The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-06
THE LIME KILN CLUB.
Brother Gardner on the Southern Ne
gro.

Brother Gardner on the Southern Ne
gro.
Detroit Dfich.) Free Press,
"How little de white man of de
Norf understands de black man of
de Southl' said Brother Gardner as
the lights were turned up and they
began to settle. ODE average Norf-
erner know but little mo- about de
true condishun of de Southern negro
dan he knows of de people in Asia.
He thinks he knows 'em like book,
an dis fack works 'em a great in
joory. De black man south of the
Ohio River stands befo' de kentry
to-day in false light. He am an
imposter-made one in spite of his
self. He am posin' as a martyr,
when really it am de man he works
fur who suffers.
"Some of de churches in de Norf
am raisin' large sums of money to
send South to build skule-houses for
de negro. De ideah am to have de
masses feel dat he am deprived Of
his rights in de matter of educashun,
when de truf of de case is de negro
am bein' eddecated too fast an too
much. Oar am not a town in de
Souf whar he don't git his sheer of
de skule-money and have his skuIe-
houses an teachers. | say he am
bein' eddecated too fast. | pint to
de records of jails and prisons to
prove it. De minnit a black man
can write his name and read huff to
chatter on law or politics he becomes
a dangerous man. More black men
have bin sent to prison for forgery
in de Souf dan fur almost any odder
offense.
"Edddecashun has made de negro
disconnected an changed hiz hull
natur'. He has quit hard work an
is irwin to make a libin' some odder
way. He tries to feel hisself as good
as anybody, an yit de knowledge
dat he hain't keeps him stirred up.
When you take a cullud boy an gin
him fine eddecashun, what have
YOU done for him You have sim
ply split a good waiter an made
dangerous criminal. He can't 90
into law or me dicine; you doan want
him in a bank or stoah; if he sots up
fur hisself he stands no show He
feels above his own race, an can't
git to de lebel oh de whites. De
one class will hate him an de odder
look upon him as a curiosity. Nine
times out of ten he will drift to the
bad.
"On no plantashun in de South
kin you ring bell any mo- fur de
black laborers to 20 to work. Dey
has got to be too heightened fur it,
Dey know dey hold de cotton, con
an tobacco craps III deir own hans,
an dey feels sassy about it. a
written contract wild a Southern ne
gro am THROWN away white paper.
He'll break it at any minnit he sees
fit. De word of a black man am
wort jist about as much as his afi-
davit.
q tell you, gem'Ien, dat one oh de
great social problems ob de day am
dis negro queshun. Ten yeas hence
de South won't have nobody TO
mind her cotton and to do her hard
work. Every var takes thousands
of hands from de fields an puts 'em
into de towns. Every year sees de
black man less inclined to work fur
his libin'! To-day he stands as a
man widout de leas' sentiment of
gratitude. He has no veracity.
He has no moral character. He am
natural loafer. Uncle Sam split
him to begin wild, an long nosed
women an long-haired men have
bin keepin' it up fur de las twenty
vars. Dey have got him now whar
he is no use to anybody. 1t won't
be mo- dan ten vars befo' de Law.
oh de land will have to take him ii
hand an make him go to work o.
git out"
Who win Vindicate Kellogg.
Philadelphia Times,
No Washington jury ever yet founC
that taking government money in any
form without lprat tbArn