The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1892-08-06
TIE RACE PROBLEM CUES
TI0N OF TIME.

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bear to worry the people of the
Southern States and excite the NOR
bid sympathy of those living North
ward, has been effectually accom-
plished by inexperience writer's and
designing politicians for party pur-
poses.
Many writer's have given their i'm
press:ons of the black people and
their views of the race situation from
experience in crowded cities. 1t Is
we'll known that while some good
negroes go to live IN the towns and
cities, the most of them are OF the
most worthless character of negroes
vino have deserted from the farms,
plantations and cotton fields with the
hope of living without labor, and
many of them in order to escape
from the penalties of their wrong
doing. A crowded city is not the
place to Judge of the merits or de-
merits of the colored people; the
gatherings there as they now exist
cannot possibly be fair criterion to
90 by. No true conclusion can pos
sibly be arrived at, besides the city
observer is bound to do injustice to
the black man, judging OF him by
the Heterogeneous masses that nave
drifted to the big cities, South,
North and West.
While there are to-day large num-
bers of ingenious and competent col
orcd people following mechanical
and other useful pursuits, the natural
tendency of the masses is towards
: agriculture and rural life. In such
= a state of being they feel most al
e home: it has decended to them as
sort of heritage from the days OF the
past. and has become to them as i
: were. their natural calling and eie
u ment; and indeed only in this Gle
IL mept can their characters be falrl.
and Justly estimated, and anything
like an intelligent Judgment formed
~ with regard to their future develop
ment and the relation they will bea
:, towards the white people they ma,
come in contact with in their busl
ness pursuits in the years to come.
D. Now to arrive at this we must to
" great extent be guided by what IA
IN already transpired in this connectio
70 and what the black people have thu
far done for themselves in our ow
immediate neighborhood in the yer
in teeth of many difficulties and niue
lie poisonous advice injected into the
en- inexperienced minds.
he The history of the carpet-bag cr'
SADIE in this section with its atten'
ant political persualings, and Il
ia devilish work that was then done
m embitter the black man just out
The bondage against the white resident
in is familiar to the minds OF all t
IN older citizens. 1t was but natur
adj that length of time should clap
before the prejudice produced IN
minds of the negroes by pestIferio
''' radical renegades should be irradlt
ted aud pass away, so they could
% telligently look AROUND, think
o themselves and find out their capa
ty. station and location in the ecoi
my of human life. Much time
tho past, and the finding out process
Of developing with increasing rapid
40 year after year. In other words,
,rs race question is settling itself;
avn problem is being solved by the oil
man showing what he is capa
of and he is taking proper place
the the social economy.
sent Here in the parish OF East Car
and we have over one hundred and tW
par tiye-free holders, some OF them
able as many as four hundred acres
any land: most of them have well CT
waited farms, with comfortable hon
out houses, stock and all the ne
the sarv utensils to make the farm
10 successful and abundantly pros
CUNT Gus. They have their chur'
rpeo which they regularly attend; but
WI; education of their children seem
end be the most engrossing care
them. To this matter they de
GLOW their best energies and most thou
ponle full attention.
Besides all this, they are COZ
-, to the front in commercial purs