The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-09-29
SOWING THE WIND.

Inc article Ov EDWARD lnSle In the
Manufacturers Record of Baltimore, en-
titled Sowing the Wind" is most
sensible and timely one and deserves to
be widely read in tile North, as we'll, as
the South. After alluding to the good
work done by the Manufacturers Record
in the development of the material inter
ests of the South, and it's assistance in
the removal of elements antagonistic
thereto, the writer urges that journal to
use it's influence with business men in
all parts of the country in insisting
upon n change of the Republican pro-
gramme of appointing negroes to impor-
tant Federal post ons in this section.
He quotes from the New York Com
mercial Advertiser conservative Re-
publican view of the situation in. the
South, which claims that with all fear
of negro domination removed, and with
the Southern white neople in charge of
their domestic affairs, Republi ,anism
ought to be attractive to the best citizen
ship of this section. The writer also
quotes from the American Manufacturer
of Pittsburg, Pa, to show that this rep
resentative of the industrial interests of
the Middle States regards the appoint
ment of negro barber to the position of
collector OF internal revenue for the State
of Georgia as n great mistake on the part
ing rs follows: "There was every ind-
catlcn that the Empire State of the South
would at the next election declare for
the Republi "an party and protection, but
white supremacy is the first considera-
ton. The better element considers the
appointment of negro to such position
u direct slap in the face, and it will not
be forgiven"
This, Mr.. Ingle adds, is the whole thing
in nutshell, and from Northern au-
thority, and he asserts, whether to meet
obligations for past nomination or TO
arrange the lines for subsequent one,
that the utter disregard of public sentl-
inent in Georgia and common decency in
Louisiana cannot be regarded in any
other Zig hit than as deliberate purpose
TO restore the conditions where Democ.
racy meant white and Republication
black, the baneful effects of which will
be felt eq nally in New Yurk and Massa.
chusetts as In Maryland and Louisiana
After reciting the paralyzing effe:ts of
the dead line" raised in the South by
the evil effects Of Republican supremacy
and Republican legislation for nineteen
years succeeding the civil war, and the
beneficial results following the shelving
Of all ''force bills" the writer declares
should there lie "a persistence IN the out
rageous policy now pursued that the
South will again become solid, and, as
men able 20 read the signs, cannot csc ape
the conviction that the North with it's
numerous foreign population will soon
be In absolute need of the latent, real
conservatism of tie South to maintain
its institutions in safety. A South made
solid by the suicidal pressure OF the..pres-
ent dominant party in the North could
hardly be depended on in the time of
trouble 10 save those who had permitted
such policy.
Business interests, he says. will be first
to feel the effects Of success again of
radicalism at the North, and business in
terests should call a halt upon the party
which owes its existence to-day to such
aid in the time of extremity.