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o "CilAliLOTTE DAILY OBSERVER, SEPTEMBER 2, 190G. TTTTi? vq (v ( cWTTirrvri 1KLE VOllTll TO JUS imOTHKIU :i liirrt of a Ulrica In , Reply to Uia "'Autoblorapli; vt m houtlMrrner1 Colonel Siumv, Uio Typical Vent ogogue lit I'nrcuwoiuUily Condemn- t (Hi lie U IU'rrmntiv0 of . houUHTii b-ii(liuent TImj "Ele. . nunml Forced" are Fully DIsciim. . editrUstoue mud Hoctal Prrjudke 'mid the "Hands of Dead Men" are iirxfiiiu-d from the Southern Point . .I view. ;, :- - !-;. Xufuet a VIM ' ' i Dear Nicholas ... Aoording to my promise, X will do 'vote this letter to consideration of int prince of. demoa-og-ue. Colonel istoncr. end to the "elemental foreea" i 'y (all prejudice) which he In hi deep r -4 seated malice brought to bear against ' ,y you tn.ypur innocence. This la not ' i sarcasm. ; You drew a true Character T in Col, Stohr. and you couldn't point him too black to suit me. -A aeaia ?y f i Kogu. must be hated even ", In, ' high , Iwavea and la 1 contemptible 'In the iy Y-:Urht of any aelfrrespoctlng person on eann ne nas a tnournrui voice and ,',.,' Moua look and "aUlaator" . tear. y ; , ana Inside he e "full of dead men's ' bonea". Ho pay . ''tithe of mint, and ; antes and communion,, and omtta "the weightier matter of the law. f-i juagmeni, mercy ana raita." in.con . v. damnation , of the demftgoarue, I-am : , heartily in accord with you. His be- v j ' . dlngered eftul, warp of woof, Js steeped -Ty, la the slime of iniquity.: . .' -j -a -. ! You write that at the 'end of the : first year of your school work, this v , colonel prevented your re-election by . ..his appeal to the ''elemental foreea '.- For one year you were connected with V the State Department of ., Education .!t and took treat interest In your work , .-which had to deal with the Ignorant. .. but well-meaning country teachers. , 'Then one year you" were professor of luaiury at me uniyerauy oaiy to meet ;.'. Y colonel as-. a trustee again and . With the um remit as hafnra. anil i 'you concluded-you would leave the a Bute, though It as aa much your . iana aa aa Btoner s, ana (I It waa ;.; ' jvnot big enough- for. both. yu being - the better man) ought to have forced rim te emigrate, xou did rrood work In school .and did more than could i i' have been expected. The people were , ! ft c aatlsfled and you thought everything "j was an ngnt until along came tme '-' r ' Vila and oily blasDhemer. and in the J name or patriotism and all that waa . . 1 Lkt.i W - 1 I I - - a. . . . . v t"i, mo vvmvu ma apiva ma7B,inai you j The reason probably waa that you had v . v not licked his boots, and he aa deter ."t.T mined to show you hla power even v? y U he was thereby obliged to proirtl- ' tute Ms Intelligence and aaeriflee the .;.' Interests of hundreds of Innocent de ,r . . fencelesa children. No, ha could not vbe painted too black. '' c'" if, 'J "He expreeeed great personal re . gard for me, the ely and eloquent old . . colonel the -orofonndeat - almlraMnn . ?!or '"J' learning and seal, But our . Sacred dutv tn nnr M r. -4txr very religion the sanctity of our , . k k - homes and the purity of our vfaith, ; : and our reverence for our brave and . . noble-heroes were we to be unmlnd v ful of these? He was loth to criticise a ys ..young man of learning and , Ideals .; t, .and of a good family too, an. he had 'J. hoped that hla motion would prevail wunoui aiscusaion. , Home or the gen tlemen sorely knew the grave reasona for hla mrUnn XT a AlmltyA M l. K-L public . "chargea," and be insisted that y :t what he said should not be- repeated. . Then he arraigned -me not in anger ."but In deep aorrew.' ' i 1 ,p" I '""X be pardoned for gla. '.'Ing thla -much 'attention to such an unholy thing aa a demagogue. . In an ., ancient nation there 'was a law that the corpse of a murdered person' ; - should be chained to the murderer C'i;"bd left' there, but more, awful than ' 1' this I the putiinhmrnt of a pi-njle who by their. Indllleieiice or lin k of courHge bind themselves to a living death In the shape of a man like Col. Btoner. HI counterparts are .with us yet and perhaps, sad to relate, always will be until we get to Heaven, There was one In the Garden 0f Kden and there bus never been any limit to the bound .of their habitations. - You gave CoU Htoner as the focus of your dls satisfaction of the Provincial South, and here you erred. , These lecherous parasites are far too numerous In the South i but they are more numerous around you tn Vur. present abiding place and they-with you ere .morei quiet ana sea active 10 meir .neianou lnnuence. 7-- . r' 'V: ; pxt -" , ' lUet us suppose two parallel cases. A" In public senthnenfon a Onan clal question apd the Ktoners up there arraign mm n ine same, of "sound currency and the honest dollar.. 'B In the- South evokes the denunciation or .the Btoners because of some whim or foolish utterance that' strikes too near to -the danger r line of ''seclak both of then to resign and the public becomes greatly agitated.. Can : you guess i the result?, . My prbgnoBtica tlon . Is . that "A" would ''walk the plank and that ."B' would be pro teoted in his unalienable right to the freedom of , mind .and . consclenoe. Thla shows the difference between our" f standpoints - and demonstrates . that from mine the South la a free coun try, that Btoner la a typical . dema gogue, , but thatyouV arev wrong 1 tn working , hint- a' representative of Bouthern sentiment - The "elemental forces" t that' you connect'-with him have no connection whatever with him 'except that as the denial can quote . Bcrlpture,.: so - the demagogue caiv uBe noble senutlments aa toola for the accomplishment of unworthy alma, .'These ' elemental forces . we will now ' discuss as being your own reason lor. leaving; the South, r . - ." ' "In the name of our holy religion I was not a communicant ot : any Church. and : 1 .had-on one occasion expressed 4iv the presence ot a pious lady,-doubt about the divinity of our Blessed xord." , I admit that here is an elemental force tn Bouthern life. Our State Constitution declares' that no v person ' can noia omce in ' tno State who denies, the Being ot Al mighty Qod. This is prejudice tn the same sense that the. Rock of Glbral ter Is prejudiced; it Is stubborn and unyelldmg and It keeps back the wild waves. I confess to you that I would not cast my vote for a superintend ent of education who. was not-a com municant ' of any ' Church and who sheered at the undamentat Christian beliefa. -The South Is the moat rigor ous section on this point, and yon may call It narrowness If you will. We do hold unreservedly to Christ as the great Ideal, and If we be wrong. "let mm who is witnout am among you cast the first stone." The South bad no right "taor inclination to tram mel your belters, out it aia nave tne right to say that euch Influence should not be brought to bear on the minds f the children. In this same -native State of yours was made the first declaration of the freedom of mind-and conscience in the history of the world. All the colonists come seeking freedom for themselves and denying it to- others. until In the year.USI a little band of persecuted pioneers come South and settiea along Aioemane souna ana in their first laws freedom was granted to all for the first time, and the promise was kept They bullded with care and with prayer and with unal terable faith In God and Chrlat and the Holy Word. Ca you conceive anything more logical thsn for their children reared in "the nurture and admonition iOf the Lord" to hearken well to an SDieal "In the name of bur holy religion t" It will be sad for,' us If the time ehall ever cftme -when we do not ' have such '"prejudices'' to. keep us 1n the straight ad nar row way.' . Were you not. under at least as much obligation to respect those people's deep-beliefs as they were to respect- your, lack of . It? "Woe unto youl For ye neither go tn yourselves, neither suffer ye .them that are entering to co in." , -"In the name of the Anglo-Saxon Civilization. 1 would teach the nigger lust as welt as I would teach .the white child. I had held public meet lngs of negroes, , and promised as much. I had been taught in a North ern college where (If he was-rightly informed) negro students and white students were on an equality and I had imbibed Ideas subversive of our civilisation." ,i' iV,v-V,Vt-'V.'t - We 'should -"" recollect : that these events' were transpiring In parlous times. The' negro race, only, a few yeara out of, bondage and q,nly a hup dred yeara out of savagery and cannl ballion, bad. been put . on ah - equal basis with -the AngloeSaxona who had never been slaves and had been "the monarchs of all they surveyed" for a thousand years, .Youuo not tell of thla other side of the picture, so t have it all to do. History idoes not record a mere shameless epoch tnaa the ten years of -deetructlvov recon struction Jn the South. There was no cause for levity in the claim . that Anglo-Saxons must stand united to present - the subversion of their civil ization. ' And yet you would - make these people appear prejudiced withe Out any cause, excuse or palliation. -., ' ..The Anglo-Saxon needs o eulogy, but I must refer-to the education, of the negro, The Inference from your argument la .that we were and have been unjust to the negro with reJ gard to public education. This "is the moat unklndest cut of ail." The Southern white people since the' war have net been able to -educate-their own children properly but they have done as much for the negroes as for their own. ' Two hundred millions of dollars Is a conservative estimate of the amount the Southern white peo ple, alnce 1163, have paid for negro education, and yet they are condemn ed as the negro's enemies while the colored men's friends of the ' North are praised to the skies for the few hundred thousands of dollars they havegiven. And this "more holy than thou" spirit of your-phllanthrep-lo brethren is responsible In no email degree for the negro's ungraciousness and unanDreclatton of the opportuni ties offered him. We support and ed ucate and help the race but you want to direct the management ot . the problem without incurring, any ex nense. and that day will mark a great step In the negro'a progress wherein the North which is not snaring ine burden will turn to ita own affairs and kindly let the colored-man and his true friends work out their own solu "In the nsme of our hiatory ana our honored dead. I had written In a book, which was put into the hands of. our children, sentiments - disre spectful to the Confederacy, for which so many gave their Uvea. (The sen tence to which he rererrea was one that explained the threat of the Gov ernor of the State to secede from the Confederacy a plain historical fact") This Is your stocn argument tne hands of dead men." You were al ways good at phrase making and thla Is equal to your beet Many people receive striking phrases and glitter ing epigrams ss the fish In his Inno cence swallows the worm-covered hook. If you decide to publish tnis work of voura It would be well to christen It "The Hands of Dead Men." it is apparent throughout that iur Invention Ja to demonstrate that the ' South no longer thinks, but meekly and . sluggishly acts along the line liiJJ dow n by the pre vleoa - genera tions. The Dauijhtei s of the Con federacy to you ' are ' "Th . 'Gentle Daughters of the Dead." The whole South. was dead and you. could And no congenial life; therefore, you left! Lot ua quote farther j '-'' ;'' 1' . "Thus! I made my acquaintance real with three elemental forces about me. the existence ct which t had .hardly known till now. . They , were the Church, ' the ; race question, and the bands of dead men: , and they to gether made thq ghost called Public Opinion. ' Any colonel, by skillfully Invoking these, could then stop any man In a normal, independent career. Mry a Southern man has been banish ed from - the- land that he loved and would probably have served by this simple process of ; Invoking thee forces against him. v You will And such men In almost every State in the Union, man with the same burning; patriotism that ' we ; dedicated our selves to at college,, winning suocess at every calling, and hoping tn quiet hours-v of self-communion.- that a chance may yet come for them - to show the genuineness of . their boy hood ambition.' ,-; , ' , ? Bo' you would" have us believe that tour vburnta patriotism" gained at the Southern college met K Waterloo it ithe ' hsnds of the '.'elemental forcea!" V You seem to forget right here .that the ... "burning patriotism" was a nonentity when you left Her vardJi '.Yoe went than out West pros pecting as to -the desirability ot the ministry (without regard to the call of your home) and you found too much bigotry .and -eelf-euperloflty,'" and went to work at home because nothing better was offered you. You said yourself that teaching bored you, and. you were entirely out ot tone with your environment. How then could yovl expect success? Would a politician be Justified In charging Vermont with norrownes Just because he oould 'not be elected Governor on the Democrats ticket? la It then Just to accuse fh South ot provincial Ism because. It does not welcome and eitcouraaa one who speaks mockingly of everything they hold dear? Inci dentally, It would be interesting 1 to know how many times you have vot ed! the winning ticket in your local elections since you have been In the North. If some of you were more reverent to the, dead, perhaps the present moment would not be so pow erful am Influence to sell the birth right for a mess -of pottage. Shakspere . saya: . "That nature, which condemns Its. origin, cannot be bordered certain hn Itself." A boy's father or grandfather may be un worthy, but thla does not Justify the boy's disrespectful conduct toward hlm,and any nation Is In a bad way that does not bear a tender revere ence for "the, touch of a vanished hand tand the aound ot a voice that Is still." Here wss your grave mistake. You could have held opinions without hindrance, but you demanded reapoct for r your disrespect and when It waa denied you found the public opinion too narrow. But what of the onea who stayed at home? Did they smoth er their honest' convictions and pan der to prejudice?. -They may have differed with public opinion but they accepted victory or defeat without falling and they spoke and acted with the true courage of deep conviction. I have seen a Southern leader face a convention of 8,800 representatives of the dominant party, (many of whom bad cried out against taking the money out of their pockets to educate the negroes) and tell them that by the grace of God and the examples of -his people of the past, he would stake his public atanOJng on his firm deter mination that the negrs shall be edu cated. Her are all three of the ele mental forces rolled together, and the man who used them la more popular londay than ever before, andv the "forces"' won a. battle for the Opposite of the way in whloh you have con demned .them, ' prejudices aro not si-, ways used for wrong purposes. The hands o( the dead prophets prepared the way, for the life of Christ, and the hands of the broad-minded living Pharisees (who allowed commerce tn the Temple) sent; him tcr his death on the cross.;. :j V V- '. ! '!: fi TRUE WORTH. ' ' DEVELOPING MONROE , REALTY, '..vr;-: cy 11 ' urn- . ' r ' y Recently Organised Concern Already , Accomplislilng MuchMr. Saluuull ' end Um Wlialo Darkey's Coetly U Koonoiny. " ' ;' -.-.,. . 9peclal to The baerveK'fy l. , -" -Monroe, Aug.' tlv tThe ;r; Monroe Realty Company, which waa Organised sut a few months ago, has . already accomplished ; much toward the Im provement of 'real estate in hla town and Its environs. The' company has seven acres .' In ' the western part . of town, the section known as ' Railroad Heights and is now selling 6ft build ing lots there. They have SO acres in the eastern section adjoining the rail road extension, formerly known as the Vann - propertyi Options have . been secured on quite a number of houses and iota, and two or - three farms. They expect to deal extensively ' In farm lands, and some parties from the weatern part ot the State, who are desirous of securing better cotton land than their section affords, have been negotiating with the company for farm lands in Union 'county, The officers ot the company are B. Clega- Anhcraft, president; H. B. Adams, secretary and treasurer; Frank Armfleld and Eugene Ashcraft, managers. ' The company Is, of course, a business proposition, but the well-known public spirit of the gen tlemen who conduct , its affairs will, no doabt, make It a strong force In, the upbuilding ot Monroe. Little Charlie Askew, aged about Ave years, was told by a resident of this town that If he would catch a lot of June bugs and bring them to htm. It meant a cent in Charlie's fiocket for each of those Insects. The Ittle fellow went away. Joyously an ticipating the wealth to be derived from cornering the June bug market But the pext day he came back and told the gentleman that It waa Impos sible for him to gather June bugs In August, and offered to furnlah "later" bugs at five cents a dosen. Though the offer had to be refused, because of the large supply of tater bugs and the total lack of demand for them, rt shows that Charlie givea great promise ot becoming a captain ot Industry at aome future day. Mr. Sahaadi stopped The -Observer's correspondent on the court houae square Thursday morning, and said he had a great piece ot newa to im part. He had Just received a letter from hla home In the Holy Land tell ing him that a' whale 90 feet long and nine feet wide, through Ita thick est part, had been hauled on shore from the Mediterranean aea. The writer' imagined from the expression of awe In Mr. Sahaadl's eyea that that gentleman waa about to Inform him that the whale waa the one that swallowed Jonah. But no; Mr. Sahaadi waa awe-struck at the -tremendous slse of the whale and acted aa If. his In- formee ought to faint away, at least. when its awful dimensions were re counted. When told that aeveral whales of perhaps larger dimensions had been actually beheld by the very ....... . .'j'.:.. person he was addressing a look ot ulaappotntment passed over hla coun tenance, and h turned and walked dejectedly away. - There Is no doubt In the writer's rolnd that Mr, Sahaadi thinks him the biggest liar in Union county and a , man to be rigorously shunned,' but. the statement - waa, nevertheless, true, though J haven't the "whales t With me at present to prove .It. 1-.' wv v.'-...v-', ..""- ,. A' . Will Pethet Is an economical darkey who thought he could go one better the man who -tried to cut down his teed bill by putting green, spectacles on his horse to make the animal think sawdust was oats. . pethel cut out the feed entirely and gave his horse only water for about a - week' - The au thorities learned of It and Pethel was tried befora Magistrate. Flow for cruelty to animals. He was fined $10 and costs, so the scheme did not prove as economical aa. ha thought It would. Hereafter he will be likely to draw the cuatomaty distinction be tween appetite ' and thlret :, V ', BLAINE'S C.XUV Draw Baltiry off' V ; r . Not hi Lot e .U1 1.. . . New, York Special. 0th. to v i,'.; ton '.Post - , . . James .0." Blaine third, gr t, thia famou . statesmen, has m-. ! debut In IT business world as a In the Demand Ight Bank on i avenue." He ' has. beenjf employed that capacity . for ; a month. . but t fact.' that he ' waa'1 there was public : only to-day, .''' x; i Is la , said that young Blaine en! recelves It a week and la not at all in love with his Job.;. The bank official are by no means. certain that youri Blaine will stay with them. As en of them put Mr v'. ;;: - ' ' "He wosld rather be a United EUte Senator than corner the marksts of the world." ... t , PPNPeJ Kir w Should every home; safe, reliable, free from all opiates n d poisonous matter. w,.v....f, ffiWEDES be In SEEK NO FURTHER YOU HAVE IT IIEFI .t..Uv,." reci Utmt Cirt . . Price : . . . $2.00 Pcai Riecnulisi Cut, Ikjaii . . .1.00 fesi luiesinalcn Cm. Tablets . . . . iQ fesi Kerre tad KJood Ctre . . . . . 50 Peas kidney isi liver tore iO Phi Dyspepsia Cire iO Pesi NeCvt ......... 50 Peofl Cvnstipalioi Core ........ i5 Peu Slreoitbeflini Kidney Ulster . . X PaiOerryflixir.. ......... i5 Pen tinineat i5 ,. 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Medicines mada fmm the ennta ha.rKa anit KarTra avhlrh nafnr Tna nlared at the diannaat tit man, act better in every way than do strong mineral mixtures and concoc tions the products of the chemist's shop. Mineral medicines work danger onsly on the delicate parts of the system, especially the stomach and bowels, -by eating out the lining membrane, producing chronic dyspepsia and oXtea entirely raining the health. S. S. S. enjoys the distinction of being tha only purely vegetable remedy on the market. It is made entirely of gentle , acting, healing, purifying roots, herbs and barks, possessing properties that build up and invigorate all parts of the system, in addition to removing all ; impurities and poisons from the; blood. S. S. S. cures Rheumatism, Catarrh. Scrofula, Sores and Ulcers, Skin Diseases, Contagious Blood Poison and all disorders of the blood by cleansing the circulation of the cause, and it tores safely as well as permanently. It is as safe for children and old people as lor those tn the prime of Hie, and is tne one blood medicine that may be usea without fear of bad after-effects. Book on the blood sent free to all who write. TIlX8YmTSPECtnOCO ATLANTA, CM .-.-" rv 3' '-.- r. i r v.; ' .' -' ', ! ' 4 (B ' . '-.- . V .... ' -a. ., . . ' ""W "sf -'V ' t"- f ; 'afi af mm I , Orators a": ann a nnmnn;K saws Senator Beit: Tillman ' WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 12TH. : ; ; ; Rev. Sam Jones SUNDAY AND MONDAY, SEPT. 9TH AND lOTH. MONDAYANfrTO 11TH : , SUNDAY EVENING, SEPT 9TH. - ; , Officiail Programi For the Greatest Week's Attractions Ever Held in the South inother Brilliant Achievement for ': -f 4. Greater Charlotte Some of aAmericas Best Orators, Hu- ass ' morists and Musicians Will be Here. Your; Favorite is on the List h." . Orators and Humorists Hon. John Temple Graves TTTFA AND WED.f SEPT. 11TH.AN1L12TH. Rev. George Stuart SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, SEPT. 15TH AND 16TH Pro. 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