The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1901-09-28
.Iutsnsely American"

.Intensely American
Washington Post.
The following communication tells it's
own story:
s.To the Editor of the Sun-Sir: Please |
oberve that of all the miserable cowardly |
expressions of satisfaction at the death of
thsa magnificent man and superb patriot.
William Mckinley. whom every decent
man loved, not one of them has come from
south of Mason and Dixon's line.
1.-THE most intensely American part of it
to-day is the section embraced by the ex.
Confederate States. And when the time
comes we will prove it. Ex-REB.
''New York; September I9.''
Every one who knows the South knows
this to be strictly true. The explanation,
however, is not far to seek, and when one
considers that, he will see that the fact
could not be otherwise. The truth is that
the Southern States have never been Eu-
ropeanized. They have not been overrun
by the criminals, the Paupers, the half
crazy perverts, and incendiaries with which
| Italy. Austria, Russia, Poland and Hungary
| have so abundantly cursed the North. The
South is almost exclusively an agricultural
| region. Your anarchist does not thrive
beyond the atmosphere of the slums. The
foreign ri ffraff herd together. They bring
to this country their language, their Gus
tom. their ideas, and they die here or they
! go back home without having imbibed the
| faintest conception of our institutions
They do not know the meaning of en-
lightened freedom or understand the Prinel-
pies of Sc f-government. They do not want
to. The South does not want them, has
never encouraged them, and to-day is prac-
tically free from them. In New Orleans
there is a cosmopolitan population, but the
dominant element is the Anglo-Saxo and
the European criminals have long since dis
covered that any interference with or menace
against American civilization there will be
! requited with prompt and bitter punishment.
For the rest, it is as have said. The
Southern States have never encouraged the
baleful immigration which has made the
great Northern cities and the mining and
manufacturing districts hotbeds of murder
Gus anarchy and chronic lAwlessness. Even
during the early days of the athor:ent re-
construction period-between 1868 and
1s76-the great landhoders never encour
aged the introduction of Pauper labor
from Europe. The negroes, throughout
those melancholy years, were often hostile,
often unmanageable, always source OF
, friends-their former owners; but the latter
believed that the carpet-tegger would pass
, and his vile regime pass with him, and they
knew that the negro's temporary madness
would be cured in time. No Chinese, nc
Italians, no Czechs and Slaves and Hun:
and Poles for them. The refuse of ASH
and of Europe did not commend itself t'
the landholders and employers of the South
They would have none of it, and watched
their silent grass grown fields, waiting to-
D the evil cloud to pass, preferring peaceful
poverty to imported barbarsm. And Sc
s they preserved the civilization to which they
were accustomed and which they held il
higher esteem than mere material prosperity
, Better in their philosophy dinner of herbs
. under a wholesome social dispensation thar
wealth with poison and peril at its core
They have kept intact Anglo-Saxon ideas
customs, speech and institutions. Maso1
, and Dixon's line is now the barrier at which
= anarchy and chaos pause. Beyond, there
awaits the assassin and the incendiary moth
, ing but swift judgment and a hospitabl'
grave.