J.G. Holmes Writes on the Perplexities of South, pg 1
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J.G. Holmes Writes on the Perplexities of South, pg 1
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"Chicago, July 23—J.G. Holmes. A white man of Cedar Rapids Iowa hits one “Frank Harris” a stinging blow, in a special letter to the Chicago Tribune. If one is looking for a statement with a “Kick” in it, here it is:
Says Mr. Holmes: “I see that Frank Harris beems peeved because you said things about his beloved south. Perhaps he can tell by what code of honesty Georgia manages to get twelve congressmen on a total vote of 39,196 or Louisiana eight on a total of 41,794 votes. While it takes 121,836 votes for Maine to get four congressmen and Iowa 240,311 votes to get eleven congressmen. Perhaps he can tell what glory there is in the fact that out of 175 congressmen of the Democratic party 113 come from the section which steals its members in that way, while sixty-two there are eighteen from the p’ug ugly districts of New York city. Also just why there is no such thing as an Independence Day celebration south of Mason and Dixon line, but that the people of that section show their enthusiasm by burning fire crackers on Christmas, or just why the usual practice of Independence Day celebration was passed in the city of Washington, this year for the first time in a generation, or just why school officers prohibit the use of school building for lectures when the subject is Harriet Beecher Stowe, or just why New Orleans Picayune tells its readers that their model of character as taught their children is Jefferson Davis and not Abraham Lincoln, and that northern people must strictly understand that and just why the schools of all the of all that section teach in their school histories that in all things relating to the civil war the South was always right and the North everlastingly wrong.
'Perhaps he can tell just why any man living outside of that beloved south of his can be anything else than fourteen kinds of fool seven days a week if he votes with that kind of crowd.'"
Says Mr. Holmes: “I see that Frank Harris beems peeved because you said things about his beloved south. Perhaps he can tell by what code of honesty Georgia manages to get twelve congressmen on a total vote of 39,196 or Louisiana eight on a total of 41,794 votes. While it takes 121,836 votes for Maine to get four congressmen and Iowa 240,311 votes to get eleven congressmen. Perhaps he can tell what glory there is in the fact that out of 175 congressmen of the Democratic party 113 come from the section which steals its members in that way, while sixty-two there are eighteen from the p’ug ugly districts of New York city. Also just why there is no such thing as an Independence Day celebration south of Mason and Dixon line, but that the people of that section show their enthusiasm by burning fire crackers on Christmas, or just why the usual practice of Independence Day celebration was passed in the city of Washington, this year for the first time in a generation, or just why school officers prohibit the use of school building for lectures when the subject is Harriet Beecher Stowe, or just why New Orleans Picayune tells its readers that their model of character as taught their children is Jefferson Davis and not Abraham Lincoln, and that northern people must strictly understand that and just why the schools of all the of all that section teach in their school histories that in all things relating to the civil war the South was always right and the North everlastingly wrong.
'Perhaps he can tell just why any man living outside of that beloved south of his can be anything else than fourteen kinds of fool seven days a week if he votes with that kind of crowd.'"
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J.G. Holmes
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Negro Star
Date
1920-7-23
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J.G. Holmes, “J.G. Holmes Writes on the Perplexities of South, pg 1,” African American Fourth of July, accessed April 28, 2024, https://africanamerican4th.omeka.net/items/show/140.