The Van Buren press., 1897-08-14
ARP ON THE NEGRO.
Declares That His Best Friends
Are In the South.
Yankees Do Not Like Him-Bartow's
Philosopher Says the Colored
Man should lie Satisfied
with His Lot.

| Philosopher Says the Colored
Man should lie Satisfied
with His Lot.
These Boston Yankees" already have
big money in cotton mills in South Car
DINA. Three-fourths of the capital in
Spartansburg is New England money,
and they have never yet even suggest
ed the employment of negro opera
tives. Indeed, it is a new departure if
Boston has suddenly fallen in love with
the negro. for all the genuine
Yankees that | know or have known
had little use for him, except as base
of political operations The new little
city of Fitzgerald, that is made up of
! Illinois Yankees, won't even allow him
a domicile in the corporation. l know
a Yankee lady who was taken sick here
and she wouldn't eat anything they
cooked, and liked to have persisted to
death during her long illness. Kind
neighbors took nice things to her, but
had to tell her they were cooked by me-
groes. 1t is curious how they don't
mix things up north. In one hotel you
will find all colored walters and in an
other all whites. There are hotels in
Florida where all the walters are New
England girls. In the northwest no
colored 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 are
more trades and occupations open to
him. But all this has been said and re-
said for 80 years. "Oh, you lynch
| him." they say, and the New York Her
aid keeps account against us-oTer
800 in the last IL months. If 1t was
5000 we would still ask, like Gov.
Oates: what are you going to do
about it?" 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 human form will be tried, but
not before. The argument is exhaust
ed, and we stand by our wives and chill
dren. If the brute who was burned at
l would have burned them all. The
fate of that poor little child has haunted
me ever since. And so let the negro
bishops and preachers and editors stop
bewailing the lynchngs and go to de-
nouneing the outrages and teach to
their people the enormity of the crime
and its swift and sure punishment. The
| IL l. ,..t he
same at Urbana as at Dallas.
But Anglo-Saxon fears are aroused
prematurely. No white children have
yet been displaced that / have heard
Of. The papers say that some wealthy
negroes are about to build cotton
mill in Alabama. That is all right, of
course, and they will employ negro
labor. Mr.. Anglo-SaXon can't COM
plain about that, but he charges that
Hon. Holle Smith in 1893 wrote an arti-
Gle for the American Review advocat-
ing the employment of negro labor in
our cotton mills as means of Compel
ing with the Chinaman. Well, | don't
believe Mr. Smith wrote any such thing,
for we have no Cinnamon in that BUSH
ness and if we had, how could the ne
gro compete any better than the white
race? | know of no trade or occupa-
ton in which the negro eXcels the
white man, either in skill or cheapness.
But this man is very mad with us and
actually abuses Frank Stanton for
writing poetry about mules and water
melons and vioets and daisies while
the white people are threatened with the
direst calamity of 30 years. Stop, Stan
ton, stop, and write poem about the
black cotton mills that loom up in the
distance.
But while on the subject of the dusl1y
race, my attention was called by my
wife to a photograph and a sketch OF
Queen Lii, that appears in the July
number of the Puritan. The photo
graph indicates a handsome woman OF
light Moorish complexion and features
quite as English as Queen Victoria S.
| The sketch gives her praise for her
manners and her lavish entertainments
and her modesty of department. II
closes with these words: "She is really
n queenly woman. Her bearing is dig
nified, her manner gracious, her Ian
guage perfect, and one leaves her pres
ence echoing the sentence: Once
queen, always queen
Now that dethroned woman has been
the butt of hundreds of cruel jokes and
ISLANDERS and for what was itP For pc
litical schemes that are now about &c
mature in the annexation of Hawaii
Or am too suspicious of our American
politicians? May the good Lord helT
us all and keep us from stealing. espe'
cially from woman.
BILL ARP.
P. S.-Allow me to thank all those
kind friends, far and near, who have
sent me the poem | asked for, "Mar
Wants Little Here Below" by j. q
Adams. 1t gratifies me to learn that
so many are better versed in literature
than l am, and l thank them for theii
kind consideration of my ignorance
b. A., in Atlanta Constitution.
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A Light supper Indeed.
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