The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-07-10
IT IS LACK OF KNOWLEDGE
The Ignorance Prevalent at
the North in Regard to the
South.

the North i'll Regard to the
South.
MIR. VIM. p. Calhoun, Of Grccnvillc, g,
S. O., contributes the following timely
article TO the Augusta Chrouicle:
1t is very annoying to the people Of
the South TO see how little our North
ern and Western people know about
us.
II is not strange that men living in
the lackwoods of the North and West
should show ignorance of the South
and it's people; but, it surpasses hu-
man understanding to account for the
want Of knowledge, IN some cases
amounting to actual ignorance, among
mcn and newspapers. Tho Southern
press and Southern men know more of
the North and West, as Il rule, than
the latter know Of the former, and can
write and speak more intclligently of
Northern and Western men and mat.
tcrs. Yet, our well informed friends
and neighbors of the North AMI Yves,
assume superiority over us that is
very amusing. They interfere in ON
affairs and actually dictate to us. In
30 doing they only too often show
their want of knowledge Of the South.
Some of our Northern men and papers
can give about as good a description
| OF the South and its people as the lit
Tie boy did in his composition about
the horse, which in substance was that
the horse was q very useful animal
with one leg at each corner, a tall on
one end and head on the other.
We are useful people III some re-
spects, it is admitted, but generally
speaking we are lot of ignol amuses
that have no idea how to conduct our
own affairs. The foregoing has been
recently emphaszed in the matter of
the status Of the negro at the South
and how we ought to treat and man.
age him, and in which great ignorance
as to the facts in the case are shown.
Our superior fellow citizens are at |
times dOgmatlc and intolerant and |
know the facts better than we 40; and
they ask lib to toe" their mark.
have come to the conclusion that most
Northern men and newspapers are in
need Of a Southern man to direct
them, and each paper should provide
itself with an intelligent Southern man
in it's sanctum 10 tell it something
about the South when its editor de.
sires to direct or criticise us. In that
way 80 many evidences of want of
knowledge would not appear.
1t seems incredible that an jntclli. |
gent man in New York, twenty-four
hours from Greenville, should be 80
little informed about matters in South |
Carolina and in the South generally as
is some times the case. Last winter,
an intelligent man from Providence,
Il. l., came to Greenville on his first
visit South. He came with q friend
who had been South many times anil
knew our people and our climate. He
stated to the writer that he had had |
trouble to make his friend bring an
otvercoat with him, he claiming that he |
Knew all about the Southern. climate
and that an overcoat would not be |
needed. On reaching Greenville, that |
wise mon found the weather very cold,
and he was surprised beyond measure.
lie thought that it was all "summern
here. He had never dreamed that tho |
thermometer some times went down
to zero and even below. He wrote
that news back home as great dis. |
covery just made by him in advance of |
all other explorers. The fact that we