The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-11-04


many days In thick weather aud on an
unknown sea. he naturally avalls himself
OF the first pause Ia the storm the car
( Hest glance ~ the sun, to take his latitude
/ and ascertain how far the elements have
/ driven him from his true course, Let us
1 initiate this prudence, snd before we hoat
! further on the wsves Of this debate, re-
/ fer 10 the point from which We departed
/ that we may at least be able 20 conjecture
/ where We now are. Daniel Webster.
lnscrutable are the ways Of Providence
4 Why tho African was brought 10 America
I in Eastcn ships to be sold as u slave to
/ southern bus crs-and why the Southerners
4 bought hints a mystery. lie fastened
upon the South a labor system clumsy aud
/ costly; and In the end. preciptated a
/ destructive war Of sections As a political
issue he Involved the whole country in
nearly century Of embiuered CONTROVERSY.
I Yet, here he is again; progressive end
I Gus by The needless experimentation OF
/ sentimental president
I The old charge SO strenuously dclied by
7 Abraham Lincoln and the statesmen .
his school, thnt the freedom OF the negro
/ would prove but the prelude 20 his claim
/ to political aud social equality. Is thus
I welt and the attitude OF the republican
( press Nay more, taking for their cue the
z bNtNN NNNAtN ~ ~. lfNs dNN u NtAN lfNH
/ unimportaut southern newspapers having
, more blood and bile than brains the rcpub.
I itcan organs seek to mako IL appear that
the reasonable protest OF The south against
, the example set by the president Is an
cmanaton Of the old slavc-holding era II
rot an expression Of treason and rebel
The negro problem is many-stdel
problem. a. the North it prosecute itself
actcr..' At the south il Is .ansl6lc ana
real. II U.s. Indeed ;he most serious OF
gu our problems. That The negro WINS
hurt not helped, by his enf'anchisam
| ourht tA be plain to the minds of ilteili-
gent Northern people aud is Absolutely
fixed in the BELIEF Of the southern people.
( Inc new generation NJ negroes which has
come upon the scene since the war If sec
lions IL not an improye,2ent upon the old.
In some WAYS 4 Is 9 distinct retroercssion.
er> Is a fungus Given license encouraged
To assert Itself. It would sneedily become
domestic menace The hone OF the good
kept distinctly apart under a working
agreement to live and lei live each In
Its own appointed sphere,
This does not suit Missionaries ike rhco
dorc Roosevelt II does not suit specua-
live philosophers. Ike our dear Brother
Kohlsaut Of Chicago. 1t is crist to the
mill of those scribes and pharisccS OF the
regulation line, who are never so happy as
when descanting upon the harharism OF
the South Here comes the Inter Ocean, a
yeritablc sergeant major of the old guard,
TO say that the presidents courtesy 10
Mr., Washington is-to be used by democrats
of the Wattcrson school to alarm aud in
flame the whites in the South and 20 eN-
cite the iealousy OF the negroes The policy
of the president TO improve the Federal
( service IN the South Is ignored and mere
. incident Of that policy is TO he used 10
prejudice whole race against the man
who seeks to treat them as citizens rather
than as outlaws" Whereupon, Brother
/, inter ocean stack of blues and seeing
only in the CourlerJournal' playful allu-
sion q hloulonS, hpg9llR aileEalRhet Gu
TX" tha ,hsmnoane pcrcolates down his
royal-and. as he admits, very thirsty
throat, and bubbles of VT ana sarcasm
unoat ia"ui III tis, dPIib ON Gprs, nS thr
J lndustrious stenographer tries 10 commit
, them to paper.
bnt oeneath 'nv PIN % wv ~ ~ nro
Slavery odyocate There is the reverence
- Ir,rsor n1vts and ms slur M The
: .reutIeman of color There is the invat
roto s,,,,r. az Nandou phUlins and Iloyd
a,'Im ;rbsoJern Parker and Joshua
Gfjdi,os rbcrs il tbe Sian nj FredeIirL
, I ,-u,oiHr' ,rtnra a. tho ,ttatnnt In poisou
LtouS az orr, mind o@airsT Ro"ier r Wash
X ington
M N".''t s",, ~. IT, I,il ',5 al.
oos1%ni mhEI ne over their '6ossum and
- al,
taterS III thH MulIr u, ilgusG, anV lowiu ~! W.
floor we eaten the nan ilh'ti.u!asr S AN :"
!. tion to democrats 70 lulc, Het loNt,4t' Itiu
, TO keep their poWaet nlEN' neVnVse W.
Young broncRo buster Is s9ing 10 rolsE no y,.t
hell TO the square men tnah WIS EYER IIH,GS'u
in that particular neck OF me WOODS, W ~
a little longer boys There's Sooo time
coming. ..,..t,,
. Prom all Of when We can sortoNlniil
draw the moral that wise man atler ON
, ner can he more binds or 1901 lhhu
J 5OOCo louts who know not the eNnllardllol
: of champagne.
: Taking counsel OF the quotation IRON
l. poni,I Webster affixed 10 the present ar
= A'i'O' ~ ori,,noI text
,! ucle' let us reeut 10 the o'ts'n"' 80
. Would thnt this might have been dehNere'
II ont of the effusion of the dinner table
q -. Ia no .ho,,parun-
!: hetWe'h the sheriE ""u ''' :,
{ as II were, because TO say so Is 10 cren'
+. the writer with capacities that Gatter hin
2 , - Ia ,o,,Id wish SIN were his
8 ana 'ha' ne V"u'u wien
! Truth to say, he has reached IN age Wn'i
y It does not much mind being suspected
I ana Booker in the lightsome. possum ant
: potato vein, because hardly 6now'n'
~ wRether 70 ia la"sh az anal liSe NE Want
4 ed TO pour nj little sunshine into an In
- .,idnpt already rptttng mululpd by thu