St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-09-28
htLL ARP Is WORRIED.
lIo Names Over q Number 0f
Questions That Are Agitating.
vays Women Should Ride Bicycles. This,
However. with the Exception OF We
men Of Fifty Or who Weigh
More Than 900 roundA

It takes a long time for big things to
settle down 81 that we may get the
truth and the facts lwas Illuminating
shout this in connection with the great
battle OF Manassas that was fought
thirty.sour years sgolast Sunday. This
il one time that the day Of the week
and the day of the month corresponded
with the anniversary Of that battle.
Thirty-four years have passed and this
generation is just beginning to under
ern histories have been SO partial and
one-sided that the young folks have
been surprised and astonished that our
people fought 50 hard and 80 long with
20 little to fight for. But the truth il
gradually dawninR upon the nation.
Southern histories have been written
anil introduced into southern schools
ar i our children are becoming our de-
tenders. / see that Mrs Susan Pen
,lleton 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 fearlcssly Endorsed it. In
. few years more the south will be vim
dicated, 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 lS45. 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-
servative people don't know what to
believe. The missionaries used to tell
US that the Sandwich islanders were
canni5als fifty years ago, but had 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. l wonder what are the
facts in the case?
And what about Cuba? Who knows?
The prevailing idea is that Spain Is
tyrant and has got those Cuoans by the
throat and they want to govern them
selves and set UP . republicen form Of
government like ours. hut knowing
man, who has been there. told me that
those Cubans were mostly negroes of
the most degraded kind and were not
ct tO govern themselves and all this
rumpus was being raised by q few 6li-
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 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 scandalous in his paper. And SO
the question comes up. rs 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 q nation Of liars? Read the
papers and say! Who knows what to
believe? While l was in Florida the
other day I 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
,hey killed over 400 in the streets one
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-
man who put her infant child in tub
while she was washing in another tub.
and q big rattler got his head over the
sdge of the tub and she had to kill him
xith her battling stick. / asked Tav-
ares man about it and he was amazed.
"Why," said he, 1t is lie-a lie with
out any foundation. Some lying re-
porter made it up for a sensation"
And not long after l read that there
was yellow fever in Tampa and the
people were flying from the city. !
was in Tampa that very day and knew
It was q lie. OF course the paper took
it all back the next day and said it was
Q mistake. but there is no telling tie
damage that such mistakes do. lfa
reporter who is running around for
news gets up q 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 will ever be forgiven in the
day .of jud9ment-more elimination
aud SANDER and suppression OF the
truth. And nothing is yet sett;ec abou.
It. Who knows what is best? When
We SEQ such statesmen rs Morgan and
Vest and Harris and Daniel and George
md Blackburn and Crisp and Black
and McLaurin and . host of others on