Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-09-12

lines anu IleaQllHeS, SptCldl CoIIeS-
respondence Of the Cincinnati Ga
zette." and all, so as to make seven
full pages, the eighth or first page,
being reserved for frontispiece.
Then there appeared this legend:
Courier Journals Ohio Crimes Sup
plement," the farago of murders, ar
sons, wife-beatings and scandals Of
all sorts, pictured upon the initial
sheet, with the Truly Good Richard
Smith standing on a stack Of Bibles,
with spy glass, looking for rebel out
lawry in Kentucky and the Solid
South. The Deacon never got wholly
over 1t. He went and consolidated
The Gazette with The Commercial,
and while the luridity continued a.
pace, the horrid examples Of southern
villainy decreased both in virulence
and in volume.
Naturally, to come back to the pres
ent, the newspapers Of New Orleans
are having lots Of fun with the news
papers of New York. It will be OBJ
served that although the cases were
alike to "T," the New Orleans niger
distanced the New York niger in the
list of his killed and wounded. In
the South, when a niger goes a-nig-
gering, he generally does the thing at
first hand, in an original. niggerly way,
while the northern nlgger tries to en-
ulate the northern tough, and is
merely an imitator.
Yet we are told 1t was rare sight
to see the Astorbilts and the Van Wal
DORIS and others of the old aristoc-
racy Of New York, chasing the bad
niggers Of the Tenderloin down Fifth
avenue, and driving them into the dark
waters of the bay, to the ringing Of the
fire bells and the booming Of cannon
from Governors island.
To a gentleman up q tree-that is,
high enough up q tree to survey man
kind from Kennebunkport to the Bra
zos, from Montauk Point to Coronado
Beach-these outbreakers seem curl
ously alike. The race question Is In
good truth a serious question. 1t in
wolves a problem, the solution Of which
the wisest have not been able to COM
pass, the end Of which the most saga
cious cannot see.
AS a matter Of fact, barring some
slight infusion Of hectic blood trickling
in through the barge office and finding
it's way mainly to Chicago, we, the An
glo-Saxon and Scotch-Irish pioneers
who settled the country, are the most
homogeneous people on the face Of the
globe. In reality such differences as
exist among US are largely local and
external.
Massachusetts, and Mississippi are
interconvertible terms, and it needs but
q few months and a change Of raiment
"a snake around the hat and six
shooter more or less to the girthband-
to convert a typical Vermonter into a
typical Texan. The Arkansas sheriff
who got away with five policemen be-
fore they got away with him-out at
Garfield park six or seven years ago
waS born and reared in Rhode Island.
The dude Of Delmonico's and the dude
Of Canal street are twins. The tough
Of a Sixth avenue dive Is only first
cousin once removed from Alkali Pete,
of Dead Mans Gulch, in Colorado. 1t
Is next to impossible az
ter dinner-to tell the difference be-
tween the gentlemen who make merry
with the world and one another at the
Algonquin club in Boston and the Pal
metto club in Charleston.
The poor provincial who has never
been either in Boston or Charleston
cannot realize the close kinship be-
tween the two, and the writer's for the
New York newspapers being merely
provincial literary men-untraveled ex-
|cept in Europe and untaught except
out Of text books-knowing least of all
about America. however versed in the
ways Of London and Paris, Berlin and
Vienna, naturally take narrow and
jaundiced, ill-conditioned view OF
American affairs.
But yesterday we mourned for New
Orleans. Then we mourned for New
York. Now we mourn for Akron.
Whose turn next? And, harken you
little boys up in the tree Of Kalamazoo
and Conk'ud, don't you all speak at
once.