The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-26
1NINSULT TO THE SOUTH
-, ATTACK BY THE HIGH PRIEST
ESs OF FASHION.
nfgnined and Forcible Rebuke from

ntgnifled and Forcible Rebuke from
Noble Southern Woman.
otou nossible taunts that of being I'M
js the most humiliating and I'M
sayory. I'LL WHOLE
,rnoov has wheeled around upon US and
',ar,ed rs with wallowing in the mire Of
sI.rtal 6lth2 Likenipg the south to a
llrocaful queen, who. with shapely, yet I'M
asbad arms. reaches out to clasp her right
tJ Pestilence.
consider her charge; it is embodied in
If the best poems in her new book, and
!. entitled The South"
oueen Of Incidence and idle grace.
nod in the vestmentS of costly gown,
ots t,trns the languor of her lovely face
irron progression with a lazy frown.
r1or throne is built upon marshy down;
WaIariai MOSES wreathe her like old lace.
with slim crossed feet, unshod and bare and
Cha dts Indifferent to the worlds swift race
,ross the sea there stalks an ogre grim;
Too languid she for even fears alarms.
While frightened nations rally in defense,
cb,If;s her smiling creole eyes to him,
And reaching out her shapey, unwashed
Che clasps her rightful lover-Pesti
Now read Mary E. Bryan's forci5le, but
zvomanly rebuke to her-"Our Mary" who
loves her section and her people, and who is
in return beloved by them:
"The gist of this is, that the south sits
half asleep under her palms, too languid
and lazy to help herself, or even keep her
self clean; her unwashed condition inviting
the pestilence-'her rightful lover'-whom
She languldly welcomes while the nations
rally to protect her from him.
"If Mrs. Wilcox will take the trouble to
read state statistics, or even to glance over
tba daiiy papers, she would find that the
sonth IS bestirring herself in a way to
shame more fortunate nations, who have
not like her, been thrown PROSTATE and
crushed by conquest, the limbs of her for
mer financial strength Topped of.
THE wonderful energy and power of self
helpfulness shown by this land of Ian
qn6rs would make itself apparent to Mrs
Wilcox, should she travel through it. In the
towns she would hear the hum Of factory
wheels and see the smoke of mighty iron
works In the country Re would see every
where mines and railroads and industrial
enterprises of all kinds. In the more fertile
portions she would hear the click and buzz
ofimproved machinery upon cotton, suga
and rice plantations, while in the poorer
struggle with poverty against bitter odds,
that would wake the admiration of her
warm heart
Mrs Wilcox is the last person in the world
to Injustice willingly or to fail in accord
ing honor where honor is due. Her sonnet
is founded upon the old conception of the
south, and has the license accorded the
muse of being more poeJical than true"
As for the uncleanliness of that section,
which, as she intimateS, invites and creates
the pestilence how is 1t that Jacksonville
has been SO scourged by the plague this
summerl Jacksonville, though in the south,
is not southern in population. For twenty
years it has been filed and con
troled by northern people. 1t
was no "unwashed creole arms" that
invited the grim ogre" this time, and
jacksonville is far more easily cleansed
than is New Orleans, whose peculiar loca-
ton below the river level makes the ordi-
nary method of drainage Intellectual and
calls for one more elaborate and expensive
than the city can compass of herself. II
only the nations that rally to defend
her from the pestllence," as Mrs. Wilcox
says would rally with an ounce of pre-
vention in the shape of a government appro-
prlanOn for drainage purposes, combined
with the erection of that most wonder
full of all MODERN inventions, the garbage
dl1 ulIu CTeIldJOI, We WOULD soon De IN q
position to open the gates Of the south and
offer safe and wholesome asylum to our
brothers and sisters across the border line,
when the deadly cholera makes it dreaded
advent and stalks with fatal purpose
through the clean northland
OIr own beloved Savannah is preparing
to lnaugurate a splendid system of house
drainage Should she add to this the
destruction of all her refuse matter by
adopting this wonderful cremator, which
claims that no disease germ can pass
through its fires and live to propagate its
Species, she would then have the most
admirable sanitary arrangements of any
city IN our land-east, west, north OF
south-aot even excepting Philadelphia,
winch stands pre-emnent as the cleanest of
all cities
Let US cleanse our bonny southland from
I'LL unwhoesomeness by reducing the de-
laying animal and vegetable matter to
Clean, gray ashes
Ihls cleansing by fire is but the revival
ana re-adaptatiOn of the Biblical methods
employed by the old law-giver, Moses, by
"uch De prevented the spread of leprosy, q
lnague more dreadful than any known tc
modern civilization.
we do our part, then we can claim the
promise: There need be no fear of the
os'nence that stalketh in darkness, nor fol-
T Te sickness that destroyeth in MONDAY
I alere snail no evil happen unto thee, moi
PaSue come nigh thy dwelling"
GLADYS PARK.