The daily critic., 1890-07-08
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Yesterdays CRIrIc contained the re.
Tiirtoi special telegram from Cluctu
Eati TO the New York Tiass, giving
what purported to be the utierances Of
srne South Carolina merchant apropo,
q The Federal Elections bill. This
Charleston merchant. whose name Is
bashfully withheld, undertakes to fore
east the policy that will be pursued at
The South in case the Lodge bill should
become a law. He says the negro Is to be
hoycot,ed, denied employment, turned
Quito starve, while BIS place will be filled
by white laborers. The Charleston
man declares that the plan IS fully or.
ganized aud that Il includes also, boy.
colt against Northern products, meat,
CoTnmeal, feedstuifs, etc, all OF which
are TO be raised at home or imported
from Europe He further asserts that
the whole South is aroused on the sub
jeet and that the application Of the EN-
barge will be universal and simultan
eCus
Now, weTespectfully, but firmly, pro-
claim that this Is all bosh Of purest ray
serene. No considerable number Of
southefners are going to DO any one Of
the things mentioned by the Charleston
merchant in Cincinnati. Southern
merchants have not the faintest idea OF
buying their goods anywhere except 10
tbe best and cheapest markets. and It
will take a good deal more than the
Lodge Election bill TO seVre their
relations with the business men Of
the great Northern cities, between
whom and themselves the most
cordial relations exist Ii Is quite
possible that the execution Of the Lodge
iii in the Southern States may lead 10
disorder that viii arrest the prosperity
Of that section and thus diminish the
volume Of IT'S commerce In every direc-
tiou, but thai there IS any intention 10
adopt q policy even approximating the
,Ee in question is widely and extraya-
ganty absurd
Neither are the Southern planters
going 20 dispense with their colorei
latorzrs Tie negroes suit them en-
liTely They know them. are used 70
item, and they want no others No
" Nhi'e labor would ever satisfy the
agricultural SoutheFner The planters
talk about il, and occasionally try the
experiment, bar they have never liked
il ard they no longer even dream Of It,
except in theory. Generations must
pass away before the Southern planter
can De Teconciled 10 achange He now
has laboTeF Who Is skilled up 10 the
extent Of his sehene Of agriculture,
whom lie thoroughly understands. aud
between whom and himself, il every
ming save politics, the warmest and
most ineTadicable affection exists Land
owners IN the Southern States do sin
ceIely desire 10 sell their surplus lands
ta The sturdy ye0manry Of the North
and - the way the sturdy yeo-
nanry couldn't DO a better thing than
to 60 south and buy them but when
i Genes % the labor on bis own plan
talicn with whom be is 70 come IN
hourly personal contact. and who is %
ne the sbareT of his poverty and bis
a-tAAstA4A4AEa Aa~ ANTS ZIG AE@AN = Ata4
he Las known an bis life and who Is
3 dxed and certain quantity % his
equation
ANY ere Who talks about Tie south
en- planters b1yeotiiug aud trying b
staTye Tie blacks may safely be set
down IS q Jester or az iguoIamus
The south VIII fight the Force biu.
and lie south VIII whip il never fear
Blg there VIII be 10 stupid and cruel
policy n eviction and starvation be
sure q that No planters kitchen las
ever SET been closed b 8 eol9Eed person /
VIC Was hungry 10 shelter has ever /
been denied lhe homeless. or care and /
nursing WiEhheld from the sick None /
eFel Hill b. TIE whites aud the blacks /
mag quauel here ana EheHe BAT deep 7.
a6an under De surface disturbances +
1aaEs 3 8 mutual reg lIi thal the North