The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-29

oAlNN SOilSdlS are NEARLY all sent Out lfOlil
home. They number sol, 50 of whom are
charged to the South, but many of these
are really Northern men. Ohio alone has
80 of her sons in the service. The Souths
part should be 167 instead of 52-less than
one-third.
In all civilized countries on earth men
aspire to the diplomatic service as one
of the highest, most dignified and hon.
orable branches of statescraft 1t Is
through these channels that distinction is
sought and ambitious young men seek ca
reers in it, and to educate themselves in
international learning. 1t carries dignity
and honor and high emolument, and af-
fords opportunities for exploiting great
abilities and polished learning. But from
all this the South is completely cut off
Not one single one of her native-born
sons occupy one of the higher stations.
Mr.. Clayton of Arkansas was born in
Pennsylvania; Mr.. Buck of Georgia, in
Maine, and Mr.. Hunter of Kentucky in
Ireland. The young men of the South
have this door to distinction shut in their
faces, and it would appear from their ut
ter absence from the list that they are
unworthy, ineligible, or incapacitated, or
that they have committed some crime
The Board of Indian Commissioners
numbers 100 from the South
~ las dAlSdhS DGGA HOlea IIldL the Bu-
reau of American Republics has not a
Southern. man anywhere about it, and yet
that bureau was instituted for the pro-
motion of commercial relations with the
countries south of us, and the South ought
to be the natural gateway, and the South
ern people ought to be the most interest
ed, and ought to know more about it,
and be first in promoting it.
1 find in the schedule of Learned So
cieties'' scattered over the country for
the promotion of all manner of scientific
and Industrial progress and investigation,
not one single one of them has its orgaui-
cation and president at the South. This
is not related to government affairs. but
it is cited as one of tie conspicuous fruits
of Partially, and to show how all the
good and perfect things graviuate East.
The South is resigning all these things
also.
find in seven Southern states the num-
Der of savings bank depositors number
s0,1Sl, while in six New England states
they number 2,464,37 Could anything
more clearly reveal the one-sided condi-
tions of things? In the East thirty men
have money to deposit where one man
has it South. Not only that, but the
average South is $1S5.2O, while East it is
296.2S. There are not only thirty to one
men able to deposit, but each of them has
over twice as much to deposit.
How does all this come about? The
Southern soil is as rich, and there is moth
ing in natural conditions to explain it,
There is something wrong and unequal
somewhere. How does it come about that
all the millionaires, all the manufacture
ing industries, all the commercial enter
prise, all the financial exploitation, and
all the means for making riches, and
-. Ill
Southern people to tamely lie down for
ever and submit to everything being Oh
verted away from them? To nominate
Southern man may not elect him, and If
ii does it will not cure all these inequali-
ties al once, nor for long time, but 1t
will be a beginning. We owe 1t to our
selves to cast off the shameful and cow
ardly submission with which We have con-
doned and helped along the wrongs We
endure.
1t is already remarked as an Offset to
these papers that we ought not to stop
now and bubble over politics, that there
Is new industrial awakening South,
and she ought to break loose from her
old, crude ideas, and abjure politics, and
address herself to the great industrial
problems begging solution. and proceed
to get rich. They are trying to toll us off
thus The President recently went about
among US tickling us with this feather,
and they are trying a big game In South
Carolina 1t is surely big thing for
the South II there is anything big in
store for her industrially, but why
should we eschew the political benefits
also? 1t Is a game to make us forget
to hang together. Whoever hears OF any
body advising the Solid North to break
IN? They do not intend to abjure pol
ttics and governmental benefits, but II
they can soothe US into doing so they will
soon have the Solid South broken up,
they think, and then have things all their
way another half century.
To nominate a Southern man will be
the sounding Of the Keynote to new
awakening. and we can have the indus
trial booms and help 1t along with poll
tics. Industrial progress Is not incom-
natt1,le with political equality. whether
u,e elect him or not, the assertion of
the right to be considered equal will com
mand the respect of the civilized world.
challenge a sense of fairness North ana
East and will be the beginning step to-
wards equal American citizenship for
prescribed people.
EVERY Democrat who reads this Is In
vitod 20 drop a postal card TO the writer
AZ washington. and give In sentence
his opinion OF a. and who should be the
,nrotnee Laps D. McCord,