The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-11-04
Is ROCKEFELLER SLANDER1NG
THE SOUTH?

If Tohn D. Rockefeller was an ordl-
nary man, without his millions, how
much more notice would he receive than
is given to common average of human
ity2
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 if
it were not a SANDER of the South
would merit the silence of contempt.
Perhaps in this, as in other instances,
Mr.. Rockefeller should be credited with
good intentions, but we should bear in
mind that the highway to Hades is
paved with good designs.
Has Mr.. Rockefeller been misled? Is
he the dupe of some schemers?
It would seem as if the South is
marked and signaled out for misrepre-
sentation, but it has always been so, at
least the SANDER, frequently disguised
ingeniously, emanates from the North,
and operates, as it has in the past, to
the great injury of one of the fairest
sections of the world
An interest at the North, prompted
not only by sectionalism, but principal
" through mercenary motives, never
fail to distort and magnify the least
misfortune or happening in the South,
which may serve the purpose Of alarm
ing capital and immigration from in
vestrnent and settlement in the South
ern States.
Not long since there was heralded, as
il were. with the blaring of trumpets
and the beating of drums, the discovery
of pellagra, a disease having its origin,
it is said, in Italy, resulting from the
use of maize in musty or nodded state.
This pellagra, which IS on the order of
bowel complaint, was and is being mag
ni6ed 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 discredit 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 pellagra, why should the
corn grown in the North and the
Northwest be exempt from this infec-
tion7
And as il to add insult to injury there
is precipitated, hurled as it were with
malice aforethought, again on the I'M
suspecting South the Hook Worm to
which the ordinary class of white peo-
pie of the South are ready victims.
Let It be borne in mind that when
pelIagra 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 what7 It may be fatal and
it may not be- The consequence may
depend on the corn, or the product from
corn and the section from which the
corn was grown.
This is almost appalling.
But to the hook worm.
What is the hook wornl
It would not be surprising TO have
the hook worm illustrated in highly
scientific wording as q species of q
varnint' which is multiplied into ten
billions of invisible worms which are
hooked on the bowels and intestines OF
the human kind and which during a pc
Rod of twenty-four hours are increased
to triIIions and all these being actively
voracious fairly eat up poor mans
'inwards" almost in the twink of ar
eye.
Where lives the poor man with a
chance for life should he become the
victim of the hook worm, for the hives
tigation and the cure Of which John D.
Rockefeller offers a gift of a million
dollars in good money.
How IS cure possible when man Is
hook-wornaed to the grave in g few
hourss
Is John D. Rockefeller sefious7
Does he, as a sensible man, believe in
this nonsense of the hook worm in the
human systemi He is beyond a doubt
thoroughly familiar with the ways and
the means Of the human hook worms
who reach for everything in sight and
hold a tight grip on the dollar, whether
It is produced by honest dealings or
through swindling schemes. but surely
with all his varied experience and his
years Of contests III all the ways of the
world, with all breeds and kinds oil
men. John p. Rockefeller viii not, in
deed, Is an intelligent man. he can moi
seriously admit, nor coneede that there
Is IN existence such an infectious dis
ease Is tie hook worm for the eradi-
cation ol which be offers gift Of i
million dollars and therefore. unwis.
sinsly perhaps. rs attitude i connection