Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-26

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SOUTHERN DEVELOPMENT VS.. RE-
PJBLICANISM.
In these days of exceptional prosperi-
ty, when the south, just recovered from
a generation of stagnation, caused pri-
marily by the war and aggravated by
he subsequent political necessities OF
The Republican party, is enjoying fair
share of that prosperity and beginning
to expand its resources to the world, it
is the favorise claim of Republican poll
sicians that all this Southern develop
lnent and awakening" is due to the pc
culiar policies of the Republican party
the -for-trusts-on especially.
And the persistence with which Repub-
lican organs claim every new develop
ment of political interest in the south
as tending toward republication has
drawn forth from Hon. William H.
Fleming, member of Congress from the
Tenth district of Georgia, an interest
ing and pertinent statement, in which
he reviews the causes of Southern de-
velopment. He denies absolutely that
Republicanism in any sens is gaining
ground in the South, giving his reasons
why this is SO and why any such prop
uganda must be unsuccessful. AS the
Atlanta Constitution, which publishes
Congressman Fleming's article, says,
the people engaged in production,
whether Of staple articles fsom the field
or Of their manufacture into other
forms, are interested in securing the
largest and widest market possible. Of
what use would it be for millions of
people to raise surplus Of cotton or
OF wheat if, when they went to market,
they found foreign ports closed against
them? Hence, while recognizing to the
fullest extent the necessity of collecting
funds for the government at the ports,
these people are interested vitality in
having such tariff as will accomplish
its proper purpose, and at the same time
keep open to them foreign markets
The Republican party, representing not
the whole people, but only favored in
tcrests, has created tariffs for the bene-
fit especially of those interests, repre-
scented by the trusts of the North, and as
our Southern contemporary in its in
dictment of the tariff-trust policy puts
it.
no sooner had these benefits promised to
become general. applying to the whole
country than through the aid of the coun-
tervailing clause of the Dingley bill the
Republican party drops sectionalism for
personalism, and law which was In
tended to promote trade at large is so
prostituted in its operation that it is made
to serve the purpose of individuals in par,
ticular. Granted the Republican conten-
ton that through the tariff there has been
built up large manufacturing industry,
To-
100000 in Russia. with iliimitsble growth in
prospect, and of SEQ, coo GOO in Italy, of what
use is all this when. at the behest of an
exclusive business firm interested in sugar.
these two large items of trade are sacri-
aced to the greed OF particular indi-
Flduals? Yet such is the condition to
which Republicanism has led Instead of
protection being advocated for the growth
of American trade. it has been saddled
with legislative rider by which. upon
occasion, the executive usurps the place
OF Congress, and through treasury DEGREES
throws to the winds the tens of millions
of profit for the benefit of special favor
ites.
1t will be observed that it is not the
policy of protection to which our South
ern contemporary objects, but to the
peculiar administration policy which
does not protect all alike. but bleeds
one class OR section for the benefit of
another anc all for the benefit of the
trusts. Reviewing the surrender of the
administration to the sugar and tobacco
trusts in the Porto Rican business and
the woeful blqnder made by Secretary
Gage in the interests of the sugar trust
in the Russian sugar tariff case. which
has resulted IN tariff war against the
United States likely to spread ali over
Europe, our Southern contemporary
asks. whether our government is to
be prostituted to the service Of a few
men or is to advance the. trade posi-
bilities of the entire nation. Phe peo-
pie OF the South have been, as Con
gressmal Fleming shows, agriculturists
and as such were interested in the
opening Of every market to the sale OF
our products. They have lately be-
come manufacturers as well, but manu-
facturers OF an article which they de-
sire to sell IN foreign ports. When they
zee the markets Of Russia and OF Italy
being closed against them, and the pol
cy adopted by the party in power,
Rfch Is to be q continuation Of this
se, why should t6ey tend toward
canism? The Constitution adds
A(akS fcf the sn4lf harm ,,n<r<1~. &