The National tribune., 1909-05-20
COaIRADE HOLLINGSWOisTH'S
RESOLUTION.

q veteran of good record and who ad-
mirably represents the sentiments OF
the people of his district, has called
down upon his head a storm of viru-
lent abuse from the Southern papers.
This was on account of his very proper
resolution in regard 20 the presenta-
ton of a service of silver to the battle
ship Mississippi having engraved upon
if the portrait of Jefferson Davis.
comrade Hoilingsworth made crush
ing point in presenting a list of the
crew of the Mississippi, all OF whom
except four were natives of loyal
States, most of them sons OF Union
soldiers and sailors and who would
be compelled constantly to have this
portrait before them.
The articles in the Southern press
are characteristic utterances of those
who worship the Lost Cause. They
are merely strings of abusive epithets
such as can be culled from the
saurus and wofully destitute of logic
and reason. For example, the Daily
Clarion Ledger, of Jacksonville, Miss,
which claims to have the largest circu-
lation in the State and to be the Official
organ of the State, denounces Mr..
HolIingsworth as a Contemplate little
whelp." Think of the use of such a
term in a sober editorial which should
present facts and reasoning to its read
ers. But this was outdone by the
Southern Sentinel Ripley, Miss,
which foams at the mouth in thi; man
ner:
'sThe Ohio Congressman who got up
irl the House the other day ana raised
all manner of sand about the picture
OF Jefferson Davis being. put on the
silver service presented by the state
to the battleship Mississippi ought to
be informed that nobody cares what
he says about it. A politically preju-
diced gas bag from Ohio can no more
cast a reflection upon the life and
character of Jefferson Davis than
NANCY. fea-bitten. bobtafled cur dog
O'Clock in the morning and barking
himself to death at that pale-faced
The Sentinel continues:
Everybody in America who knows
the history of the two men knows that
in point of education, native ability,
culture. oratory, legal attainment,
character, and unselfish patriotism
that jefferson Davis was greater man
than Abraham Lincoln, and knows fur
thermorc that the cause for which the
Southern soldier fought was the cause
of right. Yet the South entertains no
unkIndly feeling for the Northern SOL
der and patriot, neither does it think
unkindly of the memory of Abraham
Lincoln, whose death was great ca
larlity to the South and made the
period of reconstruction more trying
and more odious than it would other
wise have been. But Davis is the
idol OF the South, and will continue to
be long after that windy misft from
Ohio has been retired by his constitu-
ency and everlastingly forgotten by the
Nation
Yet this is one of the papers that is
chortiing about the North
ern people and papers waving the
bloody shirt and tanning the flames of
sectionalism. Another paper says:
And I would not give a continental
linker's hurrah in hell's half acre for
what Mr.. Hollingsworth or any other
prejudiced, cramped,
South-hating, cowardly
,uss might say about it,
The shortsghted writer's of these
things cannot see what limitless harm
they are doing to their own section bv
such storm of unreasoning abuse of
people who love the Union. The whole
Of the loyal section of the country is
to-day far more interested in Southern
Development than at any previous time
in the history OF the country. There
s warm, generous feeling in every
mans mind toward the people of the
south and strong desire to help them.
shich has taken unmistakable form in
he amount Of Northern capital being
tent South for investment, in the num-
'ers Of Northern people who are pre-
'aring to go South and help develop
he country and make 1t what il
hould be. All this VIII be checked by
uch Incorporate utterances. They are |
hrowiDg more obstacles in the way OF |
| bettcrment OF conditions in the South |
han the btterest enemies of the sec
ion ever could do IL 1t was felt that
ht9 itdiiy represented tnclr people. If \
THAT they say could be generally re- |
Produced in the Northern papers. il |
would do incalculable harm In freez- |
ng up at their sources the genial cur
ents which are setting in toward that |
ection from every portion of the coun- |!
~.
Last Monday Representative Hol-
ingsworth arose in his place in the |
House upon a question of privilege and |
lad number of the worst of these
ltterances read. Further reading was
hooked by the objection of Mr.. Fitz-
,erald, of New York, to their going
nto the Record. Speaker Cannon ruled |
hat the objection was well taken, be-
ause the request of privilege which
representative Hollingsworth invoked
rould operate as a restriction upon
he freedom of the press in criticizlne
ubiic officials. Thereupon Mr.. Hol-
ingsworth moved that his resolution
'e taken up for consideration. Mr..
lay raised the objection that no COM
nittee had been appointed The reso-i
ltion had not therefore been consid-
red and WAS NOT nrIvila0od NJ, YYov |