New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-08-01
1rSTJCE IND PROSPERITY.

Gone of the best signs of the times" OBJ
serves writer in 1.-The Age-llcrald' OF
birmingham. Ala, d" is that the agitation OF
the Force bill has had no effect on southern
nrocress The great industrial advancement
keeps right ahead and the prosperity is not
checked" And he enmerateS host of new
enterprises. organized in single week, show
ing a marvellous advance in the material
growth of the Southern States. The West no
longer can enjoy monopoly of booms. Cap
ital is pouring into the South and. once there
swiftly increasing ard multiplying Itself.
Natural resources, hitherto untouchch are
being DEVELOPED and new industries are beng
created on every hand. There is at present no
portion of this continent that shows greater
or more substantial business growth
But the writer quoted spoke more truly than
he knew. Ii is not in spite of the Lodge BIZ
and similar sectional lcgiSlation,' as 1.-THE
Ace-Icradn calls it, that the South is pros
porous 1t is rather because of it; because OF
the American peoples belief that, sooner or
later. the principles of Justice and right which
arc embodied in this bill will be a securely
established in the South aS in the North and
West. The South ha, openly appealed to the
North to lend it the aid of capital the North
has responded promptly: and the South ac-
knowlcdges that it is largely Northern money
that is bringing about its industrial rcnaiS-
sance. But would this have been done had
Northern men believed that the shotgun policy
was to be perpetual? 4 few months ago only
THE Americus (Ga) Times" urged every
Southern community 10 establish boycott
against the negro-lovinG white Republicans by
whose presence and interference they are
cursed Carry il further than boycott. OS-
tracSe them socially as well. Do 1t persistent
~ and effectively. Carry il into the churches
and schools into all the business and walks
of life Go further. Ostracisc their wives and
sons and daughters. Make the south TO all
such social Sahara" Does Tho ACc-ller-
aid" or does any one. suppose that II such
doctrines prevailed. the South would enjoy ltN
present marvellous prosperity? Would North
crn capitalists build lis railroads and open IT.
mines and equip lis factories if they knew that
such an attitude was always to be assumed
toward them?
There was once an llustriou> Southern
statesmen who declared that he would 20 out
of his way at any time i kick a sheep. But
the south now claims one OF the two or three
greatest sheep growing States in the Union.
There were many who hcld-the idea was al
most uniyerSal-that without slave labor the
South would be ruined. But under frccdom
the South is attaining greater prosperity than
it ever dreamed Of under slavery. The South
once wanted 10 % % war TO MAINTAIN rec
Trade But the iron mills and cotton mills and
other great industries in which it now rcioiLeS
are possible Only because of the triumph Of the
American system of Protection. Two years
ago the most eloquent spokesman of the New
South solcmnly prophcsicd for the South
roaring flood" OF sorrows in case General
Harrison were elected President But the only
food that ha, swept over the south since then
is the food-tidc Of prosperity. - now un-
lcaxning BombonS see only ruin in the cStab-
lishmcnt of honest elections and true returns.
But they will live t. see political justice al
vance prosperity: TO realize that free vote
and an honest count are not only compatible
with but conducive t. industrial progress and
to learn the lesson that was set them centuries
ago, that righteousness cXaltc,h nation