The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1889-11-29

It's t1VhlAAtlOms
Rev. Sam Jones, in a recent lee
ture made in Indiana among other
things, said
"The South of to-day is a new
South in every vie, truthful and
patriotic sense. Its PATRIOTISM Is
profound in honor and hangs upon
no bags of gold. It's interest in
the public welfare is sincere and
non sectional. us purpose 10 do
its part in public duty and for The
national prosperity and glory is un-
impeachable. Public order is as
precious To us as it can be 10 you.
The sanciiiy OI person, property
and life is as great cOncern in the
South MS In the North. The blud-
geOn of the brutal is non partisan
the knife and pistol of The assassin
are non sectional; The rope of
Judge Lynch OscilIateS with i'm
partial fatality across The border
once marked by Mason ana Dixon's
line. The Northern States have
mobbed to death aS many negroes
per State IN the past nine months
as have the Southern States. The
criminal records of the North are
blacker in proportion than those OF
the South. Female virtue Is held
in lighter estimation in the North
by the records of PROSTITUTION; the
marriage relation is more lightly
worn by the records OF your di
vorce courts, fiduciary trusts are
more frequently violated, as shown
hy the register of the exiles in
Canada. 1t has been popular de-
luSion IN the North that the chief
occupation of the Southern man is
to swear, drink whisky and shoot
niggers tor pa>time.' Yet the cold
and undenia5le fact is that public
profanity is tar more general in the
North than in the South Sabbath
desecraIion is far more fragrant,
and the North drinks more whisky
and better per capita than any of
the people Of the South. The
populations OF Ohio and Georgia
are as five 10 three, yet Ohio has
1928 liquor dealers 10 1,467 in
Georgia one dealer in Ohio 10
every 260 of her people and OILY
one dealer in Georgia to every
| 1892 OF her people; one dealer III
Ohio 10 every 80 voters, and only
one dealer in Georgia TO every 276
voters. How do you like the
showing! Oh you say, 'that is a
forced instance II is, indeed !
Massachusetts, and North Carolina
have about the same populations.
Massachusetts has one liquor deal
er 10 every 257 of her people, while
North Carolina has one dealer to
every 1,5S2 of her population. So
| might project The same compari-
sons through dozen instances.
Georgia has hanged a white man
for the murder OF harmless ne
gro man; The fashionable women
of New York city have kissed and
decked with flowers in pf0fusion
the brutal negro murderer of a
weak and aged white woman.
"These are but haphazzaTd facts,
coming easily 10 mind TO teach US
the wisdom of charity and Ihe yir-
Tue of consistency. There is great
need and great room for mary re-
forms IN the ways and works of The
North as well as The South, Let
us not be so quick to accuse and so
eager 10 denOunce one another.
The civilization of The new South
is certainly not behind, if it is not
in advance of the average civiliza.
tiOn of the land at large. Indeed,
| may say that the new South TO-
day makes proof of itself, in
naked honesty, 10 vindicate the
presentation OF IFS character as
made by the lervent affection and
gilded tongue of Mr.. Grady"