Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-29
SOUTHERN SENTIMENT
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Comment of the Press on n Var1ety

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The fight on the validity of the new
Constitution of Virginia. which is to. come
up in the United States District Court
at Richmond with Chief Justice Fuller OH
the bench with Judge Waddill, Will pc q
| n, emorable one.-Savannah News
Another assassina ton OF President
would completely unnerve the country.
It is pitiable spectacle. however, tna'
| wherever the President goes these active
detectives are jumping this way ana tnat
showing the fear of an attack.-hno1-
vile Sentinel.
There never was an objection from that
quarter (the North) to child labor In
southern mills until the southern mllls
began to increase in number and becone
competitors of the New England mills,
and then the trouble began.-Wilmingtoli
Star.
we used to be told that India and
China would take all the silver that could
possibly be produced but events nave
demonstrated that this is untrue as the
famous statement that the market price
of wheat and cotton f1uctuated directly
along with charlottesville Courier
Journal.
Really. one scarcely knows, from
cusory look out over the field, what the
President can have in mind to say thas
will consume so considerable words and
time. From the, purely Republican point
of view it ought to be possible to sum up
the situation in the phrase "alrs well that
ends we'll for us and top 1t Off with
Senator Hanna's remark that I'VE stand
pat."-Atlanta Constitution.
S, n Inc
| navigation in some Florida streams was
brought there by planter who lived near
Palatka and put in private pond near
the river He has. without intending It,
caused the loss of many thousands or
dollars to his fellow-citzens and the gov
eminent What with English sparrows
and German carp and water hyaclnths
this country has been much distressed ov
experimental cranks.-Augusta Chronicle.
The probability is that the President
will be turned down by Congress on MS
antitrust law. just as he was turned
down on his Cuban reciprocity scheme
He may wish to be turned down. he
may wish his bill to be passed; but, what
ever he Wishes this will be the result:
The bill will not pass. Then the Presl-
dent will appeal to the country to stand
bv him and elect him to office with a
Congress that will carry out his Wlshes
and his pledges to the people 1t is
shrewd game he is playing. sort OF
hea tails you-lose sort of a game
There is only one weak point IN II. Inc
people may see through it and put the
Decocrats in power in 1904.-Houston
Chronicle.
Some of the northern attempts to depict
southern pronunciation are extremely
farcical. They result from the tradition
that we of the South do not use the T,
but utilize the III, instead. In conse-
uuencc the northern idea of southern pro
nunciation is about as true to lite as the
English cockneys impersonation OF the
American negro in the dance halls. NO
sontherner that ever lived ever said
"vehy'' for very or Many Tor
"Marv." or "cahhy" for carry. He
pronounces the .'r" politely and turns It
loose. He does net pounce upon 1t IKE
a long lost brother. swear that nothing
hut death them shall part. and act alto
sether as if he never expected 10 meet
another 81" as long as he hved: Inc
southerner who is sweet on Mary pro
rounces her name with perfect correct
ness. but he is more apt to linger around
Mary herself than the r. in her name.
But how does the Yankee pronounce TINS
uerfectiv simple but beautiful "ord!
WHY. he speaks it as if it were written
"MayaEry." He is so afraid that r Will
foe, s,jchted that he throws in an entire
ev]able and charges it up to profit ana
loss
We of the South have been grossly.
ortheopically maligned by the North,
whose pronunciation is not nearly so
correct as ours The best English IN the
United States is spoken by the educated
neon1e Of the South.-Memphis CONNER
cial Appeal.