The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-10-03

women. New York is our capital city,
and Washington uisits NeU York before ii
legislates. There is nothing in all the
annals of brutality more revolving
than the gross pageantry of wealth in
city like New York, where nine out
OF every ten persons upon their death
beds, we are told by statisticians, have
not accumulated enough to pay their
funeral expenses"
'In Hamilton's "Men and Manners
in America, printed years ago, occurs
this remarkable passage: Mature
in framing Yankee seems to have
given him double brains and half a
heart.' The chances were that the
average Yankee of that day rather en-
Joyed the description. He did not
know what deadly mixture it was.
When tJe becomes q game of the c0,tntinq
room, cauetizdtion stops. Daniel Webster
detected plainly enough the peril of
the American republic. In 1884 his
polltlcal opponents reported on the
hustlngs that he had said: "Let con-
gresS take care of the rich. and the
rich will take care of the poor" Web
ster Immediately wrote an indignant
denial. For 20 years, he said he had
maintained "that all measures of GOV
ernment ought to be adopted with
strict regard to the greatest good of
the greatest number; that the laws
should favor the distribution of prop
erty to the end that the number of
the very rich and the number of
the poor may both be diminished as
far as practicable, consistently with
the rights of industry and property
and that all legislation in this coun-
Try is especially bound to pay particu-
lar respect to the earnings of labor, la
Dor being the source of comfort and
independence to the greatest portion
OF our people,
America was not able to legislate in
way that the number of the very
rich and the number of the poor
might both be diminished. Webster
saw the peril but could not propose
the remedy; and so it has come about
that the sentiment of human brother
hood and the equities of substantial
equality in the conditions of living,
which was the light of the last CEN
tury, is the by,cord Of THIS.
Ihe North cannot see itself. Per
sonal greed had darkened the vision
and dulled the sense of Democratic
justice; while prejudice, that birth-
marked child of preverse Judgment, is
c1satang upon the poor producing classes q
contempt as Ofdn alien race.
The Southern people were not born
with half heart. In that fair land
there is, as it were, suhsoil of manly
sentiment and sturdy Sense that can
grow men and commonwealths. The
hour of the South is fast approaching.
The spectacular temperament, associ
ated with the Southern character.
which. at it's worst, was the result of
a functional disorder of society, and q
grotesque and superficial phase in the
develOpmsnt of great people, need
not be taken into account in any seri-
Gus forecast as to the destiny of the
South. I he great mass of its people
is, in fact, notably conservative and
matter-of-fact. Southerners are slow
in thought, given to hospitality, and
disinclined to rush into speculations:
and the range of topics upon which
they have generally decided opinions
is rather limited; and it is fortunate
indeed for the South and the country
that this is so. Many involved ques-
tions, which Northerners have
thought out, or have dogmatic opin-
ions upon, have never disturbed the
average SOutherner. His warmth of
noble blood has not been chilled by
the intellectual cold storage of uni
versity towns and by the cruel politi-
cal economies, that drop the unem-
ployed by the wayside as bothersome
but necessary bi-product of our busi-
ness system.
'No one who has visited the South
can escape the impression that deep
revolution in opinion is at work there.
For several years it has been their
habit to hold modest, unheralded
meetings, mainly in the rural dis
tricts, sometimes weekly, and some
times monthly. They are usually
usual, after harvest time, for the
planters to maintain camp-meetings a
week together. Speaking begins be-
tween nine and ten in the morning,
and the slow declining sun is still a
spectator to these intense congrega-
tions. There is even fine illumining
vein of religious fervor in it all. The
opening prayer, the political song, set
to church music, the two-hour har-
angue at a stretch, the patriotic
cheers, like strains from new an
them,-these are not the committee
bought demonstrations of common
campaigns. 1t is rising of the peo-
pie, and in due time the newspapers
will make discovery: for they will
hear these people sing,-and after
that the ballot.
Now looking upon the breaking up
of the solid South politically, the new
movement promises to be of the
greatest tactical Importance. 1t has
not escaped the revolving planters.
who, by the way, are now beginning to
receive no little support from the
cities, that nniOn of the Southern and
Western states an 1896 aceuld capture the
presidency
After much interviewing through
the South, the writer is convinced
that such combination is not only
possible. but that eren prominent Demo-
c1ats really erpect 1t to be tried.
The art of making laws for all the
people has nearly become extinct, and
this new movement will at least have
the field pretty much to itself. The
grandeur OF 1t acill grosc Upon the minds of
men, the moment at is once more realized
that no nation can be happyand prosperous
so tong ds one class is so'happy and poor"
This is really one of the most preg-
nant articles written in the last ten
years. 1t is full of deep and valuable
thoughts. 1t should be copied every
where.
That reflection, that the big Drained
small-hearted age looks upon our own
race, when poor, as aliens of another
blood, is most significant. How ready
was it, this year, to answer the COM
nloiptc of fIo n,ol ,,oorc until, bullet o