The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-08-25
THE GEORGIA HUM0RIST
THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE ARE THE Me-
GROES' BEST FRIENDS.

The Philosopher Draws COMPREHENSIVE
Has Strong Convictions In Regard to
Lynching and Throws Out Some Timely
Suggestions.
These 'eBoston yankees" already
have big money in cotton mills IN
South Carolina. Three-fourths Of the
capital in the new mills in Spartan
burg is New England money, and they
have never yet even suggested the en-
ployment of negro operatives. Indeed,
it is a new departure if Boston has
suddenly fallen in love with the negro,
for all the genuine yankees know or
have known had little use for him, ex-
cept as o 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 cor
poration. J. know 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 he'd 10 tell her
they were cooked by negroes. 1t is
curious how they don't mix things
up north, for in one hotel you will
find all colored walters and in another
all whites. There are hotels in Flor
ida where all the walters are New Eng
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 reilly less
prejudice against the negN At the
south than at tho north. There are
more trades and occupations open to
him. But all this has been said and
resaid for thirty years. ooh, but you
lynch them," they say, and the New
York Herald keeps MI account against
us-over 800 in the last twelve months.
If it was 5000 we would still
ask, like Governor Oates, "What
are you going to do about it?"
Lynching for that crime is tho law
of nature, and will go on. When juries
are organized to try hyenas and wolves
and gorillas, maybe these brutes in hu-
man form will be tried, bat 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 nj ~ lives as cat, I would
have have bluhied them all. The fate
of 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 60 TO denouncing the outrages
and teach to their people the enormity
of the crime and it's 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
yet been displaced that I have heard
of. The papers say that some wealthy
negroes are about to build a 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 1898 wrote an
article for The American Review ad.
vocating the employment Of negro
labor in our cotton mills as o means
of competing with the Cinnamon.
Well, I 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? | know of no trade or occupa.
ton in which the negro excels the
white man, either in skill OF cheap
ness. But this man is very mad with
us, and actually abuses Frank Stanton
for writing poetry about mules and
watermelons and violets and daisies,
while the white people are threatened
with the direst calamity of thirty years.
Stop, Stanton, stop; and write n poem
about the black cotton mills that loom
up III the distance.
But while on the subject of The
dusky race, my attention was called by
my wife to photograph and a sketch
of Queen Lii that appears in the July
number of The Puritan. The photo
graph indicates a handsome woman of
Moorish complexion and features quite
as English as Queen Victorias. 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 q
queenly woman. Her bearing is dig
nitied, her manner gracious, her Ian
gnage perfect and one leaves her
presence echoing the sentiment: Once
q queen, always queen
Now that dethroned woman has been
the butt of hundreds of cruel jokes
and ISLANDERS and for what was it? For
political schemes that are now about
tc mature in the annexation of Hawaii.
Or an | too suspicious Of our Ameri-
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 L asked for: s'Man
wants but little here below" by J. @.
Adams. 1t gratities me to learn that
so many are better versed in literature
than I am, and I thank them for their
kind consideration of my ignorance
BILL ARP, in Atlanta Constitution.
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