The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-03-26
The SUNNY SOUTH
There is a Marked Improvement
in ALI Things.
INFLUENCE OF THE ALLIANCE
Dana Says 1t is Socialistic in Its Aims and
AethOds-He Calls Georgia Politicians
CoWarGs-Free Silver.

| Especial toTHE HERALD-Examtnsr Disro..,,
ATLANTA, March 25.-Charles A. Dana
VINO arrived here yesterday, spoke freely
TO those who called upon him about nDbli,
matters What strikes one most in the
souIn' ne said, lis the activity, prosperity
absence OF suffering or distress. There is
supposed to be great distress among the
farmers, but don't see it in Georgia Ale
DaInd Ut elsewhere in the south. 1 see a
great In provementin the negroes. Thev
are getting olacker; this is a very noticea-
Die Tact. You don't see one mulatto vbers
you saw four thirty years ago. Isee hardly
any except the hotel waters. This is bat.
ter, for the blacks are the strop0er roc
ana are not as intelligent The race opes-
tioh VIII work itself out; no one can tell
now IL Will be done. The negroes are vain
aole laoorers, and the country can't get
alous without them. If they were taken
ouI Vi georgia, you would suffer for lack
OF laoor; their place would have to he
niied by Italians or Slavonians, and T yUonId
RATHER nave one hundred negroes than one
hEndred Slayonians" WV
1892" NA u Jus elecnon OF
| Nobody can tell how it will result Tho
I arllefs' aAance IN an important factor
III Tue question. 1t depends on the arnount
u damage they will do to the Repuplic
party ia tne west and the Democratic party
III SCUM. Ihe Farmers alliance in the sonth
PLoIIa9ee TO De DemocraGlc; 1t is held pack
| oy Ihe negro question That 6ouinatss
everything here. There is no such balance
WheeI IN tne west and the alliance is bitter
AGAINST the Republican party. They came
from that party and YOU know Whsn a
iIiUer Vi an organization has left it he ia
Llolo oltCSr against II than an original Cd
pOnSht. II the Farmers alliance in the
.tu " euoulu grow 10 sucn proportions that
the negro question would be considered nm
| ILhpofCant, 1t would then smash the Demo-
cratic party as far as If cOuId Tba
AfHefS' alliance is really as autaeonistso
TO democratic principles as anything in tine
!ahd' IL is sOcialstic OrgauiZation-seelr
ing 10 ESTABLISH an aristOcracy of farmers
endowed with privileges which noboov eIsa
WIN nave. III seeks special privileges for
class and the methods by which n nro.
poses TO attain these ends are as socialistic
dS Inc ends themselves. This plain talk ia
something you don't hear down here
suppose-the politicians are all Trusting
70 the Farmers alliance. In dealing with
Lne questions raised by the alliance the
Georgia politicians are the most cowardIv
set In the United States. One thing ia
ceftaln-the Farmers alliance will run it's
course and die; 1t is not founded on any
broad principle of human nature or IF
scientific politics.
"If you can tell me which party the AL
nance will hurt the most, l will tell You
which one IS likely to be beaten in 1sg2.
Inc Tree coinage of silver is one of the al
lance pIanks. VIII not the Democratic
sentiment for free coinage have its weipht1
we have almost reached free coinage
already, the coinage Of $500, COO ounces of
silver month almost amounts TO that.
The effect of free coinage will be to give us
silver currency. We are now on a gold
basis and gold is the Standard
What Go you think of the Malta secret
society,""
''Sueh secret society can't last in this
country; it will be broken I'D. THE
Italians who come over here TO-DAY belong
to it but their children will not.D
DO you think foreigners improve in this
country ~
'Oh, very much. There is a marked i'm
proyement in Italians who have been in
New York ten years. What does it Free
dom and prosperity. Better living i'm
proves the STOCK. The Italians in New
Y ork eat beef; in their own country they
seldom had it."
What 90 you think Of the Chinese 90
"Ihere Is nothing to say about them.
They are kept out. In California thew make
very good laborers, but they are a heter-
ogeneous element. They have different
ideas, different motives and they won't
learn western science. It is not cousistene
with my principles to keep anybody ont.
L believe in freedom and fair show for
every body, but the Chinese are kent ont
and L DON know that it is any great loss.n