The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-16
UNCLE roM's CABIN AGAIN.

The members of the Daughters nt the Confectionery at Lexington. kentucky' have asked that Uncle Toms Caoin oI stricken from the list of plays gwen al the local opera house on the grounds that 1t gives the young of today a wrong imnression of the slave holders of the South, It would be interesting to kno" how the fair young ladies who compose that organization know anything about the condition of the slaves. They cer- tainly will not own up to peihk oi"i enough to know by personal observation And having nothing but hearsay evidence are they competent to pass Judgment !-- Leavenworth Times.
 This fippant style of treating the incl dent will not settle 1t, nor will 1t con vence any right-thinking person that the ladies were wrong. The intimation tna' "the fair young ladies" of Lexington are not competent to pass judgment sho"s hou little The Times knows of the des- Noordarts of the Southern shareholders. They are not the kind of people who "lil soon lose all knowledge of the highest type of civilization this country has eve' seen. These daughters of the Confed- eracv. many of them born since the war, know what kind of people their imme- diate ancestors were and the grand lives they led in those days when there was something more important than getting money and office.
 Nor was the remark of Manager Scott, that .the war ended more than thirty years ago less fippant and impertinent. The action of the ladies of Lexington had nothing to do with the war or with those who fought il. It was but the eX- nression of a natural and proper feeling of resentment against a play which IS both false and offensive. Mrs. Stowe's $ object in writing the book on which the pIav is founded was to belittle and mis- represent the South and the Southern people Her whole intent was to make our people appear in the eyes ot the world AS barbarians and savage task ma sters. and to help on the cause ot which John Brown was an exponent It is true, one of the most despicable char acters in her book was a Northern man, but that does not in any manner detract from the falsehood and offensiveness ot her work.
 These Lexington ladies were not the first to speak out against this play. From the time of its first presentation in the South there have not been wanting good neople to condemn 1t and to object to it's sreceiving patronage from tf6 Southern people. There can be no good reason given why 1t should not be boycotted throughout the entire South, and forced to go back to the region where people are willing to believe In its style and to pay their money for it. Our own people know how false it is and they are right when --.ey object to its presen- tatlon down here.
 Somewhat to our surprise The Kansas City Journal refuses to endorse the play or to blame those who so plainly testi- fled their disapproval of it. That paper says:
 The protest of the Daughters of the Confederacv at Lexington. Ky, against furtber performances of Uncle Tom s Cabin'' in their town is neither surpris- ino nor sensational. The scenes depicted in Mrs Stowe's book on which the play was based were never truly typical of prevalent conditions in the South in