The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1895-08-13
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lie Names Over Number Of
Questions That Are Agitating.
yays Women should Ride BIcycics--This,
However. with the Exception OF We
men OF Fifty or who Weigh
More Than 200 Pounds.

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truth and the facts. Twas Eliminating
shout this in connection with the great
battle of Manassas that was fought
thirty-fo years ago last Sunday. This
Is one time that the day of the week
and the day of the month correspondent
with the anniversary of that battle.
Thirty-four years have passed and this
generation Is just beginning to Under
| stand what the war was about North
| ern histories have been so partial and
one-sided that the young folks have
been surprised and astouished that our
people fought SO hard and so long with
80 little to fight for. But the truth is
gradually dawning upon the nation
Southern histories have been written
and introduced into southern schools
ar our children are becoming our de-
tenders. see that Mrs. Susan PEN
dleton Lee, the gifted daughter of Gen.
eral Pendleton, has written history
of the United States, and has without
reserve told the story of the late civil
war, and the United Confederate Vet
Grams, in their great meeting at Hous-
ton, have as fearlessly Endorsed it. In
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dictated, but it takes long time.
Eighty years have passed since Napo-
leon figured in Europe and even now
historians differ widely about events
and motives concerning him. Marshal
Ney was shot in 1915 or he died in North
Carolina in 1915, nobody knows which.
For several years we have been wait
ing for the truth about the Hawaiian
islands, but it has not yet been written
from non-partisan standpoint. Con-
sentative people don't know what to
believe. The missionaries used to tell
as that the Sandwich islanders were
cannibals fifty years ago. but hal all
become Christians and had schools and
churches ike we have. Later accounts
say that political schemers and unprin.
cipled scoundrels from our country have
plundered that unhappy land and re-
duced those natives to beggars and sub
lection. And now we read that anoth-
er set are arming vessels to drive the
first set out under pretense of helping
the natives. / wonder what are the
facts in the case
And what about Cuba? Who knows?
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tyrant and has got those Cuoan by the
throat and they want to govern them.
selves and set up a republican form of
government like ours. But knowing
man, who has been there, told me that
those Cubans were mostly negroes of
the most degraded kind and were not
fit to govern themselves and all this
rumpus was being raised by few fill
clustering Americans, who want to cap
ture the island and divide out the Off.
ces and get rich off the sugar planta-
tions that the Spaniards are cultivating.
There was a big fuss raised and lots of
sympathy extended about an editor
whom the Spaniards had confined in
Moro castle, but Homer Reed says he
found out the other day that the editor
was coal-black coon who had been
very scandaious in his paper. And SO
the question comes up, us Cuba worth
helping?'
David wrote, II said in mine haste
all men are liars" and the old Scotch
preacher took that for his text and re-
marked: "Ah, David, David, if we had
lived till now we might have said it at
| your leisure, me mon."
Are we nation of liars? Read the
papers and say! Who knows what to
believe? While / was in Florida the
other day read from The New York
Recorder an awful account about Tav-
ares being attacked by rattlesnakes
and the people had to turn out with
guns and rocks and thrashpoles and
L.. ~.
Sunday morning and in two days had
killed over thousand and the people
were terror-stricken. The article went
into many details and told about wo-
ms who put her infant child in a tub
while she was washing in another tub,
and big RATHER got his head over the
edge of the tub and she had to kill him
With her battling stick. askeda Tav-
ares man about it and he was amazed.
Why" said he, lit is liza lie with
out any foundation. Some lying re-
porter made. it up for sensation"
And not long after read that there
vas yellow fever in Tampa and the
people were flying from the city. !
was in Tampa that very day and knew
1t was lie. OF course the paper took
it all back the next day and said it was
mistake, but there is no telling the
| damage that such mistakes do. If a
reporter who is running around for
news gets up lie for a sensation he
should be turned off instanter.
And here is the silver question that
has been the subject of more exaggera-
ton than win ever lie forgiven in the
day .of judgment-more elimination
and SANDER and suppression of the
truth. And nothing is yet settled abou.
it. Who knows what is best? When
we see such statesmen as Morgan and
Vest and Harris and Daniel and George
md blackburn and Crisp and Black
and McLaurin and host of others on
,ne side and as many notable men on
the other side, what right has COM
mon man to jump up and swear that he
knows all about it and that those who
ion't think with him are Tools. But
reckon the next election will settle it,
and wish it was over, for the people
are getting mighty tired of the whole
| business.
| And there is another question that
zones up periodically and has recently
come up again. Does education lessen
,rime? Some philanthropists are get
ling concerned about this, and we'll
they may; for the statistics Of every
state in the union establish the fact
that education of the kind the pupils
are getting increases crinne---not lit
| tie hut immensely and YET We cro on