Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-29
BOOK BY Page
THAT IS CALLED
BLOW At SOUTH
EXTRACTS FROM BOOK GIVEN
Senator Bacon Stirred By
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Washington, d. c., July 2S.-Sena-
tor Bacon, Chairman of the Senate
Committee on. Foreign Relations, who
declared one day last week that ho
more foreign appointments will go
through the Senate until books OF au-
thors receiving nominations have bee
read and passed upon, said today that
The Southerner," appearing under
thename of Nicholas Worth" bur
written by Walter H. Page, Ambassa-
dor to Great Britain, was a reflection
on the South.
The "Southerner's' father was a
Union man" in North Carolina. He
dlu not believes in secession. Nicholas
Worth says of his father: Il remember
having heard him once call it (seces-
sion) a foolish enterprise But h..
could not escape the Confederate Gov
eminent if he had wished, and al
though he opposed the war he did not
wish to be regarded by his neighbors
as traitor"
Pious church people of the South
charge that Mr.. Page in THE South
.ener" sneered at religion. Writing of
a revival that the Worths were inter
ested in, where sinners went to the
lcourners' bench, the "Southerner"
said: There was an Undesirable ter
ror in this violent religion for me, and
Il suspecU for my mother, too"
Nicholas Worth, of Walter Hines
Page, went to Harvard. His people pro
tested against Harvard. One OF his
North Carolina friends says; "Heat-
ems, Worth TO the biterest part Of the
North, the home of the old abolition
ism and hatred of the SOUTH"
After spending some time at Harvard
Mr.. Page said: Il had grown up in an
atmosphere Ga raw atmosphere, no
1
doubt, wherein we permitted our EN-,
otions to have free play, till in MANY
cases, they had been mistaken for
thought, I dare say--a raw, rural So
ciety where there was a suppression
of thought but never a natural re-
serve"
And later when he began to learn
at Harvard, he added: so much did
l yet have to learn. In spite of my
| intellectual emancipation that was al
ready giving me great joy.
Criticised Southern Youth
The Southern youth at that time il
particular had what l shall call thy
oratorical habit of mind. We though:
in rotund, even grandiose phrases
Rousing speech came more naturally
than accuracy of statement. A some
what exaggerated manner and a ten
dency to sweeping congratulations were
easy to us. You can YET trace tbs
quality in the minds and the speech Of
the great majority of Southern men o.
my generation, especially men in pub
lie life. 1t came from an undue de-
velopment of their emotional nature
| and a lack of exact training-the re-
suit OF system of life and of study
that was medieval"
Senator Bacon. it is understood
baked and kicked when he read the
foregoing Characterization of Southern
public men.
Young Worth or Page, met lad BY
the name of Cooley, from Boston, a.
Harvard, and learned something
aboutNew England from him. He visit
ed the Cooley home, and met Mrs
Cooley, the mother, and Miss Cooley
the sister of his college chum. They
opened his eyes.
Il even now recall with gratitude
the freedom that l felt and the rest il
having my own religious doubts dis,
PEELED Mr. Page made Worth say, af-
ter sojourn with the Cooleys. 1T
was like the Jingle of the New Eng
land air Il, the carly snrinc pDt m 4