The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-06-05


what the Corrapsisnssts Expect of shs
Insalted south.
The Philadelphia Press. referring cas-
ually 10 the rumorcd detection from the
the democratic party In South Carolina.
makes these remarks among others:
III the time has come when the business
south sees that IL must aid 10 maintain the pro.
tective system which the political south has
sought 70 destroy-then light has broken over
that section which will have the most useful
results. Pennsylvania has no more need OF the
wise tariff roi.cy Of the republican party than
has Alabama or South Carolina. or Georgia
or any other state of the sosth II certainly
could not be- long before the business interests
OF the south appreciated this II the South
Carolina movement means that this time has
come. the politicians sho have misrepresented
the material interests Of their constituents
will be retired"
We have seen something like this be-
fore. IL Is in the nature OF too cor
dial invitation 10 soreheads to walk in
to the republican apothecary shop and
get their wounds dressed free OF
charge. II is the old and ever new de-
fusion that the negro party Of the
south is 70 be built up and recruited
by disgruntled southern democrats.
This time il is the business" men Of
the south who are to rush into the re-
publican ranks in order TO save the
protective system" of the republicans.
II is delusion that would be less
absurd if the republican party had
made any effort during the past
twenty-five years to commend
itself to the sympathies OF the
white people of the south. No such
effort has been made. On the contrary.
the whole policy Of the republican par
ty, all its machinery. and the remark
able ingenuity Of the corruptionists at
the head of the organization, have been
directed against the south. The white
people here have been made the victims
of the bitterest sectionalism. and even
the honest and sincere people of the
north have been taught to regard the
southerne-s as aliens, traitors and con-
spirators. This has been the consistent
and persistent policy of the republicans.
To wha. extent this action Of the re-
publican party and its organs has re-
tarded the progress of the south it
would be impossible to say, but there
can be no doubt that millions Of dollars
Of American and foreign capital have
been diverted from this section by the
slanderous advertisements which have
emanated from the organs, and which
have been spread TO the four winds by
the republican campaign speakers
The white people of the south have
been described as barbarians and as
sassins. and the keynote of every re-
publican campaign since the war has
been to charge that life is not safe in
the south, and that newcomers are
ostracised for opinions sake The in
furious effect of these attacks on the
business and industrial int rests Of the
south is incalculabl The republican
editors and organs have had the ear of
the civilized world. so to speak. and
their slanderous advertisements have
unquestionably had tremendous ef-
feet in keeping immigration and CAPT
tai away from the south.
No element of the south has keener
appreciation of this result of republic
anism than the business men. and
now the Philadelphia Press, which has
been the most rampant among the
organs, affects to believe that its cor
rupt organization is to be recruited
fr.m the very element which has suf-
fered most severely. The effrontery of
such . suggestion is immeasurablc- -
Atlanta Constitution.