The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-08

try place, or village, or mill. or forge
Not that we love Carthage less. but
Rome more. And since we have to lis
ten to so many stupid partisan, igno-
rant dissertations on our civilization.
or what they suppose to be our lack
of 1t. l may say that above all things
what they seem TO us to lack
is solidarity. American heart-of-oak-
ly helped to make this nation great,
and can certainly be trusted to keep
wood homogeneousness with the Ideals
and principles that we who have large
it so, feel TO be the clean, healthy,
vigorous roots that alone make such
wood. The moral muscles of the
South have been magnifcently devel-
oped by self-sacritice. pain, poverty.
In communities where 1t is considered
disgraceful to be poor. but not to be a
thief-.where graft is crowned. adj
mired, enYied, wined, dined tand imi-
tated, of course in CONSEQUENCE. IN
stead of being sent TO the penitentiary
and kept there, millions or no mil
lions; in cities where Put money IN
thy purse" ono matter whose money
lit isl, is practically far more valued
and practiced than the Decalogue; In
| places where school girls revise ana
youths compress the Bible, and de-
| partment stores advertise the result
as IAN always popular work put in
! popular form that cannot tax the
busiest; in places where Irishmen and
Germans and Italians and Swedes ana
Danes control civic interests ra lalI;r
| than Americans, and with public
school system which regards the Bible,
| the Creed. the Lords Prayer and the
| Ten Commandments. as "denomina-
| .ttonal." not the expression OF all CHRIST
| endom for eighteen hundred years, IT
| would seem as If the North might nave
something to learn too, and might be
decidedly more American. In early
days in this country. we did not have
to put flags on our school houses TO
teach us TO be neutrality-suspicious.
| was like our mothers milk, not learn
| ed, but imbibed as u matter of course
does not compare with that taught by
''grandfathers busted gun from Con-
cord" on the rack above the pioneer
door, or the crossed swords in our
Yorktown and Germantown. Our body
polite has got an awful lot to digesl
4 In the way of foreign substances. that
good by calling each other names In
this seething billowy, boundless sy.
stem of ours.
And "tu quoque' is a poor argumen
at best. But We do feel in the South
that the valuable counsels. and tire.
mendous schemes and Pickwickiar
4 platitudes and high moral teachings
that are constantly being moulded into
balls and thrust down our Threats as !
, we were SO many Strasburg geese
they would prove valuable for homt
consumption. The South contributed
in blood and treasure. In intellect ane
ideals, standards, a large, very large tnIs
heritage called the United States. Shf
is very tired of, very much bored by
very naturally FESTIVE over being treat
ed on the basis of row of barefootet
boys and girls in butternutt jeans sit
fully at the Puritan fathers, who ar
trying to teach hor the first PRINCIPLES
of English civilization; the very civil
zation that she brought here, founde'
practice of the landS At least thre'
southern States-Virginta, Carolin'
and Louisiana-wcre then in full POS
session and practice Of the highest ely
citations Of Europe, tho English am
. the French long before the Puritan
fathers blue noses began to snufti
and their blue laws to make lie ;
dreary business indeed.
The simple fact is that New Englan'
no moro invented or stamped" the civ
!, ilization Of this country Than Praise
God Rarebones Invented religion! !
long, long, long, gracious wise pro
, and Egyptian and Roman and man;
another link. Such Puritan patronag
Is r!dlculously amazing to intelligen
people. And such pretensions are sim
. ply preposterous.
Leech.
All this amusingly recnlls I1eech'
: inimitable cnricnture of Yankee moo
, die teaching his grandmother (Enng
hest, and was suggested to him b.
!. Thackeray. Tho benevolent, amuse
! old dame, sits in her armchair, loolsin
! through her apectaoles at the infar
!, prodigy at her feet, showing her hov
!, wonderfully he does the ia stoundin
!. and novel trick. and sncourastn