The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-05-30
The Old South and the Young
South.

Daily Picayune.
Yesterday a remarkable spec
tacle was presented to the wOrl,
in the streets of this city in tn
FORM OF grand parade of the Con
federate Veterans and of the Son,
of the Veterans. 1t represented
in one striking and DISTINGUISHED
tableau the odd South" and the
Young South.''
The Picayune has never taken
any stock in the term New
South which has been much
paraded before the public to ex.
press the condition of the South
since the war of 1876. The
idea 1T was intended to convey is
that the old South was formerly
inhabited by a nonproeressive
race of shareholders, who were
always unfriendly to the Union
and who took the first opDor-
tunlty to rebel against the best
government the world ever saw. -
as described in a phrase com
mon with the Northern writer's
concerning the war, and who
had to be subjugated and whipped
into sujection: but that now the
younger generation RECOGNIZES
the lnlquity of the alleged rebel
hon and under the inspiration
OF the Constitution mutilated TO
accom- mOdate it to the conditions
created by the war, the South
IS marching forward in the line
OF progress.
This is the new South ac-
cording to the Specification given
to it by those who invented tho
phrase. But there is no new
South The country is tho
same that it always was, and the
people are the same, onlv the
Institutions are changed. The
people realize that they were
1riven into bloody sectional
var because they sought to {
maintain their constitutional E
lights against outrageous az q
and invasion. They '
ought against vastly superior Z
~ mbers of men and unbounded L
aaterial supplies. The South ?
rn people, after a gallant resist l,
nee maintained through fo1,r II
'ng year, were overpowered a
y vast physical material forces. u
L the end of that conflict thew p
'und their prosperity DESTROYED, n
leir wealth plundered or scat, W
red; their labor system utterly 5
sorganized and for a long time b'
1aviailable, and they were IN
reed to labor with extraordi- bs
Try energy and long-sufferinp ar
the effort to improve their con- an
ton and to revive their pros ST
rity. re
This has been done to a very an
extent, and it was pc
ne by the labors of the men OF
10 were sneered at as relics of "a
: old South.'' But there is DO
difference in the people. The WI
n who foupht fo,. tbe;,. ,,;tl4 Nj
re equal to the extraordinarv Sol
iertaking to restore to nros-
'lty their country laid waste
terfl ole war, and they have y ,
le 1T. They have time now to W..
Sc from their work lon~ Wi
ugh to study the records and 60
tabl1sh the facts which vim W. W.,
tie their rights in the strue- W. wv
they made. They not only nna
their riybts 1900 oIalul- ing
ltlon, but the fact is being ~
- 1AAC " IL W C1le WOTlQ ana is r
g admitted by many who con,
lerly believed otherwise, so nr;1
as far as fidelity to the -
antees of the Federal Con ti-
n is concerned, the alleged A
Is we're its real upholders. Aj
e older generations of the
bern people are not only
mt to continue as citizens of
american Union, but they
he last in the world who Is
'se to make use again of the
of secession, and so they t
their children. The. pro
n afforded to Southern de-
nent by the powerful ma .
lty of a united country is e.
able and Indispensable. 4
resent is the age of trusts
com binations not only in Y
e and Industries, but in y
atty. AS the great bust
'om binations are crushing
e weaker concerns, so the Ere
national powers ara con- medic
e and annexinp the chosel
r. A great national Power give
uired on the western health
phere to prevent it's vast you S!
'ry and it's unexampled US and
-gin resources from being for yo1
upon and ravished by the PEI