The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-11-25
1AnoRINa cI.AssEs PAY

HE Tread BY ;hs sweat e his brow brow. PAY
fhas Is as asiss ssoey as C you es s
1 will take You in winter time going ~
work with 2 Light weolen snitmoSston
and wool hat. You ought to be dressed
warmer, but You cannot afford IT. Fur
lists, about three out of the hundred per
United States, certain taxes ars imposed.
which Grant approved and = Rsdieei
Congress passed. lMorey Voted for the
saEnss e tSs Is
sixty-six per cent. ON thirty. five per cent.
ssns cent Sn f0's TSas 6 shs saS every
sSs Yh assa s.a sss Is 1ss,sa z
sSsnsy Soliss., %sSla Ssxs sSss ssa BAD
this tariff That Is the viva way yo aSs ps Sy
taxes--not for tho Governsnenf or for 3
Sn ns 81 Ss ss the
So ON every snit Of clothes that YOU buy
you pay at least from ak to twelve dol
TO THE YANKEE ArANUFAcTuRER.
True, no tax-collector comes to you dr.
richly, but when you 20 to the store TO
the Yankee, those good frisnds q yours
never give II to yon. and who make you
wives and children with that money
% ID S shape to sS
the fankee manufacturer for his wares.
And still they tell You that you pay NO
myself. They also preach to You about
SOCIAL. NQUALLTY.
an white and you are black, and
gil, respect; Thss term social equality +
sSss Circles or aG IN she Sosses m
are white mon whom would not recog-
nize OF have anything e do with. They
ton. and therefore I have nothing TO do
with Them. tell you that term social
s1TYaiiisy ~ SSt t arm and "a the Fed
for the next three hundred and eixty-
i've Thousand years can ever bring
want it. If You were We're to :" come aS nS 70
with my wife and ehiidEen. and tho cdn-
except coon hunting. farming, and those
sSoss and G the an t sopiSs
shindis and Won wan enjoy yourself. So
You oolorcd people must work ont for
ywSicS w ssSy Is ans s Sna er
mp that mountain steep towards q lofty,
moral and intellectual position. You
Sn s Wien We aSss ssn
of life and death over You, we treated
You You kindly, and sa when we went aYI , TO
in your care, and faithfully YOU guarded
them and worked for them. ICheers.l
srRANaE ApvRNTuRERs,
| who come with poison on their lips and
corruption in their hearts. cndeavor TO
SATAN Say to them. You want sugar
my sfs sas REsasS Rsa a IND
We are equal before the law. They
EDUCATE YOU.
That has been answered so completely
already, that / will not attempt to, do
| so. Before you were given the right to-
vote in the city of New Orleans Sam
bola and Jonas lDemocratsl, of that
houses s san and teachers G and books sS wi,en
there was no school law embracing your
raSo, for the purpose of educating you.
| lCheers.1 Mr.. Jonas visited these schools
often, and will corroborato me. We
I wanted to welcome you up that noun
tain steep OF civilization and enlighten-
ment, because we knew it was for tho
good of the whole body polite that you
shonld stand there.
Do not let these words of truth pass
nnhecded, for they come from an honest
| heart that knows your race well. And
| when these garpet-baggeis come to won
| to endeavor to poison your mind against
| your old and best friends, IL you will Iet
| them, say to them, You are Office
holders; You wan't sugar in yourn; 1
| am going 30 work and will depend ON my
| own strong arm" lCheers.l
i have talked 80 long to you 1 am
| afraid you are tired. did not intend TO
trespass 30 long on your time and ntten--
| ton, lCries of Ego on, go en."l There
are few words more / would wish to
say TO the old line wings.
lat this time the rain having, ceased,
| in the square, where Mr.. Ellis, continu-
| ing his speech, saidl
My fellow citizens, / have endenvored
to assure the colorod people ns strongly
as could that it was the interest of tho
| white people to educate and elevate
| them morally. We know that all orin,o
| springs from ignoraDee; that the lower
| we look III the social scale the more
| crime we find the higher we go in the
social scale the more rare, 1t is for crime
| to develop itself. This charge of ignor-
| ance should not be laid mt your door. It
| was the fault of ghs circumstances
| which brought you here. The Yankee
| slave traders who stole you from your
| country and sold you TO the Southern
| people got rich by 80 doing. and then
| turned abolitionists. Tho lower we go
| in the scale of humanity tho more crimo
| we find. If you are to live among as il
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