Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-06-15
WASHINGTON LETTER.
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pei OF peace, and the day Is not distant
when Coplah will build a monument
In honor OF Cleveland, and In setting
II up announce the doom of whisky
shops and Colts repeaters. In truth,
at this very hour, nine
tenths OF the people of Mississippi
and majority OF the Copiahans AZ.
prove the conduct OF the president.
The best and wisest OF the multitude
are least demonstrative. One bar.
room, corner-grocery, blatant hip
pocketed politician makes more noise
and is counted ofteper by census-takers
OF the press and does his town and
county greater detriment in q day
than hundred honest, industrious,
conservative, church-going farmers
can repair In year, and when the
truth is known 1t will be con essed
the worlds opinion has grievously
wronged the town and county of Mis-.
sissippi made famous by one or two
bloody deeds.
REMPER COUNTY AND AGAY WIDOW.
Everybody knows how bloody
vendetta terminated in Kemper
county. One Chisholm, a vulgar,
noisy fellow and leader of blacks, was
killed by the partisans of Gully,
deemed an honest and good citizen.
When the drunken mob that slew
Chisholm fired on him they ignorantly
slew his daughter, who sacrificed her
life to save that of her father. How
ever innocent In intention were the
"whisky.headedn sssassins of the
child, she will be honored and her
slayers execrated forever. The county
itself was held in horror the world
ovef-Van Dieman's Land, still
British penal colony, was more de-
sirable as q refuge for honest decency
than Kemper county. How utterly
unjust this may beto the great body Of
the people of Kemper county nobody
knows better than T. But
the painful facts subsist as
here defined, and poverty and decay
and retrogression once marked the
fortunes of the people OF Kemper.
Chisholms' widow, simply because
that child fell, is virtually pensioned
by the government, and popular sym.
pathy has built and given her a COM
Portable home in the country's capital.
She is In office, and the worlds opin-
ion would hardly suffer Democratic
cabinet officer to thrust her out. She
airs herself and the story OF Kemper's
crimes every few months, and the
world approves and smiles on the
commonplace woman.
CoPIAH AND KEMPER,
and every other Western or Southern
p-pocketed-corner grocery governed
community, should at once revolt
against the few who give them false
character abroad, and at the same
time destroy property values. If the
contamination of thorough reform be
otherwise impossible. let them apply
to Gov. Hubbard for half dozen Japs
that a higher and godlier civilization
and worthier code Of opinion may
obtain. Such, substantially, are
commentaries and such Is the course
OF opinion and such the substance OF
commentaries made in this latitude,
Justly or uDjustly, upon the conduct
and relations OF MIR. Barksdale and
the president, and such are common
place newspaper and popular opinions
affecting places like Kemper and
Copiah. neither condemn, on this
occasion, nor approve this state Of
public sentiment, but submit IL for the
consideration OF your readers.
THE ONLY REMEDY.
The Prison Reform Society OF the
United States Is in session here Many
good men and women confess keen in
terest In subjects discussed by this
potent association, 1t undertakes
most difficult tasks. How to make
prison life reformatory Is great prob
lem OF the age. All punishment for
crime simply augments the volume OF
crime, and have been led to believe,
with Andrew Johnson, that emascula-
ton Is the only proper aud effective
substitute for the vicious and accursed
penitentiary system. Instead OF pre-
serving, put period to the race of
kuaves. Eunuchs themselves are use
full but harmless creatures, and those
countries produced In olden times the
| greatest men and best systems OF
| life and society, in which the
Vicious, depraved and idiotic were
made incapable of reproducing them.
selves. Phoebe Couzins Is an active,
Jealous member OF this reform society,
and boastful IL she that her eek has nc
representatives In the moral pest.
houses known as penitentiaries. But
the bare statement of my proposition
which l have been advocating twenty
years, Is enough. IL needs no discus
sion. Let the law adequately punish
knaves and by punishment prevent
the procreation of knaves, and thu
courts will then cooperate with, in
stead OF fighting, the churches and tn,
world would soon confess the elevation
In morals and intelligence Of our race
l.. j. ID.
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