The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-27
FROM BROWN AND M'LENDON.
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wholesale merchant: the wholesale man
owes the bank, and the local bank owes
! the New York bank. It's race to get
| the money from the opening of the first
boil, every man for himself and the devil
! for the hindmost,' and, strange to say,
! the fellow who gets the first lick
at it is the one who comes
out behind and the fellow who gets the
last lick is the one who comes out ahead
| The trouble is we are a poor people-with
no money-nothing but set of agents and
| sub-agents for Eastern capital"
Mr.. McLendon said in part:
| Man, through the agency Of the govern
ment cannot make two things equal where
God Almighty has made them unequal
! To state the cost of this idea this err
ror to the people of Iuis country would
| impoverish the resources Of the science of
! mathematics
! 1T has cost the South unlimited billions
and still its gaunt figure stands hungering
! at our door If the doctrine of equality is
right, the doctrine of white supremacy is
wrong, Under which hag do YOU train?
! The doctrine of equality may be a very
| good theme for travelling orators whose
| talents are purely vocal but it's declara-
| ton is mere drivel when considered in the
! light of every -day experience. When in
! its evolution this idea impiuged Itself upon
/
! ten, 'childless and crownless in her voice
| less Woe she was commanded TO engage
| in another battle with this thought in the
! solution of the problem of the legal equal
| ity of two unequal races. The burden Is
! God-given, and only under his guidance
can 1t ever be solved 1t is not my pur-
! pose to discuss or attempt to solve this
problem at this time. Shut up TO herself
with this question, perpeXed from within
| rrltated, misjudged, and unaided from
! without, the South is, with brove heart
and high purpose, bearing the burden of
! two unmXable races. Its solution will be
delayed by sensation mousers i'm the pull
pit, by fanatics on the platform. by ig-
norant and vicious scribblers in the press,
| by rapes, by lynching ana by lying but
| through it all the doctrine that all men
are born equal will perish, and the An
glo-Saxon, through patience, intelligence,
charity and justice, viii rule. 1t is some
aspects of the question rather than the
| question itself that 1 would now consider
Victims of the Adventurer.
Have we not disciplined ourselves on
such narrow lines that we are the easy
victim of the dreamer the theorlst and
the political adventurer? Are we equal TO
our burden? Can we afford to house all
| The wild theories sub-treasury bills. and
! the Ike that have been proposed for our
| speedy enrichment by act of Congress?
| Have not our material interests suffered
! by loss of time and energy on our part
in chasing these small rain-bows of iliu-
s,Ve hope that rise ever and anon above
the political horizon? is it not time that
We should take our latitude and lougi-
| tude, and ascertain where we are on the
| high seas? Are our sails spread and
catching the winds of trade and progress?
| Are our sailors masters of the secrets of
the sea? Or is our ship lying lisl3ess upon
the waves? How long are we going to
| listen with approving patience 20 the
| roundelays of political tramps while they
sing to us that all men are born equal,
| when we all know when that sentence
was written the negro the world over was
! property? How long are we going 10 APP
| p!aud this same minstrelsy when It comes
to us fron the same source and sings
TO us in musical jargOn about
the consent Of the governed? A prize
ring IN the West has 10000 voters and two
| United States senator's; New York has q,
100000 voters and two senators. Tho con-
sent of the governed does not seem to be
equitaby distributed just here for one
citizen of Nevada counts for as much a
100 citizens of New York when they meet
in the United States Senate. The District
| of Columbia has 60000 voters, three times
| as many as Nevada, but they live in the
great valley OF silence and submission
and far removed from dominion of con-
| sent Out of more than a million negro
| voters in this country there is not a ne
gro Governor senator or congressman,
and there ought not TO be. Intelligence,
virtue ana property will and must rule
| the world, and the man, white or black,
| who has neither, has no right to partiCl-
pate In government. Dependence upon his
| consent would wreck any nation on earth
| in twenty fOur-hOurs. When we say TO
the negro that this is the white mans
country, and that the white man is going
| to rule, we tell him the truth. This is
nothing more than saying to him that the
government of Intelligence is better than
the government of ignorance; but We take
up the burden of hypocracy when we at
the same time give enthusiastic applause
to lot of sophomore nonsense about the
consent of the governed.
Regulated by Commerce.
Congress never did, never win and
| never can regulate the value of a single
piece of money made out of metal or pa
| per, except in the payment of taxes ana
| executions. The unwritien laws of com
merce regulate these, and all other values
| To reduce il down to unit, the buyer aud
the seller are the only people on earth
VINO are possessed of final and absolute
| power TO regulate values, and perliaments
and kings and congresses are utterly hep
less in the presence Of The power of these
two persons. Ii is unnecessary here to
stop TO speak oil RUSSIA experience or
to place a flower on the grave Of the
French Assignat. Tie United States made
two efforts on this line, one during the
| revolutionary war, and one during and
| after the civil war. The Continental Con-
| gress, which was an incongruous mass of
! delegates, without power and without
| uniformity of commissions, unaided by a
president or a supreme court for at that
time we had neither, found 1t necessary
TO raise revenue for the prosecution of the
| Revolutionary war Without cash, credit
or the power to tax, 1t issued two hundred
million dollars, or what 1t called dollars,
for this purpose. The people, neither by
| promises, threats nor persuasion, would
| accept them as dollars. Arrest, imprison-
ment confiscation and banshment were
all called into requisition In the effort 10
| regulate the value Of these dollars.
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