The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-10
and Hartford and New Haven had sent

and Hartford and New Haven had sent
a big lot of money down here to edu-
cate and reform our negroes it would
be nothing but fair for us to send a lot
of the graduates up there to do mis-
s%ionary work in Connecticut and Mas
couldn't teach them the lost art of
making wooden nutmegs, but they
could teach school and preach and the
New England people could pay then
for it and keep their money at home.
Something must be done, and done
quickly, or the old Puritan race will
become extinct. 1 reckon these col
ored graduates would make good mis-
sionaries. They have never tried any
thing else.
When my good friend, Mr.. L. K.
Oglesby, sent me his book, ''Some
Truths of History-The South Vindi-
Gated L was too sick to peruse it care
fully. Since l have gotten better have
reread it-every page-and am free to
say it is the most comforting little
book of 260 pages l have yet found. 1t
is mastery and as true and solid as a
stone wall. He has certainly indicated
the south and nailed the lies and SLAM
ders to the masthead. feel like / have
a defender in mine own household, and
yet there is not a malignant expression
in it. 1t is gracefully done and would
bring conviction to any mind, north or
south, that was open to conviction.
Every youth in the land should buy a
copy and absorb its contents, for it is
as readable as a romance. l regard it
as the best contribution to southern
historical literature that has yet APP
peared. Send $1.25 to Mr.. Oglesby, No.
s South Broad street, Atlanta, Ga. 1t
seems to me that this book would con-
vert a northern fanatic, and if it con-
verted only ia it would save a soul
from death and hide a multitude of
sins. And there has recently come to
me the March number of The Alkahest,
a first-class southern magazine, and l
find in it a very remarkable article,
The Stages of Civilization" by Mr..
Frank Orme, of Atlanta. / did not think
that the Frank Orme L used to know
was old enough to have written an ar
ticle so scientific, SO philosophical, so
HuXley-like on the races of mankind.
Most of the article is IN analytical his
tory of the principal races and the
causes that contributed to their adj
vancement or their decay. The latter
part deals gently and fairly with the
negro and our efforts to elevate and re-
fine him by education. From Mr.. Orme's
viewpoint and the laws of ethnolo-
gy and biology this cannot be done and
the effort will be in vain. But l have
not time or space to review his admira-
BILE treatise. Let our thoughtful men,,
our wise men, our learned professors
in the colleges read it and they will
find abundant food for thought and Sc
rious reflection. Mr.. Orme seems as
familiar with ~enthnology, biology, an
thropology, sociology and all the other
ologies as Huxley or Humboldt or OAR
win. We old veterans are pleased to see
our young men taking hold of these
things. Ever since the war our people
of making their condition more intol-
cradle by talking, but of late there is a
renewal of independence and younger
men are coming to the front. The sale
of Henry Il. ~Jackson's great speech on
THE Wanderer" has exceeded my ex-
pectations and it was a young man who
projected that-not for money, but for
the diffusion of knowledge.
And here is a long article in a Des
| Moines paper from a woman who has
been recently travelling through Texas
hunting for something she wanted to
find, and she found it. 1t was some
very high weeds in the front yard of
one homeland at another house was
a woman sitting on a log dipping snuff
and she had lost all her front teeth.
Another discovery was hat Texas
women don't do anything. They don't
work the garden or raise chickens or
churn the butter and if one was caught
at it she would be taken up and put in
a glass case and sent to the st. Louis
fair as a curiosity. What a malignant
slanderer she is. She winds up by say
ing that the people there hate the ne
gro so bad that if the whole race had
but one neck they WOULD chop it off.
1 know Texas from east to west and
north to south and the people will aver
age we'll with the better class in the
| older states. When will these ISLANDERS
cease? The March number of the Re-
view of Reviews has a most excellent
editorial on the south and her people.
1t is kind and considerate until it gets
to Roosevelt and it gives him the most
fulsome praise and declares hat he is
our friend. But l want Mr.. Shaw to tell
me if he can about when will Roosevelt
retract his published ISLANDERS of JEFF
ferson Davis and make an apology to
his widow. That's what want to know,
and until he does that no words of
| praise will prove him to be either a
gentleman or a friend Bill Arp, in
| Atlanta Constitution.
-.s~ Pnn A. L.