The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-02-08
TEDDY'S CRANIUM
INDICATES A FIGHTING, BEAR,
KILLING. FOOLHARDI MAN.
Physical Defects Pointed Out by Bill
.Arp-Tl1e Difference Between
IA Mckinley and Roosevelt.


An enthusiastic adnrer Of Bill Arr
and the Atlanta Constitution. one of thu
best newspapers in the South, has hand
ed the Caucasian the latest letter by
Bill Arp which he desires to have pub
iished for the edihcation of the many
who do not bit should, peruse Bill Ar)'>
letters in the Atlanta Constitution. "Tc
me-" he said. Bill Arp writes according
to my notions. | have been rea ling
Bills letters. for years and | delight in
his style of ripping Up things in ga'i-
eral. He is thoroughly Southern mar
ard wish he could live ard write for.
ever" With this deserved compliment
as prelude we give Bill Arp's lel,r
and here it is:
"A little more grape. Captain Bragg,
said General Taylor at the battle of
Buena Vista And 50 we say now to
Captain Teddy. A few more niggers
to Offices Up North and few more to
our Southern postot1ices Go the whole
hog while you are at it. Mckinley gave
you a starter by appointing negro over
a white community at Hogansville, and
another at Athens, the cultured college
city of the South, but he got alarmed
and took. the back track: 1t was just such
a case as you have now in Mississippi
at lndianola. for the people of Hogans-
vile went four. miles to get their mail
rather than take it from a negro-a
dirty politician" Teddy has done TO
worse on the postoffice line. The post
Offices are the peoples not the presi-
dents. They are almost as near to us and
as sacred as is our preacher Or our fam
lily physician. No greater insult. no
greater outrage upon our right could be
perpetrated by a tyrant than to appoint
a negro as postmaster in a white COM
mu11ity. The difference between Teddy
and Mr. Mckinley is that the latter
played fool for while and quit, but
Teddy keeps it UP and grows more de-
nant of Southern opinion and Southern
Sometimes Providence af-
ficts the people with a fool. and some
times with lsilave to tyran1lize over
them, bit it looks ike we are TO have
both fool and llnaye in the same person.
But the Lord loveth whom He chast-
anetl1.
A medical friend from over the line
writes me that he has a growing sense
ST justice and abourds in sympathy for
our long-suffering people, but Teddy's
defornity does not come from original
sin or total depravity, but from physical
defects in his anatomy. and says:
Il have studied his Uranium and find
hat he has too small cercbellum His
oceiput goes straight Up from the me-
dulla oblongata and meets the sinciput
it right angles and leaves no room for
moral attributes. A perpendicular back
head lie Teddyss indicates fighting,
,ear-killing, athletic and foolhardy man.
The aphryon and the messiah plane are
-ramped together and Teddy's back
mead is a perpendicular plane without
ill or dale A man with very small
,erebellum is peculiar, and it will be
found on inspection of the sinciput or
forehead that the nose and cheek bones
generally rest on an enormous jawbone,
,r, as you might say, the jawbone of an
ass. # Teddy had lived in Samson's
lay he would have rejoiced to have
Seen his armor-bearer, and carried his
aWbone some.
just so-exaetly-not only so, but
.lso. / understand all now, and thank
ny medical friend The lack of cere-
,el1un and medulla oblongata and occi-
INT has made Teddy crazy about bears
md neg roes and other black woolly
hings But | should like to know what
lind of a cerehellum that fellow Crum-
,ieker or Stinnpsucker or Dirtdarber
LAT got that makes him SO venomous to-
ward our people. At Teddy's request he
las introduced a resolution to have
appointed to visit Indianola
nd see what our people are doing to
he colored postmistress. Of course, he.
sill be appointed chairman of the COM
nittee, but I'll wager ten dollars he
Iont go. He Is nothing but gas bag
nd coward Mr.. Thompson tried to
.et him to come down to Alabama and
ee how the negroes on his big planta-
ion were getting on. He was invited
nd accepted the invitation. but he did
ot come. He was afraid. And that is
that discourages me about any grow
ng sense Of justice prevailing among
he common people up North. # they
re getting any kinder why do they send