Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-02-14

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appear again soon in the editOria
columns Of the Chicago Chronicle
From prejudice, jealousy, sinister
motives or from what some people
would call s'pure Cussedness," this
Chicago Chronicle has been In the
business Of incorporating and
abusing the South for years. In
q recent editorial commenting or
an address by President Alderman
OF the UNIVERSITY Of Virginia, on
"The Southern Boy and His Op.
portunities," in which the speak
er sketChed the Southern charac-
ter, our Eve would II we conscien-
tiously could say esteemed) con-
temporary says:
The peculiarities, ii not the vir.
tues, Of the Southern people are
these: An almost universal belief
In the truths OF the Christian relig
ion; an abhorredce OF infidelity,
spiritualism, "free thought" and
every conceivable sort of fad or
vagary; the idolatrons regard of the
sexes for each other; the scarcity
OF do nestle infelicity and the un,
popularity of divorce; the point OF
honor; clinging to principles as
distinguished from expediency in
individual cases; love OF litera-
ture for it's own sake among the
educated classes; abiding
spirit and general conservatism;
an unsuspecting frankness OF man
ner and an unusual degree Of hos
pitality.
1t must have been a bitter pill
for the Chronicle to admit that the
Southern people possess any of
the virtues enumerated above; but
unfair as the Chronicle is towards
the Southern people, it has enough
sense to understand that to deny
that such viotues are possessed by
the people of the South would
make itself ridiculous. It was not
that the Chronicle would
even acknowledge SO much as it
did without throwing in lot of
disparaging stuff by way Of habit,
and it adds:
On the other hand, largely on
account Of the climate, they are
comparatively indolent and desti-
tute OF energy, investion, initiative
and self-reliance. When their
are excited they are
more resentful and prosciptive
than other people. They are
guilty OF some grave Inconsistent
cies. They are all free traders,
except in regard to Southern pro-
ducts. They are law-abiding ex-
cept when negro is to be lynched.
They cling to the Democratic par
" after it has completely changed
It's principles and has absolutely
nOthing to offer the South.
That the Southern people are
ndolent is not true. In a few de
,ades they have built up enc of
The most prosperous sections of
The United States from the ruins
II four years. war, and the South
s making more progress in gener
u development than any part of
he country. It is equally untrue
hat the Southern people are des-
itute of self-reliance. History
ind observation have demonstrate
ID that. They have as few pref
ldices as any people in America.
Does not the Chronicle say, as re.
ported above, that they abhor fads
# vagariesi CLAW abiding ex-
ept when a negro is to be lynch
al" Chicago and other cities in ,
linOis cannot claim even that !
much. The Southern people do h
ling to the Democratic party, and
ven if that offers them nothing, |
That has the republican party :
lone for them, except to dump
lpon. them millions Of ignorant !
md absolutely unqualified voters, j
imposed on them through an iniq
litous tariff by which Che trusts /
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