The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1889-04-19
BILL AR ON TIE NEGRa.

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Marion, IN Illinois. What is to be
come OF the poor creature when h,
q get, among Northern friends. The
) poet sang a pitiful song about IL
The poor Indian" but if he haC
lived TO N day he might have
4 written something about:
> LO, the poor negro, whose u~ntutored mind,
I. Sees kuklux every where unless be is blind,
Deprived of his vote, his dearest JOY
He flies for refuge up to Illinois
Asks for a home, and work and civil rights,
Nor dreams of guns, or rocks, or bloody fights.
But 10, he is refused a house, a hut, a hack or
Even the rights to stay and stem tobacco.
Goback they said you black old billy goat
Go back to Dixie land and stay and vote
Against your color We have prohibition,
We want your votes but d-n your competition.
Go back and If those rebs get in your way
Then arm, and fight, and shoot and burn and slay.
The color line seems to be crawl.
ing up North.
The race problem is spreading.
| wish that about one third of the
negroes would 90 up there and
O%ne-tOurth OF their good people
wonld come down here, that would
fix things about right and make
everything harmonious and homo.
geneous so far as the pale face Is
concerned. But what would be
come Of The negro. Ask Felicity
ask Marion.
The common people of this coun-
Try have no love for the negro and
The negro has no love for them.
They are In each others way. The
poorest white ma feels his Unborn
superiority and the negro viii, moi
acknowledge it. He respects a
rich man or Il notable man or a
judge or an officer and will do his
bidding with humility. In fact he
loves TO wait upon and serve him
and be dependent upon him, but
there is a deep seated hostility be.
tween the white yeomanry of tins
land and The negro. Ii crops oul
in every contiicl between the races;
when an outrage Is committed by
a negro The common people are the
most eager 10 pursue and lynch
him. Here are a dozen large farms
IN n neighborhoOd that are cult
waited by negro tenants. Inter.
Spersed among these farms are
smaller ones that are owned or
rented by white men. Their land ,
is poor, their stock poor, and they
live on strain and do not get ahead, :
but more generally fall behind.
They say that the rich man who /,
accumulates makes his money off
OF negro labor, for the negro will :,
live in a leaky cabin, and eat his :
cOrnbread and fat meat and sleep :
on the floor with his head TO the :
fire, and he will sing and laugh and =
Joke and play cards, and IT he is !
hard run. he will step over to the :.
poor mans ha5itatIOn and gently .
a chicken off The roost, or he !
will 90 TO his cotton field with n :
hamper and fill II from The pen, or ',
his fodder steak and extract n :.
bundles. The man misses !
properly and knows that some !.
nfernal darkey stole it, and he y
generally spots The very niger, =
)ut can't quite prove it. The white =
who lives in negro neigh y
,orhOOd has to fOrtify against him II
III the time, and he hates him tor !,
he darkey is hard TO catch. He ",
him, too, for The same reason a.
hat The native laborers in Calilcr- ~
Iia hate the Chinese. He is in The T..
way. The poor white man would *
ike TO rent better land, but the =,
Wealthy landlord prefers the negro ~
.ecause he is more easily managed VI
nd is content with less and can be
with at the close of the co
ear without friction. He always et,
ONES out IN debt aud does not care 81
0 he can stay and draw his sup "a
lies, and will sci in for another Su
rop without the slightest concern n ,
The debt carried over. A few mr.
oliars for Christmas and a Jug of IN
Is the measure of his ambj- tir
on. vi curse there are cXceu IuI
.onal cases, but what | have writ, ot
apples TO the average negro or.
roper OF This region. | haveh had no
tenants To whom | was al ar,
lched and so was my family. Our ur,
nldren delighted 10 60 TO their
lblns and hear their stories about .
hosts and witches and lack % at
Inlerns, and they were al: attach Pr
l TO the children and humored Oh
and sometimes would 90 a an,
lie or two in The night and steal OcI
alermelons or peaches or apples ma
divide with them and M ques- pri
1ns asked, and they would seal all
ON me and divide with o'her ne. tho
oes, but they never took much ing
a lime and had no malice alore. .
ought. They do not call 1T steal
z. Their simple idea is that you So'
got 1t to spare and won't miss The
or ii you do miss it you have got sue
eniy of money TO buy more. | ing
a Kind of fair divide wild de siel
bite folks. They are like the our
iglnal Bill Arp, who, n dark hui
ght when he was on guard duty be
Joe JOllnslOn's tent, stole the lori
eneral's jug Of apple brandy from =
his cot. He took about half =
II and put the jug back where Kill
got II and SAID he would s'tote ,lh
lr with the eenrul" On ope oc- oe