The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-05-12
No COXEYI.M IN TIE sOUTH.

few days back the New York Even
ing Post. remarking on the fact that no
coxevism had developed in the South
said:
1.-THE southern newspapers are cohgrd'u,
lating their readers over the fact una
there has not been single outDreah u
coxevism in all that section Of the couh-
trv. Various causes have conspire9 10
hiring about this result One is the TACT
mat there Is little Investigation of in
d,,stry. and that the suspension OF manu-
featuring has not set adrift great many
men who formerly were employed regu-
larlv. Another is the natural conserVa-
item Of a region where conditions nave
changed less than I'm other parts OF the
country, and where consequently puohc
sentiment frowns severely upon any va
ration from the regular routine. Ihe al
most entire absence Of foreigners IS an
other element i'm the matter. The negroes
who might furnish the material Tor IN
dustrial armies If left to themselves
would not be permitted by the whites
to organize. Then, too. the South mas
suffered less from the hard times OF the
past year than any other section Inc
proportion Of business failures has Deen
uncommonly small, and while the price
of cotton has been very low, 1t IS easier
for the one-crOp farmer to get along I'M
Ger such conditions in the milder climate
of the South than for the wheat farmer
of the colder States in the Northwest.
The absence Of Coxeyism in the south
Is a sign of relatively greater comfort
in that part Of the country
The Post Is very far from getting at
the bottom Of the matter. 1t makes
curious melange Of things that are true
and false. but none of which, either the
true or the false. have any real relation
10 the matter in hand. 1t is very true,
for instance, that fewer mea have been
thrown out Of employment in the South
through recent events than in the North;
nevertheless, very large body has been
thrown out of employment here. 1t Is
entirely true that the people here are
naturally conservative, but nowhere on
the earth was such an entire change IN
the life of a people worked by single
event as the war worked in the SOUTH
1t is preposterous TO say that the whites
would interfere with the negroes IL they
desired to form industrial organizations
The negroes Of the South form any sort
OF organizations that they choose with
the entire consent and approval of the
white people, and there is not negro
IN the cities or towns that does not be-
long to one sort OF organization or an
other.
II may be, and probably is true that
the south has suffered less from the
hard times than other parts of the coun-
try but that is because Of the conserva-
tism OF the people, the inability of those
without credit to get in debt, and the
aversion TO debt of those VINO are pros
porous.
The Post is all off in its estimate Of
the situation. General Gordon gave the
true explanation OF it in the Senate on
Thursday when he said it proceeded from
our people having been Always educated
I'm the idea that the Government was
their servant instead Of themselves being
children Of the Government. All through
the North, and the Northwest the doc
trine has been always more or less in
culcated that the great central Govern
ment was an immense tower OF strength.
on which all the people Of the State
could lean, and which was quite able and
willing to furnish a support to all. This
is at the bottom of their protective tariff
idea and OF all the other ideas by which
they encourage citizens 10 look 10 the
Government for aid and assistance. Nat
urally, therefore. Coxey comes TO Wash
ington asking the Government to give
his tramps employment at 81 for an eight
hour day OF work. when private men Will
only give them SO for ten-hour day.
coxey reasons. very naturally, that II
New England manufacturer can come TO
Washington and get his Government TO
make laws that will put money into his
pocket one Of his tramps has a right TO
ask the Government 10 make laws that
will put money into Ms pocket.
The southern man has been taught.
though. that IL is total abuse and per-
version OF the power OF the Government
for II to put money into the pocket OF
any one, and II is because he has been
reared with this idea always In his mind
that there is no coxeyism in the South.
The South Is the conservative influence
snd the halance-wheel In this nations