The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-09-01
BALTI MORE YVES SOME
THING TO SOUTHERN SEN
TIMENT ON THE NEGRO
QUESTION.

QUESTION.
The Wicomico NeDs, edited by Sena
tor Brewington, has the following edi-
,orial on Baltimore and the southern
trade:
"The merchants of Baltimore are
making strenuous efforts to attract
Southern merchants to the Monument
tai city, and are offering among other
things Il rebate of half their railroad
fare to come to Baltimore and buy their
& obs The scheme is bearing fruit and
for the past two weeks many of the
Southern merchants who have hereto
fore hepn purchasing in New York and
Philadelphia have been in Baltimore.
"While in the city last week one Of
these Southern buyers, speaking of con-
ditions in the city, said: 1--WE are glad
to see Baltimore forging ahead and max
ing such an effort to get big share of
our Southern trade. Baltimore is a
splendid market in which to buy many
things, and think if there was a little
more sympathy between the merchants
of Baltimore and those of the South,
that Baltimore would soon experience
a big change to her advantage mean
10y this that for many years there has
seemed to be a big change in the politi-
cal feeling in Baltimore We used to
consider Maryland as one of the red-hot
Southern States, but recently there has
been growing tendency TO Look with
some dsfavor on the Southern States
which have taken the bull by the horns
and changed their constitutions to get
clear of the colored vote. That is what
Maryland ought to do. Conditions in
the South have been much improved
since these changes were made, and the
colored race is much better off than be-
fore. They dabble less ia politics and
are making better citizens. The mer-
chants of the South are for most part
Democrats, but even the Republican
merchants favored these changes in the
State Constitutions, and if Maryland is
to hold her place as Southern State,
and if Baltimore is tn get close to the
Southern people, her merchants ought
to take an active interest in the politi-
cal fight in Maryland this year and
stand out boldly for the passage of the
amendment that is to be voted on in
November.
"The sentiments expressed in the
the above interview have some strong
and telling points. Alter the political
fight of 1895, when the Baltimore press
and many of her leading merchants
took sides with the Republican party
to turn the State over to the control of
that party, both the press and the mer-
chants felt the effects which followed,
for many of the Southern merchants
changed their place of dea ing; they had
lost that sympathetic feeling which had
existed since the war, and hundreds of
thousands of dollars which had been
flowing into the Golfers of Baltimore
went to other cities.
"The Southern people have good
memories. They had felt the injustice
and ignorminy of the carpet bag gov
ernments forced upon them by the Re
publican party after the eival war, when
the Legislatures of the Southern States
were filled with negroes, and their con-
grtssional representations chosen from
the black race at the point of the bayo-
net, they had seen their women insult
ed, and their taxes raised 10 a burden
some point by this ignorant and incom-
petent black representation, and when
they saw the merchants of Baltimore
to whom they had paid hundreds of
thousands of dollars for goods siding
with the party that had been response
BILE for all these things, they naturally
felt resentful.
1.-The same thing holds good today.
The Southern people have cleared their
political atmosphere by the passage of
the amendments in their States. For
this home rule policy the press of the
North has written hundreds of columns
of adverse criticism; these criticisms
have placed wrong light on the actions
of the Southern people, and it was with
great delight that the Southern mer-
chant viewed the fight made in Mary
land in the last gubernatorlal campaign
for the establishment of a white mans
government. They now have their
eyes upon the business community of
Baltimore and will wait with some de-
gree ofanxiety the out come of the fight
for the amendment in this State.
1.-THE adoption of the amendment will
go long way toward cementing the
old time friendly feeling between the
merchants of Baltimore and the mer-
chants of the South. 1t would be we'll
for Baltimore to open her eyes to the
situation and look to the future of her
trade"