The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-05-14

VuTIHDTN TOTIg CJTTIUIllIlC1 OTIIce. TneV
also believe In the rotation OF public honors.
The humblest family la tbs land may have an
ambition to SEQ one OF It's number placed in
official position The whole sympathy OF the
American people Is with ths family i'm that IA
piration. Besides, we cannot have too much
education IN self-goyernm mt We can't have
too many intelligent Americans passing
through Office for while. To serve with pride
ana to fall back into the ranks OF the people
To teach what they have learned. The
annual or biennial Legislature is worth all
that IL costs in the people that 10 sends back TO
the communities educaced 3 jnlewhat In 90 vsrn-
inent. This is true Of Congress- and of every
thing which helps 10 odpcaCo in government or
To enlist the interest OF tho people i'm 1t. Not
only do the American people demand that the
list OF Office should bo open, but they fear injury
To those who adopt ofiiceholding for life sim
ply because OF the salary thas 10 pays. Intrust
this Government 10 those VINO have no other
interest in oiiico and no other pride 81 country
than To draw the salaries given and the Repub-
lie would DO betrayed and soon outdone ~ ia
tho American theory thai any Office i'm this
Government can be iilled by n man fresh from
the people whose pride in his country will make
him faithful and true. The trouble is not to-
DAY. IA the mugwump sees IL, that the people
take too much interest IN politics but that they
take too little. believe The claim OF the mug
wump, thai the people favor life holding class
in Office, il submitted 90 the people themsel YES
would be rejected by 1000 90 votes.
also believe as IL Republican. and would ad-
vocate as an EDITOR, the purest possible cleo
lions. The question OF an honest ballot 10
higher than anything in politics or parti SHIN
ship. For IL involves not only the honor but the
life OF the nation, which is deurer TO us aud
moro precious TO our children than anything Of
party honor or splendor III the Australian sys
tom be the right thing, let us have IL. In the
south, think, we need the Australian system
Tor voting but an American system for counting
THE SOUTHERN QUESTION.
This Southern question is the great and
luminous one of all, no matter how much il is
ridiculed. The tariff is an anchorage. the car
dinal doctrine of faith, and the Republican
party in being true TO that is true TO the re-
public. But the Republican conscience wants
something which cannot in any sense be called
n sordid issue. The Republican party itself is a
sentiment. There is much OF sentiment TO
attract young men TO party and to
make old men moro earnest in it, in putting
above everything else above all other issues,
the paramount thing that there must be honest
elections, fair ballots and fair counts. Who
ever tnhes with the purity OF elections IL n
traitor TO his country, aud If he be a Republi-
can, a double traitor 70 his party. For the Re-
publican party has no other dependence for it.
self in life than the strictest adherence to honest
ways in every act and deed Indeed, its selfish
ness would hold it to honest elections, even IL
honesty did not With thoroughly honest cleo
tions in tho South and in the great cities i'm the
North, party lines would have to change and
some other party come in TO meet the Republi-
can, for with such honest elections the Demo-
cratic party could not keep up its organization.
Let us teach always and ever, then, that first
above everything, first above the tariff and all
other issues, the great Republican doctrine is
the duty OF standing resOlutely now and always
for absolutely pure elections. A sacred ballot
is the epigram of al enduring Republic. This
means, if adopted, that tho Southern question
becomes paramount in politics; for there is no
pretense, even by the candid opposition, that
the elections OF the South are fair
few months ago n poet from the South, who
had wondrous enchantmeut in speech who
indeed put wings to his words aud sent them
singing flocks OF birds about every Northern
home, appeared in Boston and carried the staid
old city captive with his elOquence. his mis-
sion was 10 tell the North ana ms the evangel
of that mis- sion he did tell the North, although
in words of superlative beauty, that the war
amendments TO the Consultation are not OBJ
served I'm tho South and never will be observed
His eloquence hypnotized not only that city
but very largely the entire North, and the gen
erOu slIltepuDlican press every where We'd with
the Democrats in saying an orator has come, n
man OF II century in words has como and, as
Americans, proud Of the splendor AID achieve
ments OF American intellect, let US do him
homage. That, perhaps, was natural; and /
join with all others in expressing my admira-
tion for this man who came Nor,h 10 speak as
no one else has spoken in this country for many
years. have no doubt his heart was honest
but his love Tor his own portion of America led
him with his witching eloquence on his lips 10
come North and ask IL TO accept n situation in
the south which utterly overrules thel verdict
ut Appomattox. In all that he said OF the
beauty of the fair land of the South and in
much that he said of its people, every Amori-
can would join.
A TRIBUTE TO SOUTHERN SOLDIERS
| would not undervalue the South. / would
not underestimate the bravery of the Confeder-
ate army nor the heroism of the Con federate
struggle for nationality. Indeed, l think the
North has mover Disseminated, rs IL should
have done, between the Confederate army and
the Confederate Government. The Confederate
Government veXed the eyes OF the world for
awhile, and passed away TO have the contempt
of the world in history. Ii was an utter, COM
plete dismal, crying failure in every respect
IL orig mated no measure TO serve It's time no
domestic wisdom nothing that it could leave in
the sight Of men 10 mark where it had been. No
civic monument can ever be raised to the Con-
federate Government. Nothing in honor can
ever be raised in It's name. 1t was not only the
knocking wrong but the cruel farce OF its cen
fury. II was the creation OF men who must
have known when they created it that it would
fall of men calling themselves statesmen
who deluded the ignorant OF their own
section, and led them TO disaster and death
God never set among men an illustration
OF the vanity OF ambition. OF the insuffciency Of
ambition supplemented even by power, he
did in the illustration Of the rise AID do wnfall
OF the southern Confederacy. 1t failed as all
things kindred will fail in time, because it was
not honest. The Confederate army some
thing else and something better. 1t was made
up OF men who, whether deludod they
in large part by blind faith in their leaders or
10y heroic sentiment Of belief in n Southern en-
pire. We're willing to die for their belief and
tn 0ir faith. Any faith held by mn intelli-
tent man for which no is willing 10 die is emit
tied to the respect OF mankind. The value OF
that army twas not only great, it WAS Ameri-
can, and lnntcsloss except by other Americans
put the blue alone above the gray in soldierly
valor. The Union soldier is She one impsrisha-
BILE thing that this century OF Americans will
give TO history and to fame. The Confederate
soldier, the man no had to conquer, was his
worthy foeman.
QUOTING HARD FACTS
What has Republican rule done? The wealth
OF this country in 1850, when the Republican
party came into power, amounted 10 sixteen
billions OF dollars in 1870, 70 thirty billions Of
dollars in $780, To forty-three billions, and there
is reason for expecting thai in 1890 il will be
shown TO have wealth OF sixty billions,
In this prosperity the South has shared equal
" with the North, and in such n record and
such proof is TO be found overwhelming testi-
mony to the wisdom, non-soctional prosperity
and national benehcence OF the Republican rule
The destiny Of this nation ia now known. The
North South, aud West are to DO neighbors and
allies, all parts OF one republic Therefore
there is aud can he but n common interest in
common rule of fair play. The North asks moth
ing OF the South 10 would not grant / self The
science of the nation cannot be rid OF the black
man. In the wisdom Of the Father OF us ali the
black man has always played m important
part in this republic. and in the continuing
wisdom OF the High Power he Is still with
The proposition that he shall not vote, the prop
OstiOn that he shall Ice sent to another country,
nre all propositions against tha verdict of tho
war and against fate itseh. He Is n human be-
ing aud our brother man. Because ne has been
wronSed gives his case more merit rather than
less. This Is his own country, and he may not
be sent away from IL. He was born here. He
has love for home equal to, IL not exceeding
that OF tho white man. Indeed, the melodies Of
the home that all sing the melodies OF
the black mans love for home. IL Is uquestiOn