The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-07-16
ARP ON THE NEGRO
DECLARES THAT HIS BEST FRIENDS
ARE IN THESOUTN.
yankees do Not Iiko iim-I,artow's Phil
osopher Says tho COlored Man Should DO
Satisfied with His Lot


the capital in tho new mills in
Spartanburg is New England money,
and they have never yet oven sug-
gestod tho employment of negro
operatives. Indeed, it IS now de-
parture if Boston was suddenly fall
lon in love with tho negro, for all
the genuine yankees that l know or
have known had little use for him,
except rs base of political opera
tions. Tho now little city of Fitz-
gerald that is made up of Illinois
yankees, wont even allow him q
domiclo in the corporation. l know
a yankee lady who was takon sick
hero and she wouldn't eat anything
they cooked, and liked to have por.
lshod to death during hor long ill.,
ness. Kind neighbors took nice
things to hor, but had to tell hor
they wero cooked by negroes. 1t is
curious how they don't mix things
up north, for in one hotel you will
find all colorod walters and in an
other all whites. There are hotols
in Florida whore all tho walters arc
Now England girls. In tho north.
west no colored BARRIERS arc allowed.
They would lynch ono just as soon
as he put up his striped pole.
There is really less prejudice against
tho negro at tho south than at the
north. There arc moro trades and
occupations opcn to him. But ull
this has been said and resaid
for thirty years. "Oh, but you
lynch thom," they say, and tho
New York Herald keops an account
against us--over 800 in the last
twelve months. If it WAS 1000 We
would still ask, like Governor Oates,
"What are you going to do about
it?" Lynching for that crimo is
the law of nature, and will go on.
When jurios arc organized to try
hyenas and wolves and gorillas,
maybe these brutcs in human form
will bo tried and not before. The
argument is exhausted, and wo
stand by our wives and children. If
the brute who WAS burned at Dallas
had had as many lives rs a cat,
would havo burned them all. Tho
fato Of that poor little child has
haunted mo over since. And so lot
tho negro bishops and preachers
and teachers and editors stop be-
wailing tho lynchings and go to do
nouncing the outragos and teach to
their people tho onormity of the
crimo and it's swift and suro punish
mont. Tho emotions of tho human
heart arc tho same at Urbana and
Dallas.
But Anglo. Saxon fears arc arous-
cd promaturely. No white childron
have yet been displaced that I 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 complain about that,
but ho charges that Hon. Hoko
Smith in 1893 wrote an article for
tho American Review advocating
the employment Of negro labor in
our cotton mills as means Of com
poting with the Cinnamon. VOL,
[ don't believe that Mr.. Smith wrote
any such thing, for wo have no
Cinnamon in that business and if wo
had, how could tho negro compete
tll bc''Sl thtil tilo WIllLC IuCSI i
know Of no trade or occupation in
which the negro excels tho white
man, either in skill or choapness.
But this man is very mad with us
and actually abuses Frank Stanton
Tor writing poetry about mules and
watcrmelons and violets and daisies
while the white people arc threaten
ed with the direst calamity Of thir-
ty years. Stop, Stanton, stop, and
write pocm about tho black cotton
mills that loom up in tho distance.
But while on the subject Of the
dusky 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.