Yazoo City herald., 1890-09-19
AMONG MERCHANTS.
Prosperity AasuFea UnIesa HeisFaea
~ Adverse Acknowledgment Duty
- Cetiss DssginE.

Hi1AAAoAlNAn III tng ANAAAAN oAp"
Valley, and is noted az the grower
Of the celebrated 4peeler" cotton,
which, in length Of staple and in
value for spinning purposes, ranks
next to Sea Island cotton. In
conversation with a Republic re-
porter DIR. Powers said:
"If the South is not hampered
and obstructed by adverse legisla-
tion in the near future it has a
spendid showing for greatly in
creased prosperity and develop
ment. The condition Of the
Southern merchants and planters
has been steadily improving for
somo years past, old debts and
mortgages have been paid off by
degrees, the labor question has
been greatly simplified, and today,
with a good cotton crop assured,
the South stands at last out Of
debt and facing a future which II
has every reason TO expect will
carry it still further into the era
of prosperity following the long
struggle out Of the bankruptcy and
ruin Of reconstruction days. That
this has been done in the face OF
much obstructive Legislation and
political oppression is but addi-
tional proof that the natural re-
sources of the South are too strong
to be easily nullilied, and is the
strongest basis for the belief that
southern interests have finally
overcome the great sea Of disas-
tiers that swept over that section |
for so many years. While there
are many indications that its peo-
pie are not to be allowed to man
age their own affairs like the peo-
pie of other great sections of this
country, and an evident disposi-
tion on the part of the Republican
party to cast the odium of lawless-
ness upon the South by partisan
measures impugning Southern po-
litical honesty, the South believes,
nevertheless, that the time has
passed when the country at large
can be hoodwinked into sanction
ing such measures.
A BOOMERANG MEASURE.
"Tho force bill naturally caused
great Indignation throughout the
South not because the people
feared the operative working OF
any just legislation, but because a
Federal elections bill, such as
that, was intended solely as a We
hicle for reviving 'bloody-shlrt'
politics, and as means of inten-
styling that feeling of bitterness
and suspicion towards the South,
which proved of such enormous
benefit to the Republican party
Turing the days of its real supre- I
macy. Now, however, that it is
,eing shown that such a bill only I
seems to provoke widespread M !
iignation idangerous-o the Repd5-
ican party itself,the Southern peo-
pie cherish comfortable belief
hat they are to be allowed class
Ification with other sections of the
as law abiding citizens.
rARIFF TAX on THE COTTON CROP.
"The duty on cotton bagging /
ust allowed by the Senate COM
nittee working on the Mckinley
ariff bill imposes an enormous
axation of many million dollars
lpon the Southern cotton crop. :
This tax comes directly from the !
rockets of Southern planters, and
hey fail to see corresponding
,enefit derived, save for the few n
manufacturing concerns protect n
d. at the expense of a great agri- {
community. 1t was hop |,
d that this duty on cotton bag Fl
ing would be seen to be both un-
lst, as it most assuredly is. and
he South was not a little surpris- n
d at the votes by which the duty D
n cotton bagging was retained. a
uch a practical demonstration of
ne unfair workings of protective
riff legislation can have but one Y,
feet, namely, to strengthen the u
Outhern sentiment against pro-
'ction, and to weaken the Repub- =,
can party in whatever direction "
may have gained strength in the
Duthern States.