The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-11-10
He TALKS OUT
Bishop casGer Takes q 2o. It Johs D.
ReeSaAes's Gih to
ERADICATE HOOK WORN

and Classes Il With Others Aads
to Hauilitate and Be,stt.c shs
South and Says We Can Take
Care Of Ourselves
Bishop w A. caad!er calls A.
ten.ioo 70 the following ar,ic!e which
appeared in the New Orleans Picay-
une the morning af.eS the press
dispatches announced the fo:uatioc
OF Mr.. Rocketei!ec's ve-m!tuse con-
mission:
The necessity for creating sec
e;onai pseiudices against the South
esn people and States did not stop
with the end OF the civn wax OF
1Ssl-'s5.
The old hostility easende.ed thea
has passed away so far as the NEE
who fought were concerned. and the
rallying Of the young nen OF the
South to the national Gag in the
Spanish ~ac. where they stood shoul-
der to shoulder With the msn Of ehe
North. wen. far TO exs!osuish tho
ancienc sectional feeling against eAas
par: Of the country.
But for some reasoo cot FUZZY
understood is has come to NSh,
TIA: selt-professed and se!s-sppe!aa-
ed pailao,a1op!s;s have taaea Il up
oa themselves TO discore. ard pro
claim conditions Ii the South cal
criated 70 caeate further p.cjrG.ces
against the States and people OF sae
South 40 as 70 diverse immigration.
to alarm the resident population
and TO place this section OF toe
country before tho world as an AZ.
f:c,ed and accursed region.
NO SCORER had the South begun
to manufacture its cotton OF aa eS-
sensive scale when It was G;Teo out
to the world .hss most OF the wo:s
was done By youths OF eo,a sexes
and largely by children o. secdee
age, and a: such piiiful wages that
the manufacturers OF the North.
who employed persons OF full as"
ct high rates OF compensation. could
not by any possibility compete With
them, and such hrobu5 was raised
sn the North about j, that Senator
Esveridse. Of Indiana. offered N
congress q bill TO prohibit :ranspos-
sa,ioa BY interstate railroads OF sSe
products OK Southern cotton 1lis
where such alleged conditions OBJ
tanned
"a great dea. Of e1erticn was
REQUIRED 20 establish .ae calsitr OF
such slande-ors statements against
she South. and this section has not
falls recovered even yet from them
Mex, an outcSy was raised that the
Southern people had become the
victims OF a deadly disease named
.pel,asra.' which was charged to the
use OF Indian corn that caused It
The disease has been traced 70
Southern Europe. where II IS CON
ZION, and later information soes TO
SNOW IN3I IL NSo s%APS11NS -
persons OF Immigrants
But The pellasra panic having
failed Of the expected effect, nov
comes a how! abou, the hook wo7ra-
A non-2rosess;onal writer has de-
voted many pages and many pictures
to tie hook gorn in the South IN
Necluce's 70, October. He says:
".A,, through the Sou.a-eae Car
o,inas. Georgia. Florida. Alabama.
Mississippi-,hese abnormal people.
the diff eaters have been known
for a century. and anemis IS . uni
verssl maiady s-s1;h OF the Poto-
mac. Its something these Perple
eat" is the favorise explanation
Of Il.
>oae's ars. and s.cnsest trapr-s
sion Of the poor Whites" IS OF thei7
shis,.essness. remember bow
d.eadsr.iy It used 80 6spress uc
wears sso when spen. my vaeai. %
in the North Carot!n: u'oan'a'Es-
have been 10 little w!ndowfesi
s,oye,css. one-room cabsas- :ne h"ans
OF a, least ten persons. where aa 'oe
cooking was done ove- tie primitive,
o,en sre-excepe uheo IL rs'.ea
down the chimney aud pct the drr
out: then there wasn't any COOKING
till the rain held up. Aand as :;
talked with the women / was AWAY.
asking myself. How can people '!vs
.ise this: Why don't taey go e
work and FIX up salngs?
~, IS estimated that sea::e''>'
over the Atlantic seseosrd from TO-
Potomac round the guls. 70 tie Mis-
siss;ppi river. there are teoay .
900. 900 OF these poor wSiees-or'
aas:ve-born whises-suSerinS VITO
a.eu!a. and hardly one CT esos-,
eaeo. 900 knows. or even suspects.
that be Is really suffering from an
internal parasi,e-tha, this disease
Is caused by the hook wcn-
Then years ago even the fore
most physicians cid 40, know ta"
.n.ria OF the South was caused eE
the loOK WOGu. oSt iSSS|s
largely 20 the tireless efforts OF oce
nan-Cha.!es wacoell S:iies-ths
whole medica! profession and uaos
OF the laisy are awake 20 the vfte
issues Of the problem aud are pre-
pa.,rs crusade that shall react
from the worst regions Of the bar
-ens. where rearly the whole 7opu
la,ion Is suffering 20 the tarto"S
..eorn" In :he mountains. aud sssmi
GU, toe disease
In the face of such statements
illustrated by sensational eu's.
is useless to contend that. the Soutc
e.n people possessed Tsor eaouS;
70 show up with aSle crops os states
men and great AID gallant soldier
from the time o: Washington an
Jefferson and tt,st OF Others q
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