The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-09-12
BILL ARP.
How to Deal With the Negro.

The editors, correspondents, and scrib.
blers generally are telling what to do.
with the negro. The man who wishes to.
parade his name before the public mounts
the negro as convenient hobby. These
doctors are worse than Salvation oil men
or any of the patent medicine venders.
Their excessive wisdom is overrowering.i
What they do not know about the negro,
his destiny and influence on our civiliza.
ton is not worth knowing. The wisest
men in their own conceit are those who
settle the negro question in magazines
and newspapers. Meantime the negro,
blissfully ignorant of all these doctors
prescribe for him, is making a little pro.
gress in the South. Their political as.
perities are smoothed down somewhat.
They are making little progress in edu.
cation. 1t is very slow, but they are go.
ing forward. As tenants and laborers
they are improving and certainly keeping
pace with the landlords and employers.
What the negro wants is. TO-, be let alone
so far as managing his future destiny is
concerned. BE is after the present and
there is where he needs help and encour.
agement. The first thing to do is to
make fair and plain contracts for the next
year. Let there be no latent tricks and
dishonesty with the negro. You must
not only deal fairly with him, but he
must feel and understand that you are
honest. Get his confidence in your fair.
ness and honesty, then you can get the
best work possible and the least stealing
out of him. The negro Jumps white men
together. When one defrauds him out of
his pittsnce Of wages he thinks he must
get even by shirking work or stealing a
little. Honest and industrious landlords
and employerssmake honest and indus
trious laborers. When one finds
white man riding raw boned old horse,
or driving an old rattling buggy, with
harness as dry as a powder horn, and
hears him cussing negroes because they
are triaing and idle, you may set it down
that the negroes do little more work
than the white man and are getting on
about as we'll in the world. The next
thing is to settle this years accounts fair
ly with the negro. Even if he is going
to leave you and 60 to your neighber pay
him the last cent you owe him. Then
set him good example in your home.
Build good barns, stables and shelters.
Take good care of tools, protecting them
from the weather. Give good attention
to your stock. Use the whitewash and
paint brushes. Adorn your houses so as
to make them attractive. Treat your
wife and children as if they were part
of your family. You will be surprised to
see how your colored tenant will soon
begin to initiate you. They will begin
to save and economize. They will protect
thsir mule and milch COW frora the win
ter winds and rains. Above all keep 80.
ber. When white man sells his cotton
and rides up home about 9 o'clock or
next day, perhaps, fool drunk, the negro
thinks he must initiate the ''boss" the next
time he goes to town. Because white
man can make fool of himself by getting
drunk and spending the proceeds of his
cotton crop for whiskey, thenegro thinks
he can do the same and live on credit the
next year. The negro does not need your
help as to his future destiny. He wants
fair dealing, an opportunity for constant
work and a good example to-day. Let
him have these and the negro will not
give much trouble during the next twelve
Misunderstanding Spartan.
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