The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-06-29
FROM MISSOURI.
Durham Missouri, June II 'O4.

EDITOR DENISoN REVIEW:
In recent nun Der of your paper it
was stated Nv. j. Bryan has finished
planting corn and today went east
to so v his spring hay he made limit
ed tour OF Missouri giving few
| lectures and holding a conference with
democratic state committee. Who does
not know that Missouri is a.d.mocratic
state: One of the ''sold SOUTH yet
not wholly solid. We have some
counties with republican msjorties
and many are twenty to forty per cent
republican, The past year we have
had one republican in congress but his
conduct there makes him appear as
only galvanized democrat.
| MIR. Bryan said this visit has no
political significance. This may mean
That he has no new platform material
| something greatly needed for this
oming convention and without which
heir party issue will be as in the past
weakling that will not survive the
fail campaign. The solid south have
decided that Mr.. Roosevelt must not
be elected and as in their Judgment
he di. graced himself and the nation in
the Booker Washington dining room
affair the arty that endorses his ad-
ministration must be swept from power.
When Mr.. Roosevelt broke caste by
inviting a colored man, though per-
| feet gentleman in every other respect
and the best representative of his race,
to dine with him the whole democratic
soltn had to go right off and catnlp.
They are still at it. You hear and
read much about social equality in
any scheme that will bring dividends.
| y on may go to an up to date hotel run
with colored servants, have a negro
stand behind your chair and take your
orders but should you actually eat at
the same table or in the same room
with a colored person you would break
caste, deny the democratic faith and
become worse than an infidel. Indeed
you would thereafter be as low down
as President Roosevelt. From OBJ
| servations made on the streets OF GER
tain cities in Missouri and Illinois we
are convinced that white people in con-
siderable numbers have been ON such
terms of equality with negroes as to
rob the posterity of the latter of that
color that should be their birthcight.
This was not social equality, ah no.
social equality is social equality. This
is lucid explanation of the term and
makes it very clear does it not? Ser
iously the din and twaddle vomited by
the democratic press of the south since
the affair alluded to at the white house.
all this gush is the expression of u
civilization existing in the south which
differs so materially from the civiliza-
tion of the north that it is difficult for
the two sections to understand how
much they have in common. The
character and pursuits of the people
who settled the New England states
and gave tone and fiber to the civil.
zation that spread eastward made them
to differ radically from those who set
tied along the Atlantic seaboard and
gulf coasts of the south. Thus two
civilizations were developed and along
different lines. One class holding
that righteousness exal's nation, the
other that wealth and power makes {
nation great. One sought equality o
common wealth through the elevatine
and enobling influences of free schoo
a free press. and free church, tn.
other trying to grade society according
to heredity and wealth, sometime
graded down instead up. Then SLAYER.
came in as break hard set agains
the wheels of progress. No peopl
under the sun can maintain system o
slavery as it was conducted in tn
slave states and preserve self respec
or God respect or the respect Q
Christian nations, to say nothing Q
the finer sensibilities and emotion
which eminate from the heart to in
huence the mind, control the will an
distinguish the man from the animal
. In brutalizing the slave they brutali2
ed themselves and sowed seeds for
terrible harvest not yetfully gathered
This civilization has run its course
is in force now only as machine, wi
continue motion for time after powe
has been detached from its own inertia
Both the white and colored races i
these states are coming to understan
that intelligence and worth and nc
birth or money is to be the standard {
manhood and womanhood. The secula
7 press here SO far as it is in Democrat
hands is controlled by politician:
These Office holders and Office seeker
E never weary of bringing the negr
problem into every campaign, as north
ern demagogues bring old chestnuts il
4 to each fall canvas. Really the negr