St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-02-14
CURRENT COMMENTING. 2.
SOCIAL EQUALITY.

error overlooked in the last issue.
Referring to politicians elected to
Congress: 1t was written: ''they ge,
upon their hind legs in Congress
and bray" The types made it
"pray"-aC Christian virtue they are
not capable of, as rule; If there
are any exceptions, they do not pray
in Congress. If their constituencies
had been the subject under con-
sideratlon, and the types had made
1t prey this note of correction
void not have been written.
There are sufficient ethical prob
lens, arising from inequalities
among the whites, without creating
more difficult ones by color mix
ture. The optlmist will say, ''Fhls
social equality fad Is all a bosh,
1t can never be accomplished, pub
lie opinion is against it..
The "Conservatlves' expressed
the same opinion about Abolition
ism. They said, "ttere are only a
few of these agitators North and
South; public opinion is against
them; the black cloud on the po-
lit,cal horizon will be peaceabIy
dispersed. There will not be much
of a shower after ALL" Slavery
could have been abolished by
proper legislation; pacific means
would have saved millions of lives,
and billions of dollars. But that
did not suit the .sbloody shirt adj
vocates. There were fat army con-
tracts for political heelers; great
transportation jobs, over favored
lines; much doodle in selling old
hulks to the government, with
broad fields of plumber and contis
cation in sight. The result: CIV
ing over the Southern States to the
carpe. baggers, and their black boon
companions, to be plundered. The
advocates of M'scegenation are ''but
few" but the same black virus of
sectional hatred, recently develop
ed, will be quite sufficient 10 leaven
the political mass, as it did forty
years ago.
10 all who can, and do, think on
the subject, our "Ship Of State''
seems drifting into an unchartered
Sea of Capitalization, Imperialism,
Milltarism, surrounded by the froth
and scum of official corruption. The
officers and creH-with few
honorable EXCEPTIONS phalanx of
confederated knaves,, more intent
on devislng schemes to plumber the
passengers, than to protect them,
or safeguard their interests. The
famous reception with that en-
dors,ng howl Tor Southern blood,
the Hanna bill, to pension ex-slaves,
are merely straws upon the current,
showing the drift.
But, to drop metaphor. Let us
consider the outcome of this new
creed of Miscegenation with the
Afro. American, if it can be forced
upon our race.
The decadence of the Spanish
race, once the proudest in Europe,
commenced with the introduction
OF the Ethioplans among them,
Authors of recent romances gush
profusely about the nobility Of old
Castillian families; but, az a matter
of fact, there is scarcely a family
ofaris:ocratic lineage on the loerlan
Peninsula to-day, that does not
show the mongrel strain, the faint
of African blood, in some of their
branches. Not Moorish alone. bu,
the genuine Congo, or lower coast
slave breed. ..*
The blood of the Spanish hidalago,
and laborer; the Carib Indian, and
imported African, composes the
native population of the South
American States. Can one look
forward complacently to the day
when this Republic will be the
heritage Of similar servlle, mon.
grel race?
Weak in intellect. but strong In
low cunning; ignorant Of science:
bunglers in mechanical arts, bu,
adopts IN duplicity, giants in bonn
bastic egotism, but dwarfs in all
the virtues that tend TO create a
creditable commonwealth.
When asitators, black or white,
at the Capital of the Nation, public
ly proclaim their hatred of Southern
white people and wish to have them
exterminated by fire and slaughter,
10 glut their envious spleen, OF
strengthen their political party;