The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-11-16
THROWING OFF THE MASK.

THROWING OFF THE MASH
II the sublime self-esteem, or bigoiry,
of the Northern republican press were not
suffered to betray such deep-seated sec
tional hatred of the South in certain quar-
ters of the North. It would be extremely
amusing. for there is always large d.
gree of amusement In excessive self
esteem.
The arrogance. however. has cropped out
in a most yirulent and offensive form
since the election. The moe rabid Of the
subsidized or syndicate owned organs have
been pouring out their bottles Of wrath on
the South because it did not choose to
vote for Mr. Mckinley. 1t seems that we
are a milestone around the neck of the
Nation, that we fail to appreciate politi-
cal Virtue" when we have 1t presented
TO us by the North. that We are ignorant
Of our own best interests and that. in
ferentially. we ought to be wiped off the
face of the earth in some way In order
that McKnleysm might not have even
the semblance of opposition in the cleo
toral returns, but ather free course and
( be glorifiedl
This blind republican pbarisaism is
voiced chiefly by the New York Sun and
New York Times. the latter being con-
trolled by young democratic apostate OF
Southern mugwump from Chattanooga.
The Sun talks after this fashion:
why. then, were all the electoral votes
Ct these eleven Southern States given "a
Bryan? What is the meaning OF their per
sstence in holding themselves aloof from
the sentiment OF the rest or the Union as
H. thirty-five years after the disruption oil
tho old secession Jonfederacy, they sttll re-
NAMED politically distinct and hosti,ey II
Mr.. Mckinley and Mr.. Bryan had changec
places SO far as concerns the issues they
represent it would have made no difference
in the vote Of those states. They would have
voted fer Bryan any platform and agalns
Mckinley on any platform"
1t is not true that the South would hav
: voted for Mr. Bryan ION any platform
! and even the petulant and vlrulent SUI
2 knows it's statement to be false. But VIII
5 has New England voted with the sam
e solidity for the past thirty-hve years 10
4 republlcanism and with no "negr
+ problem" to watch and solve? Is solid
o ity" of one section any more reprehensibl
s or indefensible than "solidity' of anothe
o section? Or does the Sun assume tn
wisdom will die with republicanism an
s. Northern political sentiment and that di
ference OF opinion Is crime in tn
y country!
= But the New York Times has workc
itself, as most renegades do, into perfe
frenzy. This is the style of Its common
:, How long will the democrats OF the sol
South Insist on being saved by the North al
81 West from the consequences OF their bin
:, stupid folly2 They have Just voted, as th
/" voted four years ago for the ruin OF their !
IN dustrles, the loss Of their foreign marker
a. and the deadening Of the new industrial "
pulse that promises the transformation al
10 enrichment OF their part OF the country IN
~ have done more than that. Their solid vo
for Bryan is proyocauon 10 their p
X itleal as we'll as their economic dinlinis
republicans OF the North saved them fire.
K the disasters their votes invited but the
In publicans OF the North are about TO und'
take congressional roapporuonment. q
go they will not be unmlndful that the group
he States that always votes solidly against tn
, a party has by its suppression OF the pia
ni vote and by its ieaRuea partisanship doui
nut deserved to be deprived OF some Of It's repl
sentatlyes In congress and some OF It's yo
~ in the electoral college"
Here is bigotry coupled with thr,
IS OF persecution--the worst spirit of /
middle ages rampant again in mode
I, America. And the insufIerable egotism
the theory that the South has be
he saved" from its own stupid follyl"
tx Fools and fanatics only indulge in t
ct, crdor OF speech.
The Saved" indeed!
my Saved for exploitation by the trw
Ing saved TO bear the burdens of militari
es, saved to aid in oppresssing helpless ?
ing pies across the sea, saved Tor cove
the ment policy OF favoritism, fattenlng of
ganlzed robbery, the prostitution Of
iis- basic principles OF our Nation and
tne ssturnalia of jobbery. extravaganza
conquest
The old-fashiened political sentim
~ and conservatism OF the South have
~ come doubly dlstasteful to the champi
IN of the new doctrines" because {
-. stand In the way OF what would be an
an challenged greed by the gold-worship
v,,h commercially inspired elements Of
aeu dominant party Protest against II
nan lessness and political crime simply n
.ms dens the criminals. And with the 10
nan in their hands they would punish po'.t
10 virtue by reviving the worst passions
edi- worst features OF 'seeticnalism,n
man The wave OF differentiation and pstr
be ism which swept over the country du
em- the Spanish war disappeared whep in