The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-08-20

nave no Tod, no sabbath, no Bible, M
anything, bnt whiskey and lager beer
N lon have moro 10 do 10 manage one o
your large cities than we have % manage
in the whole South.
at But wo have heard Of their immomli
u ties Mr., President, am bound 10 ad
Al mt that they do not stand as firmly BY
n the decalogle as they do by Jordan
sr But have said IN Mississippi, and re-
peat Il here, that the white people Of the
n South have stolen more III twenty-five
s years than the negroes have
Q During one administration in Missis-
n sippi we had defalcations amounting 20
i over 100000. That would buy heap
G Of chickens Here there was a tremen-
4 dous applause, which continued, round
{ after round. When quiet was restored
) the speaker continued And yet, broth
en- President, the Southern people are
Very moderate in their stealing compai'-
Il ei with the Northern people Whatwas
Mat about your Fidelity Bank III this
I NJ The negro steals watesInelons and |
q Nkens. You steal banks and railroads. /
chl Ms Wall street, but a commune of /
What @&ly Z Loud and prolonged al. 1
dishon land with cries, that is so, n
plause, ~ Immoral and low and degrade /
Negro, That il SO ia part, too much
ed 7 Yes Mt about the. white people In
so. But y VsN2 There ii more squalor
your great NAAess IN the back streets Of
and wretchet. more meanness carried
Cincinnati, and ait than among the ne
on here in one nlA %in week.
groes Of Mississippi Aput that down. Ifll
Now, you reporters .Ps. E - ! il il more.
Something has Deen sas and !; must
cial impurity Of the. negroes the white I
be confessed. But how aboilassAN 80 on
people read yesterday NORM No.
three divorces here in this city ana inns
morning two.
mestic relations he does not see any 2
sense ii spending fifty dollars on It he
inst goes along and does it. How much /
worse ia that in the sight of god than
the way it is done by you None, fb
none. none, rang out all over the house.l a
hopetosee day when we can send some
moor negro missionary up here to straight
en fine North out Of this divorce business.
Your example is all wrong and the
South Is beginning to follow your evil
ways. After while we willbeno better
than you are. !,
This home question IL, after all, the
great question for all races and all Sec
tions.
/ read this morning in the Gazette.
that since the English sparrows had come
N contact with civilization, they are
ln<Nsiny tne instinct OF nest-building.
When even the birds are corrupted, what
Il to happen, only God knows.
\ II Il The saloon, the love Of money, ev- In
erv form Of corruption against all our i
homes. and until the white people do o
better, il is not worth while to concen- q
trsste a1l reiornl measures on the negroes i
Y Brother President, think the RegEoes
'iTh Thav nsedtIldp existing school strength !,
.ennd and trainfSgI schools and industrial ! :
Tbev need tIe kindly feeling and 4
svmpatbetic hdlp OF their Southern
neiphbors at every turn.
And they need Brother President, :
thew need, they dreadfully need, q great
deal Of letting alone.
They are coming along They have j
thei3churches, and preachers and their
own wavs, as they have q right to- have
Put II Is said that their meetings are all
excitement. No doubt they do boil over
many times
Rnt look at some white churches wor-
shipping in an ice house. There il the
oreat organ. with four goddess sinners to
do its singing, and cold blooded preach
~ II has always seemed to me that
such An arrangement is all the harm the
daviI ought to want to do any church,
and had rather trust to the warm heart i
ed negro congregation than to any such
cold and heartless intellectually. Re
ligious Herald.