Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-02-24
THE LIME-KILN CLUB.
AN INTERESTING DISCUSSION on THE
WHITE MAN.
Chicken Stealing Question RELOCATED to the Shades Of
Darkness -Waydown Bsbee Is Always
Willing to Extend a Helping Hand to
His White Brother.

to dis club dis ezveain' de query, Is de
white man imp7ovin?' Pickles Smith
will lead off de discushun."
Brother Smith replied that he had bean
taken upagares. rs had never given the
matter a thought. He had seen more or
less white ftlks around him each day, but
had given them no particular attSntion.
He had sore throat, bad headache, chill
blsins on both feet, and there were strong
indications that frst-class boil was about
to hit him in The leg. He would therefore
ask to be excu ,ed fIon expressing any thing
like a decided opinion on the white man
question.
Colonel Anonymous Smith next follow.
ed. 1t was a question which had bother
ed him not little Thirty years ago the
white man got drunk. lie gets drunk to-
daY. Tnirty Gears ago the white man
sold his vote. He saw several of them
bought at the last election. In the years
gone by the white man awore gamble1,
stole. robbed, lied, cheated and commit
ted murder. he WIS doing these same
things to-day. II there had been any
moral improvement the Colonel couldn't
see it He had always felt sympathy
for white folks, aud hsd always hoped
/ they would do well, and it grie7td him
that no better progress had b;eu made.
Elder Toots said be was glad the ques-
ton had come up The white folks vera
always concerned for fear the colored race
was retrogradisg, but the boot belonged
Oh tue other foot Within 20 years tbe
white man hsd invented the telephone,
bat alas! the States had 10 pass Laws 10
keep him fiom sending luss words over
the wires The white man had erected
wonderful bridges, improved the tele.
graph, brought out new orders Of aIchi-
lecture, improved in painting and sculp'
ture and elevated tie Standard OF
schools and society, bat there vas
another sido to the picture. The
white man had discovered other ways to
bot- tns laws passed fer the protection O.
If. AID property. Lying. stealing, swear
irg ana smbszzlirg, we,e haEaly c'ulted
as s,n,. Visitors had pics,i occkets and
stolen overcoats. Men Wa paid the
highest peW rent in the c-u-,l we're dGiSg
the heaviest stealing D.c-sirg Ind be.
come m srt, but IuCni il debt and
tea Ing creditors hsd b'con. greater on.
TIE elder had nothing 81 arf 10 white
man on ecc0unt OF MS c'sr. The Lord
had made him white AID as Has not 10
. blame tor l.. Bat wlen tho waite man
stroi On a corner aad claim d 70 own the
earth it was well 10 Investigate his claim
Waydown Bsebee said he always felt
kiadly towards the Nhi.e man, and had
always been williEg 10 sxlend him q
helping hand. A could remember bsck
fara ouAfter Of a century. II there Tece
any decided improvements he could no
name them. 1.-THE white ms2 was better
educated. 40 were ali D'hsr men. II in
ventions were mora nuneIous, other races
had help.d to make them so Take the
white man Gs man and ne rad doubtless
ret-oeraied He Ras losing bis reverence
Y for thu Bible and the laws He war
living fsst aud loose, lull of gossip. suspi-
cious. and having clre how be made BIZ
money go long ss he madeit |! ,be white
man hai got nesIer to the moon By means
of the largest telecc5pein the world, he had
also discovered nsw liquids 10 get drunk or
AMI rev ways 10 beat the lsT. If the soul
had become MOI. poetic, lawsuits for debt
/ had also become more numerous. II the
average mind was living nearer to Milton
aud Shakespeare, just IS many bodies were
beirg committed 70 Safe prison.
Sir I-aac Walp,le said the query had Of
ION beeo pre,sut3d TO bin, and he would
take Advantage of th's Cc,ssion 10 say TINT
ne thought he could see some slight i'm.
movement ia the last twenty fvs years.
Who were M1rmons? The white folks
Who were bigamisis? The white folks
Who we're emb zzliug from banks, steal
ing from postoffices and flchiDg school
moneys? Tne white folks. All the ssdi-
ZION was uttered by white men. All the
demsgocues were white men. All the
trusts and monopoies on the one hand,
and eli the st1iSes and violence On the
other included only white men. 1t was
bis conviction that the white folks we're
rad lot. bat not quite IS bad az they Used
10 he.
Samuel Shin aGose to remark that he
had seen eood deal of The white folks,
and had been brought into collision with
item more or less every day for years He
couldn't say, as beginning, that ne liked
the color. 1t wasn't fast. II ran Gil the
,gay from the color Of an old roam horse
,urped ont to die 10 fresh enOw, and he
could psver be made 10 believe that
Straight hair was OF any gcoi except in the
cas-, of wolf. White folks had cheated
him. lied to him, stolen his wood ana
poultry, and he fad come TO distFust the
raca. He didn't doubt that there wss
s,r,e slight improvement, bat even saw
ayes are compelled to improve. DE be-
heved the time was Dear az hand when
bIacl. would be the popular color all
aronDd. snd when the man With the woolly
head would step to the front.
"Gem'len.u said Brother Gardner as ne
aross. ode queshun has no doubt been de-
cided in de negative, but we shouldn't bar
down too heavy or de white folks. Dey
has mad a heap of tribulsshun, espeshuaily
in His keptry. fur one hev great an
abidin' faith in de fucher OF de white mar
He is gradually lesrnin' TO speak de troot,
an to keep his hands of de odder folkses
chickens. Time will make him fear or re.
spect de law, brush up his manners an
compgl him 10 realizs dat buildin' big
skuie houses dosn' make manners nor
bring bizness. Let US gin him a far
chance to show de stuff he are made Of.
De answer to de query will darfO' ne: He
are improvin' mighty slow, but expects
change of fodder will make him hustle.
We will now dispel de meetin' an adjudi'
cate nomeward."
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