The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-19

individual rights OF property because he
has invested his accretions I'm bank, a
railway, or even a trust company? That
is the question we have TO meet and settle.
as against the clamor of the mob, before
we can feel entirely sure about anything"
What of the sectional spirit and ten
dency?"
Among a people so great in numbers
and occupying such a vast territorial eX-
tent sectional distinctions growing out of
conflicting local interests are inevitable.
We had North and South. Now we are
beginning to hear OF an East and a West.
He who knows the whole country and Is
familiar with the people, from the Canada
line to the Mexican border and between the
two oceans, needs not to be told that.
judged by other nationalities, the popular
homogeneity in America is little short OF
the Austro-Hungarian empire, neither
France nor England, nor even the Swiss
confederation, can boast of anything like
manners and customs which mark the in
habitants of the United States of North
America But the demagogue is always
around. and there is ever chance TO stir
up strife between rival communities, and he
finds work to his hand and particularly TO
his mouth, it being with him usually
and think they would offer some check TO
this pestferouS insect. But environment
counts for more than we commonly allow
resolute, self-confident leaders may, as they
often do compel the reluctant acquiescence
of a timid, vacillating majority, and thus
whole communities ere driven like herds
of cattle down the mountain side they
know not how or why, by a sort of uncon>
1860 81 more than two of the Southern States
actually voted themselves out or the Union
certainly the States Of Virginia. North
Carolina and Tennessee did not. And yet
such is the pressure and information-the
immense Union majority Of February and
March OF the latter year were found In
July fighting the battles OF the Confed-
HINT TO TIE EAST.
do you apprehend the serious growth
of the new sectionalism which with the
death of the old sectionalism seems to be
struggling into life in American"
IF human experience goes for anything
and is even to count for much, the world
ought to be wiser for the lessons 1t has
had l am afraid, however, that organized
wealth and power have not yet grown wise
enough to scent danger before 1T is upon
them. The Eastern section Of our country
is already in danger. 1 have an impression
that it does not see this. Yet II might.
with profit to itself and TO us all, read
chapter out of own history and take
hint in time from the experience OF the
South. The institution or African slavery
was thought to confer great benefits upon
it's posSeSSorS. 1t produced in the South a
distinct caste. Recognized by the Consti-
tuition, property in man came to take on
kind of divine right, and at last It's sup
porterS went to war to defend II. Nothing
should nave been clearer tnan tndt war
was the best way to destroy it, England
had got rid of slavery in her colonies. Rus
sia had extinguished serfdom. Brazil was
where except in the Southern States OF the
American Union the world was set against
slavery. To cling. with, tenacity to SO un-
tenable and, as time has since revealed,
to so profitless system Of labor-to say
nothing about moralsIwas singularly
South; but to take the field I'm it's behalf
and against such odds seems inconceiv-
able from the standpoint of rational states
manship. But the South did it. and dearly
paid sthe consequences. Let the East take
to itself the lesson of the South. In its
concentration Of the wealth of the country
and in it's ostentatious display of this
wealth, in the gradual cultivation of caste,
in the tendency to hug it's vast riches and
at home let it behold a danger it will do
well to consider in the light Of both ancient
and modern history and If IL has any real
statesmen they cannot put their genius and
resources to better uses than by the con-
Struction of policies which will bring them
alliances and make them friends-policies
wise and broad, justifying in some measure
the unlimited accumulation they have been
able to pile up in such a relatively short
compass Of time. Those accretions not,only
rights Of properly ali the forces of cupidity
and rapine. operating on agrarian and sec
| now by timely forecast. Only pride and a
very foolish pride at that. has led Spain to
| defy the laws alike of God and nature in
| Cuba. Only pride. the pride of wealth and
| caste, will keep the East from seeing the
| truth that il must make partner of the
rest of the country, not alone by generous
and expanding policies. but above all by
| just policies-harder perhaps to realize than
| any other policies. We can always be gen.
| erous. but it is not always easy to be just,
| wisely just, even to ourselves"
What would you advise the Democratic
party to do. Mr.. WatterSon?''
| What l would advise ii to do and what
1t is likely to do are different matters. Per-
| haps it could not do anything better by
| way of starter than to appoint the next
| Sth of January as Il day of fasting and
| prayer