The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-16
AIM AT UNCLE TOM"
Kentucky Women Will Urge Law to
 Prohibit Plays Production.

I
 Louisville Special to Chicago Record Herald. t
 The production of Uncle Toms Cabin" l in Kentucky may be prohibited by law. "A base libel on the South.' so the l United Daughters of the Copfederacy have styled it. and led by Mrs. Basil
 Duke, sister of General Morgan and wife
 of General Duke, the raiders right hand
 man, and Mrs. John B, Castleman, wife l of General castieman, another famous Confederate soldier, have begun the war | on Mrs. Stowe's play.
 l The Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter | of the United Daughters of the Con | fsderacy has taken the matter up. committee will be appointed to go to | Frankfort, and backed by the old Con federates will try to push through bill prohibiting the production of the play on the ground that it is totally unreal. base misrepresentation a cruel Nhel on the South and vicious in its influences upon negroes and the young,
 United Daughters of the Confederaey all over the South are expected to take up the matter, and within few months it is expected that the production will be impossible south of the Ohio River.
 Mrs, flasil Duke, when seen tonight, was outspoken in her opinion. Uncle Toms Cabin, she said. ''is a low, foul misrepresentation of facts. It Is an unwarranted and cowardly attack upon the South and the Southern people by one, when 1t was written. who had never been in the South and had never seen the conditions she undertook to describe and failed 50 miserably in depicting. It is vicious In it's tendencies and a low pandep to the popular prejudice of an ins famed period. The United Daughters of the Confederacy will do all in their power to prevent by law the production of the play in Kentucky. The fight will begin immediately. and will be taken up all along the line"
 Mrs Duke is president of the Albert sidney Johnston Chapter. Mrs. Castle- man. who with Mrs. Duke stands at the fore front of Gonfederate women, said ; | fHistpry does hot record; another such afrocious libel on the 6ofth and on | Southern penple.E It Is q naisrepresen-
 tatipn of tho worst kind. and its produce
 tien in the South can be attended with
 nothing but bad results. The whites and
 the blacks must live together, and every | thing within the tendencies of that book
 or play should be discouraged. When the old slaves were alive, it did
 not make so much difference, because
 they knew the truth, but the younger | generation of blacks now coming on 1 should not be shown such distorted and
 altogether evil pictures to give them q
 wrong idea of what slavery really was
 and 10 stir them up against the whites.
 Certainly the Daughters of the C6nfed-
 eraey will do all In their power to sup
 press the piece in Kentucky"
 Mrs. s. l.. Burnett, whose ancestors
 are said to have figured in the play, l said: Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe some
 time before she died, declared that if she
 had lived in the South or known what
 she did in later years. she never would
 have written the book. Mrs. Perry. q
 teacher in the Louisville schools, heard
 Mrs, Stowe say this during sejourn In Florida. Other members of our Chapter
 heard her say this"
 NEWS A HUNDRED YEARS AGO, In reprinted news of 1891 would make l queer reading for today. In a recent issue of The London Times 1t reprints from it's issue of November, 1891, the following curious items
 | "A milliner advertises that she will not be visited on foot, and assures her eus- toners that her father kept his own coach This, is very true-No. so5. and drove 1t also.
 "A great change is announced in the I sporting world. Powder Is utterly out of fashion, and gentleman would scorn to knock down partridge with anything but an air gun, always excepting the ionS DOW, with which so many of our best shots kill their game.
 Among the lay sportsmen the contest lies, who shall kill the most head of game, but your sporting parsons think nothing of one another till they have had a shot at the squire.
 An odd circumstance occurred the other day in church, In Leicester shire, The lard of the manor has brought an action against the parson for shooting upon his lands and imagin ming himself to be addressed from the desk in the words. Oh, Lerd. forgive us our trespasses, the Squire rose in fury and | swere he would see him d-rd first On Friday coal porter exhibited hts wife in Smithfeld with halter around l hr neck for sale. He demanded guinea for her, but she hung en hand | for some time, uatil a man of good ap- pearance made the p rc'ase ana, pack ] iAg her, halter and all Into a hackney i coach, drove for Blaokfriars br.dS
 amidst the huzzas of the mob"
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