The age-herald., 1902-05-01
Men of All Sections Tire of the
 United Country" Talk.

gro ought to be driven into thd sea after the manner of the swine of 5ld
 This is the general attitude of the North toward the South. It is not love of the South; it is merely kind feeling The attitude of the South toward the North is more cordial, more friendly. We Southerners wear our hearts on the fronts of our coats, and we are the better for 1t. Jackdaws may peck us; 7jaclSasses like Crumpacker and his friends may bray at us but we are a gentle folk, even in most heroic battle. We have never yet burned houses over the heads of defense- less women and children We never made land so desolate that even a crow flying all day long could find no food
 Away with Crumpacker and every slan- derer who talks as he talks, acts as he acts, believes as he believes. Besides him and his fellow-brigands, Booker Washington is a white-robed messenger of light and sweetness and the humblest black man in the Black Belt is noble citizen of high virtues.
 This line of argument Is being pursued every day in Washington by the more enlightened men and women of all shades of political faith and from all sections of the country.
 Today there is a perfect storm of it. a strom of protest against Crumpacker and Crumpackerism and the ceaseless and senseless chatter over the ending of war that was ended seven and thirty
 
 that we are "reunited' countryl Every body is in a resentful mood-bitterly re- sentful against an apparent fresh revivil of Crumpackerism and against the polit- ical and unconsidered prattle of the great reunited" Southerners hate Crumpack- erism, and they resent being s,ernally informed that they are once more in the Union, of the population of which they constitute one-third Northerners bitter ly resent Crumpackerism because 1t stirs up strife which is already hurtful to business and which may in the end prove to be politically and materially disas- trous.
 The immediate cause of the greater storm of today is the nature of the Right Rev. Bishop Keiley's speech to the Confederate Veterans in Savannah. The bishops attack upon President Roose- welt because of the apparent insincerity of the President in his Charleston speech mey be likened to the throwing of torch into a barrel of powder. There has -been an explosion that staggers every body and gladdens almost everybody.
 "I am glad of it-I am glad of it-I am glad of it," cried a Republican high in official life, speaking to me In confidence, but in the abundance of his heart.
 Bishop Kelley had said something that was sorey needed to be said"
 "All this comes of that reunited gab- ble. President Roosevelt's Charleston speech was pretty enough, and was meant to fatter a people who, proud of their deeds, are above the reach of flat tery. Your southern people do not care whether MT. Roosevelt or MT. Anybody says the southern soldiers were brave men, were real heroes, for those people know their own history and are proud of 1t. Let pray that we have heard the last of the south being back in the Upion,' for such continued harping upon such a patent and familiar condition is nothing short of insult to southerners" The fire and sting of Bishop Keiley's speech are in his quotation from Roose- welt before he became President, to-wit:
 Before Jefferson Davis took his place among archtraitors. it was not unnat- ural that to dishonesty he should add treachery to the public. The moral diff ference between Benedict Arnold, on the one hand, and Aaron Burr and Jefferson Davis on the other, was the difference between a politician who sells his vote for money and one who supports a bad measure to get high political position.'
 Nothing else since the murder Of Me- Kinley has so stirred Washington as Bishop Keileys speech.
 LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER.