The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-03-19
BILL ARP ON THE NEGRO.
He Discusses the PecuIiarites OF
the Race.
Atlanta Constitution.

Atlanta Constitution.
! The negro problem seems to have
broken out atresh and the negro is ,
] getting the worst of it now. Tue
+ North American Revie1c aud Prof. |
/ White and Governor Smith, and
other philosophers have recently |
set the darkey down as fraud SO
tar as labor is concerned. One
complains that he is lazy aud won't
work, another complains that he Is
incapable OF Improvement aud can
not keep up with progressive farm
ing. Then again it is said that he
keeps intelligent white labor from
coming south, and SO we have got
an elephant on our hands and can't
get rid of him. Northern republi.
cans have turned against him be-
cause they can't vote him and so
the poor darkey is losing ground
and losing friends. The poorer
classes of the south-that is the
common laboring people-despise
him and wish him well out OF the
country. His presence among
them as competitor for bire on
wages or as renter is odions TO
them. know the sentiment OF the
tenants IN my section and it is very
hostile to the negro. They want
him to go. 1t is very natural that
the poor white man should be
unfriendly to his presence. 1t is
precisely the same sentiment that
caused the expulsion of the Chinese
from Wyoming. Indeed they set
up objections to the negro that
cannot be urged against the CHINA
/, man, for they say that the negro Is
thriftless and will steal and more
. than all, tue negro has a contempt
K tor poor folks and poor folks know
il. The average negro bad rather
be the serf and servent of Il rich.
man than to- work OH an equality
with a poor man for better wages.
NV rich neiehbor Muntord can get
s plenty OF labor at low prices and
. orders his darkies around just
! about like lie used 20 before the
war.
Well, now, we all look at this
negro question from Onr own stand
, pOint. Landlords like TO employ
. them Just because they can order
them about. The love of dominion
is strong in our race. They like to
employ Them because the darkey is
easily settled with. He is cdreless
of his money and most always
comes out little behind and that
fastens him over for another year.
They will put up with poorer shan
L ties aud fewer privileges. They
will pick up some little things that
don't belong TO them, but a shlfty
l. manager makes it all back one way
- or another and is his own judge
p and Jury over his hirelings' Many
farmers get their tenants from both
races aud say this gets up an emu
lation that is profitable all round
but my observation Is that neither
! race like it aud it is better to have
" all whites or all darkies. When
farmer has good, dOclle, industriOus
white tenants be is apt to keel
y them. aud SO with the negroes
Every employer judges OF the negr'
by his own interest aud his owl
experience. So far as | am con
- cerned prefer the white man now
n for no man has better tenants thai
ry | have. They are my friends AM
u | am theirs but a few years ago
pletorred the negro as "a labnreI
Nevertheless, Ike to have som
D darkeys around, for they are aIway
e. ready and always willing to d
ay things in emergencies that a whit
man does not like to do and d
not like to ask him TO de. Ever
southern white man, however poo
will maintain the Independence @
or. bis family if be can. He will no
st- do, nor let his family do, anythin
. that looks like dependence G
cb menial service. The cooking an
the washing Is still done by th
IS negroes, aud they make the moII
IN ing fres aud bring the water an
"e milk the COWS. White folks eve
i'm the country have their socis
rank. The lines are dim aud crool
70. ed, but there are lines. Where's
ay among the negroes there al
ne, none. Neither religion, nor mora
I nor poverty have yet estabIIshe
Al, any social caste among them. DO
E. Smith has just come from a tw
MS YEARS term in the .chaingang, an
N goes around in the settlement hE
m a hero returned from the war. II
4 negroes give him n cordial WELDON
:. aud listen eagerly to bis experiene
IN. Bob declares he had FIRST ra'
time. and he hated to come awe
3 wuss den he hated to 60 dar. Bi
aeh Bob was strusty" aud felt like
W. was commissioned officer in q
army. Bob says that two bla'
rascals got away and he sot
m. track dogs after 'sm aud dey n
aud de dogs run, and dey run a
'"u de dogs run. aud bimeby dey chs
ssd A tree aud de ole houn dog sOt aNi
IN. eff and Iook up in de tree aud
TER omen bis mout wide aud say TOGO
uvem. tOO-oO uvem, too-oo uyei
and and here come the little hce q
and and he look np and say hits Il
bit'sa fax, hits TAX aud den
'es- guard he cum q gallonin' up a
arts Sints his gun up IN de tree aud 8
- tl,,ol,ie 10 "a racket OF III Or