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THE BLAZED TRAIL
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ward women and a child. In the smoker
lounged a dozen men. They were of
various sizes and descriptions, but they
»1 ; wore heavy blanket mackinaw coats,
t üb' er shoes, and thick German socks,
tied at 'the knee. The air was so thick
with smoke that the men had difficulty in
distinguishing objects across the length
or the car.
The ipassengcrs sprawled in various
attitudes, and their occupations were
diverse. Three nearest the baggage room
di.or attempted to sing, but without much
success. A man in the corner breathed
softly through a mouth organ, to the
music of which his seat mate, leaning
his lead sideways, gave close attention.
' ' '-diow. with a square head,
back and forth down the
ng to everyone refreshment
irt bottle. It was rarely re
. ; the dozen, probably threc
.■s wcri' more or less drunk.
. ,cr a time the smoke became too
vh nse. A short thick-set fellow with an
evil dark face coolly thrust his heel
through a window. The conductor, who,
with 'the brakeman and baggage master,
was seated in the baggage van, heard
the jingle of glass. He arose.
"Guess 1’1! take up tickets.” he re
marked. "Perhaps it.will quiet the boys
down a little. ’
The conductor was a big man. raw
bom I and broad, with a. hawk face.
His ■•very motion showed lean, quick,
panther-like power.
' let In r went." replied the brakeman.
-ing as a matter of course, 'to follow
is chief.
The brakeman was stocky, short, and
mg armed. In the old fighting days
fii liigan railroads chose their traiji of
fii i lis with an eye to their superior
deltoids, ’fhe two men loomed on the
n. i.-v smoking compartment.
•Tickets. please!” clicked the conduc
tor. sharply.
Most of tin- men began to fumble about
liliir pockets, but the three singers
and the man who had been offering the
quart bottle did not stir.
"Ticket. Jack!” repealed the conductor,
* one on. now.”
The big bearded man leant uncertain,y
against the seat.
Now. ook ll'-re. Hud.” he urged in
wheedling tones. I ain't got m> tu-ki t.
You know how it is. Hud. I blows m)
slakes." He fished uncertainly in his
poi-k.'t and produ ed the. quart bon t
marly etnnty. "Have a drink.’
"No." --aid the conductor, sliarpl).
■ V right." replied Jack, amiably, "take
one myself.” He tipped the botth .
emptied it. and hurled it through a win
dow. 'fhe conductor paid no apparent at
tention to the breaking ot the glass.
"If you haven't any ticket, you 11 hare
to got off," said he.
The big man straightened up.
"You go to hell!” he snorted, and with
tin sole of his spik'd boot delivered a
mighty kick at the conductor's thigh.
The official, agib as a wild cat. leaped
back, then forward, and knocked the man
half the length of the ear. You see, lie
vas used to it Jack < ouid .• r
gain his feet the official stood over him.
1 Ire three men in the corner had also
b- ii. and wer. staggering down the aisle
intent on battle. The conductor took in
.j... ■ ham. s w'tlt professional rapidity.
■ ;••! a t 'em, J 'tinnysaid he.
And as the big man finally swayed to
i« feet, lie w.i seized by the collar anil
■ < .1 ■ known i o "bouncers"
,I. i,. ben. Im.- I to the door, which
-,..,..[_• :■ v opened, and hurled
om tie no '.Pg it iai into the snow.
Ihe conductor did not care a straw
whither th. obstreperous Jink lit on his
h. ad or his feel, bit a snow bank, or a
The eon ductor returned to find a roll
ing. kicking, gouging mass of kite tie..
.nergy knocking the varnisn off a l otic
, 0.1 of tile ear. A Ili ad appearing, lie
coolly batt-d it three times against a
oilier of the se ll arm. after which he
, r.llid tile ! out, 'l.'tnt out by tile hair
no threw him into a seat, where h* lay
mp. rie it could be seen that Jimmy
1 . q classed tight in his embrace a log
• It of tie other two. H hugged then,
■ to his breast, and jammed his face
,i. wu against them to protect his feat
ures. They could pound the top of his
head and welcome. The only thing he
really feared was a kick in the side,
, ; d for that there was hardly room.
Tin conductor stood over the heap, at
.. manifer I advantage.
Y al lumber-jacks bad ■ nough. or il"
you want to catch it plenty '.'”
The imn, drunk though they ware,
realized their helplessness. They signi
fied 'hey had had enough. Jimmy then -
upon released them and st-.»! up, brush
ing down his tousl 'd hair with his stubby
lingers.
"Now. is ii ticket or bounce?” inquired
th. conductor.
After some diffi. iilty and grumbling th.
two paid their far- and that, ot the third,
who was stili dazed.
Til, interest.d sp.-iitors of tb- little
drama .a 1 id. d t'.v.,> men near the water
them was perhaps past the best ■; life,
l it still straight and vigorous. His lean
fa ■. was leather-brown in contrast to a
long moust.u h( and heavy eyebrows
bir-a.hed marly white, ids <■s.-« were a.
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clear steady blue, and his frame was
slender but wiry. He wore the regulation
mackinaw blanket coat, a peaked cap
with an extraordinarily high crown, and
buckskin moccasins over long stockings.
The other was younger, not more than
2C perhaps, with the clean-cut, regular
features we have come to consider typi
cally American. Eyebrows that curved
far down along the temples, and eye
lashes of a. darkness in contrast to the
prevailing note of his complexion com
bined to lend him a rather brooding, soft
and melancholy air which a very cursory
second examination showed to be ficti
tious. 11 is eyes, like the woodman's,
were steady, but inquiring. His jaw was
square and settled, his mouth straight.
Unlike the other inmates of the car, he
wore an ordinary business suit, some
what worn, but of good cut, and a style
that showed even over the soft flannel
shirt. The trousers were. however,
bound inside the usual soeks and rubbers.
Tile two seat mates had occupied their
time each in his own fashion. The elder
stared straight before, him, and spat with
a certain periodicity into tlie center of
the aisle. The younger stretched back
lazily in an attitude of ease. Sometimes
he smoked a pipe. Thrice he read over a
letter. It was from his sister, and an
nounced her arrival at the little rural
village in which he had made arrange
ments for her to stay. "It is interesting
—now." she wrote, “though the resources
du not look .is though they would wear
well. 1 am learning under Mrs. Renwick
to sweep and dust, and bake and stew
and do a multitude of other things
which I always vaguely supposed camo
ready-made. 1 like it: but after I have
learned it all. I do not believe the practice
will appeal to me much. However, 1 can
stand it well enough for a. year or two
or three, for I am young: and then you
will have made your everlasting fortune,
of course.”
"She's a trump!” said Thorpe to him
self. "and she shall have her everlasting
fortune, if there's such a tiling in the
country.”
He jingled the three dollars and sixty
cents in his pocket, and smiled. That
was the extent of his evel.isting fortune
at present.
Tin letter hid been answered from
Detroit.
"I am glad you are settled." he wrote.
"At. least I know you have enought to
eat and a roof over you I hope sincerely
that you will do your best to fit yourself
to your now conditions. 1 know it is
hard, but witli my lack of experience and
my ignorance as to where to take hold,
it may be a good many sears before we
. in do any better.”
When Helen Thorpe read this, she
cried. Tilings had gone wrong that
morning, and an encouraging word would
have helped her. The somber tone of her
brother’s communication throw her into a
tit of the blues from which, for the first
time, she saw her surroundings in a de
pressing and distasteful light. And yet
he had w itt• n as he did witli the kind
est possible motive.
Thorpe had the misfortune to be one of
those individuals who. though careless of
what people ip general may think of
them. ar. in a corresponding degree sen
sitive to th.- opinion of the few they love.
This f.-eling was further exaggerated by
a constitutional shrinking from any out
ward manifestation of the emotions. Per
haps for this reason he was never en
-rc* with those he lived.
After the < gra< of his fat her. Ila rry *
Thorpe had d a.great deal ot thinking
and planning which he kept, carefully to
himself. Il- considered in turn the dif
fer- t oc upations to which he could turn
his band, and negatived them one by one.
F< w business firms would care to employ
the son of ns shrewd an embezzler as
Henry Thorpe. Finally be -ante to a de
cision. He communicated this decision to
bis sister. '.t would have commended ii
. . if more logically to her had she been
able to follow Step by step the consid
eration that had led her brother to it.
As the event turned, she w s forced to
accept it blindly. She know that her
brother intended going west, but as to
his hopes and plans she was in ignorance.
A little sympathy, a little mutual un
derstanding would have meant a great
deal to her, for a girl whoso mother she
but. dimly remembers, turns natur.-.lly to
her next of kin. Helen Thorpe had al
ways admired her brother, but had never
before, needed him. She had looked
upon him as strong, self-contained, a lit
tle moody.
At the beginning of th" row in the
-nicking ear. Thorpe laid aside his letter
.mil watched with keen appreciation the
dir..: practicality of the trainmen's
method. When the bearded man fell be
fore the conductor's biow, he turned to
t’ne individual at his -rd'.
"He knows how to hit. doesn't he!' he
observed. "That fellow was knocked
will off his feet."
"lb do.-s,” agreed the other. dryly.
Tiny fell into a desultory conversation
of tits and starts. Woodsmen of the gen
uine sort are never talkative, and Thorpe,
i- has been explained, was constitutional
ly roti "lit. In the course of their dis
jointed remarks Thorpe explained that he
w.i looking '■"■ woi-k in tlm Is. and
intended, first of all. to try the Morrison
& Daly i.arnp- at Beeson Dake.
"Know anything about logging?” in
quired tire stranger.
"Nothing.” Thorpe confessed.
"Ain't much show for anything but
lit m *j. t - j.i eks. \\ hat did you think of do
ing?"
“I don't know.” said Thorpe, doubt
fully. ' 1 have driven horses a good deal;
I th >ught. I might, drive a team.”
The woodsman turned slowly and look
ed Thorpe over with a. quizzical eye.
Then lie faced to the front again and
“Quite like." lie replied, still more
dryly.
The boy s remark had amused him. ami
he had showed it. as much as ho ever
showed anything. Excepting always the
rivermau. the driver of a team Com
mands the highest wages among Out-of
door workers.
It is easier to drive a fire engine than
a logging team.
But in spite of the naivete or the re
mark th- woodsman had seen something
in Thorpe he liked. Such men become
rather expert in the reading of character.
He revised his first intention to let the
conversation drop.
"I think M. & D. is rather full up just
now." he remarked. I'm walkin' boss
over there. The roads is about all made,
and roadmaking is what a greenhorn
tackles first. They’s more chance earlier
in the year. But if the Old Fellow” (lie
strongly accented the first word) "hain’t
nothin' for you, just ask for Tim Shearer,
an’ I'll try to put you on the trail for
some jobber's camp.”
The three who had come into collision
w ith Jimmy and Bud were getting noisier.
They had produced a stone jug. and had
collected remainder of the passengers—
with the exception of Shearer and Thorpe
—and now were passing the jug rapidly
from hand to hand. Soon they became
musical, striking up one of the wierd,
long-drawn out. chants so popular with
the shanty boy. Thorpe shrewdly guess
ed his companion to be a man of some
weight, ami did not. hesitate to ascribe
his immunity from annoyance to the
other's presence.
“It's a bad tiling." said the walking
boss. "L us-d to bi. at it myself and I
know ”
"Bces'n Dake!” '-ried Jintrnv fiet.ely
through an a'pcrtnre of the door.
“You'll find the boardin’ house just
across ovi r tlm track,” said the woods
man, holding out his hand, "so long. See
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you again if you don’t, find a job with the
old fellow. My name’s Shearer.”
“Mine is Thorpe,” replied the other.
“Thank you.”
Thorpe followed and found himself on
the frozen planform of a little dark rail
way station. Directly across the track
from the railway station, a single build
ing was pricked from the dark by a soli
tary lamp m a lower-story room. 1 lie
tour who had descended before Thorpe
made over toward this light, stumbling
and laughing uncertainly, so he knew it
was probably the boarding house, and pre
pared to follow them.
The five were met nt the steps by the
proprietor of the boarding house. this
man was short and stout, with a hat clip
ami cleft palate, w'hieh at once give him
tile well-known slurring speech of persons
so .ifflictfAl. ami imparted also to tile tim
ber of his voice a peculiarly hollow res
onant, trumpet-like note. He stumped
about energetically on a wood'n leg of
heme manufacture. It was a cumber
some instrument, heavy, with deep pine
socket for the stump, and a projecting
brace which passed tinder a leather b -.t
around the man’s waist. This instrument
he used with the dexterity of a third
hand. As Thorpe watched him. lie drove
in a projecting nail, kicked two "turkey.-
inside the open door, and stuck the armed
end of his peg-leg through the top and
bottom of the whisky jug that one of the
new arrivals had set down near the door.
The whisky promptly ran out. At this
the cripple flirted the impaled jug from
the wooden leg far out over the rail of
the varandah into the snow.
A growl went up.
At hat’ll hell’s that for?” snarled one of
'lie owners of the whisky, threateningly.
"Don't allow no whisky here," snuffled
the hairlip.
The men were very angry. They ad
vanced toward the cripple, who retreated
with astonishing agility to the lighted
room. There he beat the wooden leg be
hind hint, -lipped tlie end of the brace
from beneath the l ather belt, seized the
other peg end in bis right hand, and so
became possessed of a murderous blud
geon. This in brandished, hopping at tlie
sani" time back and forth in such per
fect poise and yet with so ludicrous an
effe t of popping corn, that the men were
■ in-pri-e.i into laughing.
"Bully for you. peg-leg!" they cried.
“Rules 'n regeriations, boys.” replied
tlie latter, wi'thout, however, a shade of
compromising in his tones. “Had sup
per?”
Chapter 111.
Thorpe was awakened a long time
before, daylight by the ringing of a
noisy bell. Ho dressed, shivering, and
tumbled down stairs to the round
stove, big is a boiler, into which the
< ripple dumped huge logs of wood from
time to time. After breakfast. Thorpe
returned to tills love am’ sat half dozing
tor wimt " nied to him untold ages
T;,e cold of tl>' northern country was
initiating him.
Men came in. smoked a brief pipe, and
went out. After a time he himself put
on his overcoa: and ventured out into
the town. !. -• iw d to Thorpe a mea
ger affair, built of lumber, mostly un
painted, with always the dark, men
acing fringe of the forest behind. The
great saw mH!, with its tall stacks and
its rows ot water barrels —protection
icainst. lire—on top, was the dominant
note. Neat tile mill coughed a little red
painted structure from whose stove pipe
a. column of white -moke arose, attest
ing tin- -old, a clear hundred feet straight
upwaid. and to whos< door a number of
men We-'J directing their step.- through
tlie .now. Over the door Thorpe could
distinguish the word “Office.” He fol
lowed and entered.
In a narrow aisle, railed off from the
main part of tlie room, waited Thorpe s
companion.-- of the night before. The re
mainder "f tlie ofliea gave accommoda
tion to tnree clerks. Ono of these
.. ,•. . ip inquiringly as Thorjie e.ame
in.
■ I am looking for work.” said Thorpe.
"Wait there.” briefly commanded the
eloi k.
In a few morm-iit..'- tin- door of the inner
loom opened, and Shearer came out. V
man's head peered from within.
“Come on, boys,” said lie.
The five applicants shuffled through.
Thorpe found himself in the. presence of
a man whom he felt to lie the natural
1< ader of these wild, independent spirits.
He was already n little past middle life,
and Ills form had lost the elastic vigor
of youth. But his eye was' keen, clear,
and wrinkled to a certain dry facc.tious
ness; and his figure was of that bulK
which gives an impression of a. subtler
weight ami power than the merely phy
sical. You felt his superiority even when
he was most comradely with you. This
man Thorpe was to meet tinder other
conditions, wherein the steel hand would
more plainly clink the metal.
He was now seated in a worn office
t hair before a littered desk. In tlie close
air hung the smell of stale cigars and
the clear fragrance of pine.
“What is it. Dennis?" lie asked the first
of the. men.
"I've been out.” replied the lumber
man. “Have you got anything for me,
Mr. Daly?”
The mill-owner laughed.
“I guess so. Report to Shearer. Did
you vote for the right matt, Denny?”
The lumberman grinned sheepishly. "I
don't know. sir. 1 didn’t get that far.”
“Better let it n!one. I suppose you
and Hill want, to come back, too?” he
added, turning to tlie next two in line.
"All right, report to Tim. Do you want
work?” be inquired of the last of the
quartet, a. big. bashful man with the
.shoulders of a Hercules.
"Yes, sir.” answered tin* latter uncom
fortable.
“What do you want?"
“I'm a cant-hook man, sir."
“Where have you worked?”
•q pad a Job with Morgan .<■ Stebbins,
on the Clear river, last winter.'
"All right, we need cant-hook men. Re
port at and if they don't want you
there, go to Tl.’ ”
Tlie man went out. Daly tinned to
Thorpe with the last flickers of amuse
ment In bls eyes.
“What catt J do for you?" ho in
quired.
“I ant looking for work." Thorpe re
plied.
“What kind of work?”
“Any kind, so long as J can learn
something about the lumber business.”
The older man studied him keenly for
a few moments.
"Have you had any other business ex
perience?"
“None.”
“What have you been doing?”
“Nothing.”
The lumberman's eyes hardened.
“We are a very busy firm here,” he
said, with a certain deliberation; "we do
not carry a. big force of men in any one
department, and each of those men has
to fill his place and slop some over the
sides. We do not pretend or attempt to
tench here. If you want to boa lum
berman, you must learn the lumber busi
ness more directly than through the win
dows of a. bookkeeper's office. Go into
the woods. Dearn a few first princi
ples. Find out the difference between Nor
way and white pine, anyway."
After his speech the business man
whirled back to bis desk.
“Have you anything for me to do in
the woods, then?” the other asked quiet
ly.
"No,” said Daly over his shoulder.
Thorpe went ojit. He hnd made the
elementary discovery that even in chop
ping wood, skilled labor counts. He did
not know where to turn next, and he
would nd£ have the money to go far in
any case. So. although Shearer’s brusque
greeting that morning had argued a lack
of cordiality, he resolved to remind the
riverman of Ills promised 'assistance.
That noon he carried out his resolve.
“Go up and tackle Radway,” said
Shearer. He’s jobbing for us on the
Cass Branch. He needs men for roadin’,
I know, because he's behind. You’ll get a
job there.”
“Where is it?” asked Thorpe.
“Ten miles from here. She’s blazed,
but you better wait for the supply team
Friday If you try to make her yourself,
you’ll gel lost on some of th' old loggin’
roads.”
Thorpe considered.
“I'm busted." Il" said at lasi frankly.
“Oil. that's all right,” replied the walk
ing-boss. “Marshall, come here."
The peg-legged boarding house keeper
stumped in.
"What is it?' ho trumpeted sniiffingly.
"This boy wants a job till Friday.
Then he's going up to Radway's with
the supply team. Now quit your hollering
for a chore-boy for a few days.
"All right," snorted Marshall, "take
Hutt ax and split some dry wood that
you'll find behind the house."
"I'm very much obliged to you.” began
Thorpe to tin? walking-boss, "and
"That's all right," interrupted the lat
ter; “some day you can give me a job."
This Story Will Be Continued
in The Sunny South of May 16,
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NEGRO FARMERS CONVENE.
Thousand Colored Farmers Gathered
To Hear Professor Wright.
Valdosta, Ga., April fl —(Special. I This
ex oiling Professor R R Wright, presi
dent of tlie Georgia State Industrial col
lege at Savannah, spoke to over one
Ihotisand colored people who gathered
from the surrounding counties rto attend
a farmers' conference. Among other
things lie said:
“One of the pleasantest things con
nected with your fa niers' conference in
this, one of the best of the wire grass
counties, is the fact that it is a child
of tlie mother wire grass conference held
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Repairs on Battleship lowa Will Be
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Engineers of tlie battleship lowa have
teen at work, unceasingly, for the past
?■! hours repairing the steam pipe wlii< h
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being made. The pipe was one con
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It is state,! by officers of the squadron
that the work of repairing will be com
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with the squadron tomorrow. The ships
wire all delayed 2-1 hours in their depat t
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Muscogee, Ind. T. April 24.—The larg
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THE COUNTRY’S DUTY:
LET THE SOUTH ALONE
New York American: When President
Roosevelt emerges from the Yellowstone
park he will find the door ot opportunity
open to him fur another pronunciamento
on the race question. Since he secluded
himself ill the wilds discussion of it has
been actively renewed. The occasion for
this renewal was the address of ex-l’res
ident Cleveland al the Booker Washing
ton meeting in this city last week, in
which he agreed unreservedly with the
stand first taken by The American months
ago. when Mr. Roosevelt, as a bidder for
colored delegates to the next national
republican convention, set the whole south
aflame.
It will not surprise the president to
learn that the southern press indorses
Mr Cleveland’s speech with the same
heartiness that it has indorsed the utter
ances of this journal on the same sub
ject.
But there is something else that will
give concern to Mr. Roosevelt, because
of its political significance. Not a. few
northern newspapers, classified as demo
cratic. which were for a time disposed
to support him in forcing negro officials
upon hostile communities, have taken the
back track. The.s were spi-'.'dily made
aware that The American, and not they,
spoke for the. democratic sentiment of
the nation, and that silenced them. Ihe
appearance of Mr. Cleveland on Ihe
Ai©<-rican's side has emiiuldeiied them to
fall into line.
And more: On entering the Yellow
stone the president already had had it
borne in upon him that many northern
republicans regretted his attempt to res
urrect sectionalism. When he comes out
it will be to face the fact that the num
ber of such republicans has greatly in
creased. The intelligence of his party
knows that he has made a mistake—and
so does he.
Among the scores of speeches which the
president has yet to deliver before bls
tour shall end it is not unreasonable to
expect that at least, one will be devoted
to the race problem at the south and his
relation to is. And this speech may well
prove to be novel «is well as impor
tant. Everybody knows in advance
what Mr. Roosevelt will say when his
theme is the tariff, or the trusts, or the
duties of citizenship, or the army and
navy, or Cuba, or the I’hilippines. But
this is not the case when he has the
race question for Ins topic. On that he
has changed ground repeatedly, or rathei,
at different times, he lias given different
reasons for doing the same thing.
In November last, for example, be de
clared that “it is, and should be. rny con
sistent policy, where the numbers wai
1-ant if. to recognize colored men ot good
repute and standing in making appoint
ments to office.”
That is, where negroes are few and tlie
*’r< ognltion" of them would produce
neither trouble nor delegates, they must
not look for office, whereas where their
numbers are large and trouble follows
if they are recognized, there they will
get office.
Thus spoke Mr. Roosevelt frar kl • as a
politician.
But in March last, in his letter to Mr.
Clark Howell, editor of The Atlanta
Constitution, lie said:
“I cannot treat mere ""lor as a bar
to holding ofliie, any more than 1 could
so treat creed or birthplace—always pt o
viding that in other rest the appli-
cant or incumbent is a worthy and well
behaved American citizen."
That was Mr. Roosevelt, the friend <•(
man, the opener of the door of hope and
opportunity, the voider of high ami no
ble opinions, who cares nothing about
“numbers'’ and “recognition.”
The American declined to accept Mr.
Roosevelt in his second ami finer aspects.
It saw in his actions not the doctrinaire
loyal to a principle regardless of conse
quences to himself or others, but the
politician maneuvering for a nomination,
who, in order to achieve his purpose,
set race against race in a section of our
common country which carries a great
load but. nevertheless is steadily bringing
its social life under safe and livable con
ditions. Therefore The American rebuked
Mr. Roosevelt, rebuked him strongly, re
linked him frequently. And in these re
bukes il was joined by all northern news
paipers which believe that it is more im
portant that the long-suffering south
should have peace than (hat any man
should be president.
Hence it was that Mr. Roosevelt in his
letter to Mr. Howell turned angrily upon
Tlie American and said:
“[ hive been surprised and somewhat
pained at what seems to me the Incom
prehensible outcry in the south about
my actions—an outcry apparently started
in New York for reasons wholly uncon
nected with the question noailnally at Is
sue.”
With those examples of his versatility
before us It may well be anticipated that
when the president again utters himself
on negro appointments he will supply
fresh reasons for his policy.
But no matter what President Roose
velt may sav or do. The American will
continue to demand justice for the south.
From the beginning we have understood
ami expressed the true democratic atti
tude on the negro question. Consequent
ly, while, it gives us profound pleasure it
causes u? no surprise to find democratic
newspapers and democratic public men
at the north who were among the halt
ng now ranging themselves on the right
side.
It is the civilized side, the American
side, the side of a partiotism that, knows
no sectional lines, but embraces the union.
In taking this’side there is no unkind
ness to the negro. T'he people of the
south understand him best and < -
W-st friends. Nowhere else is hea *■_ .
couragement given to Booker • ■
lugton, the ablest of colored mell ’ 111 a( ,
efforts to uplift his race ahmg t • ‘
of education, industry, sobrierj, s
trol and economy. Nowhere else is
negro afforded so many avenues ’
ployment, nowhere else are nis ie<
with the whites so kindly.
But the south, in whose
vividly the horrors of the reconstruct
saturnalia, is resolved shat never agam
shall it suffer under negro domination.
In that resolve it has Ihe sympathy and
support of the •democratic P art Y
north. Indeed, the south has with it an
men whose good sense is not niastere'
political partisanship.
What The American said on March 4,
when -Mr. Roosevelt attributed to its in
fluence the outcry against his cause, "c
here repeat:
“The American’s opposition to the I ,t ’ cs '
ident’s policy is based upon a knowledge ,
of the southern people ami the requite - ,
ments of their difficult situation. Wh > t
we have said on their behalf has been
inspired by a sincere desire to make
known to their brethren of the rest ot
the country the conditions which sur- ;
round and th- feelings that control the
whites of the region In which negro Horn- ;
inatlon looms as a real and terrible im"i- ,
ace. We have sought to convey to our
common country the fears of the people
of the south so that the people o, the ;
north may, through understanding, extend |
the honest sympathy and assurance which
t'he people of the south deserve .n their
efforts to solve a race problem that b-ars
upon them heavily, ami the seriousness ;
of which the civil'zed world appreciates.
“ -The outcry apparently started in New i
York for reasons wholly unconnected with •
the question nominally at issue’ is found- ■
c<i on i desire to eliminate this race prob
lem in the. south, where it presses tn i
daily life and enters into every home. '
from cheap partisan polities. The su- ■
preme requirement as to the race problem ,
is this:
“ 'DET TUT: ROUTH ADONE!’
ROADS ORDERED TO HALT.
Are Enjoined front Discriminating'
Against Small Shippers.
Chicago, April 24.—Judge Grosscup <o- |
day entered an order in the I lilted Stales •
circuit court, of appeals enjoining six
railroad companies from discrimnatmg
against s’mail shippers in the western ter
ritory. The decision is especially impor- ;
tant as being the first under the le w
Elkins law.
The government, a. cording io the de
cision, is entitled to the injunction
against the offending railroads, under Hi
interstate commerce act. as well as th *
Elkins iaw. The ruling applies to four
teen railroads, win h were covered by
proceedings instituted in the federal
court. Six of these companies wore fie- 1
fondants in the local court: tin- others
are under the jurisdiction of the Kan
sas City federal court. Judge Grosscup
announced that lie and Judge Phillips
were of one mind relative to all points
involved, ami that the latter would ren
der a like decision.
The decision, which was given orally,
holds that tlie government lias the right
to bring a< tion in eqnit) to restrain rail
road companies from discriminating,
cither by furnishing lower rates or giving
rebates to favored shippers. It further
declares that while -a. h injured citizen
lias :i right to such relief in his own
behalf, in cases like those under con
sideration, the injured persons are so
numerous and the injury to each is so
Infinitesimal that It is the duty of the
government to act for them under the |
power specifically conferred by th'* stat
utes. The Elkins law is hold to be sim
ply deelatory of Hie substantive rights
winch exist' d before and an injunction ,
would lie under the interstate commerce .
TRAINS IN FLOODED COUNTRY.
New* Orleans, April 20.- The ■ ing
river reading In re was h'.4. 'Die w alb■•!
■bureau’s prediction is for a continued i
slight decline from Vicksburg south. The
fall at that point was half a foot in the '
past twnty-foiir hours, and at Donald
sonville il was two-tenths. Tlie engine,a
had advic-s today from Hymelia of lair
progress in tHe work of cribbing witli
fewer men on duty than are. needed. '
Tile Texas and Pacific is now operating
passenger trains over the country sub- '
merged by tie- break. The first through
train over the Mississippi Valley sim-,-
the break at DaGrange was sent, out to-!
day. There will be. a complete resumption
soon of traffic on the road except on the ;
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