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YOUR ESPECIAL
ATTENTION,
\Yc wish to call, to oitr large line of DOLLS ard
ALBUMS. We have the goods and the p ices to
suit everybody.
Medallions, mirrors, toilet sets, work boxes, fancy!
china, beautiful v a e, crest, and Cameo ware purses
of every grade aud style. Christmas souvenirs galore, j
the finest assortment o' case pipes—elegant Christmas
gifts for your f< n letuen friends, also cigai c isesa d i-
gars in holid; y packages. If in d mbt what to buy for,
Clr. i,turns, come in and see us, we think we can help
y u. Eut come in aud see ot r goods ai y vay. It is a
pleasure to she w hem a id give t ie prices. We in-
vite comparison on assoitment, quality and price.
A BAD BUNCO.
OPENS FIRE WHEN OFFICERS AT-
TEMPT HIS ARREST.
THREE MEN KILLED.
the protective tariff has done its per
j feet work, the poor white man of the
south is loming up as a factor in the
I industrial problem.
This was not so before, and it has
1 required a good, long time to bring
{this state of affairs about. Bit what
is called the extraordinary or miracu-
lous, if wc observe its processes, will
! be seen to come slowly. And the real
j importance of the white workingmen
Capture °f the south in the great questions of
j politics and commerce has been so
iiuucu .htaaror, He j sjow advancement as to almost
wholly evade attention. Then all at
once it becomes universally apparent
and creates astonishment. The race
problem, which our writers versed in
■ lh<- habits and history of animals arc
Houston, Tex., Dec. ii.—When Po-, disposed to make so much of, is of
liceman J. C. James and Herman minor weight in politics compared to
Yinrnst attempted ... arret an alleged I “V1* cf the sn.M«-« prominence of the
, ..... . . j white workingman ot the south. But
tion and created a demand for that
comparatively dormant and inconse
constitution, aristocracy and slavery.
But their finish camrwwitli the advent
When I'ulit-rnifn Attempt
Herman Yoiiiint,
far* Ilia Miotguu With Deadly Filert.
Killing Doth Officers ll» is Jailed
AND DON’T FORGET
bunco steerer, Sid Preacher, this af-
ternoon, tin* latter opened fire with a
shot gun. At the first fire he mortally
wounded James, who fell. He then
there is no miracle here. Cast hack
a little, and the whole field of activity
is visible. First of all is the tariff
agitation in Pennsylvania. Then iol*
, .. , , . , low in easy and quick succession the
tired at i oun.-1, knocking lnm down, i rjs0 0f ,hP republican party to power,
Our jewelry d -pr.rareut—it is no side line with us.
Our stock is well selected and our prices are right Re-
member all g( o Is purchased are engraved free of1
charge. Our Elk emblems are now here. Come in
and see them.
and was on top of him, beating the ot
ficcr, when James raised himself from
the gutter and fired three times, kill-
the war for the constitution, the aboli-
tion of slavery and the operation of the.
protective tariff. These are the forces
r, , | that have swept from the patlnvav of
ing Preacher. Both James and lounst j . southern
opportunity and the lamentable part
of the story is that it is incapable o?
grasping it. So technical schools are
establshcd free scholarships provided
to educate it tip to the point of exert-
ing itself skillfully and to advantage.
It will learn in time the value of pro-
tection. and on that ssuc will unite
with the greater laboring force of the
north. Then will the tariff receive
the universal vindicaton that is due
it from the working clashes. Thus the
party of the opposition is still further
reduced and confined to its scope to
the old slaveholding population and
the free trade element in the northern
fates that formerly co-operated with
it. This is the relentlcssness of fate
or destiny.
And here light breaks through on
what is termed the race problem, and
reveals something of the misconcep-
tion concerning it. Its weight politi-
cally is very much overestimated, and
nothing particularly serious awaits its
solution. It is well enough of course,
to enlighten the negroes and enlighten
the white people, provided the
methods are not too rigidly system-
atic and artificial, but with the instruc-
before assistance came. I
There is (Treat excitement over the | they have been emancipatory in the
mailer as tins is carnival week ami the I wld«* and hlShc>t- se,,5<‘' 'mbr^inK
Fitsclieiu Morse Drug
First Door North of P. O.
Co.
EAST TERMINUS.
A. J. CASSETT, OF THE PENN-
SYLVANIA, IN NEW YORK.
PLAN ALREADY ADOPTED
in their action both negro and Cau
casian.
Jefferon and his parly were, ft is
true, favorable to the people, or rather
to a certain class or classes of them,
during the carnival. With « shotgun j but. *hey wcre ",05t dis,inc,ly hos,ile
town is crowded with people.
Preacher was well known to the po-
lice, and had been arrested frequently.
They had been watching him closely
..... . . , all sections of the country to that
on his shoulder today he went to the j herculean cla/s that labors for a !iv-
i ing, and particularly were they so in
I the south. There democracy was en-
police and complained that they were
interfering in his business. The po- j
lice attempted to arrest him, when lie |
opened fire on them. Several hun-
dred people saw the duel. Tonight a
warrant was Issued by the deputy
chief of police for J. B. Brockman,
Treacher’s attorney, charging him
with murder, and lie has been jailed.
It is charged by the police that the
attorney advised Preacher to use a
shotgun in case any attempt was made
to arrest him. Hale in the afternoon
ton of cvperience and thought, which
is the true genius of nations the whole
southern workingman the ponder- j population, white and black, will find
obstacle;, to his progress. Truly | its level and strike its best licks. The
supposition is that the race difficulty
lies principally between the negroes
and the white working people of the
south, but that is evidently false. They
together were ever, from the begin
ning. the productive forces of that
section, and tor all its wealth and all
its political power it was directly in-
debted to them. And this greatest
of all debts stands without acknowl-
edgment. The genius of Jefferson,
the personality of Jackson, the logic
of Calhoun, and, in fact, the universal
brilliancy of democratic statesmanship
have been written and declaimed with
the most ludicrous profusion of senti-
ment, but not once do you hear o:
the eternal obligation put upon de-
mocracy by the slave labor and the
oppressed free labor of the south. It
eat of cm-
| pirc, and there perished the aspirations
of the common people. It is one of
the most cathetic chapters that make
up the great chaim of events in the
career of the republic. The negro was
the asset of the politician and the
planter—the foundation, in fact, of the
democratic party. The white man
who had no property interest in him
was practically a castaway, with no
business in politics except to vote.
Of course, Jefferson favored emanci-
pation theoretically, for that was the
Ti» Cxt«ml That Great Sjdrui Into New
York City—Through I nilorgrouud C en*
nation With l ong I«Und Hallrond—
Took Year* of study.
J of Boer commandoes. The period cov-
ered by Lord Kitchener’s statement is
! over a year.
Speaking at Glasgow tonight Mr.
Broderick, the secretary of state for
war, referred to Lord Kitchener’s rc-
I port upon the shooting of blacks by
! the Boers. Mr. Broderick said that
this report made it perfectly clear that
I these murders were not committed j
in moments of passion, but were part
of an organized system to cover the j
tracks of the enemy and prevent pos-
sible information of their whereabouts, j _________________________________
securing
of imperial governments. It Is all a
matter of human nature. Looked at
as they stand they would seen to be
toppling, and yet their courses arc
marked by centuries. Their lesson |
is that men are submissive. The j
United States sprang into existence
as a relief to this monarcial state
of affairs, and the sum total of relief
that has come from it has been
through emigration to this country.
But you will notice the drift of the
stream of this emigration. . It was
not in the direction of slavery. And
slavery was with 11s fur a long time
the seat of political soverignity. The
forces that antagonized it were the
free labor of the north and that of the
immigrant. In the south it had no
energetic opposition among the labor
ing people. Their conditions had
gradually mastered them, for the
whole machinery of national politics
was directed toward enlarging the
protection of the negro. This was the
overshadowing matter of the time.
It comprised war, conquest and the
abrogation of the most solemn agree-
ment for the preservation of free ter
ritorv. Thus, the working capacity of
the black man and the area of his ac-
tivity were sought to be developed.
That, of course, trespassed upon the
privileges of white workingmen, and
this fact, no less than its cruelty and
injustice, led Lincoln to proclaim cf-
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.Several choice claims for sale by R. R.
I11CKOX or I-RXEST A. SIIARFE,
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Those desiring to purchase in ti e new
country should see R. R. IIICKOX or
ERNEST A. SHARPE, at Citizens Ni.-
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WANTED—Situation in dr v
cciy or shoe business. Have had twenty
years experience and can furnish the
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ficially against slavery. The success of trade for other property, or cattle. Call
T. A. BARER,
Lockucy, Texas.
is a truth that speaks with such vol-
ume as to be heard throughout the
lktid. A good deal lias been said first
and last about the new south, but as
yet, except in the changed relations
of servant and master and the method
of employing labor, there lias prac-
tically been no new south. Consider
owes then all and it gave them nothing i able has been done in the way of
And but for the emancipation of the i bridging the chasm, but that has not
republican party and the vast oppor- dislodged the political majority that
tunities it has provided for laboring j has thus far stood invulnerable Vo
people, there would be no extraordin- j attack, and not until it dissolves will
his party and himself identified with
the interest of the laboring classes,
north and south, white and black, and
it will remain forever to their honor
that they fulfilled their obligation. N’c
other poitical organization in the
world’s history has such a brilliant
record for liberty as that of the repub-
licans. < . ,U1 cjkucnscr. -’J
And one of the most gratifying I Building, Chicago,
evidences of this is the large demand > “.. X.V.L:T. .... "~my
for technical schools in the s.iuth. It! " AN!.ED-1 hree first •i.n.ns room
on or address,
37-4t _ _
W \NTED: Mau in «acli < uuty • t
represent old established hon e, solid fi-
uanclal standing: straight, bona fine
weekly cash salary of $iS paid by check
each Wednesday with all expenses di-
rect from headquarters: money advanced
for expenses. Manager, 387 Caxton
ary enterprise in the south and no de-
scttlemenl, and that any fresh nepo
tiations must cminatc from the Boers.
Referring critically to the dissen-
tients in the liberal party Mr. Broder-
ick created amusement by declaring
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tv r. v 1 t utv ti iiiiitisviiiiiii .ivvi.iiinf-,
that had Lord Roseberry been premier ‘ ^
New York, Dec. II.—-A. J. Cassate, | the liberals would have had a right to
president of the Pennsylvania railroad
company, today made public bis plan
for securing a New ^ ork terminus
for his company. He made the fol-
lowing statement to the \<«niclnted
Press:
“The Pennsylvania company is now
prepared to carry out its policy, long
since adopted, of extending its road
into New York To accomplish this
on a comprehensive plan the Long
Island Extension Railroad company
will withdraw its application for
powers to construct its terminal rail-
road. and in lieu of such independent
construction it is now proposed to
build under the charter of the Penn,
sylvania-New York Extension Rail-
road company, just organized, and a
New Jersey railroad company about
to be organized, a through under-
ground connect ii: fc* ■. •r**:. ‘A* l «'C
Island ra :road aud the Pennsylvania
lines in New Jersey and to construct
a proper and commodious joint undi •
yt und nrm nal $ta*;on m X v York
City icr 11*c Pennsylvania ar ’ Long
Island tr.ihoads.
“Alter Years of exhaustive study,
the conGusYn has been reached that
a tunnel lire, operated oy electricity
is in every way the most practicable,
economical and the best both for the
interests the railroad company and
of the city. The line as adopted will
traverse the city of New York from
the Hudson river to the E .-t river anil
and he underground throughout and
at such a depth a< not to interfere with
future constriction oi subways by the
city on all its avenues, similar to or.*
now building along Four. 1 avenue.
“\s the tailroad will !. * wholly un-
derground and operated elc:’. ideally in
the ‘•ame n.v.ncr as the r •»cnil/ con-
structed Orleans railway extension in
Paris, it will not be obj'- tonauic In
any way. There will no, I u -ay
smoke, dirt or noise a.id a* ail the sur-
face property may be buiic upon aft*r
being utilized underground for railroad
purposes, the neighborhood of the
station will be improved intend I
marred, as s often the c»!>c wl.eni
railroad lir* are c msu;;r.t* l on tar ;
surface or elevated. The con pa**y 1- ,s j
acquired the bulk of . property f.»r
its princioil station \ ;1 tn:vi; to po |
forward in the aeqe.*
ditional properties as will !e required,
either by ourchase or condemning in
the belief that the city authorities will
meet their application in a spirit of
his counsel, since Lipton could not
withdraw and sulk in his cabin during
rought weather, and especially if the
first mate had turned pirate and was
engaged in looting the cargo.
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IlKTt KNFI> FROM WASHINGTON.
Chicago, Dec. it.—John W. Spring
cr, president of the National Live* j
stock association, returned today from *7"*
Washington, where on Monday he had1 "T
an interview with President Roosevelt
upon matters now before congress and
iu which the stockmen of the country
are interested. Mr. Springer express-
ed himself as fully satisfied that the
stock and irrigation interests will re-
ceive just consideiation. Speaking of
the Grout bill introduced in congress
last week, Mr. Springer set himself
strongly against the measure and said:
“The dairy interests have brought
all their influence to bear to secure an
immediate passage of this bill and I
will not be surprised to see the mea-
sure a law at an early day.’’
Speaking of the packing interests,
and as he said, the beef growers of; ajk
the west and the cotton raisers ol ^
the south, Mr. Springer declared that j
there was but one way in which the !
measure could be defeated and that
was for every man indentified with the
interests opposed to the Grout bill to
write to the senators representatin^
his state and his representative in con-
gress demanding that they vole against
it. Mr. Springer declared that even
should the bill become a law, it will
be contested through the supreme
court of the United States.
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We Beg to Announce
That our stock of picture moulding and ready made
frames have arrived. We1 shall make a specialty of this
department of our business, and guarantee a quality of
goods sold. We have the latest improved machine for cut-
ting round, oval and square mats, and an experienced
workman in charge. You will be surprised at the prices we
offer. Orders should be placed at once for Christmas
goods.
girls at once; must be expcriciucd.-
ANSTINE HOTEL.
FOR SALE—Geuts furnishing store
in one of the best cities i 11 the territory.
Doing a fine business. Will bear the
closest investigation. Unless you have
lhe money and fully intend to go into
business do not answer. No attention
paid to agents or idlers. Address W. I).
H., American office.
WAN‘I - - •
handsome place iu Fort Worth, Texas.
Artesian well, fruit and native shade
trees. Address II. H. American office.
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1899-1 So 1. Write at once giving price.
G. L. HUD KINS,
Euid, Oklahoma,
FOUND, GUN—Owner cau have same
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notice and proving property. Gun cau
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torney preferred. Address, V. A. Stuart,
Bridgeport. O. T.
L. C. Van Ness & Co.,
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Bookseliers and Stationers,
that the new
j things threw in their way.
i the patheic side of the story, and 110
I discredit attaches to them for their
i incapacity. The liberation of the ne-
| gro relieved them of the incubus of
! labor, but it did not equip them to
cope with the formidable difficulties
j on every hand in the different call-
^ j owned small farms or plantations, par-
tite old give way to the new. The
signs of that, however, are at hand,
and they are they schools of technology
at Atlanta and other points that dis-
tribute free scholarships, or, what is
about the same thing or better,
scholarships to be paid for on time.
This is something positively new.
You never heard of it in olden time
simply because there was no occasion
for it. And why was there none?
Because the only industrial school of
distinction was the cotton field, and
clegibility to this was confined to the
pickanannics. These little fellows
grew up with the cotton stalks, and
when they became old enough to work
had that sleight of proficiency that is
! called inborn. It lias taken nearly
half a century to bring even the dawn
of a new era. And that is philosophi-
cal. Wc could not have reasonably
expected it to spring forth like day
from night. Necessarily its coming
has been slow, because of the half
century of history preceding the great
political reformation that began about
i860, and which should be written
with a big R like the religious renewal
of Luther. Reconstrutcoin simply re-
j united—it transformed nothing.
In all this we see how difficult and
complicated is the work of producing
absolute newness of life. A fullness
of provision in one respect is likely
to be offset by a deficiency in some
other. The deficiency here is in thr
south’s white working classes. Their
j advancement did not keep pace with
the expansion of their privileges.
And this was so because they were
incapable oi appreciating and grasping • Chicago Ladies Monthly publication. Ad-
I the chances that the new order of *«»• with reference*.
This is
FOR SALE—One 10-horse power up-
right steam engine in good condition,
cheap for cash. Also about thirty feet
smokestack about twenty-four inches in
diameter. I!1 Reno Ice and Coal Co,
136-14t.
WANTED—A stenographer. Call
room No. 7, land office building.
FOR SALE—Well drills, all depths and
sizes. N. A. GUYER,
146-71 El Reno, O. T.
WANTED—First class dining room
girl. Must be neat and tidy. Call 011
Mrs. Blackman, 301 South Barker ave.
Solicitor Yfantftd.
To work El Reno and other towns.
Art and Fancy Goods.
Phone 187, Cor. Bickford and Woodson.
“If you buy it of Van Ness, its good.”
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TWO WRITS SERVED.
Victoria. II. C, Dec. 11.—Two writs
were today served on the Victoria
representative of the British- Yukon
Railway company, otherwise The
White Pass and Yukon route, each
claiming Sjo.ooo from the company on
the ground that the rate on their rail
ways had not been approved by the
a boy with two shotguns and a large j doctrine of opposition that when
number of buskshot cartridges, which . emancipation came it dealt his party
he said he wa> carrying to Brockman. a ^iow has never recovered
office, was arrested and the arms con- (rom and never V,,;!L That effectually
fiscated. ___j settled the question as to whether
TS -„r nAiirii 1 democratic politicians practiced what
WORKING MEN OF THF. SOUTH- till preached. When their doctrine
__ j 0! bestowing liberty indiscriminately
It is quite common to use the ’ was made operative they fell from
' "poor whites” in referring to P°'«r wlth th« Precipitation
I phra
that class of working people in the
families were not slave
south who
dominion government as required ^ ] hotders beVore the war, but the phnse
the dominion radway act. The claim
ai»ts arc the Upper Yukon Consolidat
I power with the
ton’s archangles.
man of the south
by the sweat of
‘ | while doubtless literally true, but car-
ries with it a tone oi contempt and
ed eomp.jv.n-J-hn O^rihu t | h w„ich, it ,afe t0 presume
large shippers to
Yukon country They ask the return ,
its ~ri- COInP*ry and damages, relying on the
claim that the rates of tlv. ......
were not approved.
These arc but test cases and if 1 lie
j claimants arc successful actions in-
fairness and expedite as much as pcs- I volvin* n,iU‘‘Mls °* dollari '"1; ^ «*-
Bible this much needed improvement. mcncE *Ka,n*t ‘^ company tne re,,
and great public convenience. !m- °i wh'eh are in Otlr.wi a
' pivsrnt 111 connection with the refits.I
of the dom nion govern me it to ap-
of Mil-
And now the white
w hose bread comes
his brow rises in
is resented with a touch of anger by
j oi irei«ht and passenger rates paid the J those to whom it is applied. Nobody
of spirit and capacity relishes the *p
company j peuatjon cf indigent; and while the
southern people of reduced
stances were held down for
cratious by political power, still they J ^vVlVfoYlow'it.
mediatelv upon the necessary authori-
ty being granted the work of con-
struction will proceed and the whole
line be completed and put in operation
a< non as possible."
KITCHENER'S REPORT.
London, Dec. 11.—Lord Kitchener’s
promised statement specifying 37 separ-
ate instance^ in which natives have
been shot by Boers, and which involve I
tariff submitted by the
prove the
company. _ _
ANSWERED FRIDAY.
Santiago de Chili, Dec. 11—‘The note
received by the government of Chile
from the Argentine republic will be
answered next Friday by the Chilean
minister of foreign affairs.
Everything here seems to denote that
the loss of 84 live5; v
war office tonight.
In some of the ca»
blacks were shot after an informa*
court martial or upon being accused
of spying, but in numerous instances
which Lord Kitchener indicates the
naitves were shot in cold blood in or-
der to hide traces of the movements
'Sued bv the I ^ili and Argentina will settle the
c I trouble existing between them on a
I friendly basis.
mentioned the i — »-
TRANSATLANTIC.
Berlin, Dec. 11-—The Hamburger cor-
respondent says that the directors of
the principal trans-Atlantic steamship
lines have held a meeting at Cologne in
order to reach a traffic agreement.
mockery . Yet, he has a grudge—and
this is the day oi his enlightenment
when the meaning oi history is flash-
ed before Ins eyes. What he will do
more prodigious than all else, is to
break the ^ olid south. Noth hi g so
far has been equal to this accomplish
ment, but here is the force that will
do it. The negro vote that has escaped
disfranchist nent has long since been
circum- I thrown in the balance to this end.
two c n- ian<* >'ou "ill see that henceforth a
’ , i continuously increasing while vote
still they * ..an .• .i>_. A
not devoid oi ambition and ideals, j Here, then, is a revolution in poli-
Poor they are undeniably, but they ; tics close at hand, the importance of
do not relish being called poor whites, which can not well be estimated. It
* ...it it,__ helps to carry forward republican su-
They arc, indeed, the heroes am e - | premacy indefinitely and likely read
ines of their section, for the have to j justs the opposition. As to the latter
struggle in the face ol adversity, with
no means of subsistence. Just now,
however, they arc coming to
the front. the enterprise of
the south having developed their im-
portance. And this enlerpris
proposition, however, that is specula-
! tive, and speculation is not altogether
1 interesting oi accurate. The opposi
| tion, oi course, in some form or other,
will continue to manifest itself. But
it has no strength to spare, and the
eventual los* of the workngmen of
the south will reduce it to such pro-
portions as 10 divest it oi even the
shadow formidabihty. And the sud-
den rising up and assertion of this
this
after a considcrbale lapse ot
time, is wholly consequent upon the
abolition oi slavery, which institution
was the inflexible and triumphant foe . .......
oi white labor. Its influence was very power is not a spasmodic movement,
sensibly felt at the north, but its pow- but the sure result oi antecedent
at the south was positively de-
structive. There will never he any
imperialism in this country the equal
in autocratic character of those exalt-
ed twin products of the American
tivities. The south has ceased to be
exclusively land of plantations and
mand for technical schools to educate
a neglected class of the population.
The emergency has conic with no
preparation to meet it, though it will
be met and the cause of the deficiency
will be made known.
This strips the race problem of a
great deal of its ugliness and renders
it forever impractical as an issue in
politic?. Since the white working peo-
ple of the south are awake to their
advantages and to Hie reasons ior all
their disadvantages, there is no pos-
sibility of perpetuating their hostility
to the colored race as a political fac-
tor. Lcgitimacly they both belong to
the same party, ior their spheres of
activity have been created aud en-
larged through the instrumentality
oi the same principles. To one pafty
they arc actually indebted, while t..-
the other their relation is that of the
most bountiful creditors. And this re-
lation makes kno.vn the attitude of
Jemocracy toward labor. It is useless
to seek further ior that, for its whole
history is here set forth. It is absorb-
ing in interest because it is intensely
tragic. It is made un oi those le-
nient s that appeal to sympathy, and
f#r that reason are called pathetic ni^l
given the first rank in poetry. Then,
besides you have the abject spectacle
of political thralldom. That is pure
imperialism, for it embraces those
ugly features that stand so boldly out
in the gloomy grandeur of empire.
They are the extremities of humanity,
its impotcncy and its power. It is
these that make the splendor of em-
pires ludicrous. The people, the
source oi all wealth, are driven to
their tasks and stripped of their re-
wards. But men display propensities
for servitude or liberty precisely in
conformity with the contditions o|
their existence. You may either ex-
tinguish aspiration or raise it to
exclusively iancj 01 plantations ana 1 uuguisu asu.idiiun ui n
free trade sentiment. Manufactures, I point oi strength where subjugation
oi the durability
mining and
prises have
various kinds of enter-
wrought a transforma-
is intolerable.
This is the secret
ticularly in southern Arkansas and
northern Louisiana, where land was
cheap, were enabled to enlarge their
acreage somewhat, but the less for-
tunate were quite as impotent as be-
fore the war. And they have not
even yet escaped the appellation of
poor whites, an expression in high
favor with democratic editors, who
' know full well 1 i acquainted with the
principle* and history of their party,
why the working people of the south
were poor and why it has taken so
long a time to prepare them to meet
the demand* of a new situation.
So these southern people of slender
means and insufficient skill understand
with whom the responsibility rests for
their scant equipment and possessions.
It is plain enough now. .or it is un-
der the strong light of contrast in
our politics. And that after all, is
the best means of instruction. By a
contrast of methods wc, at least, learn
which is preferable and what in each
is good or bad. This is the kind of
knowledge that metphysicians call ex-
perimental. and one can not help being
conscious of its truli. No schools
were requisite to impart it, but rather
this information preceded and gave
rise to the schools that are found in-
dispensable in the practical education
for a larger sphere of life. The de-
mocracy when controlling could not
do the impossiblt thing of developing
both the working power of the white
man and that of the black man, so it
devoted itself to the negro in the
interest of his master and the party.
This necessarily oppressed the white !
people and deadened their aspirations. !
The contrast consists in their relief i
through the abolition of slavery and :
their subsequent protection by a high
tariff. And when they become fully
appreciative of the advantages and j
prepared to cope with the new tndus-
' trial forces thus introduced we shall
see a new south, the old majority hiv- I
ing passed away even from that J
stronghold and seat of sovereignty — |
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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