San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-02-28
A SINGULAR ERROR.

cSplthllsUb, WhTulHR Iion oS"i"o'
southern investments. The New Or
leans journal accepts the Herald q.
a friendly ally of the south, and APP
precistes the motive of the warning
which is based or the Herald's as
sumption of extreme and unfriendly
legislation by congress towards the
south. The Times Democrat accepts
this assumption of the Herald as
gospel but dissents from Its conclu-
sions, saying:
"No capitalist of sense will be fright
ened nowadays by the Republican
party and Its sectional legislation. A
dozen times has that party assaulted
US and been beaten back, although
during the construction period it's
bitterness and malignity were so
much greater than now, and we so
much weaker. We have built up our
industries, added to our crops, erect
ed new facturies and developed
new mines. Capital Is flowing in
from the North, but not Oh
it alone are we dependent. Europe is
sending its millions here, having dis
cerned that no country affords it finer
opportunities and returns a better
profit on capital, and the south itself
has surplus money which it is placing
in many towns and districts. The re-
publicans will very soon find out that
any course intended to injure the in
dus trial development of this section
will react on them. We have moth
ing to fear on that score. The Her
AIDS warning is not only unnecessary,
but gives false idea of the situation.
Capital attracted mere by the splendid
opened to it, Is not to be
frightened away by republican hostil-
ity or sectional legislation"
rnaL a Journai 50 prominent as the
Times Demosrat, of New Orleans,
should use such language, and hold
such opinions only proves how in
sradicabls is that prejudice which
the south entertains towards the
north and by which 1t is DOM
mated. The capital which has
SO largely aided in building up
southern industries, and estab
fishing southern manufactures, and
developing southern iron mines,
and opening up large agricultural
areas of southern soil has been more
than democratic. More re-
publican dollars and more republican
brains have come south during the
past twenty-five years than the north
ern democracy have furnished, and
yet we are told that the republican
party is inimical to southern indus
try, hostile to southern develop
meut and engaged in leglslat-
ing adversely to her interests.
There Is no reason in the charge, and
no just grounds upon which to found
it. because the facts are pot in accord
anco with the theory. What legisla-
ton does the Times-Democrat charge
upon the republican party that is
inimical to the south? Two branches
OF the national government, the ad-
and the judicial have
been In the hands of the republican
party since the war, with the sole ex
ception of one presidential torn. The
other branch, the executive, has been
at least two third republican, and yet
no national legislation can be pointed
out that discrim1nates against the
south. There is nothing in the arti
Gle from which the above extract is
taken to show to what act or acts OF
the republican party allusion 10
made, and in the absence Of specific
charges special refutation is impossi-
BILE. There are some who cry out
against the tariff schedule now
being arranged in committee OF
the house, but surely the Times
Democrat will not base it's charges
upon an incoFnpleted schedule, or up
on any schedule, on which legisla-
tive action has been taken. The
leading journal of the great cane re-
gion of the south may feel nervous
over the agitation ofsugar duties, but
even should the duty be repealed
and bounty substituted, it will bear
as heavily on the developing sugar
interests of Kansas and Nebraska as
of Louisiana and could not justify the
mad O dozen times assaulted the
south. The statement of the Times
Democrat is unfortunate not only be-
cause it is untrue, but because it re-
veals an undying hostility to north
ern capital and enterprise while com
PEELED to acknowledge their services
and benefits In building up the south.
1t will be another quarter of a CEN
fury before the south understands
how utterly unconscious the great
north is Of any Jealousy, bitterness,
hardness or prejudice toward the
south North nj Mason and DixOni.