The gold leaf., 1910-02-24
THE GOLD LEAF.
The Cur and the Big Dog.
Charlotte News, Sth-


Was there ever any great reform
movement, or good work OF any de-
scriptiOn inaugurated that there was
not I'm attendance a scurvy little
bunch OF naggers, to protest ana
snarl and snap for no better reason
than that the fees first instinct IS 10
snarl and snap?
Let some set OF humanit arlans
launch some scheme for the amelIOra-
ton Of ills besettlng mankind ana
YOU will find the chronic na@grr, there
to constantly register his kick.
It is q long call back to the dark
dayg OF the sixties, when sectional bit
terness ran rife and the spirit OF
brotherhood was seriously perturbed.
We live happily, today in the dawn
of a brighter era-a day when STRIFE
and dissensiOn has died out, and
when North and South are again one
and the same people.
The work Of healing over the breach
has been conducted by lofty minds,
but there have ever been present a
few little naggers. They exist today.
When with hearts full Of patriotism
Virpinians offered to the nation
statue Of General Lee to be placed
alongside Of statues Of great North
ern Generals, there were few OF these
Wretched little nagger5 to enter pro-
test, to deliver themselves OF pent-up
sectional bitterness, to insult the
spirit which has made both North
and South one people.
Unfortunately one or two OF these
IMPOVERISHED little spirits have man
aged, by some objectionable neglect
on the part Of voters, to sneak into
the halls Of congress.
1t was only yesterday that Hey
burn, OF Idaho, took occasion to dis
play on the floor OF the senate
sample of his assininity.
In fetid terms he protested against
the lOaning of tents to Alabama to
be used in a reunion. And in more
feverish terms he denounced the bring
inc into statuary hall OF the Lee
statue.
His declaration that sentiment OF
today was kindred to that existing
in the sixties manife,tly applies only
to himself for when a vote came not
another member in congress, Demo
crat or Republican, voted with the
"patriOt" from Idaho. Not another
senator concurred in his expressed
wish that Virginia 'COme and take
the Lee statue away: it may be dear
to YOU but it is not dear to us.
What stinging rebuke Othis miser-
able little counterfeit statesman. Not
n man to vote for his resolution.
There are few bloody shirt waVers
nowadays, and the gods be praised
this is true.
"Walt Mason" forcibly paints the
nagger in the following lines:
"A large black dog, OF stately mlen,
was walking DER the village green, on
some important errand bent; little
cur, not worth q cent, observed him
passing by, and grOwled and barked
awhile, and yapped, and howled. The
bio one did not deign a look, but
walked along, like prince or dook.
The cur remarked, beneath its breath:
"That BIG iour-tlusher 5 scared to
death, Those great big brutes are
never game; now lust watch FidO
climb his frame" The big black dog
went stalking on. as calm and tran
uuil rs the dawn; he knew the cur WAS
at his heels; he heard its yaps and
snarls ana squcals, and yet ne never
looked around. or blinked an eye, or
made sound; his meditatiOns had a
tone that NANCY pups have never
known. The cur, unuOtICed, lost all
fear; it grabbed the big dog by the
ear;the lattcrpauscd Just longenoguh
to take the small one by the schnfi,
and shake him gently to and fro; and
then he let poor Fido 90, and said, i'll
quiet tones: Now get, And FidO's
doubtless running yet Suppose you
see il YOU can nail the moral hidden
in this tale.
The above isa composite picture of
the great hearts who have succeeded
in restoring peace between North and
South, and the little ours. such as
Hey burn, whom they have had to
contend with.