Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-04-05
HAS Han TROUBLES OF ITS OWN"
The State of Mississippi Has Experienced Divers
Forms of Government.

| betEAtOEN Anu sLAbe IN bu0 union, q Con
federate state, under United States mill.
tary rule, Ben Butler governor, carpet
bag rule, reconstruction and back again
under the stars and stripes. Time
was in the hatboat days when the Miss
issippi was dotted with the products of
the up-river country and immigrants
going to Texas. Then New Orleans
fiourished as the depot for a vast coun-
try; sugar, cotton and rice, great slave
mart, where gambling was fine art
the code duello in vogue to maintain
honor; the French language generally
spoken
A half century has made mAuy
changes. There are people here yet who
tell of the coming of Farraguts fleet,
the guns pointing down Canal street,
the demand on the city for the surrender
of the city to the Federal authorities,
his refusal, the landing Of an ensign and
marines to take the Confederate flag
| from the custom house, and the replace
ment of the stars and stripes They
tell how men, women and children
| white, mixed and black-rushed to Can
al street, the stars and stripes hoated
| gracefully from the custom house staff,
when Mumford in spirit of bravado,
tore it from the staff, tore it into pieces,
stamped upon it and threw it into the
| green, Shiny gutter. Gen. Dix know
| ing the sentiment of the people, their
hatred for the flag, sent a messenger 70
the military governor saying I'll any
one tears down t. d American flag, shoot
him on the spot" General Butler was
| made military governor. Butler was
man of action, positive and determined,
needed not their appeals and demanded
obedience to the Federal authorities,
respectful derI3anor towards officers and
men. Mumford VIZ brought before
| commission, tried for insul to the flag,
found guilty and hanged The women
| of New Orleans became so disrespectful
towards soldiers on duty that to protect
| the men in uniform from their insults,
Butler issued his famous order treating
them as women of the town plying their
avocation. New Orleans was then a
filthy city, a disease breeding city. But
Ter took charge of the police force and
| restored order. He caused the cutters
to be cleansed and the houses disinfect-
ed, gave them lessons in sanitation,
levied tax and collected it, He CEN
sored the press, opened the hotels, fed
the poor, provided labor for the unem-
ployed, forbid the pastors to implore di-
vine grace and wisdom on the Confeder-
acy and all in power. The orders were
drastic and Buffers name to this day is
hated.
Reconstruction days came with vio-
lence and riot the negro gradually gave
way and while supremacy must be su-
preme, the eolored man sank back to his
| Ievel-a tot 9r, servant and there is
., unmolested. He cannot explain what
the supreme court disagrees on-the
constitut,on-nor can he pay poll tax
therefor, not an expounder of the con-
| stitution, he retires from politics. 1t is
said that the colored race is building up
slowly. E1ncation is helping to lift
them, but only in isolated cases; good
schools are provided and attendance is
said TO be good through the compulsory
age. They labor, they toll, seem happy,
but there are only occasional cases of
thrift. The president of a savings bank
told me that three per cent. of his de.
positors were colored people who depos.
tied from one dollar to ive. They must
toll: there is no place for them but in
the manual activities of life and as they
/ seem content, therefor let contentment
| rest.
The French market is place of much
interest It's location IL below Canal
in the old Latin quarters; il more than
a century old and renowned for the good
breakfast rolls and coffee. OF the popu-
lation it is said more than one hundred
and fifty thousand people are fed from
it's stalls The vegetable kingdom is ar
rayed on tables The meats are from
local slaughter and Kansas City Yards
All the edible birds of the marches and
forests, the fishes of the so - Is, bayous,
rivers, lakes, the gulf aha oceans, oy-
sters, shrimps. frogs and crabs dealt to
you by the French, Italians, Creoles.
4 Spanish, Greek Jew, Armenian, Arabs
and the Lord only knows else. 60 see
4 the market. is the proclamation issued
| to the passing visitor; see the cathe-
dral and bow before his holiness, but do
not look at the cutters But they will
be purefied, as the contractors are now
laying the intake pipes and the outflow
| also
Races are on every afternoon. Ladies
are admitted free to the grand stand,
the men paying dollar for a seat. The
races are the pride Of the Crescent city
and the attendance Of the beautiful and
the fashionable makes the races a popu-
lar place TO spend the afternoon.
Notwithstanding the genial cline, the
fertile soil, the ease of being self sustain
ing in climate where frost only occas-
ionally touches the earth, flowers bloom
ing and palms spreading their branches.
the poor are here. The state, the city.
| counties, churches, societies are all
pressed for help. The Catholic church,
in particular. has her schools, hospitalq,
asylums and other institutions where
she gathers the orphans, cares for and
| educates the aged in homes provided for
their special care. All the begging on
the streets is prohibited anl the offend.
er punished If caught still the hand Of
want is often held ont by some stranded
tramp worn out in dissipation. asking
only penny.
The stores are large and fine goods On
exhibition. This is dressy city and
requires fine raiments / noe through.
! ont my observations everything that ie
fabri ;4ted, bears the stamp Of a north.
ern mandatory, All the canned goods,
electrical and telephone appliances,
trunks, head and footwear comes from
the Yankees Realizing the money paid
: to the north by the city, an ordinance
has been ,,assed and posted, exemptinQ
3 till 1910 all manufacturing plants loca
ted IN New Orleans. | have been in
? formed this liberal provision has beer
toe cause of an overall and shirt manu-
. featuring plant Ii Is start, Cotton
T sugar and the races have been ennobled
e Why need they initiate the Yankee? Il,
3 reason. Selah EARL NJ. ROGERS.
Farm Fires
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