The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17

matters herein set forth and other issues which naturally suggest them selves. what principles, or set of principles. which have operated as ,cshesive forces to make the south solid in her place. as New England and is solid in her place. 1t is now proposed that we shall renounces? If we all go together into some new movement, will we not be as solid as ever? If we divide. will we be happier and more harmonious among our selves. or more influential with other sections. by reason of the strife which division will engender7 Were any people ever made more powerful or prosperous by discord? Willy enemies have been known to pursue the policy of dividing a people in order to con- quer them. but those who most faith fully resisted the foes of such threatened peoples have always in- sisted that their security was in their unity.
 The Trojan Hers-.
 take 1t that no Trojan horse will be admitted within our gatess Oar people may gaze on such devices with a certain sort of interest, but they will not be so simple as to not to see that the contents of the creature are something more war-like than grass.
 beg to commend to the careful con- sfderation of all concerned the follow ing paragraph taken from the columns of one of the most ably conducted papers in the South:
 That the South is disslmiiar from other parts of the Republic. in im- portant social, political, and religious matters Is a proposition too plain 10 be disputed for g moment. That these differences are radical. historic and persistent 1t would be easy to show. That they are to the advantage of our section is a belief that we hold without asking leave or license of any. The South is the social political, and religious residuary legatee of sAmert- can civilization. Its day Is coming indeed is now. It has no need to fret, or to. be impatient of fortune: for it holds the Illuminating, lamp of the future of our national life.s Only we must preserve our vantage and push our way toward a complete realiza- ton of our historic Ideals. Nor must we be in haste to give up either our solidarity or our isolation. This may seem reactionary or non-progressiye sentiment but 1t Is neither. Both the solidarity and the isolation of peculiar peoples -have been employed of history and Providence in hasteninR tine worlds better destinies. This isolation and solidarity Is nap barrier to, inter course and cooperation in all our common enterprises but 1t Is that eclecticism Of people which puts their exceptional ideals above the thought of compromise or accomoda- ton. The South can agree to no coal essences elesiastical or otherwise. that for a. moment jeopardize its ideal" Z 3
 That Is what might be called ''ln- terestin readin.". It is also quite suggestive Southern ~ courtesy and hospitality must not be mistak er for the renunciation of Southern conFie- tions and ideals.
 It may be added that the task of breaking up the Solid South" will not be found an easy one. The uni flying processes of more than a century can not be arrested and. tuRaed back ward In a day. Blood and tradition. ancestry and history. the compacting power. of, war and the solidifying struggles of peace, common interests and common dangers, common mem ories and common hopes count for something; and all these things must be reckoned with when men under take to break up the Solid SOuth."' Where will they find solvent power full enough to disintegrate in a moment what has been forming for more tlan a century? Can the seductive wooings of an artful partisanism put asunder those whom Providence hath so mani- festly joined together? Can thelcrafty pleadings of a thrifty and time-serying expedieney compass such an end2 the saccharine sentiments which are;