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Show Philadelphia badly needs politi-. cal reconstruction. The body of , Henry Jones, a colored cateiei,hae been refused interment in Mount Moriah cemetery, although his wife is the owner of a lot in tbe ground. The managers had no objection to the burial, but the lotholdcrs, who are mostly of the middle class of people indignantly protested against ths mingling of tho races oven in death, and the body was excluded. Mrs. Jones proposes to contest her right in the courts to bury the body of her husband in her own lot, and the probabili'y is that she will win her case, and that in a year or two Philadelphia Phila-delphia will have a sensation resembling resemb-ling that of the Guibord case on her hands. If this affair had occurred in a southern BtaLe a few months ago there would have been a prolonged party howl, an appeal to the president for troops, and a gwneral row. If tho people of Philadelphia cumot rise Buperior to race prejudices, what can be expected ol those of tho south? |