Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-11-21
BEvEpIreE ON THE suuTu.

We extract from the Picayune OF
last Monday an eloquent passage !
from the speech made in New Or
leans last Saturday by former Sena-
tor Albert j Beveridge, OF Indiana,
who addressed a large audience in
that city in the interest OF the Bull
Moose or Progressive party.
Mr.. Beveridge is one of the ablest
and greatest orators in the country !
but we doubt if his elOquence served |
to make many converts to the new
party with which he has allied him
self. There may come time when /
the solidity of the South. politically,
will be broken up and we are not
prepared to say that, if the negro
could be eliminated as a voter,
two strong parties in every Southern
State might not be productive OF
better political conditions than now
exist. But it seems to us that the
time has not yet arrived when we
can afford to take any chances on
the dormant negro vote being awak-
ened to take part, perhaps to hold
the balance of power. in elections in
which the whites are arrayed against
each other in warning camps.
The passage referred to was as
follows:
Southwark the star OF the empire
ought now to take its way. The future be-
longs to the South if the men OF the South
will only have it so. Southern farm land
under your rare climate, can yield more
for the feeding and clothing OF the world
| than any like acreage on earth, and these
| fertile fields now give only part OF the
wealth they are meant TO give. Southern
mines are as rich in iron, coal and other
minerals as any on the globe, and these
storehouses of usefulness are as yet almost
untouched. Southern water power is great
err than that of New England or the Far
| Northwest, and most of it runs unhar-
messed to the sea. Southern timber equals
the stumpage of that OF Russia and the
greater part OF tits still unused.
"The place of the South on the map OF
the world ought to make it the heart OF
industry and civilization. The greatest
system OF waterways ON the globe gathers
t into mighty trunk line WHICH pours
through the South to find its outlet In our
Southern Gulf. This vast, land-protected
sea is an ocean in itself, giving to the
South trade advantages which, II used,
would be mrivaled. The Panama Canal
opens the commerce OF mankind to the
South more than TO any other single part
of the republic. From Norfolk, Va, to
Galveston. Tex, the South has chain
of seaports, the poorest OF which is better
|, than the best German seaport and the
best of which are as good as those OF Eng
land.
"And the people of the South are as
vet of almost pure descent from the first
American stock. Theirs is a fighing blood
which counts no cost when standing for
what they believe is right. Theirs is
love for that idealism which makes pros
perity worth while and which alone can
save the present-day craze for money get
ting from rotting the heart OF the nation.
Theirs, too, is an aptitude for statesman
ship and gift for public thinking COM
ing down from forefatheTs whose work IN
founding the republic is one OF the price
less traditions of the American people.
''The South has only to take her right
ful place in the makeup OF the country to
realize upon her vast and unexhausted
assets. Southern men and women are
part of the homogeneous people; the
Southern States are part OF a single and
solid country; Southern interests and des-
tiny of what must be an indivisible and
united nation. The South needs only to
do what these facts counsel her to do in
order to lead American advance"