The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-03-06
Stand from Under.
New York Herald.l

eau 0C6l VI -No4 LAS4 II NeH- Se~4 AAsA-'
gone into the Southern States in the
last half-dozen years; and there is not
week now that one does not read re-
ports of new enterprises in the South
under Northern control aud manage
ment and set up with the help of North
ern capital.
We have word of warning to give
to the owners Of these many millions
of Northern capital invested in South
ern enterprises, and of other millions
ready to be invested in the same region.
The profitableness of such enter
prises depends upon the continuance OF
peace and order iu the Southern States.
Under the rule of Mr. Arthur, and still
more under that of Mr.. Cleveland,
peace and order did obtain in these
States. Confidence in the stability of
things down there drew many millions
of Northern capital into those States.
They are rich ia great variety of un-
developed resources; they have an
abundant and sufficiently capable la
boring force. Given good order and
the Northern ventures in those States
will continue to be, for years, uncom-
monty profitable; and there will be for
q long time to come great inducements
for more Northern capital and enter
prise in that half of the Union.
So far all has gone well down there.
No complaints are heard from the
Northern men who have gone into the
South with capital to engage in useful
and developing enterprises. They are
welcomed; they find other capital safe
ly and very proftably invested; they
have no fault to find with the local
laws; the taxes are low; their property,
be it in mines or mills or factories, is
secure.
But we warn the owners of these
many millions of Northern capital en-
ployed in the South that this happy
apd satisfactory condition may not
last much longer. The Republican
managers in Washington have de-
termined, as desperate partisan ex-
pedient, to fling Southern affairs and
interests into confusion and disorder.
They have agreed on policies intended
to set the the two races in violent oppo-
sition to each other all over the South.
They are getting ready laws which, as
sure as they are enacted, will plunge
the whold South into a condition which
every one will see is fatal to ali legiti-
mate business enterprises.
Already all over the South is felt the
ground swell which foretells the COM
ing storm. The proposed Republican
Legislation for Federal control of elec-
tions in the Southern States means, as
the negroes as we'll as the whites under
stand, and attempt to make the most
ignorant and corrupt part of the negro
population rulers over the whites in
States, counties and townships. In all
parts of the South negro demagogues,
excited by the promise of Republican
legislation, are raising their heads with
new hopes of mastery. They have the
votes, and the Republicans in Congress,
they believe, will enact laws under
which the solid negro vote in all the
black country shall once more, as in
the reconstruction times, control the
offices, lay and spend the local and
State taxes, and begin new career OF
robbery, lawlessness and demoraliza-
ton.
The beginnings of the great upheaval
are already seen in the increase of in
cendiary fires in several Southern
States since the Republican programme
became known, in the frequest assas-
sinations of peaceable and orderly
white men, and in sensible increase
of violeuce and disorder and crime be-
tween the races.
Watching these things carefully We
are bound to warn Northern capitalists
to "stand from under" Unless North.
ern public opinion makes itself heard,
as it did in the latter carpet bag days,
against this republican programme,
the party in power in both houses will
make laws and the party managers
will require policies from the Execu.
tive which will so excite the negro
demogogues in the South as to produce
in all these States collisions between
the races which are sure to result in
incendiarism, pillage, murder and s
general and total disorganization of the
negro population.
The Republican managers do not care
for the negro, but they see no hope O.
carrying another Presidential election
unless they can once more, in the ole
Mississippi steamboat way, "put mig
ger on the safety valve" They care
nothing for the general interests of tb'
country; they care nothing for its pros
perity-they care only for power, ant
as has been shown in the House 0
Representatives already they will d.
and dare everything to keep them
selves in power.
1t is for Northern public opinion b.
vigorous and timely protests to driv
them from their evil and unscrupnlcu
designs.