Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-16

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The south's Defense.

The LEAF-CH RONICLE and st.
Louis Republic agree precisely as to
what should be the action of the
South in her own defense against the
oppression from the Northeast,
which comes in political form
through the force bill, tariff taxation,
money manipulations, etc. The tar
iff bill is Il business matter intended
to cripple the rapid progress and
prosperity Of the South by unsettling
our industrial enterprise and creating
q race war, and our way to meet it is
by industrial organization and re.
doubling Southern energy and liv-
ing within ourselves. Politics is
nothing but business with the East
ern people, and nothing but business
will control their mad career. On
the same day the LEAF-CHRONICLE
wrote on "the solution of the prob
lem" the Republic published very
strong leading editorial under the
above heading, from which we ex-
tract the following
"The great political battle of the
future must be fought in the Central
West. Let the South accept that as
inevitable. Let it hold to Demo
cratic principle as heretofore, but let
itabandon the idea altogether that it
will be intolerably oppressed as a
section If the Republican party steals
Its Congressional and electoral votes.
That is a matter to be settled be-
tween the two great national parties.
The initiative there does not belong
to the South.
"The initiative: that does belong
TO the South is TO build another fac
tory or open another iron mine for
every Congressman or Presidential
elector of which it is defrauded. 1t
must stop buying its supplies from
the Northeast. 1t must stop borrow
ing money there. Industrial indie
pendence is the only adequate an
swer it can give to aggression in the
interest of Northeastern control of
money and trade. 1t is an answer
both practical and practicable. Eu
ropean capital is searching every
corner of the world for lucrative in
vestment. The South has now its
greatest opportunity, and nothing
the Republican party can do can rob
1t of it. Its future depends on its
own calmness, GOODNESS and business
brains-not on politics, except in
maintaining its local self-govern-
ment.
1.-THE business men of the South
should get together, declare their in
dustrial independence and devise
means for maintaining it. The gov
ernors of the States interested can
find no better work to do than in
calling together conventions of bust
ness men in each State, with a view
to the appointment of duly author
lied and accredited agents to go to
Europe and induce capitalists to in
vest in the development OF Southern
manufacturing and mining resources.
Such IA movement will put billion
dollars into the Southern States in
five years, and in five years more
will give the S,uth industrial indie
pendence. Political equality with
the most favored States of the Union
will follow industrial independence
rs surely as the night follows day.
at is time to act now and not to
talk. The sectional fight is to be
continued on the South, and there is
only one way to meet it. Put the
loud takers and the bar-rOom loaGers |
who talk "shot gun" and "white SUI
premacy" to the rear. Use the negro
to aid industrial development. |
There is to be no peace for the South
until it conquers it for itself with
business brains. Give brains a |
chance. Put them ut the front