The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-11-07
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In recent years Mr. Rockefeller has
been given publicity in unlimited space
IN newspapers. He has been made to
appear in many roles, but his latest is
the most ridiculous of the series. and 1t
it were not a SANDER of the South
would merit the silence of contempt.
Perhaps in this, as in other instances,
MIR Rockefeller should he credited with
good intentions. but we should bear in
mind that the highway to Hades is
paved with good designs.
Has Mr. Rockefeller been msled? Is
he the dupe of some schemers7
It would seem as If the South is
marked and signaled out for misrepre-
sentation, but 1t has always been So at
least the Islander, frequently Disguised
ingeniously, emanates from the North,
and operates. as it has in the past, to
the great injury of one Of the faitest
sections of the world.
| An interest at the North, prompted
not only by sectionalism, but principal
| Il Il Though tnetcenatx motives. never
fail TO distort and magnify the least
misfortune OF happening i'll the South
which may serve the purpose OF alarm
ing capital and immigration from in
vestment and settlement in the South
ern States.
Not long since there was heralded, as
1t were, with the blaring of trumpets
and the beating of drums, the discovery
of peilagfa, disease having its origin,
1t is said, in Italy, resulting from the
use of maize in musty or nodded state
This pellaEfa. which is on the order OF
bowel complaint was and is being mag
nihed and distorted until some sensible
people have become alarmed and will
not eat corn or the products of corn.
The sensational reports of pellagra were
and are intended to dsefedit corn.
which is being grown in the South as
never before. and is becoming com
petitor Of the North and Northwest.
If the corn of the Southern States
will produce pelagra. why should the
corn grown in the North and the
Northwest be exempt from this infec-
ton?
And as If to add insult to injury there
is precipitated, hurled as it were with
malice aforethought, again on the I'm
suspeeting South the Hook Worm te
which the ordinary class of white peo-
pic of the South are ready victims.
Let it be borne in mind that when
pellagra was developed IT was an
nounced, by implication at least, that the
rich were exempt, but now the high and
the low may be afflicted. almost instant
~, and then whatl II may be fatal ant
it may not be. The consequence may
depend on the corn, or the product from
corn and the section from which th,
corn was grown.
This is almost appalling.
But to the hook worm.
What Is the hook wornl
Il would not be surprising 70 Aav'
1.-THE hook worm illustrated In highly
scientific wording as a species of =
yafmint" which IL multiplied into set
billions Of invisible worms which arr
hooked on the bowels and intestines Of
the human kind and which during pc
Rod of twenty-four hours are increased
to trillions and all these being activel,
voracious fairly eat up poor man.
UPWARDS" almost in the twink Of al
eye.
Where lives the poor man with
chance for life should he become thu
victim of the hook worm, for the inves
tigation and the cure of which John ID
Rockefeller offers gift of milliot
dollars in good money
How Is a cure possible when man i
| hook-wofmed to the grave in few
hWrs7
Is John d. Rockefeller serious1
Does he, as sensible man, believe il
this nonsense Of the hook worm IN thu
human systeinY He Is beyond doub
thoroughly familiar with the ways ant
the means Of the human hook worm
who reach for everything in sight ant
hold tight grip on the dollar, whethe
lit Is produced by honest dealings o.
through swinding schemes, but surell
with all his varied experience and hi
years Of contests In all the ways of TIL
world. with all breeds and kinds o
men, John D. Rockefeller will not, in
deed, as an intelligent man, he can ITO
seriously admit nor concede that Their
Is in existence such all infectious dis
ease as the hook worm, for the efadi
cation Of which he offers gift Of
million dollars, aud therefore. unwit
tingly perhaps, his attitude IN connection
with the hook worm, if it be true a
reported by telegraph, stamps him witt
an indirect if not direct diseredit o