means that the whites of the
south are to be condemned for not marry.
| ing the blacks, and settling the race
| pAObIeul III ludJ way. IL IL uOeS uOJ mean
that it would be interesting TO know what
it does mean. II the north is so successful,
as the Herald says, in assimilating differ
| ent races why does it not assimilate the
| few blacks who make their homes in that
section, and who are yet required to knock
at the kitchen door! If the north is so sue
| cessful in assimilating different races
why was she SO anxious to shut out the
Chinesei
The Herald does not agree, apparently
with Gen. Pryor. The general thinks that
protection will break the solid south. The
Herald says that 1.-THE fear of negro ascend
ency has kept the south solid, and 50 long as
the fear continues the south will remain
/ solid" According to the Herald, there
fore, Gen. Pryor must show how protection
| can abolish this fear before his theory of the
way the solid south can be broken will be
| accepted.