The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-10-31
THE SOUTH WILL NO LONGER BE
MIsREPREsENTED.

Mr.. Berry, OF Arkansas. in lamenting
last Saturday in the Senate that it had
been impossible to secure any compromise
at all respecting silver. said mournfuly
that he and his associates would have
TO 80 home and tell their constituents
that a Democratic President would make
no concession, and that they had been
compelled 70 submit, but that he believed
the Democratic party Of the South would
rally together and continue the old fight.
This is, we take It, not altogether grief
Tor loved and lost one. There is, pro-
badly. Just the suspicion Of threat in
II.
Now when The Times said II thought
the President could have wisely APPROX
ed the compromise, It said so because
81 believed the compromise would end
the free silver fallacy just as effectually
as the unconditional repeal will end it.
and IT Justified the compromise for that
reason alone.
Mr.. Berry thinks there would have
been the seeds Of future struggles for free
silver in the compromise, and he favored
81 for that reason. While. therefore. The
Times and Mr.. Berry happened in that
instance TO approve Of the same measure
their general frame and tenor OF mind in
the premises was as separate and distinct
as possible.
But this is not what we took Mr..
Berry's remarks up for. He threatens
that the South will give the nation oc-
casion to hear from free silver again.
God forbid that the men who have
dragged the Souths name in the mire
before the eyes Of the whole civilized
world shall be allowed to bring her into
contempt and disgrace again. Fortune has
happily saved her now. for time at
least. from the fate that these men were
piling up against her. and II is TO be hop
ed and prayed for that mercifu God
Will save her In the future from that lot
20 which their teachings and efforts would
inevitably doom her.
The aim and object OF every man In
life is to get together what he can TO
be consolidated into a home IN which he
hopes that be may be able to sustain him
self and his family comfortably and re-
specially. The man whose heart is want
Ing in an intense longing for this state
and condition is no lit member OF the hu
man family. The great bulk Of the popu.
lation OF the South is animated by this
spirit and hope But the free silver
teachings Of many Of her representative
men. In seeking 10 force men 10 receive
a coin worth only fifty cents when a dol
lar is due. are a direct attack on the nome
which all men hope TO secure. II is an
invasion OF the sacredness OF private
property and as soon as the invasion IS
permitted at all the foundation upon
which the whole structure rests IS I'M
dermined BY specious and plausible
arguments the south's representative
men have misled many OF her people who
do not think, and have led them into the
quicksands which lie at the end OF an
such roads. But the average good sense
OF all has called halt and has saved the
South from the pitfan 10 which she was
ulrecuy marching God be praised for
this.
Our Washington correspondent well
writes US that the influence OF Southern
senators at Washington is gone. II is
gone and Justly gone. They have done
all In their power to place the South
before the world as the ally Of what is
known TO mankind as agrarienism and
communism. they have pulled her down
from her high estate among men.
Their own influence and position Is gone.
bat u hers gone toof We trust ana We