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VOL. LXXXVII1-NO. 53.
WILMINGTON, K. C, SUN DAT MORNING, MAY p 1911.
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I STORY OF RESGU
E OF A LITERATURE
Bj Jolm AVitbenpoon Du Bote in Birmingham Age-Herald.)
Author: "Life and Times of Yancey", "Life and Timet of
Governor Sanford", "General Joseph Wheeler and
The Army of Tennessee."
Tv.nty years ago there was no par
allel 10 Uiis story. 'Vhile the genius
. .,irpi'i'ia ism seems enmronea
over tli.- mind and heart of the genera
tion ;"'! socialism rises to claim for
itself the part and function and reme
dy, a iin'e and genuine literature. is
broii!',lt forward to try conclusions.
Whatever letters may be worth to the
consciousness of organized ' society,
the literature here discussed; recent
as B its discovery, must be allowed
an essential factor In the estimate.
It is proposed because of well
mown anxiety of students of history,,
for expansion of resources of that cult,
to tell of a personal attainment which,
thus early in its place, has ripened in
to an intellectual and moral affinity,
north and south, of pronounced adap
tation. The mere fact that a young South
ern born man, bred on a farm, should
go to tin? great Northern city, with
out friends there, without' money, yet
I Tosner, even exceedingly, may not
be in itself worthy of this place on the
printed page. But when that young
man ri?os to the situation, sees the
pending sacrifice of the spfrit . and
substance of his native land on the
altar of .Moloch, and pledges a wy of
rescue, at his own hands, he becomes
the hero, born in time.
Within the last score of years Wal
ter Neale, a Virginian, hardly yet in!
the prime of life, has published In
New York, more standard works -of
Southern history than air the other
publishers of the world combined. Ha
has withal, written with his own-hand
historical works of tne class of text
books. Captains, of industry, com
manders of armed men, von land and
on sea, statesmen, philosophers, poets
and inventors we;; justly demand
knowledge of by ; th' printed volume
of their lives. It'Js meet and proper
that we shall know somewhat 'of him
who educates, the civilized world in
knowledge of the South as none be
fore, him has dared to do..- '. t
Southern literature must be corre
lated to the ascertained character of
the South. The compact of 1787 Is
less a fact of comprbmise, entered in
to by sovereign States "nations,"
Mr. Neale denominates them to pro
mote the general welfare, . than be
tween the - Puritan section and the
Cavalier.' Tha surviving principle of
State sovereignty in the Federal gov
ernment, has been asserted alternate
ly, from the beginning, as the weapon
to protect the Puritan section and the
Cavalier, 'each from ..ascendancy over
the other. The Cavalier ideals were
broador, the Cavalier spirit more vir
ile. In normal competition the Cava
lier section prevailed. The South gov
erned the Union.
Time passed, European immigration
of different character from the earlier
settlers of American soil, came JCo it
by scores and millions. The sword
and the purse of the government unit
ed, and millions of unlettered Afri
cans, without a native tongue, were
brought forward to pronounce upon
the most' beautiful and complex form
of government ever wrought out by
the brain of nfan.
Vespasian drove in triumph through
the thronged and shouting streets of
Rome, followed by, noble 1 Jews in
chains. Even at that hour the great
school of Jabna reopened its doors in
the conquered city of Jehovah. Jew
ish youths began to learn anew the
history of Jewry. From the school
came "penmen" to publish the story
abroad. After the school had done its
work, the Jews made their most glor
ious defense of Jerusalem against
Rome. , , . ; ...
We' may not forecast the full effect
of the inspiration of the Virginian lad
who.; consecrated himself to .the task
of. setting up, in the- waste places of
American . history, a 'su'ecessor to the
school of Jabne! : The act, has been
accomplished. , The eternal yeaa of
trtlth await . the "fruit. I am not writ
ing in advertisement of trade. I am
pointing joyfully "to the silver thread
upon which hangs the noblest motive
of endeavor . now, in this generation,
which-appears competent to vindicate
the S0uth. Walter Neale has made
sepure'," the future influence of the
.South. ' in the United States by chal
lengirig the whole world to look upon
Walter Neale was born In northern
Virginia in . the year 1873. He was
born to an. early ambition and to the
consciousness of power. He is a man
with' the traditional grandfather Two
centuries before the Norman conquer
or put foot. on English soil his ances
tors were noble there.- His . natural
blood is of the Bowdoin line of French
nobility. For one of these Bowdoin
college is named. Bowdoin was the
maiden name of Mr. Neale's Virginian
grandmother.'. Francis Hopkinson,
one of his ancestors, signed the Dec
laration of Independence; Joseph Hop
kinson, of the same blood, was the au
thor , of "Hail Columbia!" Through
the long strain of this blood individu
als, have been devotees of the fine
arts, music and literature.
The family of -Mr.--Neale have been
active Jn . the "social and political life
of the part-jjf Virginia in which they
lived from .the' early Colonial period.
He -wis '.at college, at the age of 17,
when his father died suddenly. There
seemed to' be no bank account left by
him. . But he owed no man. The fam
ily that was left to the college student
for. support and advice comprised an
invalid mother, six -sisters and a bro
ther much younger than himself. The
studies of the school were -not aban
doned, but the management . of the
farm was taken up by him.
Neale had matured a purpose afore
time,, and this was to become a great
publisher and a great writer. In the
year X892, at 19, he went to Washing
ton Cty. Co begin, life's work. "With
him went the whole family a reso
lute, confident family, each able and
ready to take a share in the venture.
The young inn's path was straight.
The first year of his labor as a writer
brought something like $5,000 to him.
The family maintained a comfortable
home. He held before him, without
shadow of turning, the two goals, ear
ly fixed the fortune of a great pub
lisher and the fame of letters. He lar
bored and studied assiduously. He
took up the elemental law books and
learned- enough to qualify him for ad
mission to the bar. He read of sci
ence and -philosophy deeply Studying
Spencer, he even entered the dissect-
he might study SperJcer more hor
oughly. : ' '
At the age of 24 yjears Mr." Nefle
married Missi Margaret Ellen Stuart
two years younger than he. In the
young wife was blended the blood of
four eminent families tof South - Caro
lina, -the Stuarts, the Rhetts, the Barn
wells and the Thomsons. Thereafter
he maintained two houses, that of his
mother,.as before, and his own.
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editors and business agents on high
salaries; - :,,.,..
Th3 task was to create a publishing
house. None was behind the project,
with matured purpose, save this young
man, without capital sufficient to pay
operating expenses for a single
month. .At once the truth loomed uo
Al A- A 4 r . .
thai tl enn rv.i,n kA sj j . a I ' v,.'-' N
nV "ri. wr "neither race nor creed. A distinguish-
TTiX:: : " JTed, author carried his manuscript to
WALTER NEALE
When he was 25 years old The
Neale Publishing Company -was or
ganized in Washington, Walter Neale,
president and controlling spirit.
' Subscriptions to the stoek, by char
ter members, reached only a small
sum. There was but one manager and
he the president If the house should
survive it must excite" a competition,
and competitors in most ' cases " were
counting It was seen that necessarv
advertising and traveling expenses
would swell the sum to $2,000.' Hous
es in competition, as old as the gov
ernment Itself, stood by. The fight
with fortune was won. But it was
hard drawn out.
It is far from a thing unimportant
to trace the -struggle of this high re
solve, to : rescue Southern literature.
Mr. Neale weighed all conditions, then
fixed his course, irrevocably. He plan
ned: with deliberation to become a
sensate, active factor of the enlight
ened world about him, that all men
who should find in him a. business
partner. Annually, at a predetermin
ed, season, he boarded the cars and
traveled in remote places. He travel
ed, with leisure, nevr in haste. He
heard with attention and saw with pro
fit. All kinds of men were compan
ions to him. Sir Walter Scott never
...J talked with one so humble and so un-
interesting to tne average man that
he failed to learn something. So with
this embryo publisher. . .
.The welcome news spread rapidly
that Southern writers had found-a
publisher. The publisher went among
them and sought them out and dis
covered them. . Still in pursuit of 'a
fixed purpose Mr. Neale made hjmself
a recognized factor in the society
where he lived. He published aorhe,
books, without compensation that he
knew would not sell; he published ar
ticles relating to public affairs with
out compensation; he gave valuable
works of art to public Institutions.
The ' publisher's obligations to socie
ty, perhaps, has not been more ser
iously considered than by him. ' '
In all this time examples were not
wanting to prove the uncertainty of
the project to publish the literature
of the South, of literature favorable to
the truth of Southern conditions! The
English' historian, Percy Grey, wrote
a history of the United States of ad
mirable literary interest. The plan
included a philosophical and generally
correct account of the genesis and the
life of the Southern Confederacy. Gen:
Wade Hampton wrote for it introduc
tory pages, congratulating the South
and the cause of the South. An epito
me of the book might well be used as
operating with half a million - ready
capital, or more, with . full staff of text in public schools, hut very few
Individuals ever heard of it. The book
needed 'the publisher's facilities of
marketing.
The Neale Publishing Company evi
dently stands toward the book pub
lishing business In tne world at large,
in the attitude of an independent. To
illustrate, Mr. Neale's house knows
numerous houses in Europe and in
America, without success. The manu
script criticized publishing houses
and their authors. The Neale house
published it. An eminent Russion dip
lomat selects the house of Neale to
produce his intimate account of Jap
an at the time that boeks of the kind
were not popular" in this country.
Even a negro found that he could pre
sent .his side of the race question
through the house that was devoted
to the production of books by the
leading men and women of the South.
My own reading of the books from
the Neale house has been ample
enough to suggest, that selections may
be made from the list to cover more
of. the history of the Southern Confed
eracy than is practicable otherwise.
To mention briefly a few of these
books, letting their titles and their
authors suggest their importance:
("Morgan's Cavalry," by Gen. Basil
puke; "Hood's Texas Brigade," by
Judge J. B. Polley; "Three Years in
the -Confederate Horse Artillery," by
George M. Neese, of Chew's battery;
"Confederate Operations in Canada
and New York," by Capt. John W.
Headley;,, "Cleburne and His Com
mand" hy Irving A. Buck, his adjutant
general: "Mosby's Men," by John H.
Alexander, of Mosby's ' command;
"Recollections of a Naval Life," by
Capt. John Mcintosh Kell, executive
officer of the Sumter and the Alaba
ma; "ATrue Story of Andersonville
Prison," by Lieut. Page, a Union offi
cer confined there, who shows that
WIrz was a hero, not a subject for the
hangman's noose; "Recollections of a
Confederate Staff Officer," by Gen. G.
Moxley Sorrel; "Four Years Under
Marse Robert," by Maj. Robert Stiles,
of the Richmond Howitzers; "The
Life and Services of John Newland
Maffitt," by his wife, a thoroughly ad
equate biography of this distinguished
naval officer. I might continue the
list over the scores of books equally as
Important that constitute a great his
tory of the Confederacy. One other
deserves a place the "Life of John
M. Mason, United States Senator from
Virginia and Confederate Diplomat in
Europe." , . -t
' lt is notthe purposeyot this paper
(dontlnued on Page Twelve). .
AFTER THE SUGAR MONOPOLY
Hard wick Resolution Stirs Up a Sen
x satlon in Congress Democrats .
Speak on Impending Fight- j
to Destroy Combination
(Special Star Correspondence.)
Washington, May 20. Representa
tive Hardwick, of Georgia, has Intro- "
duced and had passed a resolution to
investigate the sugar trust. Nine
members of the House will serve on
a committee of investigation. It is
the purpose of Mr. Hardwick, chair
man of the committee, to take a look
into the records of the giant corpora
tion organized by the Havemeyer
group.
Many people are interested in this
proposition. Every man, woman and
child in this country is taxed about
$1.50 a year for sugar. The present
tariff brings in about $52,000,000 in
revenues. ,
"It shall be the duty of the com
mittee to inquire whether the organ
ization and operations of the Amer
ican Sugar Refining Company and
ether persons or corporations having
relations with it, and all other ; per
sons or corporations engaged in man
ufacturing or refining sugar and their
relations with each other, have' caus-
cr had a tendency -to cause any of'
the following results," says the reso
lution "First. The restriction or destruc
tion of competition among manufac
turers or refiners of sugars.
"Second. An increase in price of re
ned sugar to the consumer or. de
crease in price of sugar or sugar
beets to the producer therof."
Representative Pou, a member of
the sub-committee of the House Com
mittee on Rules, which reported our.
the Hardwick 'resolution, with a rec
ommendation that it pass, stated the
case clearly from the standpoint of
the investigators.
"Twenty-one years , ago this corpor
ation the siisar trust came into
existence," said he, "and since it has
frown . and spread in its operations,
absorbing competitors." There , is a
common belief among the people of
the United States that it is every-day
Violating the law. Now, the purpose,
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