The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-22

memories of that state. 1t was at Tampa
that the patience of our troops was ex-
hausted by orders to prepare for shipment
to Cuba one day and having the order
cOuntermanded the next. Ordinary. plain
language failed to do the subject justice.
1t is fair to Florida to say that the most
profitable business the farmer and fruit
grower can engage in in all the south is
raising pineapples in Florida
up in northern Georgia the fine tim
Der. the rich coal and iron deposits, the
ineXhauSuble marble and granite quarries,
indicate the source Of present and future
profit for the people. The same is true
among the stones and stumPs and hills
and small valleys of both these states,
where four dollars worth of fertilizer is
mn smile With The flrst eTade COTTON
at less than cents per pound, yielding
an average of less than 200 pounds per
acre the white land owners rent most of
their land to the colored farmers, who
than a very scartv living by cropping. The
only good beef to be found in these three
swift and Armour. and the only apples
fit to eat come from the north. The
adjustment Of cotton mills to consume
the cotton grown there is a source of
profit and great benefit to Alabama and
aThe towns and cities are showing the
presence of northern capital that is in
sources of these States. The country dis
tricts are fifty years behind the times. the
'sbefoh the wah'' remaining without re-
pairs. School houses are few and far
between. The colored people are doing
as well as the poor whites, and taking
more interest in the schools than their
tie are raised and the hogs are of the
razor-back order The farmers of Kansas
blOated bondhOlders and ariStOcratS
compared with the southern farmer I
saw in Alabama, between Mobile and
huntsville and in Georgia from the south
line to the north line"
What about the race warp
1T is difficult to give to northern peo-
pie an idea of the intense prejudice against
the political equality of the negro which
understand fully that the labor of the ne
grOes is just as necessary as their own,
and do not want them to leave the cOun-
try, but they viii not hesitate to resort to
in politics. A conservative southern Dem
Ocrat, who voted for Mckinley, said
Cuse for the sentiment when say to you
I would station men at the polls to shoot
negro voters rather than take the risk
of negro Oftfce-hOlderS.' There is but one
and that is in the accumulation of proper
ty and the education of their children.
Yes. that means generations in time and
injustice and wrong all the way between.
1.-The southern regiments comprising my
brigade were OtfCeTed by men of ability
and education, who had either served
Confederate veterans. of course the rank
and file represented the generation of
young men born since the civil war, most
of whose fathers served IN the rebel army.
They were fine regiments, full of fire and
patriotism, rejoicing that the war brought
the young men of the north and the south
ways remember with great satisfaction
my service with these men, and I prize
the good will and friendship they always
extended to me.
'.Three or four days before leaving the
south for Topeka Mrs. Hudson and I drove
over to Lithfa Springs to see the ruins of a