Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-01-03
Appeal to Arms Advised.

80 prompt are our Democratic
friends to CRY ''bloody shirt" that
quotations from the Southern press
by Republican, are made with Ger
tsiuty Of exciting condemnation as
attempts TO keep alive the feeling Of
sectional hate. At the risk Of draw
ing such FIRE the TRIBUNE invites
attention TO the following, which
appeared recently 10 the editorial
columns Of the Memphis 4ppeat
-Ara14ac5s double-jeaded, to give it
prominence and force:
"The response Of the South to
the cloture resolution should be an
apes to arms. There j. limit to
the patience Of freemeu. That
limit a. reached when political in
justice trenches upon the sanciily
of the home, makes mockery of
loyalty 30 Cuutry, challenges the
patriotic aspirations OF a people,
sc0rns the truth and procla'ms an
end of liberty
Force should meet force. Ioer-
alton begets confidence IN the mind
Of the tyrant. To yield an inch is
to give an ELL This is history. The
hand of the despot is only stayed
when his subjects rise in the might
Of mass. Necessity knows no law.
Self-preseryation justifes any rem
edy"
Commenting upon it the Chicago
Inter- ocean says truly:
"rhis has 'before-the-wa sound;
a sound as of the old times in which
Jefferson Davis and Yancey and
Ioombs aud others were engaged in
the business Of firing the southern
heart The APpeakAUalancde is
not for buryiug the bloody shirt
until the old shareholders regime
is re.established.
The violent harangue of the
southern newspapers Is Worthy of
consideration. Let US ask: What Is
the immediate cause Of it? 1t an
swers for itself; The cloture reso-
luton
But what is the cloture resolution?
Simply resolution of the Senate
to do that which is done by nearly
every legislative body in the world;
namely, to prevent the obstructive
tactics of minority, by enforce
ment of the previous question
whenever it is plain to the majority
that the question at issue has been
fully debated, and that all further
pretenses of debate are for obstruc-
ton only.
What is the question at issue in
regard TO which the obstructive
policy of the Democratic minority
has become SO offensive as to wear
oat the patience of that singuiarly
peaceful body, the Republican ma
I jonty in the Senate?
The National election law, com
monty called the force bill.
Why is il necessary to pass a
National election law?
Because in nearly every state
lately in rebellion the Ne1,o vote
is suppressed by force or fraud
God forbid that there should be
war again. Give peace in our time,
o Lord. Scatter thou the people
/ that delight in war. But the best
way to preserve peace is to enforce
the law, every particle of the law,
even if it take a force bill' TO do IT,
1 II there were not lawiesS force IN
I the south, and in the notification of
/ that clause of the organic law which
! the southern states ratified solemn.y
as a condition precedent to their
restoration to tAat Union which
they had violently as,alled, there
would be no need for tue passage
of a oil defining the measure and
the nature Of the force 70 be used
/ III making it effective Il is the
traitor0us yaporiugs of such sheets
as the 1ppsak1cainlche that en-
! naurages the thugs aud murderers
VINO u the bidding ii the stupid
and cruel oligarehy that keeps the