New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-06-30
TO RI RClNED AGAIN.

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| All good citizens at the North feel an interest
| in whatever concerns the material welfare OF
their Southern brethren. No intelligent South
erner can doubt for moment the kindness ana
cordiality felt toward his section and his people
by all classes and all parties at the North
1 Not only are there evidences OF it IN all inc
great centres of business and commerce in the
| North where men from all sections meet and
| mingle but the proofs of it arc scattered thicR
throughout the whole South in the form OF new
industries ard business enterprises begun and
carried on by Northern capital the success OF
which depends in great measure upon mutual
GOOD understanding and cordial cooperation
between the two sections. The attempt to in
nuence the action OF voters in the southern
States BY the hullabalOO about Force bills IL
an insult to their understanding and an i'm
mutation upon their good sense. Citizens OF
the South cannot help seeing through all this
pibbcrygosh and knowing just what it means.
They understand by it that the Democratic
managers are getting anxious about the votes
ST several Southern States, as, for instance
Virginia. North and South Carolina and Louis-
ana, and arc simply playing upon the prc1udices
and fears of the white voters with this DOGGY
of Force bills to keep them in line All this
outbreak about Force bills in the Democratic
press means but one thing. and that is that
the Alliance party is getting so strong at the
South as to alarm them. They are trying to
scare their voters back into the fold Of De-
mocracy.
Tho insncerity and emptiness OF all this
talk are apparent. Here. for instance. is "Ihe
Ncw-YorL World" in great state OF erup-
ton and ejaculation over the threat to bust
ness, involved in the reelection OF President
Harrison. upon the assumption that the first
thing to happen thereafter would be the passage
of Force bills. the inundatiOn OF the south
with Federal marshals and the upsetting OF
things generally. The funny thing about it
all is that according to "Thc WOrlds' tariff
articles. business is either destroyed or on the
road to destruction already through the opera
ton of the Mckinley bill. And now the Forcc
bill. it says, would threaten prosperous states
with a rule Of corruption" " Prospcrous
Statesw After two years of the r'iinous Nc
Kinlcy Tariff. at would check and perhaps
destroy that prosperity which men mean when
they talk of the New South" So there is
" prospcrity" there. "But" it continues, that
prosperity belongs 10 Northern quite as much
az 10 Southern men. II has been created
largely by investments Of Northern capital.
1t has brought with il n great trade between
North and South. which must suffer from any
disturbance Of social and industrial relations.
1t has established financial connections he
tween North and South in the stability OF which
every bank and every financicr in the country
Is directly or indirectly interested" 30. so :;
there are then Northern investments in South
ern enterprises and "a great trade between
North and South" And still we have the Nc
Kinlcy Tariff, and, according to the Chicago
platform and speeches and the Democratic
newspapers, are in most unprospero's con-
dition and on the read 10 ruin.
According to these Democratic authorities
two years ago the passage OF the Mckinney
hill was 10 he the dcathblow TO all our pros
pcrity. If they are 10 be believed, il has al
ready effected the ruin of the country. And
vet "Thc World talks about the prosperity
OF the South and the great trade it is enjoying
Just as though nobody had been ruined. Isn't
there danger that the Sonth, recalling the
prophecies Of ruin from these sources two years
ago-prophcccs which they say have been full
flled-and looking about upon the results Of
being ruined should on reflection. reach the
conclusion that, upon the whole, it is a good
thing to be ruined, and take kindly to being
ruined again?