Semi=weekly graphic., 1896-10-07


 the offscouriugs of the univers
 When man was so unutterahl
 worthless that the Lord didn
 want him. the Devil wouldn't ha, . him and decent people couldn't to !, crate his presence. he drifted int 7. Egypt" to take his chances wit /, the water moccasins and malaria Into that dreary des0lation tn
 most degraded of the rive characters, from Pittsburgh to NcA
 Orleans, found their way. as we'll q n large sprinkling of the pnores , specimens of the South's .'po' whit trash"- he root-diggers and clay eaters, regarded by the slave-holde
 as occupying n moral and menta neutral ground between the nigge
 and the mule. Yet here we have ; Pharaoh hardening his heart ant
 burllng great wads of witherinf
 seorn at the people of Arkansai
 because they decline to yote the Re t AIShGl All tlitIF1t
 to despoil their daughters l ear
 understand that. before the war, !
 native of "EgA pt" might feel not g little proud of q stray piekaninnY
 either as an Improvement of the
 breed or hecause he could smuggle
 it across the Oh and exchange it
 fen. fk.I. I,x
 under present conditions, the Herald man should be SO deeply concerned for the welfare of the black miscp- genationist. is beyond my compre- heDsion. He cannot now sell nig- ger baby to the Arkansas Democrat Is for so much as silver dollar: be- sides, the native Egyptian" breed has been graded up by a slight adlnixture of gentle blood The Egypt" of ante-bellum times is not the Egypt" of this year If grace. If was finally discovered that the so- called bad lands of Southern Hi nois could be made to yield some thing better than disease, Digger Indians, waller dawgs" and death. They would grow strawberries 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 mystery of an annual bath and innoculated them with little of their own enterprise. But the evil reputation still clings to Egypt" It's sayages have not all disappeared before the march of civ ilization. Men can still be found there so illiterute as to be incapable of intelliRible speech, and upon whose bodies crop of wheat might be grown and gathered, so great is their lazlness. so deep the aceumula- tion of dirt. Bryan was born at Salem, beyond the Egyptian boundary sufficient reason for sus- pecting him of being gentleman, thereby calling downupon hi- friends and followers the wrath of the Her. aid man, as a 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 u member of an inferior Of humane attributes subject for their laughter, can scarce be equalled by a woman scorned. 1t is perfectly natural that the Herald man should admire Mckinley; for while Mark hanna's automaton was not born in the southern swamps of Suckerdom lager roots" he is on a 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 chairity while in the prime of man. hood, Mckinley is the logical candi- date of those natives of Illinois older Egypt" who have proved im- previous to the humanizing in- tiuences of civilization. He has but to trade his toothbrush and bath towel for a couple O coon dogs, con- tract a case of the seven-year-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 u presidential election is pending.
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