The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-10-02

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OF the two sections differ about IS the man
hood of the intersections, each having their
characteristics, which, perhaps, are largely
due to customs and environments. he med
itatively replied. Socially the people
south have always been much more hospit-
able than those at the north. There is
what we call southern blood, which boils
at much lower temperature than that OF
| the north Southern womanhood. sur
rounded by the same influence, has devel-
| oped largely in sentiment and feeling with
southern manhood. She cares moro for
character and less for chattels. She wor-
ships mammon less and true manhood
more. In choosing a husband, the question
of chattels and riches enters very little
| into her thoughts. She loves the man she
| loves, and will make any sacrifices to give
herself to him; and when she does give
herself, with constant loyalty and fidelity
10 his interests, she is his wife indeed.
IF she makes a bad bargain. she sticks
much closer to IL than her northern sister.
In many states marriage seems to be legal
contract, and when either party becomes
tired of its binding force application is
made to the divorce courts, and that which
was one becomes two. believe old maids
are more numerous in the south than in the
north. An old maid is in better shape than
an lily matched married woman. The old
maid has nothing and the married woman
! has something she doesn't want.
| POLITICALLY, the southern woman is not
nearly so far advanced as the north.
Woman suffrage is desired much more by
/ the northern woman, but the southern
woman seems to prefer woman suffering to
woman suffrage. The heroism and fortiiude
of southern women reached its elimination
| between the years 1850 and 1870. Their de-
votion TO their husbands and fathers has
never been questioned, but their loyalty 10
the southern confederacy, and their hero
ism and fortiLrde IN giving up their loved
ones to the army and to death, has, perhaps,
never been equaled in the history of woman
hood
I'm 10000 homes in the south the hus-
band and father babe wife and children
goodbye, frequently leaving them with
only meagre support; and yet the wife,
with patience and frugality, maintained
the home ard provided every necessary
thing for the comfort and Well-Delng or the
children whose father was at the front.
"In these years OF struggle and economy
our women learned a Lesson that in after
years made them domestic in habit and
economical in dress in life Or course there
are exceptions TO this rule. Many of. our
southern women, whose husbands may or
may not have money. run to extremes Of
dress. But 1t is true OF the rank and file
of southern womanhood that they dress
modestly and largely economically.
I'm all our southern cities we have what
the world calls the elite or fragment of the
four hundred, who run TO the same ex-
treme of dress and want of dress that has
made womanhood in many places the lead
ers Of the immodesty of the age.
1.-THE animosities created by the late un
pleasantness linger, perhaps, longer with
southern womanhood than with southern
manhood. The devastated homes. the
squandered fortunes, the buried loved ones
the memories of these seem to linger
with many of our southern women.
woman is naturally good hater. She
is not good marksman with the pistol, nor
has she entered the arena as prize fighter,
but she has sentiment which, If aroused,
Expresses itself in hatred just as true as
death itself. Not very many of our south
ern women cherish any bitterness or un-
kind feeling toward the north. The south
today is as loyal to the stars and stripes as
any section of this Union. There are some
tulhSS odlu auu uUu0 tuhb OCCASIONALLY uQ-
cover the smouldering remains, and il
breaks out anew in implications and ex-
pressions of resentment. When the Force
bill is talked of no southern man or woman
can get shouting happy.
The ideal southern woman is refined in
her tastes, warm in her sympathies, pro-
found in her likes and dislikes, modest fire.
quently to fault. The fast woman in the
south is looked upon, If not with contempt,
Ions wit "A of fho
great numb Der of her sisters about her.
doubt if in club life and such pastlmes as
the german or round dance, the wine re-
sorts, etc, the southern woman will ever
come TO the front SO prominently as many
of her sisters in the north
'Whatever in southern w0manhood there
may be to criticise on the part of the north,
southern womaEhood Is cultured, is edu-
Gated, southern woomanhood is refined,
southern womanhood is not narrow in it's
views and conceptions in life. And no wo-
manhood in all the world, subjected to the
same Influences and surroundings. with the
same questions. could or would do other
wise than the southern woman is doing
along the lines of the race question especi-
ally.
GAS to the race question in the south.
there is as little friction as l find in the
north. The race question in the south is
one between the Anglo Saxon and the
African. In the north it is between the
Parthians and Modes and Elamites and the
jewellers from Messopotamia and Pontus
and Asia and everywhere else and good
large Importation from pandemouium itself
TN the south it is only the social phases,
in the north it is social, financial, CONNER
clal, industrious aud so on and so on. So
ciai equality is sought for and believed in
only by the lowest class of white people
and the lowest class of negro. First-class
white people and tirst-class negroes do not
desire social equality.
"As To the political phases of the race
question, we are perfectly willing for the
negro to vote and perfectly willing to allow
a free ballot and fair count uD to the
point where negro domination does not
carry. We have as free ballot and as fair
count IN the south as we have in the north.
We have different methods of reaching the
same end. Down there we use lead. in
Indiana we use silver. We can kill them
cheaper than we can buy them; and the
north can buy them cheaper than they can
Kill them; and we are both running on the
most economical lines.
'Dudley's blocks of five, they say,
brought S. apiece. With the present fnan-
cial stringency in the south that is more
than they cal afford TO pay. But candidly.
| know of no place in the south today. espe-
cially in Georgia where l live, where the
colored man cannot vote, and his vote is IS
surely counted, as any white man's vote
polled in the state.
The colored people in the south, outside
Of politics and here and there an infrinpe-
ment upon the social borders, get along as
peaceably with their southern neighbors ga
any two races under the sun. The negro
is coming up in intelligence, in financial
condition, and very much in his own self
respect. But for the politicians Of our
country there would seldom be a jar be-
tween the white and the colored races.
Darwin expatiates on the descent OF