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Show THE WORM THAT NEVER DIES. The case of the postmistress of Indianola, Mississippi, Mis-sissippi, comes as a reminder of a dreary past. When the great war closed and the reconstruction reconstruc-tion period came on, the bitterness of the south was unspeakable. The men who should have controlled con-trolled public opinion retired to their lairs and refused re-fused to assert themselves. They had lost all in the war; it closed by placing them on an equality, under the law, with those who had been their slaves, and in their confused minds there was no justice on earth or in heaven. When the reckless men of their region In frenzy started out under the Ku-Klux sign of murder they did not seek to stay their bloody hands. Now, after thirty-eight years the effect is seen. The men who thought it was but retributive justice to kill negroes, they and their descendants still cling to that brutality, and so potent are they In Mississippi that sheriffs and marshals are forced to admit that they cannot protect a woman in the discharge of her duties, because she is a colored woman. Those wretches who have awakened that terror do not know what a disgrace they are to themselves and to their state, do not know what they are doing to keep decent people away from their state, and to notify mankind that with them only brutal methods are respected. The loss and shame is not to the poor woman, not to the United States, but solely to Mississippi and her citizens. The chances, too, are that the men engaged In the persecution of the colored women do not receive one letter per capita during the year. We think the administration is right, right in marking Indianola from the list of postofflces, for the disease there is one only cured by death. Those misguided men will die some time, and possibly in forty years more the lower grade of men of that state will become decent citizens. At i IWm present Mississippi is a good state to avoid, for m BPBb very inany of her white people are vastly lower ti 1 r fH in the scale of humanity than can be the lowest "J,B negro who ever worked in a Mississippi cotton -tf-'i' rfB field. f EiBf |