Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-08-05

cd throughout two-thlrdsu Of the pa
tiono
Can one third hope to resist and
protect itself against 3 ~two-thirdsf
The management Of the Mobile and
Ohio railroad are Southern men. lie
conductors would kick any negro out
of q white coach south Of the Ohio
river, but they never see them In the
coarch after crossing that river. For
this the railroad company Is not to
blame. nor are its conductors. Il is
due simply and plainly to the crossing
Of that imaginary line between the
North and Sonth.
The North is twice as large as tn
South. How long will It be before
that imaginary line will be moved far
Their South and steadily on and on
until It is pused over the Gilt and
into the scar
How will IL be pushed thus2
By the South accepting the staff ui
social equality set by the President of
the United States and seconded by
aspirants for the highest positions IT
honor to be filled in our state or u
Southland.
The message sent out on Thursday
Of this week by the voters Of Missis-
sippi, the pivitol and central state Of
the South, will have much to do
with directing the attention OF the q
informed Of the two thirds of this
grea; country. II Mississi pi favors
social equality by voting for the
combinatil ms which are defending
Roosevelt aid against the men who
are defying his nefarious attempt,
that imaginary line win moves South
ward very rapidly. A negro yell will
go up ali over the nation, and outrage
win follow outrage everywhere, If,
on the other hand, Vardauau and
Money are triumphant, since there
can be no question as to how they
stand, Mississippi will send forth in
laundering tones the fat that the
South proposes to retain the purity Of
the Caucasian race; that the negro
will be treated fairly in his proper
place, which, however, he must keep,
then there may be hope Of a re-
awakening among the good people in
all sections of the United States, and
this threatening black peril which
now seems to hover over the last ma
ton ON the globe which it is possible
Ia. make an enduring Republic.
It lie but natural to hope that the
brave people of the South, who have
endured so much, who have shown
such wonderful heroism in their
Phoenix like transformation Of a land
laid waste into q garden At for the
gods, can be trusted to retain, in all
its purity, the civilization which has
stood the ravages Of an hundred
years of turmoil and risen from many
q defeat on carnage fields, that the
true descendants OF Adams, thai
noble specimen created in the image
of God, shall not perish from the
poisonous ravage of amalgomation.
To US this. duty seems so imperative.
so important, so desirable that we
can scarcely imagine the forces which
could turn any fair minded person
from the scene for 3 moment until Il
lie a sealed verdict in favor Of the
right.
We are aware that politics otter
enthuse good men to forget almost
their God; but how any man a BIZ
influenced to cast his ballot at &c
important 3 time in a name which
%solicits an assault Of his innocent
daughter, his wife, his sister o hi
mother, is beyond our comprehension
, Remember that Governor LONGING
pardoned a black beast who had beer
convicted of assaulting a helpless ole
, woman 20 years old; that he is sup.
ported in his candidacy for the UnitdC
States senate, by two ~aspirants fol
his present seat, and the situation il
fairly before you.