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THE SUNNY SOUTH. ATLANTA, GEORGIA OCTOBER 14 1893
_PUBLISHED BY—
the SUNNY SOUTH FOB. CO.
■ CLARK HOWELL,
0. C. NICHOLS, -
JAB. B. HOLLIDAY,
- President.
. Business Manager
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ab i e to THE BUNNY BOUTH,
ATLANTA, GA.
THE NEGRO AT THE WORLD’S
FAIR.
It is remarkable that the sensible
men among the negroes do not see
that they are bringing odium upon
their race by the carping and com
plaining policy they pursue in regard
to almost everything occurring in the
country. Nothing seems to go right
in their estimation where they are in
the least concerned.
One of the latest exhibitions of this
spirit is a protest which Fred Doug
lass and other representative negroes
have issued against what they assert
to have been unjust treatment of their
raoe by the authorities of the World’s
Fair^by which they were prevented
from making such a showing as would
have been creditable to the race as
men of enterprise and progress.
These representatives of the negro
raoe offer two specifications to sub*
stantiate their complaint. One is that
they were denied a negro representa
tive on the Board ‘of Lady Managers.
No other race was represented on
that board as a race, and it is pointed
out that “this demand was apparently
one for social recognition rather than
for equality of right at the fair,” and
that “in demanding race representa
tion on such board it was the negroes
themselves who set up race distinc
tions and challenged race prejudice.”
The other specification is that the
negroes were not allotted a separate
plaoe in which to exhibit what they
have accomplished in the various de
partments of agriculture, merchan
dise, and art, during almost the third
of a century of freedom and citizen
ship. Here again it is pointed out
bat the authorities of the fair “placed
no restrictions whatever upon negro
exhibitorsbut “left them free to ex
hibit on an exact equality with all
other American citizens.” Wnat
would have been said of the German,
the English, and the Irish citizens of
this country if they had made just
such a complaint as this? There is
an oversqueamishness exhibited here
which Is little to the credit of these
representatives of the negro race and
those who indorse their course.
With all their cunning these re
presentatives of the negro race have
shown that they are not content with
the privileges extended to the people
of other races in this country of ex
hibiting their handiwork and other
evidences of the progress they have
made and are making, not in race
squads, but in competition each with
the other. They wanted privileges
which no other raoe had demanded.
They are not themselves content to
ignore race distinctions, but demand
this sort of recognition on all occas
ions when they hope to reap benefit
or distinction thereby, not as a mat
ter due to meritorious citizens, but
simply to a raoe. It is time the negro
was basing his demands upon a higher
plane, that of manhood and equality
with other citizens. *
PUMIH THE RASCALS.
Horace Greeley once said, “The
darkest day in a man’s career is that
in which he fancies there is some
easier way of getting a dollar than by
fairly earning it.” The men who have
been wrecking banks and other cor
porations, as well as firms and indi
viduals, certainly are realizing
trust of the remark by the philosophic
Greeley; if they are not, the law
ought to put them where they would
realize it to the fullest extent. We
have heard the cry, “Turn out the ras
cals it ought to be changed now to
“Punish the rascals.” It is only when
the rascals are made to fear punish
ment as certain to follow crime that
they will keep within the bounds of
honesty.
~ CONVICT
A NEW
FIELD FOR
LABOR.
Tennessee has been wrestling with
the convict-labor question, and is
about to arrive at a solution of the
problem that ought to be satisfactory
to the citizens of that State. It has
become necessary to remove the pris
on from Nashville, in the suburbs of
which it was located half a century
ago, but in its growth the city now
embraces the prison within its limits.
For sanitary reasons Nashville has
demanded the removal of the prison,
and the Legislature of the State recog
nizing the justice of this demand ap
pointed a commission at its last ses
sion to select and recommend the pur
chase of lands upon which to looate a
main and a branch prison.
The purpose was to purchase farm
ing lands for the main prison and coal
lands for the branch.
The commission selected and rec
ommended the purchase of lands for
the main prison in Franklin county;
but it was soon developed that a syn
dicate had been formed to handle
these lands and to make the State pay
an exhorbitant price for them. After
a thorough investigation of the mat
ter Governor Turney has refused to
sanction the purchase of them on the
ground that ,‘the price is altogether
and largely toe great.” This will ne
cessitate the selection of the farming
lands elsewhere, but there will be no
difficulty on that score.
The coal lands selected for the
branch prison have been approved by
Governor Turney and the purchase
will be made. These lands lie in Put
nam county and a railroad from Nash
ville is in operation to within a few
miles of the lands, and will be exten
ded to that point in time to transport
whatever may be required in building
the branch prison, as well as the coal
that may be mined.
This movement looks like it means
a solution of the convict-labor prob
lem. It is true it is an untried field,
but there is reason to believe that with
proper management the labor of the
convicts may be made a source of rev
enue to the State.
A portion of the convicts will be
put to mining coal, for which there is
a good and growing demand, while
the remainder will be put to work on
a large farm, where everything con
sumed by the convicts will be pro
duced.
It is difficult to see how convicts
oould be so employed as to ceme less
in competition with free labor than is
thus proposed. The scheme deserves
the heart y commendation of the peo
ple of Tennessee. *
We are in receipt of the splendid
16th September number of the Alex
andria (Va.) Gazette. The city in
which it is published is one of the
most interesting old towns in this
country, and its fascinating antiaqui-
ties, as well as its business enter
prise and progress, are presented by
the Gazette with all the ability and
art of a metropolitan journal.
We have clipped from its oolumns
for early publication, an interesting
aooount of the memorable killing in
Alexandria of Colonel Ellsworth, by
James Jackson, for pulling down the
stars and bars in 1861.
Prof. Tom F. McBkath, now of
Tallahassee, Fla., and too well known
to need introduction, writes that his
three years file of Thr Sunny South,
containing most of his published writ
ings, was destroyed by fire in 1889,
and that the loss is without remedy
unless bis friends assist him to sup
ply it by sending him copies of the
paper containing his productions.
He promises to return all papers so
received. He sometimes wrote over
his real name and sometimes over the
the nom de plume “B. B.” We urge
our readers to comply. Many of his
contributions are too good to be lost.
Four little boys in Atlanta were
seen going to school together recently.
They clasped hands and walked abreast
on the sidewalk. The writer, walking
close behind, was noticing their ef
forts to “keep step” when one of the
number rudely exclaimed:
“That little Jew can’t walk with us!
Turn him loose!”
• • *
The cruel sneer was directed at the
little fellow on the left of the line,
who found himself at once out loose by
the withdrawal of his companion’s
hand.
The little Jew fell behind with quiv
ering lip, but in silence, and the three
Gentile children marched 'on merrily
together.
* * *
“Boys,” said the passer-by, “that was
very wrong and very cruel. You
have no right to treat him that way.”
But there was no sign of repent
ance. The answer came back defi
antly :
“Well, he is a little Jew!”
# * *
The first reflection that arose from
this incident was to the effect that the
conduct of the gentile boys showed
them to be shockingly wanting in re
finement and delicacy of feeling. Yet
their dress and general appearance
indicated that they belonged to well-
to-do and respectable homes.
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Now the unchristian act of these
children may he palliated, if not ex
cused on the ground of their tender
years. They do not think.- But they
can imitate their elders and pattern
makers. And this, we are inclined to
believe, is what they did in their un
feeling treatment of the young Israel
ite. But it may be said these boys on
ly acted in accordance with a spirit
which is more or less common to all
Gentile boys. That answer, however,
will not do, for hehind it arises still
the question where does the sentiment
originate?
• * •
As the children could not have
originated the sentiment, it follows
that they absorbed it from older peo
ple with whom they are associated.
These older people would not them
selves speak thus to or of
the Jews to their faces. But
they have doubtless uninten
tionally inculcated their anti-
jewish prejudice in the minds of ten
der and easily-warped listeners. The
boys, with all the painful bluntness
which characterizes childhood, simply
spoke plainly to the Israelite’s face
what they had heard older people say
privately.
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A Jew has the same right to be im
partially judged and justly treated as
Gentile has. If he is bad con
demn him. If good, praise him.
Let his personal character be
the only witness for or against him.
Exolude moss-grown prejudice from
the witness-box.
* * *
During the sessions of the great re
ligious parliament recently in session
at Chicago, a distinguished Israelite
spoke for his race, and the following
with reference to his address, we clip
from the Chicago Inter-Ocean as a
fitting conclusion to these remarks:
Rabbi Joseph Silverman was intro
duced and spoke briefly, after which
the parliament adjourned. The dis
tinguished rabbi said:
One of the keenest and most in
jurious evils that can befall a man or
a people is to be misunderstood—per
haps worse to be misrepresented. The
individual who has experienced both
knows the vital sufferings that were
his. To worship truth and be ac
cused of falsehood; to be religiously
virtuous and be charged with vice; to
aspire to heaven and by the world be
consigned to purgatory; to be robbed
of one’s idedntity and be clad in the
garb of another inferior being; to see
one’s principles distorted, every mo
tive questioned; one’s words misquo
ted, every act misunderstood—one’s
whole life misrepresented, and to be a
caricature in the eyes of all men,
without the power of redress, is to
suffer all the unmitigated pangs of
mortification.
The very fact that the Jews once
formed a separate race, and a distinct
nation, and still maintain themselves
as an independent religious commu
nity, has created prejudices from
which have grown up also many er
rors regarding this people in other
directions than those already men
tioned.
Rabbi Silverman then went on to
point out somo of the specific errors
which existed in the popular mind
concerning the Jews. He said they
were accused of exclusiveness and
clanishnessness, whereas they are the
most gregarious and broadly social—
the only remnant of clanishness being
that which was compelled by the con
duct of those who either purposely or
ignorantly persisted inthusmisunder
standing them. The Jew was mali
ciously represented as a consumer, as
distinguished from a producer
when by birth-right he was
tiller of the soil, and had
been compelled through centuries
of persecution to become
trafficker in moneys and gems. And
notwithstanding the age of the perse
oution the Jew was to-day found in all
departments of agriculture and the
mechanical arts, while his contribu
tions to music and art and literature
were notable.
The same character of error concern
ing the Jew extended to his religious
faith, and this largely because of the
prevailing error that the Jews cruci
fied Jesus of Nazareth. Rabbi Silver-
man concluded his paper as follows:
We deplore and condemn the cruci
fixion of Jesus of Nazareth. He was
without doubt one of nature’s noble
men, pure in sentiment and action, a
great leader and reformer of men, and
as such fell a victim to the fanaticism
and jealous power of Rome. His was
the execution of an innocent man.
When the truth is once known and
the Jew is placed in the right light
before the world, we believe prejudice
will be removed, errors corrected, and
persecution will cease and love pre-
vail.
We are worshiping the same God,
the creator and preservor of us all.
Tn the words of Malachi, “Have we
not all one father? Has not one God
created us all? Why shall we deal
unjustly one against the other?” May
truth prevail, may love reign su
preme. May that brotherhood of man
be speedily realized in which there
shall be no distinction as to nation
ality or creed.
The fraternal feeling that represen
tative men of the South and West are
exhibiting towards each other can not
fail to bear good fruits to both sec
tions. The interests of the masses of
these great sections on the currency
question at least are one.
Gov. Lewellyn, of Kansas, in the Bi
metalist Convention at St. Louis, re-
oeutly in session, pointed to the elec
tion of an ex-Confederate to Congress
from that State as an evidence that
the Western people have passed from
the war to practical politics. Gov.
Tillman arose and clasped hands with
the governor of Kansas amidst great
applause.
A CHESTNUT.
A woman inventor has constructed a
table which will wait upon itself.
The table is round, and the stationary
space for plates, etc, is about ten
inches wide. Within this circle is a
revolving disk an inch or two higher
than the stationary part. On this the
food is placed, and a simple turn will
bring the desired article within reach.
—Exchange.
Nothing new about this table. We
saw one in a little interior Mississippi
town many years ago that had been
in use since “before the war.” It was
a fine piece of workmanship, and made
of walnut or mahogany.
Hood Advice.
FERRIS WHEEL.
What the Gigantic Undertaking
resents In Mechanics. P
It is not easy for the mind to
the stupendous nature of this und
taking. The wheel itself i 9 250 feet i
diameter; at its highest point it i 8 J!
feet above the earth. That is to sav P,
Bunker Hill Monument were used a
a yardstick to measure it the toweric*
monolith would fall short 50 feet if
the wheel were set in Broadway bv
the side of Trinity spire it would lift
the passengers of its cars to a i eve i
with the apex of that soaring steeple
The obelisk of Luxor, or Trajan’s pn’
lar, at Rome, would not be long enough
to serve for a radial spoke.
Then, again, as to its enormous
weight. The Niagara cantilever, j Qgt
below the Falls, was looked upon as
an engineering wonder when it was
built. Its construction required three
years. The Ferris wheel was built in
five months and its weight is four
times that of the Niagara bridge. The
St. Louis bridge was another wonder
and its weight is about equal to that
of the big wheel complete. The Cin
cinnati cantilever is another huge
bridge; it is, 1,300 feet, a quarter of a
mile long, and it would about balance
the scale with Mr. Ferris’ big toy.
And the one is set immovable, resting
on two supporters, while the wheel is
swung upon an axle lifted 140 feet in
the air. It has 36 cars, and in these
two regiments of soldiery could be
seated and swept with an almost in
perceptible motion high above the
White wonder.—Review of Reviews.
THE SMALL BOY.
His Innocent Artlessness Gets Him a
Nice Reward.
Read what Mr. Holmes of Miss., says
about our machine. He is so wel
pleased with it and feels so grateful
in consequence of our having saved
him fully $25.00, that he advises all of
his friends who are m need of a first
class machine to send to us for one.
These sort of letters come to us gra
tuitously from every state in the Un
ion. When Mr. Holmes ordered his
machine of us, he had never seen one
of our machines and was of course
dubious as to getting the real kind of
machine he desired. He saw however
that we agreed to refund his money
and pay return freight charges our
selves if the machine did not give per
fect satisfaction. This we are ready
to do right now, but read his letter
and you will see how well we have
carried out all that we promised when
we told him we would give him a ma
chine worth twice the money he paid
for it.
The small boy has come to be so art
ful a dissembler that writers on the
innocence of childhood are having a
hard time to fit him to their theory.
He may be innocent to bis ma, but
other people have learned to look upon
him with suspicion.
Watch the small boy when the fruit
and vegetable wagon stops to till an
order at his home. At once the small
boy becomes the friend of the horse.
He pulls up grass to feed him and the
fruit man is pleased. It would Ue-
lighc the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals to look on that
thoughtful and generous child. The
fruit man has to carry the order into
the house and the small boy watches
him sideways. The fruit man goes
around-the hack way.
In an instant the small boy drops
the bunch of grass and is up in the
wagon like a monkey. He thrusts his
band under the seat, where nobody
knew the fruit man’s choicest peaches
were, snatches one, thrusts it into his
pocket, bounces back to the sidewalk
and resumes the horse and the grass
scheme.
The man comes out, gets on his seat
and gratefully hands him a large,
mellow peach because he is such a good
boy. When the man drives off the
boy has two peaches where he would
have had but one, and he has also in
creased his reputation for kindness to
animals. Had he been given a little
more time he would have had more
peaches and the horse would have had
less grass.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
HE WAS A 1TBBACHEB.
Bat Had a Discriminating Knowledge
•f Different Drinks.
„ Aboola, Miss,
The Sunny South Pub. Co.,
_ _ Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Sirs Please allow me to acknowledge
receipt of Cne High Arm 4, 8UNNY Bouth” Sew
log Machine, which came in due time and in
perfect order. Also allow me to say in my
opinion it equals any of the standard kind. My
wife would not sell it for twice the amonne and
be without one of the same kind, bhe is more
than pleased with it, on account of its nice
stitching, and light running. It is almost
noiseless. It is certainly a saying of $25. to
any who are in need of a sewing machine. In
conclusion will say to all friends who are in
need of a real good sewing machine just for
ward to The Sunny south Pub. Co $20,for one
of their machines and one years subscription to
the good old ‘•Bunny bouth.”
Very truly yours,
Dan. k. Holmes.
He was a preacher, had gone to
America, came hack in his old days,
and married the widow of a publican.
Timothy still preached a bit, and oc
casionally figured at an eisteddfod.
The wife managed the public, and she
had suspicions that Timothy slipped
into the bar now and then—his nose
was getting redder. One day she
taxed him.
“Ah, Timothy, I have found you out.
Now I know why you rise in rbe
morning so early. You go into the
bar and drink. I watched you.”
“Watched me!” said Timothy,
aghast. “Oh, you wicked woman to
try and take away the character of &
minister.”
“But I am sure,” she exclaimed, “I
put a bottle of brandy in the corner,
and ’tis all gone.”
“You wioked woman,”he reiterated;
“you wicked woman.”
“I’ll swear it,” she continued.
“You will, will you,” he cried.
“What did you say it was?”
“A bottle of brandy,” she screamed.
“You lie, woman,” he roared; "‘it
was gin, it was.”—Western Mail.
At the beginning of the last war (in
1886) the population of Paraguay was
reckoned at 770,000; today it is less
than 250,000, and fully six-sevenths
of that number are women.