The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-23
PREJUDICE VERSUS PRINCIPLE.

true that the Democratic sugar planters
have come over to the Republican party.
They have formally done that very
thing. They have formally withdrawn
from the national Democratic party.
They have passed resolutions in favor of
protection. They have appointed COM
mittees to see that their unification with
the Republican party is perfected.
1t is strange thing. Louisiana is part
of the south. 1t has shared the woes
and the partisanship and prejudices of
the south, and the greatest prejudice In
the nation is found in the south. But
Louisiana, that is many of its most i'm
portant men, have dropped this partisan
ship and this sympathy of mutual Attic
ton and prejudice, and come out for a
principle which they have been fighting
for years.
Many people in the north will refuse
to believe that when the scratch comes
these sometime Democrats will walk up
to the polls and vote the Republican
ticket. They will be put to crucial test
in their new faith. The brilliant south
ern orators will stir the old sectional
fire in their breasts anew, and in many,
many cases the sugar planter who is
now resolving to vote for the Republican
party and its great cardinal principal
will think long, long time before he
votes against the traditional party of tine
south.
The Republicans are not going to
carry Louisiana. But the demonstra-
ton. of leaving the Democratic party on
the part of the sugar planters of the
south whether they vote the Republican
ticket this fall, means something. 1t
would indicate that the south is grasp
ing one fact slowly, but none the less
surely, and that in the end the south
erner will vote the Republican ticket,
and will be the champion, night and
day, of protection. The south is very
rich in natural resources. Those re-
sources will some day be developed.
Man can not be around without this
process of improvement and develop
ment. The south will some day see that
those resources are to be developed.
They will recognize that the quick
est road to riches and prosperity
through that development is by keeping
older and perfected markets of competi-
ton shut out. The owners of the things
to be developed will see that he can sue
coed more quickly and have greater
success if his competition IS restricted
until such time, as he is strong enough
to battle with the best of his kind of any
country. The laborer who helps to de-
velop those resources will see that with
his employer prosperous his wage will
be higher and with his employer unpro-
tected his salary will come down of
necessity to the starvation level of the
laborer of Europe with whom his en-
ployer, if he is unprotected, must COM
pete. The man who raises food products
in the south will then see that if he has
a close market, resulting from the de-
velopment of the southern resources,
that his profits will be greater. The
things he sells will not be subject to the
burden of heavy freights. He can sell
at home. The things he buys will be
manufactured at home and he will not
be compelled to pay an additional price
in freight rates, saddled on to all goods
shipped any distance.
These things will come to the south.
The light will break in upon them. But
it is too much to expect it while the
name of the Breckinridges and the
Davis and Lees occupy such strong
position in the southern heart. and while
the southern politicians use the lost
couca a. a poIitica! rad Har