Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-17
SOUTHERN SENTIMENT.

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SOUTHERN SENTIMENT.
Of Topics.
! John W. Gates is not the ideal Sun
| day-school boy, but he is fair represent
/ tdtiVe OF American enterprise. He may
| die i-millionaire or he may die pen
niless, but as long as he lives he will do
| mething.-N1emphis Commercal-Appcal.
! General Thomas Rosser. Of Virginia.
who served in the Confederate army and
/ in the Spanish-An1erica war makes the
prediction that Virginia will cast it's tcc-
torai vote for the Republican can
didate for President in 1904. 9
| There will doubtless be a greater
division amons the white voters
in Virginia hereafter than has ex-
+, listed heretofore. but the Old Dominion
/ will hardly go Republican in the next
| national election-unless the course of the
! Democratic party drives it to such des-
| perate action.-NashvIle American.
! Georgia is Overwhelmingly in favor of
the taxation OF franchises, and there Is
no objection to this policy. The average
business is willing to contribute fair
sum TO the support OF the government.
There should be an earnest effort, how
ever. to reach an equitable basis Of tax
ation.--Augusta Chronicle.
1t is gratifying to note that although
the southern States of the Union are not
the largest producers of corn. this is not
for the lack Of any requisites of soil or
climate, but because more labor and
acreage are given to other crops, namely,
cotton in the Southern belt and tobacco
in the Middle. But all the southern
States are perfectly adapted to the cul-
ture OF corn, and if it was object their
crops of it could be greatly multiplied
AS matters stand they are still very i'm
partant producers Of this staple.-New
Orleans Picayune.
Precociousness is markedly characterls-
tic of Americans. and it is sure to strike
every one who visits the country for the
first time. Children early acquire the
manner, and, unfortunately. also the
knowledge Of men and women: SO that
the period usually called childhood has
practically disappeared. In society, mid
dle-aSed people soon retire into the back
ground, leaving the field almost entirely
to the young; and the result is far from
benS an Improvement. This is particular
ly the case at the South, where many
causes have operated to prevent the older
as was the universal custom in days gone
by. ard TIE tone OF society has incvitaoly
suffered in Observation-Disclosures News
ana Courier.
Fl W. Hawkes., q Virginia negro, is
subject to particular annoyance from
the jim Crow law. He prefers to travel
with MS own race. but his skin is so
white that conductors refuse to believe
he is q negro, and when he takes q
seat in the compartment Tor colored
people he is elected and made TO sit
with the whites. When he brings suit
for dana ges he proves that he is a
negro, bat ne gets no damages. The
whites pa ssed the Jim Crow law TO keep
the negroes from sitting with them, but
when under this law a negro who !
does not wish to sit with them is forced
to sit with them. another proof is aided !
TO that furnished by New Orleans that !
jim Crow laws do not always accomplish |
what the, We're intcnCcd to accomplish |
Louisville Courier journal.
We shall hear 4 great deal about legis- |
latng against trusts along the line mark |
ed out by the President during the win |
ter, but it can be stated with certainty |
that there will be no antitrust legislation.
The trusts have got their grip on Con- |
gress and, in fact on the country. and
i Il
both free from them. a new set of men
with different principles will have to t
DE put III control Ct Congress before there
will be legislation that will seriously in
terfere with trusts. IN the meantime
trusts are being organized right along,
and by the time a Congress that will act
against then, will be chosen the business |
of the entire country will be in the hands
OF trusts. Then il will be argued probably
that arv interference with trusts would
be calamitous, #. indeed trusts would
not be strong enough to defy the govern !!
News. !:
It is clear that the South V
solid primarily by the
To persons
the situation. the Souti ~
solid for similar il not iCle--~.S.->. -~1sohs.
The South distrusts the Republican party.
It understands that carpet-bas rule,
Lodse force bills, and Crumpacker reso-
lutions are all in enc line. and that, spite
x-Confederate important military po-
sitions in the with Spain. the south
ern peouIe hat> not yet ceased to be re-
garded with suspicion by the Republican
party. The southern people, much as
they might like to do SO, cannot bind
themselves 10 physical facts; ana SO
long as The South is excluded, under Re-
puOllcan RUE, liolil 10 Je'o1 ''t'sAA - - -
Of the government-so
long as Republican Presidents fail TO APP
Doint as members of the Cabinet, and
as members of the diplomatic and con-
.ular corps, eminent southern men, and
so long as they persist in appointing TO
offices in the South persons who do NOT
the intelligence and character
If this section-just SO long will the South
,e pardoned if It fail to repose confidence
;, Tho Republican party.-New Orleans
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\ Lady Thinks Him Entitled to
Thanks.
TO the Editor Of the Dispatch:
Of. Ware deserves the gratitude OF all
yho are dependent on newspapers for en-