The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-21

lines and the n missing link, a
line between Alexandria. Egypt
and Hong Kong, China, is said to
have been MI. Morgan's special pur-
poses in visiting Europe.
"The systems will be of vast ben
eft to Minnesota and the entire ter
ritory traversed by the Great
Northern, since it will throw the
most of the Asiatic east-bound ship
ments to the United States and
Europe through Duluth and St.
Paul gate-ways. It was said by a
person ~conversant with the plans,
that the new system will be opera
tive as soon as Mr.. Hills steamships
are commissioned.
DEMOCRATIC DIVISION AT THE SOUTH.
Just when the division of the Dem
Ocratic party at the South will show
at the polls cannot be foretold, but
the division is no longer a matter of
prophecy, but of record. Within
the past month there has been a &C.
ries of events Indicating the lines Of
the cleavage. The frst-and least
important-of these was President
Mckinley 8 appointment of of a Gold
Democrat, Mr.. Capers, as United
States Attorney for the District of
G0-&h CIo~A1ioo CS0oi1n~ OuoN$nnnC
have been made in the past by Re-
publican Presidents to Southern
Democrats-pre-eminently by Presi-
dent Hayes in the appointment of
Postmaster General Key from Ten
nessee-but the present instance was
exceptional in that the appointment
was strongly recommended by one of
the Democratic Senators of the State
from which the appointment was
made, and was received within the
State as significant of a new order.
Hardly had this appointment been
made than Senator McLaurin, who
had recommended it, made a speech
before the Manufacturers Club at
Charlotte, North Carolina, in which
he not only defended his support of
the expansionist, pr~otectiOnist, and
subsidy policies of the Administra-
ton, but called upon the business
interests represented by his audience
to repudiate the policies of the new
Democracy which dictated the Kan
sas City platform. The South, he
declared, ought now to support the
policy of protection in order to de-
velop it's growing manufacturers,
and it ought to support Oriental ex-
pansion and subsidies to shipping in
order to develop markets tor the
South s great More
than this, he continued the South
ought to condemn the spirit animat-
ing the whole programme of the new
Democracy:
ITO SOW discomfort with industrial
conditions and distrust Of the gov
erning power, to array class against
class in the hope of securing fancied
social and industrial equality, is, to
my mind, the first step in revolu-
ton. I, for one, do not be-
lieve that the people of the South
are ready to trust this government
into the hands of this sO-called new
Democracy to begin the leveling
process through the exercise of the
taxing power and yet this is exactly
what this new propaganda means,
and outside of the South it is pro-
claimed by the very same class who
preach and practice social equality
between the races The two dOgmas
are lnseparably interviewer. Go into
the West, attend one of their cam
paign meetings, scratch beneath the
skin, and you will find the same old
social equality dogma, to the tune of
which the soul of John Brown is
still marching on"
The concluding sentences quoted
marked the only point upon which
Senator McLaurin's platform did not
square with that of the Republican
party, and the reception his speech
met with showed that his audience
was substantially in accord with
him. A conservative party, in har-
mony with the Republican party on
everything except the negro ques-
ton, already possesses the allegiance
of the manufacturers of of the South,
York Outlook.