The Brookhaven leader., 1891-05-21
The WEST AND The SOUTH.


course of the Kansas membership in
case the southern alliance should not
participate in the organization of a new
party at Cincinnati, has precipitated a
newspaper discussion which does not
seem to us TO evince a very thorough
understanding of the situation either
north or south. President McGrath ex-
hibits a very slight understanding of
the sentiment of the people of Kansas
when he declares that the state will
again roll up its old time republican
majority unless the south shall abandon
the democratic party. The present po-
litical complexion of Kansas is the re-
suit of education The changes have
been wrought by a study of economic
questions, such rs has no precedent in
the previous history of our country.
Realizing the unfavorable conditions of
the industrial classes the people have
succeeded in tracing the causes of these
conditions to their source, and the
political revulsion witnessed in the
past year is based upon intelligence
and mature Judgment 1t is as much
impossible for the people of Kan
sas to return to the ranks of
the party that is so largely responsible
for their deplorable condition as it
would be for Niagara to turn back
ward in its course. They are impelled
| in this forward movement by the ir-
resistable forces which underlie all
progress. The intelligence of the
world does not retrograde; and revo-
lutionary step once taken is not re-
traced The republican party in Kan
sas is both dead and damned The
peoples party has come to stay. Nc
Grath is not authorized to speak for the
voters of Kansas.
But what of the south? 1t may be
observed that a few of the officials of
the southern alliance do not represent
the settlement of the people. We know
this to be true in the state of Missouri,
| and we have good reason to believe it
to be true in southern states. We re-
ceive at this Office quite a number of
southern papers that are outspoken in
favor of new party; and,
anxiously watching the attitude
of the people, we have observed
rapidly growing sentiment in that di-
rection. But aside from any and all
declarations upon the subject, he who
desires to know the truth respecting the
future of the southern alliance will look
deeper than these surface indications
to discover it Those who seem to be
most certain of the continued allegiance
of the membership of the south to the
democratic party will not deny the
loyalty of those people to the principles
of the alliance. In both the ST. Louis
and Ocala supreme councils the south
ern representatives largely predomi-
mated, and, while there was no sectional
strife and no opposition from the north,
| to the south must DO credited very
largely the origin of the remedial meas
ures which are now insisted upon by
the entire organization. Pre-eminent
among these measures is the sub
| treasury bill. This measure has
| never received more bitter opposition
from any source than from the demo-
cratic party. 1t will never receive the
support of either the democratic or the
republican party. Wall street. which
absolutely dominates both, will attend
to this 1t must readily be seen, there
fore, that the alternative will be pre-
scented to alliance members of both
parties of abandoning either former
party affiliations or the principles of
the alliance; and when it comes to q
choice of this character who can doubt
what that choice will be? 1t has al
ready been sufficiently indicated, even
by those who now oppose the new
party. We repeat, then, that he who
would correctly forecast the future of
II Ill r@1r INolx~
the surface indications, and study the
under current of public events The
| members of the order in the south
are being swept along by an
under current that is as resistless
as the tides of old ocean, and
it will be absolutely impossible
| for them to avoid the support of a new
| party. They, as we'll as the people of
the north, realize that the policy of the
past must be revised or disaster and
ruin and serfdom will be the heritage
of the next generation. They, as well
as the north, understand that sectional
ism must be destroyed, and the south
and the west must join hands in order
to avert these calamities. The north
west is ready for the union. Its condi-
UlOuS CdHnOU Dc HllSIdhcH. ACoc COu-
ditions are not submitted by the dicta-
ton of any section; they are the natural
outgrowth of influences that have been
in operation for many years. The
northwest is more rapidly progressive
than the south, and has con.
| formed to these conditions in adj
vance. 1t remains for the south to
effect like adaptation and the result
of the industrial contest will not be in
doubt. While there are influences at
work which are even now rapidly
revolutionizing political sentiment, the
| people of the southern states cannot be
| intimidated or their course be changed
by threats. Like the people of the
north, their future must be influenced
| by educational MEANS. When they
| become satisfied that the democratic
party is not the friend of the alliance,
they will have no more use for that
party. This they are rapidly learning
| and they will understand it fully be-
| fore the contest of 1892 is fairly begun.
Even the Capital, which is SO persistent
in it's declarations that the alliance is
the democratic party, says that the
democratic party will never indorse the
sub-treasury scheme. Then it is as
| certain as that night will follow day
| that the alliance will never indorse the