La Junta tribune., 1910-05-28

Some people down. in that Dixie
land are still whining and pouting
and stewing over the civil war
/ nursing their wrath to keep il
warm as Shakespeare says. They
remind me of an experience | had
In early life. When | was senior
In college | had a sweetheart that
expected TO marry, but we had
lover 5 quarrel and separated, and she
married another man Thirty years
afterwards, when learned that she
was widow, | wrote her nice let
ter and proposed that We kiss and
MAJ up, Her answer showed that
she was madder at the end of thirty
year than the day We parted. Now
this woman reminds me of some peo-
pie In the south and vice versa They
have been thinking about that war,
and the more they think about it
the madder they get.
4 IL always amuses me to find peo-
pie who have been angry for thirty.
forty aud fifty years. That is surely
long mad spell A husband and
wife who have been separated for
twenly years met at the grave of
their son. One stood on one side
of tn grave and one on the other
side, but neither would look at or
speak 20 the other. A young man an
his wife met in the court room TO get
a divorce. The wife held two
mon S old baby in her arms whom
} the father had never seen. Like a
kind hearted human being. he was
anxious to get one wee, small look
at HI baby and every time he look
ed across the table at his baby. the
wife would make wry, horrid faces
at hin, aud ye; some people say that
mankind have not descended from
the monkey
j Som people appear to think 1t a
great thing to be good hater. but
II is not IL is Satanic, 1t is dis
honorable. II is disgraceful. IL is a
REFLECTION on human nature itself A
good hater is made up OF three things
Ignorance, stupidity and his Satanic
Majesty Life is too short to waste
1t away in madness and anger. No
two men In late years have done so
much 10 perpetuate the bitterness and
soreness engendered by the civil war
and 10 create and perpetuate race
hatred than Senators Ben Tillman. of
South Carolina, and jeff Davis, OF
Arkansls. These two men are afflic-
ted with negrophobia and when that
disease once gets seated In the sys-
TEN. il is lncurablc. pronounce
these men dilectante moliicoddles-
whateyDr that is. I don't know what
that Is, but whatever II Is. that
I l. what they are. Their speeches
I IN the senate and their lectures over
the country sound to me like the
last expiring notes OF dying swan
the niger. the Niger, the niger
In the woodpne is the burden OF
their lay.
The men who fear. as they profess
to fear. that the African race will
ever gain the ascendancy over the
white race. have very little faith In
the power and yirillty Of the Anglo.
Saxon race. Many Of the cruel lynch
ings of the negroes In the south can
be traced TO the fiery utterances OF
these two men. And many OF these
lynchings were OF perfectly Innocent
men, a statement which | can prove
10 be true
Senator Davis. | understand. is a
product OF Arkansas and II 50, he is
entitled to a good deal Of sympathy
l.. | know all about Arkansas In civil
war lines. In regard 10 the people
of that state at that time, am Just
like he Dutchman who was witness
in q hog stealing case On the wit
ness stand he said Judge. | know
dem hogs for | was raised nit 'cm. $
I | spent the last year and a half OF
my three and half years Of service
rs d soldier In that state. And that
stat" Is dotted all over with trees
from the branches of which native
rniou men were hung and those trees
are pointed out to this day 10 the
traveller by the local inhabitants. II
~as most terrible state OF affairs.
After the battle and capture OF
Little Rock. Ark. from the rebel
forces. We made that city our head.
quarters and as a sergeant OF cavalry
I was sent To every nook and corner
OF that state supprcssing lawiessncss
and rcstorinx law and order
! plead for Justice. even handed jus.