The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-12-14
AN UNwIsE COUNCIL.

nROFESSOR COUNClL 1nparts lore to the
students of the Alabama Agricultural and Me
chanical College. We have not at hand the
catalogue of that able institution and therefore
not prepared to say whether he teaches the proper
method OF ringing the rooters of the primitive pigs
of the region which exist the roots of the forest
and fatten its oak mast or whether he instructs
in the proper in which the milky mother of the
herd is to be called $50, boss and made to hoist
in preparation for the bi-day manipulation of her
dugs. However, no matter what the line of learn
ing he pulls in the college, discuss him in his
exposed public and prominent role as a teacher of
wisdom in ethnology, politics and etiquette
Incident to the recognition of Professor Washing
ton by President Roosevelt there has been renewed
agitation in certain section of the South of the fear
that the "damnigger" is going to walk away with the
birthright of those proud people We notice that the
sense of dissertation Of the White House mahogany
by having Washingtons black legs under it has not
caused any of the Southern Senators and Represen-
tatives to decline President Roosevels invitation to
dine with him, and perhaps sit in the same chair
cup1ed by the negro, eat from the same plate maybe
and with the same knife and fork wping their chaps
On the same napkin Senators Pettus, Mallory, Fos-
ter OF Louisiana, and Clay and large number of
Others, have accepted the same hospitality that was
enjoyed by Washington and have not been asked to
resign by their constituents
What the consequences would be if Professor
Council were invited not able to predict. OF
course he would decline, but the form of his decina
ton must be contemplated through smoked spec
tacles some other medium protect the eye from
the lurid language in which it would be- couched.
This opinion of Professor Council is based upon
recent delivery that has brought him into the fierce
focus of publicity.
Until few days ago he as unknown was
our vermiform appendix until the surgeons opened
an abdominal flap and detected it in the act of
lacking the rest of insides But he is known
He has publicly laid down three propositions on the
sectional and race issue and thereupon challenges all
corners. These are: 81 That the only pure Anglo
Saxon blood to be found in the United States is in
the South. That this pure Anglo-Saxon blood will
rule by the ballot, if possible, but by the bullet if
necessary. g. That when the negro undertakes to
step the line separating the two races he will
step from life to DEATH
1t is news that the Ango-Saxon is prevalent in the
South and is found there only. In the Carolinas
considerable part of the early settlers Gascons
They came from that part of France where an ele-
waited imagination and hereditary habit of lying has
made mountains out of mole hills, eagles out of mud
hens and has turned gray geese into swans. So we
have the term gasconad ding to describe that sort of
swashbuckling which has down even to this
generation The two greatest natives of South Caro-
lima were Calhoun, a Scotchman and Andrew Jack
son, OF Scotch-Irish lineage. Then the Huguenots
peopled the South and gave the long and illus
trous line of the Bayards of Delaware, the Maurys,
lie Contes and many more The French Acadans
settled Louisiana, in company with direct immi-
grafton from France, and gave us Pierre Soule and
distinguished company of publicsts and statesmen.
The Jews were not behind the rest, and long pro-
cession OF them was led by Judah P. Benjamin. But
we will call the roll further upon Professor Coun-
Gil In the elucdation of his thesis of three horns
he takes occasion to assert the general superiority of
the South the North and its greater skill in
handling the and his general contempt for every
thing up our way, which he boldly refuses to conceal
It is only the knowledge that his own section will
laugh at the chatering jay that makes one at all pa
tient with his vanity, bad and ignorance
But he got his name in the papers, and that was
probably the object of his effort