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THE GOHSTITUTIOH
CLARK HOWELL Editor
ROBY ROBINSON ...Business Manager
Intercast the Atlanta PaatafHce ae Seeeai
Claes Mali Matter, Kev. 11, 1873.
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The Way To Get Together.
The Constitution is honestly grati
fied to find our valued contemporary.
The Macon Telegraph, showing gen
uine symptoms of democratic “get- ■
together" enthusiasm. It. is pointing |
its political theodc lite in the right di- ;
rection. but losing: some valuable time ‘
by insisting on back-sighting over 1
abandoned routes.
In congratulating our friend on its
evident desire to sue a reunited and
triumphant democracy we are com
pelled. for the truth’s sake, to contest,
some of its premises.
The question on which the democra
cy suffered division in 189)6 —a division
that could not be healed adequately
in 1900 —was the currency question,
to be sure. But to argue at this late
day that Grover Cleveland, "more
than any man living or dead.” stood
for “life to legitimate business and
protection to honest trade.” through
the medium oil’ the single gold stand
ard. is too far-fetched tn be considered
seriously. Os course, since things are
now as they are. it is a convenient
thing for ail Clevelandites to make
that claim, ignoring acts of Provi- :
dence, new gold supplies and all the ■
trust and financial agencies that pull- I
cd the Prosperity band wagon.
It should not be forgotten that it .
took some time after the Mr. Cleve
land performance with the Joab's •
blade on the democracy to produce ;
conditions in which any Clevelandite
could crack his heels together and
say: “I told you so!”
It should, especially, not be forgot- ,
ten that today even, with all our pros
perity, neither McKinley, nor Cleve
land. nor Hairna. nor anybody else
would dare claim that had the gold
supply of 1896 remained at a level
from then until now any prosperity
would have been visible or possible I
in this country.
The whole free silver issue arose '
out of a patent insufficiency of re- '
demption money. Professor Andrews,
whom The Telegraph says has confess
ed his errors of the years 1896 and
1900, has done no such thing. He has |
simply done what ninety-nine hun
dredths of the free silver men have
done —declared that the monetary con
ditions of 1896 are not those of 1903, I
and the remedy proposed as whole
some then is not necessary now.
With that simple truth writ larg»
on every progressive democratic ban
ner of today, the end of the bug-bear
called r 'Bryanism” is signalled from
every quarter of the republic. Why
discuss it any more?
It should be plain to our esteemed
friend. The Telegraph, that when it.
cogently says “no harmony can come ;
without removing the cause of the dis
cord." it cannot avoid pointing all true
democrats to Mr. Cleveland as certain
ly one of the remaining causes of dis
cord. The abandonment of Mr. Bryan
as the party leader would find no log
ical sequence in readopting Grover
Cleveland for that office. The times
require that both of them should abne
gate ail claims to any position iu the
party that would prolong discord.
The democracy is a great, living
mass es American citizens who have
a changeless creed of equal rights to
all special privileges to none, man
hood rights superior to tnc rights of
money, traffic and trusts, a govern
ment of th" people, by the people and
for the people. Such men will never
be anyth’ 5 other than democrats.
They cannot be bought with a price.
Thev will not a second time admit
anv Trojan horse within the walls of
their camp. They are determined to
fight, for the causes created by Jeffer
son and if they do not win the battle,
they will carry no shame out of the
conflict. -
A Northern Law of Attainder.
Really we shall soon have to offer a
seductive reward for a list of “the
rights of the negro in the north.” We
do not mean some particular negro
who has founded an Institution or won
a prize over a lot o*. Yale college
"You’d scarce expects, etc.,” but just
the plain, ebony, emancipated man
and brother of the William Loyd
Garrison sedltionists and the Roose
velt “Door of Hope” missionar’es.
We say this because we find in a
recent issue of The Boston Herald
that—
Frank Irving, the son of Sheridan W.
Ford by a slave marriage with the for
* r -, mother in Virginia, was shut oat
U’ taking any share of his father’s
Icfnte bv a decision of th? full bench of
Che sun’reme court rendered yesterday,
inr sought to recover one-third of the
J \ which would be his proportlon
chare With the legal children of the
SeCeased. The whole estate belongs to
the legal children by a subsequent mar
rifNow by what sort of Draconian prin
ciples' are the laws of Massachusetts
framed tbit they thus prevent the
elder son of a negro man. born of a
slave marriage recognize., by the lex
loci and state polity when it occurred,
from sharing in his fathe-’s estate
with the two heirs of a subsequent
marriage? Is it thus that Massachu-
L.tt=i nuts an additional bar sinister
ncross the life of the slave-born child?
In fact is there any common sense,
decency or equity in such a decision?
THE FIRST VOLUME OF WATSON'S NEW AMERICAN HISTORY.
The Constitution announces this morning on another page the initia
tion of an enterprise unique in character and historic in values. The
undertaking has been carefully studied and is entered upon at the lai„
est financial cost ever paid by a southern newspaper for any leature.
The patriotic purpose of the project, however, outweighs all incidents of
financial gain.
Beginning the first week in July the columns of The Constitution will
carry serially each week until comp eted the first, part of the new “His
tory of the United States." written by Hon. Thomas E. Watson, of Geor
gia—this part of our con Kty’s hisi’ory being written around “The Life
and Times of Thomas Jefferson." which will be the title of the first vol
ume, which v, ill deal with A niericau history up to the administration of
Andrew Jackson.
Mr. Watson’s lame as a vivid and accurate historian has become
fixed in public confitience. His great works on “The Story of France’
and “Napoleon" have no. only giv-m a new style to historic treatments,
but graced history itself with the verve and charm of living literature.
As a southern man, it. is but natural that Mr. Watson should come,
in the course of his prospecting, to realize the mass and the import
ance of the historic materials in the south that have been heretofore
rejected by the builders of American histories. As he says, so aptly and
bluntly, for instance, the south is being made to appear in the eyes of
millions of new Americans as “the yellow dog of the union always
wrong and oftentimes criminal!
M«r. Watson’s proposition is to write the history of the nation in the
order of events as they swept their tangential circles about dominant
characters of the eras. The first of these spirals of historic progress dis
covers Thomas Jefferson as the prophet and projector of the nation’s
raison d’etre. His name was one of the earliest that was sounded by the
herald incidents of a new march for the Promised Land ot mankind and
from the day of his entrance upon the stagj# ot action until on the
morning of July 4. 1826. when his spirit went forth from earth’s labors,
his presence and works were always tremendously significant in Hie na
tion’s creation, growth and character.
Indeed. American history had during his lifetime no more fixed cen
ter than the personality of Jefferson, and the things that became con
stant with him as Americanisms have remained credal with the truly
American elements of our population unto the present day. His lite
has become so intermixed with the fundamentals of righteous republi
canism as to give his name a place in American history greater than that
of Caesar Augustus in the annals of old Rome and of Napoleon in the
history of the France of a hundred years ago.
It is but just to the generation living and those to follow in America
that Thomas Jefferson should be made to live again in that materializa
tion which it is the art of the biographer to produce in an atmosphere
of historic truth. No man who has made American political history and
enunciated principles of immortal character is more persistently quoted
and more frequently misinterpreted than Thomas Jefferson. His name
has been used to conjure with by the purblind partisans of every party.
His words have been distorted as freely as the words of the Scriptures.
His personality has been applauded as the ideal of diverse isms and con
tending factions. An encyclopedia of his sayings has been compiled and
is the pool of wisdom in which all American faddists in politics and so
ciology go a-fishing for minnows or whales to put upon their menus and
barbecue boards.
It seems, then, a labor of prime necessity—of justice to Jefferson and
of instruction to the multitudes——that such a history of the great
tribune” should be written by a man so versatile, informed and impar
tially inspired a,s Mr. Watson. That, he will frankly tell us what manner
of man this Welsh-Virginian was, the trend of his education, the bents
of his mind, the aspirations of his spirit, the fixed intendments of his
endeavors, the whys and wherefores of his seeming inconsistencies of
speech, is certain, and from all these, with side-lights revealed and cross
currents defined. Americans of the present, and future will know Jefferson
in his true wholeness.
As Jefferson must continue as long as the republic to be the ever
recurring master-prophet of American political science, Mr. Watson
headlines him in all the chapters of his history. But as Jefferson was a
southern man and embodied in ’’imself the genius and spirit of his sec
tion. ho becomes thereby exponential of tho Americanism, heroism and
omnipresenceism, so to christen it, of the south in the formative and
fixing era of the great republic.
No one would believe that last general statement were his only
guides to knowledge on the subject the histories of the United States
that have heretofore been written. Mr Watson makes that, fact very clear
in the sample references he makes in his letter to some of those current
and most circulated miscalled histories. And for this great wrong of
partiality against the south's share in the determination of the life and
liberties of the United States much blame is chargeable to ourselves.
We have not cultivated our history-writing talent. For a hundred years
in the south the public hustings has usurped precedence of the his
toric scroll. The orator in the full swing and fervor of his appeals to
the principles, pride and passions of the massed populace has engrafted
truth indeed upon public opinion, but never in such calm, logical and
proof-buttressed form as to make the facts crystallize Into coherent
history. History must be recorded by the scribe of the midnight hour,
who through the telescope of years marks the steady planets and
maps the movements of all the stars in an epoch lost, to common human
vision.
Now It has come to pass that we of the south must "redeem the
times past” by doing with double zeal and provable justice the work
wo, ourselves, have so long ignored and that our partial friends in the north
who sometimes write history have so consistently forgotten. The. south
in the times preceding the revolution was six colonies in number, but
c -nstituted in the subsequent union the larger populations and influence
as states. The first movement for forcible secession from the rib, of
England occurred in the south. If the history of the revolution were as
well known to the people of the nation as it should be the Mecklen
burg Declaration of Independence, antedating that which was indited by
the pen of Jefferson in the little house of the carpenter in Philadelphia,
in July, 1776. would be nationally honored today as the forerunner of
American independence. In like manner tho heroic deeds of the men of
the southern colonies, from the valorous day at. Alamance creek to the
camps of Marion and the cabin of Nancy Hart, have been mentioned
only in brief paragraphs, or not mentioned at all. Yet like the almost
Inaudible clicks of the second hands of a watch each of These events
was as important as the shots at Lexington, the ride of Paul Revere,
the headlong ride of Putnam and the hanging of Andre in making the
clock of American history strike hours of hope until at seven the
chimes of liberty pealed over the continent.
Had those last, named events occurred in the south and the former
named ones in the north, near to the subsequent habitat of most of our
historians, the process of magnifying and minifying them on the records
would have been reversed. In that event the school children of New
England at this hour would be reciting with enthusiasm the heroic sto
ries that actually belong to King’s Mountain, the Cowpens, the deed of
Jasper at Fort Moultrie and the defiance of the British monarch and
ministry from the Tower of London by the staunch and knightly Henry
Laurens, of South Carolina, to mention not a hundred like names and
patriotic deeds —and if the Mecklenburg document had been a New
England product its fame would have outshone even that of the greater
declaration of 1776.
Mr. Watson thinks there should be Loth honesty and equity in his
tory and so should think all true Americans. He would have the peo
ple and the statesmen of the future know and glory in the part of the
south in American affairs equally with the parts taken contemporane
ously by the patriots o f the east or the subsequent and not less heroic
pioneers of the west.
Mr. Watson assumes a magnificent opportunity to write a full, im
partial and fact-proof history of the United States. It is not necessary
in so doing to elide anything properly standing to the credit of the
north. His task will be to set in proper place and proportions the
long-ignored facts of southern origin and action whose absence mars the
perfect beauty of the story of the republic.
The Constitution is proud of the opportunity it. lias chosen. That is
i to suggest this great work and to effect its publication in such shape
::s to compel its arrival and perusal in the homes of half a million of the
people of the nation, especially of the south. Such an enterprise in
publication has not before been attempted with a historic work and we
feel confident that this cooperation between a great historian and a great
newspaper will prove both a blessing to the national regard for true his
tory and a phenomenal feat of modern journalism.
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA* GA., MONDAY JUNE 1, 1903
How Northern Prejudice X orks.
Elsewhere in today’s Constitution
we reproduce The Philadelphia Pub
lic Ledger’s local report of a meeting
recently held in the Quaker City in the
interest of the Fort V alley (Ga.) High
and Industrial school, a r.egro institu
tion.
Charles Emory Smith, the well
known Philadelphia editor and ex
postmaster general, acted as chairman,
and such prominent friends of the ne
gro's advancement as Colonel A. K.
McClure, the veteran journalist, and
George Foster Peabody and Dr. Wal
lace Buttrich, of the general education
board, were the leading speakers, as
was Hon. C. 11. Gray and State Sena
tor H. A. Matthews, of Fort Valley,
Ga.
Untitnal interest attaches to this
meeting, which was especially enthus
iastic, and some of the statements
made by the distinguished speakers
were noteworthy.
Mr. Gray is doing a good work in the
upbuilding of the Fort Valley indus
trial school, and the impression made
by him upon this occasion in Philadel
phia was a decidedly favorable one.
Some of the statements made by Mr.
Gray, than whom no one knows the
negro or understands the educational
needs of the negro in Georgia better,
were calculated to disabuse the north
ern mind of some unfortunate misap
prehension concer mg the part, the
south herself is playing in the moral
and intellectual uplifting of the Afri
can race on soul horn soil. The south
ern states, almost without exception,
are contributing to the limit of their
financial ability to the instruction of
the negro child in the public school,
for the reason, as the Fort Valley
gentleman said, that we “cannot afford
to have them raised up in ignorance”
He did well to make it. known that the
general assembly of Georgia appropri
ated *’s?, for tuition to every $1 income
from the taxes paid by the colored peo
ple” of the state.
But the keynote of the whole propa
ganda of negro upliftment was sounded
by Colonel A. K. McClure when, as re
ported by Tho Philadelphia Inquirer,
he declared that:
The only' solution of the great problem
lies in the united efforts of the north and
south to give th colored man a fair
chance in the industrial world. No mat
ter how much w-' hoar about the progress
of the negro, thiT'' are no opportunities
for the colored man in this city, save in
the most menial o p upations. The northern
mechanic will not permit the negro to
work by his side. We must not only edu
cate the blacks, but we also must, educate
the whites. There Is just as much re
sponsibility in the north for the colored
man’s position as there is in the south.
It is, seriously, an open question
whether the northern prejudice which
refuses the negro the opportunity to
make a livelihood with his willing
hands north of Mason and Dixon’s
obliterated line, “save,” as Colonel
McClure has said, in the most menial
occupations," has not had more to do
with giving the south a “race problem”
than any possible culpability the south
may have in the premises. The nor
mal distribution of ten or twelve mil
lion colored people throughout so
vast a country as ours, with its eighty
millions of population, would not pre
sent a formal ethnological or social
problem, and there is small reason to
doubt that, were it not for the very
obstacle Colonel McClure mentions,
such a distribution would orc this have
been made, or now be far in the pro
gress of being made. Since the north
ern artisan and common laborer will
not work beside the negro, nor permit,
him to work in his section at. till, it
follows that tho negro must remain in
the south, where his righ: to (oil is not
challenged by’ mob violence or adverse
sentiment. In some localities south,
therefore, the negro population is con
jested, and large masses of them ex
ist. in comparative idleness, with the
inevitable attending vieiotisness and
criminality. It is this abnormal condi
tion which has foisted the menace of
negro ignorance upon the southern
states. It is idle for our northern
friends to argue that the negro hud
dles in abject poverty in the south
from lack of ambition to better his
condition elsewhere and because the
south is his natural habitat. The
climatic pretext, has little force in
fact, for tens of thous.iuls of negroes
have endeavored to settle in the north
from choice, and hundreds of thou
sands of others would be there today
if protected in their right to labor.
When, a suggested by Colonel Mc-
Clure, tho whites of the north are edu
cated up to the point of industrial
toleration for the negro, we will wit
ness a more rational distribution of
the colored race among our northern
friends, and no undue crowding of
sections of the south by the same
race. Once the prejudice complained
of is dispelled, we shall hear infinitely
less about the negro ns a “problem.”
The tonic of hope is in the brave
words spoken at. the meeting tn ques
tion by Mr. Peabody' and Dr. Buttrich.
These words of the utter gentleman
are well worth reproducing here:
There are hundreds and thousands of
white people in the south who are eager,
for practical as well as sentimental rea
sons, to see the educational advancement
of the colored race. Th-re need be no
fear of the attitude of the southern
white.' toward the negroes. All talk to
tlie contrary’ is for political ends and the
conscience of the south rings true in this
matter.
A sound, honest talk, too, was made
by J. H. Torbert, the principal of the
Fort Valley school. He understands
the value of an industrial training to
his race. As he declared, “we have
got to lift up these people or, they
will drag the white man down:” And
the southern white man is doing his
full part along this line.”
Halford on the Filipinos.
Many persons in Atlanta have pleas
ant recollections of Major E. W. Hal
ford, who was private secretary -to
President Harrison and is now a pay
master in the army. He has just re
turned from a long billet of duty in the
Philippine islands and is not loth to
express views of the Filipinos that
will encourage the anti-imperialists in
part and give a black eye to some of
tho pet propositions of the militarists.
Major Halford says the Filipinos
are a tractable, teachable and improv
able race. They are already learning
what it is “to hustle” and the more
they fir.fi out that their enterprise and
industry’ is to inure to their own profit,
as individuals and as a people, they
will enter eagerly into the ranks of
civilized competition. And as they’ ob
tain confidence in the justice of our
courts they make less necessary the
presence of our troops for regulative
and repressive purposes.
Indeed, Major Halford is very hope
ful of the future of the Filipinos as
citizens
Ideeklg Constitution's “gig «7/iree”
Stanton.
The Song of the Unsatisfied.
We growlecj about the weather when
the sleet was comin’ down,
And the snow was like a nightcap on the
houses o' the town;
And wailing went from Wearyvllle, from
Billville and from Brown:—
Good Lord, forgive us!
Though we had the roaring fires, an’ the
dancin’, high an’ low:
Though we carved the juicy ’possum
tracked the rabbits through the
snow.
We were certain we were living in a
wilderness of woe:—
Good Lord, forgive us!
Then the Spring came—smiling sweetly
in each winter-blasted place,
And spread the sky’s blue carpet—tossed
the roses in Love’s face;
And still we said this world of ours was
not a friend to grace:—
Good Lord, forgive us!
And now, a flash of Summer on the val
ley and the hill, —
Green meadows, and the wild bird with
the berry in its bill;
And tho world’s a foolish failure, and
we’re growlin’ at it still:—
Good Lord, forgive usi!
O, tho lessons wo are slighting in a dew
drop's friendly fall!
In the waving of a gri-s bind* -in a rosy
robin's call!
In a world that sings “God b!< ss you!”
we’ro the most, unblest of all:
Good Lord, forgive us!
>»***♦
The Song of a Dreamer.
I drowsin’ by de river in de shadders en
de beams;
lie singin’ me tor sloop, op <!■ n he tollin’
all my dreams:
’Pears lak 1 hear him say:
It's do sleepy limo er day.
But de seed won’t come ter harvest • f
you sleeps de time away!"
I see de sunshine failin' on do fr rn ly
De dutsv --’nblades wavin' ter do rattle
En sun on rain, dey say:
•‘lt’s de sleep time er day.
But you’ll moan, w'en come de winter, e,
you dream away de May!’’
En de buds up dar a-slngin’ in de blos
soms wil’ en free,
’Pears Ink dey sen' dis message thoo' do
green loaves down ter me:
"Sun, en rain, en win’, en stream
Does dey task In shake en beam:
It's de sow. r makes de reaper wh st de
dreamer dream do dream!
But I drowsin’ on 1 dreamin’ whar de
river sings en shines,
En de bees Is git tin’ tangled In de honey
suckle vines;
Ylt. ferevermo’ de say:
"It’s de sleep time er day.
But you'll weep w'en come do Winter, et
you dream away’ de May.”
Brother Williams on Automobiles
"Well, sub." said Brother Williams, "dis
yer outomobyou business Is glttin’ to:
be de ruination er de country! I neve,-
de like senco d° day I on bo’n.
Folks data few y ■■ars be k ctiz. ■'. d
tor go ter town in a ox cart. en w >uld:; t
so much oz lock at ar: Wo.id trnn, b
now runnin’ races tci - wlm’H strik.; d.
Hereafter fust in a autf-mol-you! Hit’s
come, tor de pass dat w'en a man trills out
wid his mother in law ho makes her a
present er one or dem. en do nex tiling
she know, she dunno nuthin’! En wen
his po’ relations come tor spend de sum
mer wid him. all he got ter -lo is -give ’em
one ride, on dey don’t come back no mo
for Chrisrn'.is! Hit's my opinion dot i!
automobyou Is doin’ mo’ ter thin out de
human race dan all <le rim.un.i 1i: m or
doctors in de country."
We’ll All Pull Through.
Tho do’ll Is In the weather—
The violet's lookin' blue.
But tho birds sing all together,
And we'll
All
Pull
Through!
And what Is Care?—A feather!
The daisy’s In the dew-.
We walk the green together.
And we'll
All
Pull
Through!
Thon here's a health, my hearty
And let not healths be tew,
For joy Is of the party,
And we’ll
All
Pull
Through!
• * ♦ * ♦
No Fear of Competition.
"To he ix.net," said the strang- i. who
was tolling the snake story, "tho snake
w . i s—’ ’
"Don’t Interrupt him," said a tai’, mat
in tho audience, as some one groaned
"They's bigger liars than him in titi;-
comnaunity. The town s here on it.
reputation!"
A Summer Invocation.
The lily wears a dusty vest—
The violet’s drooping under:
Blow, O, wind, from out the west—
But do not blow like thunder!
Last time we asked you
To the town
You blew a dozen
Steeples down!
And come —O, cooling drops of rain.
With sweet rejuvenation
To this thirsty field and famished j.iain-
P.ut do not flood creation!
Last time we asked you
To the place,
To the high hills
You made us race!
Blow, breezes, from Arcadian vales
Where Love's a rosy winner!
Waft echoes of sweet nightingales.
And horns that blow for dinner!
But gently blow’
O'er violet-ways:
(The house rent’s paid
For thirty days!)
The Penitents.
Tz>r<l. we've been n-pr.ayin’ for dry,
When You wanted rain to fall.
An’ we’ve ’bcut decided, low an’ high
We don’t ’know nuthin’ at all!
On this terrestrial ball.
From airly spring to fall.
We’ve jest about decided
We don"t know nuthin’ at all!
An’ we’ve been to the river, fishin'.
An' a-tellin’ of stories tall.
But the fisfih we caught wuz tho fish w*
bought.
An’ we’re Ananiases all!
On this terrestrial ball
We're a-feelin' mighty small!
We’ve jest about decided
We’re Ananiases all!
So we wish that You’d please look ove:
O'ir faults—an' bresh ’em away,
Fer we ain’t one-half as wicked
As the heads of our households say!
But on this terrestrial ball
We're a-feelin’ mighty small!
An’ we’ve jest about decided
Were human critters all!
—————
/{■TAM Jesus Christ, the carpenter’s
I son. My mission is to save sln-
1 nc n. 1 fought in the civil war
from Dalton to Jonesboro. Twice I have
b(er . pr-rident of these United Staws
since the surrender and have attended all
the reunions up to date, but now
have got mo peniic*i up here as <
nessee lunatic and won’t let me g
New Orleans. I can’t get a passport
because I am Jesus Christ. Can t you do
something for me? 1 want to go
v.ice with these who rejoice and weep
with those who weep."
T at poor fellow has my
Maybe if they had let him go w.th
v* terans It would have restored his rea
son. I know it brightened up oui boys
and now they can’t talk about anj thing
eFe Was there ever such glow.ng, gr
iugpatntoism? looks like the number
increases at every reunion and that .itl
out pensions. 'I he Grand Ainij o
Republic has reunions, but it is ma *>
to keep up the pension grab, the th g
that Tom Benton called the bottom
gulf of charities and gratuities.
| | ,aw it stated the other day that -J
Ip. r --ent of the federal army wme f >r-
Iciß-ieis or foreign-barn and v.cre ngn -
| > n |y for bounty or booty or buncomo,
I a,ol they got it all and the pensions
I inrown in. Oh, tint was a grand gailiei-
I ■■■■• !t .X w Orleans. It to me
| that if f was a northern man I w’OUid
1.,-.; ■■LOOK here, boys, we can t do
| anything with those lebels down sm.n,
land I move we quit trying. Wove been
working on 'em tor nearly forty y ,irs
and ha ve never converted one ’' '
tbev marched through New Orleans 1 ,-
( i.j‘strong v >u could hear that same old
,fr >m St. Charles to Vi< k burg
Cid I’ath’er Mountctistle told me it but>l
every telegraph wire south ot Mason
an.l Dixon's line and away up in I’etm-
Ivniia the Western Union had to cut
down their poles for a hundred m.b s.
I But I'm ilt.Mr ■>-.-•< 1 about Mississippi.
| Who is Governor Longino, anyhow' H>a
■ name is not in any biography (hat 1 * ■--
i gdi. 1 r t’kon it wasent worth i*».
I 1 r. ekon he is a foreigner or h- wouldei’t
I.invited Roosevelt, th- slanderer,
I down to Jackson to help lay the corner
stone of the capital. Roosevelt sa.J that
: .1 ft Davis was the arch repudiator and
villi.-, governor w'toe.l the bill that mt*l<!
: rrovision to pay the repudiat* *! J- nt. ano
i he his never retracted nor apologized
for that lie. I wonder if Longino knows
I that Gpy rnor McNut was the author
!of repudiation and gave as h ls reason
I t:'..t lh" money was borre wed from L.ir
. ~;i Rothschild, in whose veins flowed th:
' 1.'.00d of Judas and Shylock, and who.-e
I mortgages would confiscate our cotton
11 Li;; and make serfs of our children.
'Dial's what he sat*! in bls message, but
th., legislature wouldent vote for it, and
it took live years to get the bill through.
■i Mr. Davis wa fight! J for
hi . country in Mexico and got desper
ately wounded at Buena Vista and bad
: to tise crutches for six years. He never
' was in the legislature nor was he ever
or, end yet Roosevelt, the slan-
I p.-rcr lets the He stand and Longino
I ii.vltt’s him down to lay the corner stone,
o't my country! When will alt this
m and hypocrisy cease? Oh, Mis-
. ipj-.i! How are the mighty fallen!
Now these utterances are my own
'neiiler the editor nor any paper is re
i "■.OUS,OI, for them. My feelings and cmo
! t all my own. I honor the mem-
! of Mr.'Davis and have profound re
i 1 for his widow, and there is no limit
i to m- contempt for the brute who put
' manacles on him or the conceited hts
i torial who slandered him. It Is a com-
■ >rt to them both..
\ n(1l .three ( hcers for Indiana, the
, , , mu ion stat* for lynching negroes when
ln . ... commit outrages on their women.
Not a week passes but there is a fresh
< ise and th*' people turn out and scour
fie <■■ vntrv for the. brute. And now
thev are driving all the negroes out of a
county where an outrage was committed.
Yoii see tney have no chain gangs up
til re and but few negroes. Lynching has
almost stopped in Georgia became pun-
I hment Is more speedy and there Is a
chain gang in sight in almost every coun
'tv b’-it D'-t. suro-enoug'h case come up
,i . ■ . h ng will swiftly
follow. There are more than 7,000 men
In our st." to who have not bowed the knee
to Baal and the Rev. Newell Dwight Hil
lis ■-■nouldn’t sleep in a bed in my house
i unless be was sick unto death.
i But enough of all this. It sounds like I
am ni' tl with somebody, but I am not.
Wo are all happy at my house tonight,
I for ottr far- iway boy is on his way home.
■ Wo have just had a telegram from him
I and he will be here t.might. He lives
i in Mexico City and it has been three long
I years since wo have scon him. This is
i Carl, the youngest boy—the pet of his
, mother—the one she loves the best and
I prays the longest for every night. He
' wil! stay with us a few days and then
go away again and perhaps never see us
al;.- more. My wife has been saving the
spring chickens for him and the flowers
are not to be cut till lie comes, and the
strawberries are still bearing and the
cake is in the ove i. Nothing is too
pr ions for Carl and he ami’Jessee will
sing til- ir old songs and rehearse their
happy ilays when we lived in the country
on the farm.
Oh. the happy, happy days on the farm,
before our boys all left us and our girls
got married!
But we are happy still and love every
body, except some—
_ BILL ARP.
COUGER TO MOVE QUARTERS.
Rural Delivery Superintendent To Be
Ordered to Atlanta.
Superintendent Conger, of the rural
free delivery service of the postofllce de
partment for the southern division, with
headquarters at Nashville, Tenn., will
I be ordered shortly to move his head
| quarters to Atlanta.
He will bring with him quite an exten
i slve office force, Including clerks and In
j specters of rural delivery routes.
I Superintendent Conger hag charge ot
i the rural free delivery service throughout
; the southern states. He directs the In
stitution and the inspection of routes, and
has several thousand carriers under his
supervision. There are 455 of these car
riers in Georgia alone.
Tho dispatch from Washington which
brings this information to The Consti
tution states also there is to be a gen
eral -hike up in tile rural free delivery
| division in account of the recent scan
dals. The dispatch is as follows:
Washington, May ?9.—(Special.)—Orders
will bo issued shortly to Superintendent
- onger, of the rural free delivery service
for tho southern division, with headquar
ters now at Nashville, Tenn., to transfer
li is >tlicc to Atlanta. The southern di
vision embraces a great number of
I states."
Classing It.
Judge: "Sir." began the writer, pre
senting himself at the desk of tho illus
trious editor. "I have here a joke about
an automobile breaking down and having
to be pulled to the repair stable by
horses.”
"That." commented the illustrations edi
tor. shaking his head, decisively, "j s a
horseless chestnut.”
THE season has been so late till we
had concluded that we. would have
no visits from our young friends of
the city this year, but with the coming
of warm weather cam? the.se youngsters,
and for a week we have had tlmes-good
times and joyful.
Brown keeps a wagon for no other pur
pose than to ride these young folks out
to where they may desire to go tyhen
they come, and he keeps wheat straw
nice and clean to put in the body for
them to sit upon. They like to sit down
flat In the old wagon body and holler
and scramble as we go along. The bo 5 «
will *ump out and break honeysuckles and
gather wild flower till before we have
traveled 3 miles there are a. plenty of
these and then they are known a* a
picnicking crowd and are gazed at by peo
ple from the fields, and all teamsters
give them the right of way upon the
' I -st week so many came that we had
to'get an extra wagon, and 1 drove.
My t*am was not w. I matched-one horse
was as big as a young elephant and the
other was a tiny Texas pony. Th., pony
was litt'e but h" was mean, so m an ti. it
: . been as large as the t
I
invo’J ‘th ■ ■' ” 1 11 " '
week old* r. At th ■ ' ■ ■
be began to fall back uea: ..I th- m o
straps ■ ■ th* n surge forward,
ing his bit and shaking 1.- -i 1
big horse pulled him along wh n h- st .
ped aud held him do«u wh m he vvu . ■.
have rushed wildlj forward, but al ho
firs* branch we struck a sand bed a d
by tins time the young folks had Imw
.rs and were lu-.-y aim the pony scene d
to resolve that m wo Id Ml ■.v them a
thin« or two. irntiad vs .;* k
and lushing luima.d, m . " ■
and IO one smm ; -l ;
among'th? > tn ' hi « " z
was nothing to uo but to unl.it* h and get
1 !i i 812.t-1 cl •o 1 It • i
ino.in was m Hom, but lie stopped an.
came i>a'-K * my rem :. '1 his o.i fa
in tile old man, but luture events
demonst:at.-d tmtt
..
Brown ■ ■
than the youngst'-r.- in hi- wagon o g.-n
to wmup amt the boy with wnom Im
had left his lines .racked Im- wn : nd
away they went, whooping ami -if .in.
ing and waving hai.-, apron:-, n-.-.v ..
and bushes. old friend darted m£
overtake his team, but never an over
take did !*■’• young folks were in
their glory. They would allow Brown
to get up to within 15 or 30 yards ul tl.-m
and then they would crack then v. h:p
and sail away out of his reach, with
whooping and laughing as was nv i
heard b. fore. It was funny to the yom li
sters, but it was not funny to Brown. Ji ■
would run a While ami walk, a w r.. .
and tli. ii in.' would beg a. while and
a while. Sweat was pouring from h. ■
,-ia- -ic brow ami hi.: tougue was liaJigmg
outside, but never a relent came Born
the youngsters, who had tun in seeing
him trot and walk ami cuss and beg an
the way to Snapimger creek, a distan o
of 10 miles.
In the nu .’.ntime I was wrestling with
the Texas. After he learned to get O’, er
the tongue he kept on getting there. 1
verily believe that we would have beer,
in that same bed till yet if we had
waited for Texas to pull us out. But w-:
didn't wait. A happy thought struck the
young people and they decided to pull
tin- wagon themvi s. This they did,
and had lots of fun while doing It. I
took out both horses and the young foil;.-!
pulled and pushed till we were clear of
the sand and up the little hill on the
other side. It was fun for the young
sters at first, but they bid to pull up
every hill clear to Snapfinger and It
ceased to be funny. The Texas was in
his glory and s* med to* enjoy maki: ;
my crowd pull the wagon as well as
Brown s crowd enjoyed making him trot
a’ 1 fume behind them all the way.
Me were already in sight of our cam;
ing place ami the creek when wo went to
cross a small branch and the pony stop-
Kbout the tim.
did Stop, though, there came along Davy
Thompson and Billy Willson.
Thompson is entirely too good to fool
with Texas ponies, 1 soon learned that,
but Billy Wilson was equal to the o i
sion, I soon learned that, and Mr. Texas
Pony soon saw that he had his match.
Without getting into the wagon Billy got
alongside of Tc-ilTs ami when Texas r
fused to go Billy came down on him with
a pole that it took both hands to hand;-’.
It surprised Texas, but he knew his bus
iness and reared and fell flat in the
branch. Billy knew his businet -,
and no sooner than the pony was down
than Billy was on his head and held it
under tile water ’J’- yas squirmed and
snorted and strangled till I thought lie
was about drowned, but he wasn't, an 1
when Billy let him up he wag cut' .
From that time to the present Texa-e
has been as docile and as faithful as
one could wish. We had no more trou
ble from that source.
Os course, there were five or s!x
people along to temper the youngsters
and keep them straight, but they came
later and in carriages of their own. The
old folks brought along the bathing suits
and it was a sight to me and Brown ar 1
a good many country folks to see th»
young people In these suits—especially
after they had went in and got them wet.
While Brown fished they put it on me
to hustle up milk and other delicacies -
good water ground meal, for Instance.
I am a pretty good forager and had no
trouble in getting milk, butter and chick
ens. I here is nothing In this, but upon
one of my expeditions for these tilings
I ran up on a house away back and
there was something in what I learned
from the old people there. They sold
me whatever they had gladly, and It was
all that they might get money to keep a
son at a business college In Atlanta and
a daughter at school in Decatur. How
anxious these old people are to give th* t
children chances that they never hid
themselves, j learned from others In the
settlement how this old couple stinted and
labored to meet tfle demands of their
children. 1 hero are thousands of moth
cis, if not so many fathers, who are
struggling just as this old couple are
struggling to give their children oppor
tunity. ] know a good widow lady who
has approached distress without murmur
ing tp keep her boy at school. These
sacrifices arc almost pathetic, some of
them, and yet. 1 fear me. that their
own children fail to appreciate the dev •-
flop as they should ami J know that the
world at large does not give such s-'icrl
flees the homage that they deserve. How
sublime, does it seem to mo. the manner
that some of our good mothers sacrifice
and slave to keep their sons and daugh
ters off at school, but of such it is not
proper to write j>a connection with such
a happy "outing" as we have just en
joyed. I am in ,q good humor with every
thing. save a. Te>;ag pony, and I think
that Billy Wilsoat got the best of him.
SARGE PLUNKETT.
