The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-15
"OPM A DEAD Mon" SAID PAT
WHEN THE PONY BLEW A REED
And Pat Represents the Russians in Their Fight With
the Japanese. The Reason Why the North
Hates This Section.
REV. II. II. WHITAKER.

since the armies Oh the 1Olileuttdtt
states Of America surrendered ano
laid down their arms. and the battle
Scared veterans CT the South return
ed To their homes and began the new
life brought about by the results OF
the war a generation has been born
and a generation has died, since the
last gun was fired, and but few, com
Iaratively, of those who were actors
in the events which preceded ano
helped to bring on the great war. are
alive: battle fields have been obiiter-
ated by natures growth, or by the axe
the pillow and the hoe. and most of the
old soldiers are sleeping in their graves
waiting for the resurrection trump
but, notwithstanding all these things
the length of time, the passing ava!
of one and the coming on of another
generation, there has been 40 change
in the northern mind and heart to
ward the South. They are today, a.
they WeIe forty years ago, ntied Titi
hatred, and though in a different way.
the north is still carrying on the war
Our enemies are polite, and Oc-
casionally, we have Done thrown tt
Us: but, with a fierceness and q maliS'
nifty that cannot be explained by an!
method of reasoning, with the SoldeI
rule as a basis, the north revels ir
its hatred of US. l don't know tha,
/ blame the people up there SO much
as bad as their conduct makes them
appear; for when l take into conSid
Grafton the fact that, in the earliei
days of the Republic the South fur
nished most of the big men-the Pres
idents, statesmen and Warr.orS-tha'
the old South was the home of thu
finest type of gentlity, couTtliness aDt
o,,o,x. u
pie which neither enyied nor Interior
ed with other peoples property or al
fairs; but moving alonG on the di8n'
fed plare CT attending tc their oN
business; living honestly, peaceful.
and happily; l say, when | take al
these things into cons .deration, ant
remember how envy and hatred de
spoiled Eden, and remember. also
that the same enemy that destroyed
the peace of Eden came over in thu
"Mayhower" and began business b!
hanging women, claiming them to b.
witches, and so interfering in the
matters of home and marriage life, as
TO make it penal offence for a man
to kiss his wife on Sunday. / am
not surprised that the same old envy
and spirit of pharisaical hatred were
turned against an unoffending, peacca-
BILE sect on of the country; and know
ing how fanatical is that spirit OF
phariseeism / repeat, l can't blame
our prosecutors up Forth. how much
soever they may say and do They
just can't help hating. and interfer-
ing with people who are trying to do
right and live in peace, and we ought
not to think hard of them.
In the very beginning Of the new
year. befor. the Christmas season is
over. the old time feel ng begins TO
show itself, in the consideration of
the Statehood BILL And from now
or, until Congress adjourns, ever and
anon, if not cftener, the angels, as
we'll as men. will be RECALLED with
manifestations of that hatred of the
South which the North has INDUCED
and cherished for forty years. 1t would
seem, to right thinking men, that at
ter the North Struggled negroes into
this country and made a fortune by
selling them to the Southern people
there ought to be a good understand
ing, at least between them. The
North brought the negroes here and
scId them. The South bought them
and pa their money for them. The
North got pious, (after it had sold its
negrOes) ard raised q. howl against
the South for owning slaves: but who
has ever heard of a Yankees being
willing to take back the negro he sold
TO the South. and refund the money?
Yes. part of the great wealth of the
North is negro money. And * turns
out now in these latter days. forty
years after a bloody war, which was
forced upon the South. to compel her
to give up the property which north
ern men sold to her, that this great
wealth (negro money, included IS pc
ing USED in the organization OF trusts
and combines, to further aff1ict the
South by taking its products at prices
= lit. II
their prices on whatever they sell. On
the present cotton crop the North will
make more clear money thar the
South; in fact the North is the only
real gamer by cotton raising. l hate
TO think OF these things, especially III
the beginning of a new year; but Con-
gress is stirring UP the matter, and l
can't help hearing of how things are
going on. l try not to get mad; but
m afraid L don't always keep within
the bounds of righteous indignation.
Port Arthur has fallen at last, and
little Jap" is in there as big as life.
The prediction, when The Japs struck
the first blow and achieved some sue
cess on the water, was that when the
little fellows met the enemy on land
they'd hardly make ore meal for the
great Russian Bear''-They'd be chew
a great many others. that prediction
has not been fulfilled. l was pretty
confident when learned. several years
ago. that Japan had put on breaches
ard quit going in long gowns. that she
had something in her head; but, j
had no idea that she would arise TO
the position she has attained unto
IN so short a time. l knew that she
went over and cleaned up China i'll a
few days; but. / supposed that that
was because China undertook to fight
with squitts, popguns. broom handles,
wooden pixies and reeds, instead OF
guns. But My-My; as Sam Jones
says: is not Japan a fighting cock,
sure enough? On seq, or on land; on
a march, or in siege; she's up to any
Of them. And, instead of being de-
youred by the Russian bear, it begins
10 look as if she could "chaw up and
spit out if she didn't swallow, all the
cubs the old bear could march III.
! am reminded here Of a story of
"a Irishman who undertook to dose q
pony that belonged to a lady. Pat
was by no means horse doctor, but
ne insisted that he could give the pony
a dose of POWDERS