Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-01-24
THE FORCE BILL.
SOUTHERN SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES,
RECEIVING MANY LETTERS
From Their Constituents in Regard to the Feeling
Against The Measure-If Passed ii Would
Check the Development Of the South for
Years, and Bring Untold Misery.
Special Telegram to ne Register.

Special Telegram TO ne Register.
WASHINGTON, d. c., January 23.-
Democratic Senators and members from
the South are receiving thousands of
letters from home showing that great
uneasiness prevails among business men
in that portion at the desperate deliber-
alton with which the Republicans are
striving TO pass the Force bill. These
letters show that the fear of a renewal
of the race troubles which are certain
to follow the passage of the bill is hav-
ing most depressin effect on the de-
velopment which has been going on in
all sections OF the South for some time.
The threat Of negro domination
would be certain To throw
the South into confusion again
and divert mems minds from business
enterprises. The flow ef capital into
the South, which has been so extensive
of late, is already said to show marked
dmunition as consequence OF the
fear of an arrest OF Southern develop
ment. The Democratic Senators have
! lost none Of their confidence that they
can in the end kin the Force bill, unless
the Republicans resort to even more
revolutionary practices than they have
yet attempted. But the people Of the
South do not have the same con iidence.
Capital is always timid, and will take
no chances if IL can help IL. Hence the
extreme anxiety in the South,
and the threated paralysis of busi-
ness. The action of the Legisla
lures of Alabama AID Arkansas, in
refusing to pass bills providing for State
exhibits at the Chicago Worlds Fair
while the Force bill is pending, furnishes
the strongest evidence of the business
unrest at the South. These State ex-
hibits are pure business ventures, In
tended to display the resources OF the
States, and to attract capital and i'm
migration to them. If the Force bill
should become law. the Southern leg
isatures know that money spent in
making exhibits at the Chicago EXposi-
tion would be money thrown away.
If the negro is to be placed in the
saddle in the South, property VIII be
insecure, investments IN factories,
lands and mines will leave, and white
immigration TO that section will stop.
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the Southern people to spend money in
making exhibits of their resources at
Chicago.
The letters received here by Southern
men show that this feeling is strong in
nearly all the States. and that the ex-
ample Of the Alabama and Arkansas
Legislatures will probably be followed
by most OF the others. The South is
eager to keep up and intensity the
boom which she has enjoyed for sew
eral years, and her people feel that
State exhibits at Chicago would greatly
aid in making her splendid resources
better known to the world. But the
threat of the Force bill, they well
know, will render useless ali their efforts
at continued development on the pres
ent lines. So the South will keep in
her treasures, for the evil days she fears
are coming, the money she might other
wise spend in exhibiting at Chicago,
which could do her no good.