Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-08-28

New York Herald.
Oar Washington correspondent tele.
| graphs, a. was publisho, in oar edition
OF yesleriRy, that President Harrison
has resolved TO mRss tina Foes bill an
administration mesSuEa. 1t is hard 10
reeizs suoh purpoBs on the part OF the
President as 3 party man Wa can un-
deEstsnd how rs might be willing to try
tue experiment Of any measure com
meniaf by b s friends in Congress, and
that, II the Force bill were to pssJ, he
woald Hee that II was honestly and
rigidly enforced. Bat to make 1t o gov
| eminent policy, to drive it through CON
gress-and by implication II not directly
secure its passage by the use of patron
a. az President BuohsnRn did with the
Lecompton constitution-would be disss-
trous to his Standardization and his fame.
Vhe Force bill ia not even acceptable
to the Republican party. Audible muir
murs o. dissent couas from Republican
sections. MIR. hal5tesd, representative
Republican, named by Mr.. Harrison as
minister to Germany, is opposed to It
Republicans are tired OF war issues.
They see thGt the last Force bill was re-
paAlsd at bppomAttyx by mighty Sem
ne, representative in its character, pre-
sided over by Ulysses s. Grant aud
Robert Z, Lee, AMI al no DO Rer, lsRis.
lasiye or executive, has been able since TO
revive il. Ihsy esl that If after 25 years
OF peace it il necessary 10 resort 10 war
measures more severe than those imposed
by the war itseG, then Republican al ltes-
manship has bean failure. Nor can
they believe that force bill WHOA even
the overmastsiing infusnce OF Grant
could not attain will be Of practical vsIue
in the modest sud not ovsrstrenRthened
hands of Sir. Harrison.
Ii the President Identifies his admins.
trstion with this MEASURE it will DO an
much Of blnpder as il was ia President
q ANS to eUCen. inc Alien aud Sedition
bill. A Presd4lt mast think Of the conn.
try rs above the party, remembering TINT
the Judgments Of history are pitiless. II
the Force bill were to pass tn-norrow hy
IN unAnlnidn4 vote of the Republ;-
cens 10 the Senate the allniaistta-
ticn could never cary II out. There
sss things which even governments
cannot achieve, and this sinister expert
meat ID ono Of thsm. We cannSt change
southern conditions ead must hcegpt
them. The tirs! rau lision is that no com
inuntty OF Vhte msn Will evae consent to
DO governed b. an alian raca-oy the
Indian, the Clinlman or ths African,
DIR. Harrison himself would DO tao frat
70 resent il were the alternative before
him.
What we expect from the white man in
she south is the utmost tenderness, con.
siderAtion and hello for the negro. While
there are spasmodie outbreaka OF rufiau-
ISM toward the negro, disheartenluQ in
ihstr character, we believe that the septi-
meat o. we'll as the interest OF the south-
ern men inclines them to absolute iustloe
and klndnsss In dealing with their coIored
neishboFs and friends. There let the
matter re Let the President keep his
hands Of Let our northern people look
well to their own homes and mind their
own business. They will fird al their
own thresholds problems more appalling
than in any southern communitv--poy.
erty, want, ignorance, crime aud shame.
largely resulting from the manner in
which we govern ourselves and our
people. An observer will see more TO
grieve him in weeks tour through the
mining districts of Pennsylvania than in
journey to the uttermost limits OF tie
sputhern comm 9nweRlths. 10, Mr. Presi.
deat, senators and gentlemen, let the
south alone Dismiss the Force bill to
the liIbo OF secession, abolisionism,
Decentralization, nullifioationism and
the other dead and damned .iam.n which
FOR SO long a time cursed the nation.