The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-07-30
HOME RULE FOR THE SOUTH.
Northern Products to be ;oycotted If the
Force Bill Passes.

ATLANTA, Ga, July 26.-The Constl-
tuition in a leading editorial recently
emphasizes its position on the force
bill in strong editorial fayoring a
systematic boycott Of Northern indus
tries in case the force bill goes through.
It outlines plan of operation in the
organization of home rule leagues
throughout the South. After quoting
from the Herald and other papers which
have taken the lead in the fight against
the force bill the Constitution says:
appeal to reason and conscience,
indignant protests and shotgun
methods will not meet the force bill,
but the most tremendous boycott of all
the ages will make it dead letter. wipe
it from the statute books and battle and
defeat its supporters. Sometimes there
has been little talk about the solid
South. Our partisan enemies do not
fully realize the meaning of the phrase
and they may count themselves for
tunate if we do not teach it to them in
the bitter school of experience. With
the PRONUNCIATION Of the force bill every
white human being in tie South be-
tween the cradle and the grave will
unite with his fellow countrymen and
stand with them to the end. There will
be no more diScord or factions in the
Democracy, and around the standard
will rally the last white Republican.
A common danger will bring the whites
of the South together, sinking all the
differences of the past and sacrificing
every personal ambition for the
supreme interest of the hour.
The boycott, with every white man,
woman and child in the South behind It,,
| will be mightier than all the armies
whose marching feet once shook this
continent from sea to sea. With this
peaceful weapon in our hands all the
hosts that hate us cannot prevail against
US. Home rule leagues will be organ
| lied everywhere in the South, and the
members will pledge themselves to buy
not dollars worth of anything that is
produced or manufactured in the North.
Commercially speaking an impossible
wall will arise between the sections.
All the benefit will be on one side and
all the loss on the other. The necessity
, of the case-the home demand-will, as
was the case in the blockade days dur
ing the war, stimulate the growth of
every Southern industry. Manufac-
lures will spring up everywhere. Our
farmers pledge not to buy corn and
meat from the West, will riase their
supplies at home and our dream of self
sustaining, diversified agriculture will
become fact. Our long delayed trade
with Europe will come with rush and
the flags of all nations will flutter IN
Southern harbors. Paralysis will seize
the congested capital, industries, COM
merce and the railway lines running
from the North to the South and hun
dreds of thousands of desperate and idle
workingmen in the great cities in the
North and West will fiercely turn upon
society and raise the cry: Bread or
blood If we have to try the boycott
under the force bill we shall revive the
old time enthusiasm and patriotism Of
the early sixties"
The Chambers OF commerce Of New
Orleans, Birmingham, Lynchburg, Au-
gusta, Montgomery, Savannah and
other Southern cities telegraph the Con-
stitution, favoring a convention of the
commercial South to consider the
course to be adopted in case the force
bill passes. Richmond telegraphs that
it does not deem anything like boycott
advisable, as does Charleston and
Mobile, Baltimore and Chattanooga
say their organizations are non-politcal,
but they are strongly against the force