The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-11-06
HE TALKS OUT
Bishop candlsr Takes a Shot at John D.
Rosksfelsr's Gift to
ERADICATE HOOK WORM

ERADICAlE HUM -WUhl
Re Does Not Like the Mogenent pa
and Classes it With Others Made
10 Rumilitass and Belittle the
South and Says We Can Take
Caro- Of. Ourselves.
Bishop w. A. Gambler calls at
tsRsion to the following article which
appeared in the New Orleans, Picay-,
une the morning aftes the press
dispatches anuounced+sthe formation
ofi3Mr. RockeselIer's' vermifnge COM
mission: E 2tt }&e Is y
.sThe necessity for creating: sec
sional preiudices against, the South
ern people and States did not stop
with the end of the. civil Wat or
1926. i.; y. aa
s"The old hostility engenderedI then
has passed away SO far as the men
who fought were concerned, and the
raiiying of the young men OF the
South to the. national flag IN the
Spanish war, where they stood shou44,-
der to shoulder! with the men Of the
North, went far to- extinguish. the
ancient sectional feeling against this
part of the country.
shut for some reason not fully
Understood it has come to light
that self-professed and self-appoint-
edsphilanthropists have taken It up
onstnemselves to discover and PRO-
claim conditions In the South cal
cuhted to create further .prejudices
against the States and people Of the
South so as to diverse immigration
to&slarn,. the resident population;
and to- place this section of s@the
country before the world as an al
fictsd ana accursed region.
$50 sooner had the South begun
70 rnanufacture its cotton on an ex-
tenssse scale" when it. wasr given OUT
to the world that most Of the. work
wess done by. youths of both sexes
snd{ largely by children Of tender
AEGEAN Sat such .pitiful wages that
the manufacturers OF the Norss'
whoS employed persons Of full age
at high rates OF compensation. could
not by any possibility compete with
them, and such o hubbuh was raised
in she North about it that Senator
Bevsssdges of Indiana. offered IN
congress bill to osprohibit tra nsporr-.
tstich by interstate railroads Of the
products OF Southern cotton mills
vhese such alleged conditions OBJ
tanned. .,-sas, -
TX great deal OF exertion was
required to- establish the falsity OF
such slanderous statements against
the South, and this section has not
fully recovered even yet from them.
Next an outcry was raised that the
Southern people had become the
victims Of a deadly disease named
.pellagra,' which was charged to the
use OF Indian corn that caused It..
The disease has been traced to
Southern Europe, where 1t is COM
mon! and later information goes to
show that it was imported in the
persons of immigrants.
"Rut the pellagra panic having
failed of the expected effect, now
comes a howl about the hook worm
A non-professional writer has de-
voted many pages and many pictures
to the hook worm in the South in
McCiure's for October. He says:
"'All through the South-the Car
olinas, Georgia. Florida. Alabama.
Mississippi-these abnormal people,
the ..dirt eaters" have been known
for q century, and anenia is uni
versal malady south of the Poto-
mac. Its something these peSpie
eat. is the favorite explanation
of 1t.
Zones first anu s:tonges, impress
sion of the '.poor whites" is OF their
shiftlessness. I remember ndS
dreadfully it used to depress nc
years ago when spent my vacation
in the North Carolin" mo"n'ains.
I have been IN lIttls w!ndowles'
sleeveless, one-room cabins. 'he ltnme
Of at least ten persons, wnere all .he
cooking was done over the primitive
open. fire-except when it rai.ed
down. the chimney and pot the frc
out; then there wasn't any cooking
till the rain held up! Aand as
talked with the women l was always
asking myself. How can people live
like this? Why don't they so 20
work and fix up things?"
cit is estimated that scattered
over the Atlantic seaboard from the
Potomac round the gulf, to the Mis-
sissippi river, there are today q
100000 of these poor whites-our
native-born whites-sufferlng with
anemia, and hardly one of those
1000, 600 knows, or even suspects,
that he is really suffering from an
internal parasite-that this disease
Is caused by the hook wrm.
"'Then years ago even the fore
most physicians did not know the
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