Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-08-21


come thereby to appreciate their own ma
tive States the more. He Is better
MaryIander who knows and appreciates
Massachusetts, and he Is n better VIZ
pinian who has such knowledge OF New
York as comes from living In II for years.
BROADENED AND STRENGTHENED.
Tho new conditions OF the trans
,,on,ed southerncrs life have broadened
and strengthened him. but he remains
The same man with this added breadth
and strength. One thing must be en-
| nhasized. that no clear-headed souther"e'
living in the North Is likely 10 unnerra'
the Intellectual ability or the force Oh
character OF his own people by conpas-
aon With new acauaintances. Just the
onr,site effect is produced. II was with
M sururige though with much satislac-
tlon. that the writer heard a professor
NJ Harvard say. In pubic. that '"e
southern students at that university hau
a be,,er average standing In their classes
,tor the students from Boston ana its
neighborhood.
These Incomers from the South max
certain impression upon the Nortn
IN relation 10 their people at home that
Is worth much There is no little igno-
| rance Of the people and OF the conditions
| ~ ufe IN the South prevailing amonss.
tho masses of well-lnformed northern
people. and with 1t there Is great dea'
| az rreiudice The type OF southerh Guar
| ac,er ia misunderstood the history anu
| bahits .of fhe people are imReriec'Iy
known: the current news from the Sou'n
| IS often distorted and exaggerd'eu W
| northern newspapers Ana IL mus
| remembered that European journals anu
| European people generally get their III
| nressions OF the South largely, II not
| =, holly frorn the northern press.
| REMOVING FALSE IMPRESSIONS.
The simple. straightforward lives OF
| southern men In northern communities
| ~ men who are intelligent. refined, con-
| servative, and manly-go far toward re-
! moving false impressions. Their out
| snoken. vet temperate, defence or theiI
| peopIe counteracts misrepresentation oi
| partisan newspapers, and such propasaiu-
| lists of prejudice and falsehood ana hate'
| as Ida B Wells, who has "stumped New
| England In her anti-lynching crusade. anu
formed n society in old England twith the
| Duke or Argyle at its head Tor the sup
| preston of iynching In the United States
| Intelligent southern men everywhere de-
| precate mob-law. but they can, ana they
| 10. say. in private and through the press
in the North that the stories of lynchlnS
| in the South are grossly exaggerated; that
| the proyocations that produce these up
risIngs are unprecedented, and that men
in any community, in New England or
in Europe, would exercise no more seii-
| control than southern men do under ike
conditions Fortunately. northern papers
allow us TO make this defence through
their columns. and northern people redd
with open minds what is written.
The effect is manifest. truer anu
fairer conception OF this whole matter y
gradually taking possession OF the pes
minds In the North. Indeed. people here
are becoming more interested III the
South-its people. its history, It's places Oh
inheritance. its Industries. and its pro-
gress. They read more about the SOuth'
and they visit II more, not merely lot
health hut for pleasure, ana from coih-
mendable curiosity. Many or theHh "iV
beginning 10 see that there are elements
| of life in the South that they would w
well 10 copy and TO cultivate in the Norh.
Many a nan sends back TO lndieeht
| kin who depend upon him Tor support 4"
| large part of his earnings; every soid'e,
| monument, every hospital, every ,oi''eu
| r,,o home receives gifts from the SONS
NJ the South who are far away; churchrS
from the Potomac TO the hio bfhNuS
| anUIv to southern men in the North
| dailv for help: and II Is the exception
| ,yheu they DO not get It, SO constant
| stream of gifts IS flowing backward ron
| Tho hands Of these men 10 many oDJec'S
| in their old home.
| FINANCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL
PM more than all these Is their IN
| 01ence upon the larger financial anu III
| dustrial interests Of the South. IL Wa
| southern man living in New YORK VINO
brought about the final settlement Oh u'e
| Virginia State debt. and 1t was sou'"'i"
| mon OF the same city VINO recehuE GO
| tabllshed society for cncoufdsr'e -
| migration TO the South. M o''i -
| Torthern states southern men are con-
..a,,,,, giving such representations OF
| the opportunities for tie Use OF capita
| in the south that prospecting parties are
| ,nduced 10 visit that region OF our co",i-
try and TO make Investments there' ="
| many cages no one claims thc 49,
| for these movements. and the aut"oi9 "a
| them are never known. ,.o
Another benefit may be borne W .xe
| South I'm the IDEAS that her sons III w,
| North acquire and take back 10 'i'e'i Nv
| home In certain directions many Sou''
/ ern communities are just starting our
| mon courses Of action that lave beeh
| uursued far in the North already. mere
| commerce. manufactures. and great III,
| dus,ries of every sort have been carrlsu
| to great perfection. Here also p.ope
| - "a ciosn connection with the Euro
| ,aa, ,rorld in working out the problems
| Of municipal government ana N perltct-
| ing some Of the branches OF tuuCdtloI''
| especially those that are practical O',
| man NAV learn from another ana 50
! ,,,a,- ono state particularly where the ex-
| norience of the one lies along the WY
| line that the other has pursued almost
| n its end. New England and the Middle
| states have had large commcrcihi am
| manufacturing interests Tor generations
| and tncy have had to deal with MASSES
/ Of men in great cities. These cohdiliohs
are rapidly rising now in the South. linen
| the problems Of state schoolS anu ''''
| charities and the like have been engaging
| tho h.st thought of these people for
| lor,, fine The South will not take their
| conclusions and adopt them in form, but
| il may profit By their failures ana th.r
| achievements. and southern men "lo
| watch the movements Of TINS sort III the
| North may give the RESULTS OF their
| observations 70 their friends IN The South
| With profit TO them. Then. as southerhets
| in the North see the whole course Oh
| thinrs In the South from a point Of view
| that is without. and yet with sympathetic
| eyes. their honest, frank criticisms may
| be Of value.
| FRIENDLY CRITICISMS USEFUL.
eft add tllnI Wllfu w N''' ~
the North speak kindly Of northern people
| and Of ways or institutions in our adop'eu
| home let il not be thought that we are
| comparing them invidiously 10 the south;
with the old ways and the cd people Vi
our old home. Just az there IS lshora''Ie
If the South in the North. so there ~
ionorance Of the North in the South anu
inst as we believe that the North may
learn something OF the South. SO we DE-
ueva that the South may learn some
ming NJ the North, and as We love her we
wish her to do 50. .
| II for instance. we write approNihsIy
| ~ NJ, ENGLAND education. IL Is not 10
dIecr,dit southern education. for II seems
n ms more meritorious in proportion as
we see the best that New England can
do. bottom than
10 graduate course here IS better thah
mat n the University OF Virginia; anu
the postgraduate courses al tne u Inn in
Uopl; ns University have no parallels III
| ,hn United States. | may add that TWO
| unstou musicians told me recently that
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