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SOUTHERN HISTORY.
(The Tampa Tribune.)
A book entitled “Half Honrs in
Southern History,” has been read with
very great interest by the Tribune’s
editor, and should be placed in ev
ery southern library, great or small.
This book is the work of John Leslie
Hall, Ph. D., professor of English and
of general history in the old college of
William and Mary, Virginia’s first
great institute of learning, the alma
mater of many of America’s most
distinguished statesmen.
Prof. Hall traces with skilled hand
the effect of southern men actuated
by the principles that first led this
country to declare for liberty and tear
off the British yoke, upon the history
of the United States. His reasoning
is clear, his language classical and
chaste. He discloses with unanswer
able logic the facts that demonstrated
that the south from the very beginning
of the government, throughout the
bitter struggle of the sixties, clung
with unflinching tenacity to the grand
ideas underlying the Declaration of
Independence and the Constitution of
1787.
We have not the space to give a
resume of this excellent contribution
to American history. It should be pur
chased and read by the present gener
ation and placed in the hands of the
children wh owill succeed us. And
in this connection the following ex
tract from the book, in the chapter
headed “The Homes That Made He
roes,” should appeal strongly to south
ern men and is a good index to the
value of the work.
The author is writing, as the chapter
heading shows, of the influences in
the early history of the south that in
stilled into the growing men and wo
men the principles to which we have
alluded. “This old southern civilza
tion,” says he, “has never been under
stood, but has been misrepresented,
maligned, and travestied. The stage
has caricatured it. Poets have prosti
tued their gifts to vilify it. The muse
of history has been degraded from her
high office and made the mouthpiece
of the traducer and the slanderer. Fic
tion has lent her artful and seductive
aid, and books, unfair and disingenu
ous, if not purposely maliciously, have
made the southern planter’s name a
byword and a hissing among the na
tions; while children in schools (note
this), where the Bible was lying on
the table as the standard of life and of
morals, have been taught, by precept
and by pictures, that a planter was a
man whose daily business was to mal
treat and lash the negro.” Professor
Hall instances, in support of this, “a
text-book long used in certain schools,”
and he claims that the lying state
ments of such books have “cut the
south off from the sympathy of all
mankind.”
Indeed, Professor Hall’s book, as a
whole, is a plea for the use of such
books in our schools as will tell the
plain truth about the south, untainted
by the malevolent influences that
would destroy among our children the
high respect and honor they should
feel for their illustrious progenitors.
WHICH IS A DEMOCRAT?
(The Portland Oregonian.)
The New York World should revise
its question “What is a Democrat?”
With the names of Bryan, Hearst, Par
ker, Cleveland, Watterson, Taggart,
Tillman, and Murphy before It, the
World might better ask “Which Is a
Democrat?”
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BRIGADIER GENERAL E. A. GARLINGTON, WHO RECOMMENDED
THE DISGRACING OF COLORED SOLDIERS.
General Garlington is the son of a Confederate soldier, General A.
C. Garlington, formerly a lawyer and journalist in Atlanta, and is the only
son of an ex-Confederate to attain the rank of general in the regular army
of the United States.
A DESPERATE DEMAND FOR COM
PETENT LABOR.
(New York American.)
Current disclosures of a peonage
system in the turpentine and lumber
camps in some of the southern states
show how urgent is the demand for
labor. There is nothing that can con
done the inhumanities revealed. Crim
inal prosecutions of the employers
have taken place. But it is also shown
that trains filled with laboring men
on the way to these places of law
less imprisonment were beset by
agents of reputable firms who tried to
persuade them to stop and go to
work.
Entirely aside fronv the moral prin
ciples involved, the use of bloodhounds
and mounted scouts to bring laborers
back to camp is a graphic picture of
present economic conditions.
It is to the honor of Alabama that
a flagrant case of peonage was exposed
by the editors of a Southern journal
and that the men guilty of the bar
barities inflicted upon labor were ad
vnturers from another part of the con
tinent.
Unfortunately, the abolition of this
new system of slave-driving does not
solve the labor problem. Throughout
the American continent there Is de
mand for competent workmen in many
fields. An interview was published in
Washington recently, stating that the
Commissioner of Agriculture of the
state of New York had discovered that
fifty thousand farm hands are needed
in this commonwealth at once. The
South and West are in even greater
need of labor.
This is one of the inevitable results
of expanding prosperity. It is, in fact,
a part of a world demand.
The Chilean government has just
voted 550,000 pesos to be expended in
securing immigrants for that republic.
Their passage is paid to Chile and em
ployment is found for them upon ar
rival. A home is being built for them
at Valparaiso in which they will be
temporarily housed. It is hoped to get
ten thousand immigrants during 1907,
if possible, and if the program is suc
cessful the appropriation for the same
purpose will be increased next year.—
New York American.
STANDARD OIL REBATES.
(The Philadelphia Ledger.)
It seems that the Standard Oil peo
ple took rebates without knowing it,
and it was mean to fool them so.
OUR SAFETY ASSURED.
(The New York American.)
The president has told an Ohio vis
itor that he wants Taft to succeed
him. The country had suspicions of
that sort before, but to have them
thus officially confirmed lends a sense
of security. It saves such a lot of
bother to the American people to have
their rulers thus chosen for them.
ANOTHER STIRRING YEAR OF SUC
CESS.
Mr. Hearst’s New York American
admits that another stirring year of
American success is assured. So
enormous and unprecedented is the
demand for iron that iron scraps of
all kinds and variety are eagerly seiz
ed on and shipped without delay to the
famine-stricken furnaces. The junk
man and the iron scrap man are hav
ing a profitable inning. The iron ore
beds have not been exhausted, but
this tremendous consumption, due to
an ever advancing prosperity, has
made it necessary to supplement the
products of the mines by the contri
butions of the scrap piles.
The predictions of stock manipula
tors that popular criticism of railways
would force the transportation corpo
ration to inaugurate a policy of re
trenchment is controverted by unpre
cedented orders for steel rails and
structural steel. The large independ
ent producers of iron have all sold
their output for the coming year.
Consumers, who have not yet had their
orders placed, are wondering where
they can get them filled.
The Tennessee Coal and Iron Com
pany has, it is said, refused to consider
new contracts. The Republic Iron
and Steel Company cannot, according
to Wall street advices, undertake ad
ditional orders in 1907. One company,
has made an advance of fifty cents a
ton on iron. There are American rep
resentatives of iron interests now in
Europe purchasing iron. But iron is
in brisk demand in the old world also.
The mammoth plant of the United
States Steel Corporation is breaking
all its records in the mass of material
it is now turning out. It is freely pre
dicted that even this powerful corpo
ration, with its firm and widespread
grip on supplies, will run short of raw
material. The orders going into steel
mills are from 20 to 30 per cent in
excess of those of last year.
A UNION OF ROGUES.
(The New York Evening Post.)
But there was a tell-tale rallying of
the worst men on both sides to thwart
Gov. Hughes’ honorable effort to make
the public service efficient and pure.
When Raines strikes hands with Gra
dy, when Allds embraces McCarren,
when the solid phalanx of Black Horse
Cavalry Republicans are found riding
cheek by jowl with the Tammany sen
ators, honest men know that they have
before them a union of rogues. It
was triumph of “Raines Democrats”
and "Grady Republicans.”
THE ROGUE’S LEAGUE.
(The New York World.)
A situation exists which is unparal
leled in the history of New York.
Three political machines are allied
with the public-service corporations
against the public. The Republicans
in the senate have allowed their or
ganization to pass into the hands of a
shameless minority. This minority is
in league with the Democratic organ
ization and is abetted by the Independ
ence League organization. There 13
no previous record of such a coalition
of political and corporation corruption,
THEY STAND WASHING.
(The Milwaukee Sentinel.)
Nevertheless, our alleged soap-plugg
ed, shoddy-built battleships have been
making some remarkably good heavy
weather, long-distance seagoing rec
ords.
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