Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-04-01

slppl river as much &c they would
like to lose It up to the present writ
ing.
A kiss may be q cross between .
blister and q bite, but there are those
Of both < eyer willing TO be cruel
fed on such q cross.
Perhaps we have not understood the
President In the South, as he insists,
but Of one thing there can be no cavil:
II we don't understand him, we don't
care to do 30.
And now Columbia, this state, is
complaining Of An overabundance Of
cats. There are always evidences
showing up to verify that old time
remark, that the cat came back.
Those who have been complaining
of the cool weather, the rain and 9TH
err little freaks of the elements, win
probably be anxious to welcome any
thing of the sort to relieve the mo-
notony before the country again cele-
brates the 4th Of July.
The people Of a New Hampshire
town are in the there's of a mouth and
foot disease. 1t has been generally
understood that New Hampshire peo-
pie have had Affections Of the mouth
for sometime, but the ailments Of
their feet is a new thing.
The Washington negro, who is to
start on q wedding tour with q white
bride Easter Sunday, will doubtless
side step all that section Of country
lying South Of the Mason and Dixon
line, In order to avoid the complica-
lions Of the Jimcrow a
The marriage OF a negro man to q
white woman in Washington on Eas-
ter Sunday, is probably only another
evidence that President Roosevelt
has been misunderstood. But there
is little danger Of the Washington
Misunderstanding reaching very far
toward the South.
The Commercial Appeal is Of the
opinion that what the Democratic
party is most in need Of just now Is to
identify itself with something that is
successful. The only hope in this
direction lies in breaking away from
the leading spirits that have been
ruling them with an iron hand forcing
issues for purely personal uses, leav-
the masses to pay the assessments and
suffer from the certain defeats.
All the political Juggling Of the
President and those of his sectional
prejudice cannot stay the trend
toward the flow Of immigration and
capital into the South. From every
position Of the North, East and West
eyes are turned toward the Southland.
People aspire to homes in this rich
section of the nation, and capitalists
are seeking investments in industries
and business enterprises throughout
the Southern half of this grrat coun-
try.
President Roosevelt's attitude to-
ward the South, on the negro ques-
ton, is only equalled by the old maid
In a mothers convention. The most
ready critic of the manner in which
children should be governed and cared
for, are ever at the old maids ton
gue's end. The President who really
knows no more of the real status Of
the negro in the South, strives to
force his Illogical opinions over those
of men who have lived among and
dealt with the black man from his
childhood. In this attitude, the Presi
dent not only exposes his own mon
umeDtal ignorance, but embarrasses
his partisan followers and q vast sec
tion Of the country, in which large
portion of the people are only too
willing that the race question may be
solved by those who are confronted
with all the details and are capable OF
rational action.