The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-10-10

allowed TO walt on them, and no c0l0reQ man
or other business houses Wherein he coul
employ the educated youth OF bis own race.
The churches are full OF preachers. Our
people have divided up into separate congre.
furnish to our boys no more places as preach
ers.
ton than TO establish barber shop In Whlch
to shave white men, or to seek place In
hotel as plate pusher.
They fall short OF that higher ambition
which would make Of them bankers, lawyers,
public officers, merchants, or other business
our people therefore continue to transfer
their wealth to the white people-and theY
without nSsH p saving u pittance to themselves.
As long as our people are poor, and are
obliged to accept degrading jobs they Will De
Jack and Jim, and their wives will be Nancy
and Mary while their children Will oe oni9
Let our people engage in the more prot.
liable pursuit and enter the higher Walks OF
life; and let them live In fine M houses any tarH
and "misses," and our children will be just
the incest Of "darings" fit to be taken on
their knees and caressed by these same peo-
When a white man builds q fine house
which is surrounded by beautiful grounds, q
negro should build as fine place IN Inc same
neighborhood, and be should make the sur.
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OF bis white neighbor.
Under the present system, however, all our
wealth is transferred to the white people.
When their children marry, they marry each
other, and Keep the money all TO themselves
i-even the laws of the State now prevent lne
intermarriage of the races. II we 40 mol
change our methods we will always be poor
and always work for the upbu.ldi ng OF Inc
| richer and more cultivated race while neg.
i lecting our own best interests. Because OF
poverty 1t sometimes happens that the more
Intelligent negro woman Wneels Inc chlio o'
the less cultured white woman.
I One reason that there has been but one po.
Ilitical party in the South lies In the fact that
the people read only Democratic newspapers
But the Republican party Is now ganin1g
has made Republicans in every one OF the
ISouthern States. Recently six hundred ol
the wealthiest sugar planters Of Lou LSnisiana ana
aligned themselves with the Republicans
This was because Of the Democratic interfer
ence with the tariff.
IN South Carolina we have no sugar, but
we have rice. The people In the low country
are greatly interested In It's culture, and
while they have not done as the Louisiana
sugar planters have done, yet they are doing
II some OF them should go TO the Republican
party at an early day.
1t Is significant fact, that eight thousand
laborlng men In Augusta recently neg
TO register, and failed TO become qualified vot
ers for the elections, which are now, or soon
TO take place. Two years ago they voted
solidly for Black against Tom Watson. Now
they are putting In a silent protest against
the Democratic rule.
Cleveland has made many Republicans In
the South, and IL is not unlikely that he will
yet convert others to that political faith.
For twenty years we have been bearing o.
the glorious times that We would have as
soon as We had u Democratic Congress and q
Democratic administration.
We have had Democratic rule for two years
A ArQ ypp DOiQt StarVaf1Dn?
we not poorer than We have been since eman
You often hear the negro spoken of as the
we descended from the African race, we are
as much Americans as the descendants Of the
Irish, the German, or the Italian Immigrant
l was born on the soil OF South Carolina; 81
and you are Carolinians. love South Caro-
lima as dearly as any man who lives within
the borders OF the State, and you love 1t az
South Carolina has my whole heart, and
yield TO no man In patriotic zeal for the wei
fare OF the State. While i descended from
ene south % %CarolinIanNan American Citizen
and II Is always great thing TO be citizen
any republic.
You hear much about the reduction Of the
tariff. 1t Is true that the reduction Of the
tariff may reduce the price Of goods. but
where Is the advantage in that, II your wages
are reduced 2 The reduction OF the tariff dis
,
the price OF labor. and in many instances
throws the laborer out OF employment. In
Europe and Asia the price paid TO laborers IL
from eight 10 twenty-five cents day. YOU
That the laborer gets work at all Is due 70 the
tariff, which enables the factories TO exist. i
there was no tariff the foreign laborer would
manufacture the goods for us, or else yor
TO the European Iaborer. Now, II yoa gel
two two days, but Ii the tariff is taken OF The
hat, and the price Is reduced from one ont
and your labor is reduced to twenty
i've cents q day, how many days will u takt
you to earn the seventy-hve cents? [Great
A great many negroes are troubled abou
the color Of their faces. This ought not TO be
So There is nothing In the color Itself which
should worry or perplex the negro. II is the
degradation that Is associated with the negro
that brings the shame. II we conduct our
selves better; II we accumulate property; Il
we dress we'll and live In fine houses there
will be NO reproach because OF the color o
our faces. For instance: II all the pool
horses in the country were white, nobody
would want white horses; but II all the black
horses we're fat and sleek, everybody would
want black horses-
|, II by some supernatural power, all the cul
ture, all the virtue, and all the wealth OF the
white man could be transferred TO the negro
and II all the degradation, vice and poverty
Of the negro could be - transferred r.9 10 The tht
{ would be honored and respected, and
great numbers of white men would
be inquiring for lotions with which TO colol
the white faces would be below par, and they
would want something with which TO blacker
them.
Before the war the white man voted for al
his negroes and hogs. No matter how many
negroes he may have owned, be voted fol
them all, without consulting their wishes
Before the war, neither the poor white boys
white Boys were educated, and after they
were graduated they would come home TO bt
hauled about In carriages as kind or show
upon which common people might look Will
wonder and amaZement But now fine horses
and fine carriages cannot be materaliZed ou
of nothing, and that particular kind OF Q
show has been discontinued. The old slave
owners have lost their property and many ol
them have lost their blue blood, too.
There are three kinds OF aristocracy. The
Northern aristocracy that comes from great
wealth; the Southern arstocracy that comes
aristocracy that Is educated, stands around
the corner, wears spectacles, and would'l
+ work TO save your life.
1t is not best at this time for the negro that
4 he or the Republican party be restored tC
power In this State. But he will be restored
10 all his rights In less than ten years.
The white people are showing disposition
TO divide among themselves. and when they
do divide into separate parties the negro will
be best protected.
!. When the Stralghtouts and the Tilmanites
divide the Democratic party, each faction
will appeal 10 us. and each faction Will con
cede more and more to us. until the negro
under Democratic rule, will got such prOtec-
tion aud such measure of the rights OF cit
liens that we could never hope to receive
from the Republican party.
A word to the preachers: You need not be
trying to lead off prematurely our race TO the
heavenly land, while allowing the white man
10 occupy all the best places OF this earth. II