Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-10-04

caricature third of u century ago. It seems to ht.ve been settled with the offscourings of the universe. When man was so unutterably worthless that the Lord didn't want him. the Devil wouldn't have him and decent people couldn't tol- egate his presence, he drifted into Egypt" to take his chances with the water moccasins and malaria. Into that drcary desolation the most degraded of the river characters, from Pittsburgh to New Orleans, found their way. as we'll as a large sprinkling of the poorest specimens of the South's "po' white trash'- the root-diggers and clay eaters, regarded by the shareholder as occupying moral and mental neutral ground between the nigger and the mule. Yet here we have a Pharaoh hardening his heart and bnrllng great wtds of whitening scorn at the people of Arkansas because they decline to vote the Re publican ticket or encourage niggers to despoil their daughters! 1 can understand that, before the war, a native of Egypt" might feel not q little proud of stray pickaninny. either as an improvement of the 1.l l.. it across the Ohio and exchange it for tobacco and booze; but why, under presen conditions, the Herald man should be 50 deeply concerned for the welfare of the black misce- genationist, is beyond my eompre- hension, He cannot now sell d nig- ger baby to the Arkansas Democrats for so much as d silver dollar; be- sides, the native Egyptian" breed has been graded up by q slight admiXture of gentle blood. The Egypt of ante-bellnm times is not the Egypt" of this year of grace. It was finally discovered that the so- called "bad lands of Southern Hi n0is could be made to yield some thing better than disease, Digger Indians, waller dawgs' and death. They would grow wberries as big as walnuts, and peaches and apples equal to the best In the world. Industrious people poured in, bringing books. soap and other evidences of civilization. They drained the pestilent marshes. init lated the Younger natives into the sacred mysterypf an annual bath and innoculated them with a little of their own enterprise. But the evil reputation still clings to Egypt It's savages have not all disappeared before the march of civ ilization. Men can still be found there so illiterate as to be incapable of intelligible speech, and upon whose bodies crop of wheat might be grown and gathered, SD great is their laziness, so deep the accumula- tion of dirt. Bryan was born at Salem, beyond the Egyptian" boundary-sufficient reason for sus- pecting him of being a gentleman, thereby calling dOwnu upon his friends and followers the wrath of the Her aid man, as matter of course. If even the worm will sometimes turn,
 we can scarce expect an unrecon- structed Egyptian" to give the glad hand to one born of the ancient enemies of filth and ignorence. The hate which member of an inferior race bears those who make his lack of humane attributes a subject for their laughter, can scarce be equalled by d woman scorned. It is perfectly natural that the Herald man should admire Mckinley; for while Mark hanna 5 aut0maton was not born in the southern swamps of Suckerdom and reared on "biled crorfish" and "ager roots" he is on mental and moral parity with those who were. A ligneous-faced creature lacking the courage of his convictions, and so destitute of pride that he accepts charity while in the prime of man. hood, Mckinley is the logical candi- date of those natives of Illinois older Egypt" who have proved inn previous to the humanizing in- duences of civilization. He has but to trade his toothbrush and bath towel for a couple O coon dogs, con- tract case of the seyen-gear-itch, sit on the park fence at Carbondale and squirt tobacco juice on his beard till it runs down on his boots, to catch the vote of every ''arly" set tier of Egypt" who isn't too tired to drag himself to the voting booth, or too ignorant to know that a presidential election is pending.