The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-18
NUMBER 80.
Some Things in the Southland
the Editor of The Republican.

naturally and necessarily be always
known as 1.-The South" And there
is, and for another generation or two
there will continue to be, patent rea-
sons for danger that not only eager
but even unfair occasion will be
sought to place southern facts in un-
favorable light. Reasons for this lie
so plainly on the surface as to make
it quite supeYfiuous to point them
out.
Naturally, however, all unfairness
toward any section of the country
will tend to retard such sections in
normal improving developments, and
every patriotic citizen will do what
he can to correct so harmful ten
dency. A land-wide growth OF char
ity will mean land-wide betterment
OF our people.
SOUTHERN MORALS,
The morality of any people is the
safeguard of the nation. This ethi-
cal axiom is as plain as any mathe-
matical demonstration. Conditions,
however, in any given section will be
better or worse in proportion, as NOR
ais are higher or lower. In, this re-
gard any unbiased critic VIII be COM
PEELED to place the South at a decided
advantage ON general intersectional
comparison. AS proof of this. asser-
tion call IAay,be cited in the volun-
tary confession of young. man, son
of the leading family of his commun-
ity, graduate of a business. college,
himself a member of and his father a
ruling elder in the Presbyterian
church; this young man unhesitat-
ingly declared that he made no con-
scious scruple about cheating his col
ored help out of part of their earn,
ings. In the same community dea-
con in the Baptist church, man over
60, a justice of the peace, and the
father of a large family, asserted,
without blush, thatg;t was his Gus
tom, when SO inclined, to visit houses
of ill-repute and pay, 1ahe. g gentle
man, for lndulgences peculiar to such
places. Parallels to these cases might
be produced from Massachusetts,
Michigan or California, but the con-
clusion is based on II years of life in
the South that such immortality is
very common throughout this sec
tionA Yet is there betterment
LACK OF INDUSTRY.
Ia consequence of changed relations
between the races, the labor leader
in the South now is and always must
continue to be the whit9 man. Yet
nothing is more natural than that he
should be very Indifferent leader in
this field. For he is as naturally slow
in his oil as is the. corn stalk in it's
gro with. And one cannot count him
| seriously reprehensible on this ac-
count. Climatic conditions make the
rush of higher lattiiudes simply i'm
| possible here; and, indeed, diminished
IcU cAUIelut
unnecessary. Unfortunately the gen
eral onloGker fails so take these facts
into due account, and hence we are
too harshly judged because we fail to,
forge ahead as does the Michigander,
or Mimi esotan. But it is freely con-
fessed that we are inclined to be bit
| To- in hn 1No
added that nine out of ten northern
immigrants catch it after few years.
ANTI-BBLbyM PREJUDICE.
There is found, on somewhat close
observation, good deal of the old
leven still in the lump. By many
natives the. Yankee is still welcomed
with pronounced qualification, and
many newcomer is still made to
feel like "a stranger in strange
land" And it may be remarked that
this fesling does all spring froa anti
bellum antipathies, but perhaps
quite as largely from lack ofystudied
adaptations. What is more, natural
than that plowman from his rocky
New England hillside farm should
here become an object of ridieule when
seen walking at arms length behind
his "Dixien from year to year in this
light sandy loan ? On the other hand.
no newcomer should assume to dis
allow the scooter a legitimate place
in southern agricultural operations.
Henceforth the promoters of south
ern interests will be of mixed ele-
ments; and in the nature of things
they must on both sides forget and
learn much. And so, in time, the
general betterment of conditions over
this section of our Republic will be
more and more noticeable.
]. b. SHoUP.
Fitzgerald, Ga, Oct, 12, 1900.