The critic., 1891-01-06
PUBLIC OPINION.
Negro Suffrage.

While there is large, and, maybe, pre-
vailing belief among Southern whites that
to take from the negro the franchise
which was given them by the North con-
trary to Southern protest, and only in
hope of humiliating and degrading the
South-would solve the negro problem,
and would, in consequence, be desirable,
that disfranChisemcnt is not practicable.
1t could only be accomplished by an
amendment to the Constitution, and 1t is
scarcely within the bounds of possibility
that such an amendment can be passed by
two-thirds majority in both Houses of
Congress, and ratified by thrce-fourths of
the States.
From ne New York rorid.
So far as the Democrats of the country
are concerned the war is ancient history.
The party concerns itself with matters OF
the present and future, and it holds every
part of our common country in equal re-
gard. IL is q national party, and leaves
sectional distrust and vindictivencss to its
opponents. 1t wants no man elected
Speaker because he comes from Southern
State or a Northern State Equally it
wants no man excluded from that place
because he belongs to the one region or
the other. II wants the best man, let him
come from whence he may.
The vice-President's Backbone.
From he IHi1ddeiphta Record.
Since the beginning of the present ses-
sion of Congress Vice-President Morton
has rather surprised some of the reac-
tionary members of the Senate by his de.
termination TO maintain the dignity and
weight of his office. These ancient Scna-
torial bosses have discovered that he could
not be made the plant and unreas0ning
tool Of their desperate policy. They there
fore undertook to persuade him that he is
in declining health; that the duties of
presiding over the Senate are too exacting,
and that a sojourn of a month OF two in a
balmer atmosphere would be quite bene-
fetal to him. A trip to the Mediterranean
might have better suited their purpose,
but under the unwritten law the successor
to the Presidency cannot leave the coun-
try. Vice President Morton, however, is
in excellent health, thank you, and has
no notion of abandoning his post of duty
in this crisis of affairs
The Servant Girl Problem in the South
From tie Ntw FORK Post.
The servant-girl problem" is bad
enough ut the North, but Southcrncrs com
plain that ii is worse in their part of the
country. The Augusta Chronicle draws a
really pathetic picture of the situation in
Georgia. The old-time family servant of
the South is disappearing with the dying
out of the older generation of negroes,
and there is no one to take her place.
Cooks are getting very scarce, and the
Chronicle tells of the casual meeting in a
street car of Georgia city of seven ladies'
who found upon comparing notes that only
one of the number had cook. In an
other place, when it was announced that
a certain family was about to leave, the
lady of the house was besieged with ap-
plications from her neighbors for her
cook. The chief difficulty is the growing
prejudice against domestic service among
the young negro women, who want to be
school teachers, as the men want to be
come preachers or politicians, while there
towns rs in the North. Thus, with mil
lions of negroes in the South "the cook
and nurse and hired girl are getting more
| scarce every year. Money cannot buy
| them, good will and long association dc
net hold them. Colored families prefer
to huddle together and keep their women
at home"
The Free Bill Triumvirate.
From he 81. Lonis Republic.
Mr.. Edmunds of Vermont is the gentle
man who so recently showed his SINGER,
regard for the welfare Of the country by
securing cents pound on maple suga
from the Treasury for the sap boilers o
that State. Mr.. Hoar of Massachusetts, i:
Senator who, during long Legislative
experience, has never failed to use all thu
power of his intellect to serve the ends o.
the Northeastern Commune of Capital
Mr.. Chandler of New Hampshire is a
subservient tool of Plutocracy az is Mr.
1Ioar, and he has, moreover Il record IL
connection with the worst period of job
berry in the Navy which has fixed hi
moral status SO that no one is at all il
doubt concerning it.
These three men constitute the trium
virate which is attempting to coerce tn
Senate into passing the Davenport Fore
bill, under which elections are to be con
trolled by District of Columbia Returninl
Boards, backed by bayonets. Behind thi
bill is ''the American Protective Tariff
League" the association of monopolst
organized to furnish the Fat fund Of 1888
and to control money and supply through
Federal legislation.
The North Wants the South to Prosper
Trom he Chicago Mter-O ocean.
TO Northern eye the Southern indus
trial condition is one of slow improve
ment. Improvement that seems wonder
full to Southemers, but which is not so b
Nor;herners. Not only is there no South
em Chicago; there is no Southern ClevC
land or Toledo
Things being thus ii is little better tina
idiocy TO write about a Northern pm
pose of "crippling or destroying tn
prosperity of the South and retarding it
industrial development" The Mort
wants the South TO prosper. 1t is neoe'
sary to the North that it should prosper
For many years to come every steel ra
laid ON a new or old Southern track wi
be Of Northern make, every furrow turne
will be by Northern-made plow, ever
grain OF wheat marketed will be cut by
Northom-madc cradle or reaper, an
thrashod by Northern-made machln,
Every advance from home-spun jear
and linseys made by Southern farml
or laborer brings new custom TO II Norti
ern mill; Talk about Northern desii
TO cripple the prosperity of the South,
indeed! 1t is as If q banker should wis
to cripple the deposit-making power {