The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-11-21
WILL THE SOUTH NEVER LEARN
Anything?

Sundays New York Sun contained the
following special dispatch from Wash
ingtCn:
President cleveland was perhaps wise
when he said to a friend VINO asked MN
why he was in such haste TO issue
bond call, that he wanted 10 dIltIClPit'
in a measure the attack thdt Wa ~ DS
made on his administration as soon as
Congress meets. \ dozen or mere sliNtI
Democrats have already expressed thelL
intention cf taking the President 10 task
for his financial policy, ana the Sehtii'it en-
OF these members Is Illustrated pH the
statement of General Hooker, or MISS $
sippi who makes the Following HlCisHdin'
protest against the action or the a'liilnIls-
tration in issuing the recent DOLu CdII'
"This issue of bonds" said General
Hacker lis a defiance Of Congress, ana
il seems TO have been intended aa SuCh'
There is nothing in the indIclaI SILIdtIoh
or i'm the condition of the Treasury De
nartrent which made IT nee essary TOT
the President to negotiate TINS loan before
the representatives OF the people coulu
assemble ard there would seem TO De
every req son why the representatives, OF
the people should be consulted about the
matter The fair conclusion would APP
rear to be that the President feared that
his policy would be disappIoyed II SUP
mittad TO Congress, and he desired to as
sume this authority for himself AT time
when he could not be interfered with
General Hooker was a good Confed-
crate soldier who lost an arm in battle,
and we can never find il in our heart
to say anything about those old heroes
that is calculated TO wound their feel
ings. But we do wish that Mississippi
and the rest of the South would send
representatives to Congress who had
clearer apprehension Of the true condi-
tion of things than General Hooker and
most of the other southern members Of
Congress have.
The actual state of the case is this
A few years ago General Hooker and
many other southern congressman were
most gallantly risking their lives in
most determined effort to destroy the
United States Government. They We're
defeated in the attempt. and the failure
Of their efforts resulted in the overthrow
of all the settled order of things in the
South and in general bankruptcy and
insolvency there.
our conquerors have, with what we
frankly admit We think very great gem
crosby, allowed us to resume our old
places in the Union Now. in our opin-
ion becoming modesty would require us,
under the circumstances to be content.
I'm national measures, with something of
a back seat. our representatives, how
ever. have taken quite the opposite view
From the time they We're admitted 10
the halls of Congress. on probation at
best, they have insisted upon pressing for
national legislation which means the
most serious injury. If not destruction. TO
the most important interests of their old
conquerors We do not allude here TO
the efforts TO abolish the tariff, because
that is as inimical 10 the interests of the
great body Of the northern people as it
is to those OF the southern people. We
refer to such measures as free silver
aud an income tax, intended TO affect
those only who have accumulated prop
erty.
These measures are utterly vicious in
themselves. but child ought To know
that our old conquerors are going to say
that they arc inspired by a desire upon
our part TO get even with them \ child
ought To know that they are going 10
think the Inspiration of them something
like this well, we are ruined and no
change can hurt us; change may bring
us some wreckage. Let's use the weapons
that have been put into our hands TO
force those fellows that licked us and
ruined us 10 divide with us, now that
we have got them in a corner" We say
a child ought to know that this is the way
our old conquerors are going 10 look at
our Communistic proposals, and he ought
TO know that we are powerless 10 resist
them when they make up their minds 10
give us another drubbing. A child. there
fore. ought 10 know that they have the
power to prevent our launching our de-
structive measures at them. and that they