The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-07-15
BILL ARP'S weekly LETTER.
THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE ARE THE
NEGROES BEST FRIENDS.
PHILOSOPHER DRAWS COMPARISONS
Tia Has Strong Convictions In Regard to
I.ynching and Throws Out Some
Timely Suggestions.

! have big money in cotton mills |"
! South Carolina. Three-fourths of tho
capital in the new mills in Spartan
| burg is New England money, and they
have never We: even suggested the en-
! plcyment OF negro operatives. Inde"d.
it is a new departure if Boston mas
suddenly fallen in love with the ncsro,
for all the genuine yankees know or
! have known had little use for him, cx-
! cept as a base of political operations.
The new little city of Fitzgerald that
is made up of Illinois yankees, won't
even allow him domicile in the COZ
poration. ] know a yankee lady who
was taken sick here and she wouldn't
cat anything they cooked, and llkel to
have perished to death during her
! lorg illness. Kind neighbors tooA
nice things to her, but had to tell 80.
they were cooked by negroes. It is
! curious how they don't mix things
up north, for in one hotel you will
| find all colored walters and in snothcr
oil whites. There are hotels in I l'r.
ida where all the walters are New Ehg-
land girls. In the northwest no color
ed BARRIERS are allowed. They would
, lynch one just as soon as he put up
his striped pole. There is really less
! prejudice against the negro at the
south than at the north. There nre
; more trades and occupations open to
him. But all this has been said and
resaid for thirty years. ooh, but yon
lynch them," they say, and the New
York Herald keeps an account against
as-over 800 in the last twelve months.
# it was 5000 We would still
ask, like Governor Oates, "What
are you going to do about iii"
Lynching for that crime is the law
of nature, and will 60 on. When iuries
are organized to try hyenas and wolves
and gorillas, maybe these brutes In hu-
man form will be tried, but not before.
The argument is exhausted, and We
stand by our wives and children. If
! the brute who was burned at Dallas
| had had as many lives as cat, would
: have have burned them all. The fate
Ct that poor little child has haunted
me ever since. And so let the negro
bishops and preachers and teachers
and editors stop bewailing the lynch
ings and go to denouncing the outrages
and teach to their people the enormity
of the crime and its swift and sure pun
! ishment. The emotions of the human
heart are the same at Urbana as at
Dallas.
But Anglo-Saxon fears are aroused
prematurely. No white children have
vet been displaced that I have heard
Of The papers say that some wealthy
; negroes are about to build cotton
/ mill in Alabama. That is alright, of
course, and they will employ negro
labor. Mr.. Anglo-Saxon can't COM
plain about that, but he charges that
Hon. Hoke Smith in 1893 wrote an
article for The American Review ad'
vocatiag the employment OF negro
labor in our. cotton mills as means
of competing with the Cinnamon.
Well, 1 don't believe that Mr.. Hoke
Smith wrote any such thing, for We
have no Cinnamon in that business,
and if we had, how could the negro
compete any better than the white
race? I know of no trade or occupa-
ton in which the negro e1cels the
white man, either in skill or cheap
ness. But this man is very mad with
us, and actually abuses Frank Stanton
for writing poetry about mules and
waterm olons and yiolets and daisies,
while the white people are threatened
with the direst calamity of thirty years.
Stop, Stanton, stop; and write poem
about the black cotton mills that loom
up in the distance.
But while on the subject of the
dusky race, my attention was called by
my wife to photograph and sketch
of Queen Lii that appears in the July
number of The Puritan. The photo
graph indicates handsome woman OF
Moorish complexion and features quite
as English as Queen Victoria's. The
sketch gives her praise for her man
ners and her lavish entertainments and
her modesty of department. 1t closes
with these words: ''She is really a
oueenlv woman. Her bearing is Dig
nified, her manner gracious, her lam
guage perfect and one leaves her
presence echoing the sentiment: Once
a queen, always queen.
Now that dethroned woman has been
the butt of hundreds of cruel Jokes
and SANDERS and for what was it? For
political schemes that are now about
to mature in the annexation OF Hawai-.
Or am too suspicious of our Amerl-
can politicians? May the good Lord
help us all and keep us from stealing,
especially from woman.
P. S.-Allow me to thank all those
kind friends, far and near, Who have
sent me the poem / asked ior: Man
wants but little here below" by j. q.
Adams. 1t gratities me to learn that
so many ere better versed in li.eraturc
than am, and thank them for their
kind consideration Of ny ignorance