The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-03
A WOMAN ON POLITICS.
Bah PAYS HER RESPECTS TO GER
TAIN POLITICIANS

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North-A Thing We Can Learn From
the English-Diffsrent Nations as
Fighters-The American Soldier-The
Modern Jew and Woman's Opinion
of Him-Some Follies of the Day-The
Range OF Topics of a Bright Young
| Woman.
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NEW York, July 2. The time has now
come around when, 90 matter what the
| thermometer stands at, 1t is the duty of
every American citizen to be patriotic. The
small boy, who is the bowling patriot of the
| day, expresses his belief in his country by
making the greatest amount OF noise pos
| sible. and SO it would seem does the grown-up
boy. who, through the medium Of the news
papers, In screaming for liberty or death,
and his favorite candidate. In the mean
while he is certain to the extent of all the
money he possesses to back this favorite
candidate, who doesn't trouble himself about
one thing but the getting what ne wants.
About once year grow very enthusiastic
on the subject of politios-that is, one side
| Of the politics. don't think it would come
up if didn't find that somebody was bring
| ing up the i'll weed Of discussion and fount-
ing what happened thirty years ago in the
faces Of people who it is just possible were
not even living then.
THE SOUTHERN VOTER IN THE NORTH.
You take a boy Of % or "a years old. He
| Ia going to vote for the first time this year.
He comes from Virginia, Carolina and per-
! haps further down south in Dixie He has
met pleasant northern people; indeed. he
may have northern sweetheart He begins
to talk about that most important thing of
| all to him-his vote-to a northern or west
ern man, and especially from the northern
man does he receive torrent OF invectives
against the south. Now, this is his home,
and no matter whether the people
who fought for the south were in
the right or wrong, they we're of MS
blood, and they believed they we're doing
| right, and they went out to fight for this
belief: they didn't send substitutes. And
the fight was on their ground; the north and
| tue west didn't suffer by it, and yet to-day
the northern man in the south is pleasantly
treated, the old feeling is forgotten, and the
blue aud the gray are as one. The colors
blend easily, anyhow. But some sc-called
polticlan-some bowling, yelling office
seeker-gets up, and, after Insulting the
dead and abusing the living, forces the
warm blood of every southern man and
woman to circulate about one hundred de
grees faster, and to feel that it is pretty
hard to be forgiving and kind when you
are made to live over your defeat every time
| there is O presidential election.
woMAN's EXCELLENT POLITICS.
That's why l like the English people;
| they'll fight and after the battle they'll
shake hands. 1 remember hearing a woman
say-a woman who was member of the
| family of one of the best known generals of
the union arIny-that if the north had the
men, the south had the generals, and the
fact that they were trained to be gentlemen
at West Point made them take their defeat
| as gentlemen always do. Now, | am not
saying this to defend the south-thank God
that through the mouth Of Grady, of Wat
terson, of Carlisle and of Lee, through the
words of her novelists, and, best of all,
through her songs, she can speak for
herself. But l em saying this TO
show you how foolish you are to
talk to a boy, and in that talk insult his
own people, make him think his vote WORTH
less, or else induce him to give it to the
wrong side. The war is over, though it is
not generally known in some parts Of this
country. The days of peace have come,
and this big country is 50 rich it can afford
to have anybody for President. The Pres
| ident couldn't possibly ruin the country, for
II he made the attempt to there are a suf-
flcient number Of good men who would haul
him down from his high estate and make
| him feel what a consummate donkey he
was. When the good ti1ings Of peace
were going all over this country, l made
| my bow to an admiriug audience, and con-
sequently, what | say about the war bust
ness is with malice toward none and with
| charity to ALL
| DIFFERENT NATIONS AS FIGHTERS.
Speaking OF fighting, it is curious thing
how in some nations the love for it is so
| great that no object is necessary, but they
will 20 in and tussle just for the fun of it.
An Irishman does this in a most enthusi-
astic manner; he will take up anybody's
cause for the privilege of being in q row.
he is good fighter but not TO be depended
on. The Engllshman wants a reason. he
wants to know why he 10 fighting, and then
he goes at it with a determination to kill
| everything he comes near, aud the oonse-
quence Is he Is the best soldier in the world.
! The German isn't anxious to fight but when
he does 1t is in a solid mathematical, per-
severing way that is pretty sure TO get there
in the end. The Frenchman starts to war
with song of enthusiasm and he will sing
himself to victory or death. You are bound
to admire him, though it always seems to
me like breaking a butterfly on a wheel,
when one thinks Of the hundreds Of young
| Frenchmen who have been killed with the
name of France" on their lips.
| THE AMERICAN FIGHTER.
As people the Americans can't be judged
! as fighters-the breed is too mixed: but
when you get a man born In this country,
and In whose blood there Is some Germany
stolidity, some French enthusiasm, some
English determination and a great deal Of
American confidence. we will have the finest
soldiers in the world.
never blame q man for wanting 10 be
soldier In the first place, the girls all
adore him; In the second place, it is always
concluded that he is as strong mentally as
he Is physically, and he is trained TO be
above small meannesses. What is the at
traction about brass buttonsl 1 have some
times thought that in the beginning Adam
used buttercups as buttons on his fig leaf
and from that minute Eve was his adored.
AS civilization advanced the buttercup was
made of mental and highly polished ana
women have been the slaves Of the button
ever since. This is merely little theory of
my own, but a deal OF thought was neces-
sary TO work IL up, and regard it as quite
as probable as some other theories have
| heard.
THE MODERN IDEA OF JEWS.
Over in France as they have nothing
special on hand they are getting up a feel
ing against the Jews; fortunately, it won't
have much chance of success as the French
man, like the American, has gotten to see
the ability of the Jew and to recognize his