The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1897-07-05
ARP ON The NEGRO
He Declares That His Best Friends Are
In the South.
YANKEES DO NOT LIKE HIM
Bartow's Philosopher Says the Colored
Man Should Be Satisfied
with His Lot.

These "Boston yankees" already have
big money in cotton mills I'm South Caroli-
ma. Three-fourths of the capital in the new
mills In Spartanburg IS New England
money, and they have never yet
even suggested the employment of ne
gro operatives. Indeed. II is n new de-
parture If Boston has suddenly fallen IN
love with the negro, for all the genuine
yankees that I know or have known had
little use for him. except as a base OF po-
litical operations The new little city or
Fitzgerald that is made up of Illinois yam
KEGS, wont even allow him a domicile In
the corporation 7 know a yankee lady
who was taken sick here and she wouldn
eat anything they cooked. and liked TO
have persisted to death during her long
Illness Kind neighbors took nice things
10 her but had TO tell her they were cooked
bv negroes II Is curious how they don
mix things up north. for in one hotel you
will find all colored walters and in another
all whites. There are hotels in Flofl1a
where al the walters are New England
girls In the northwest no colored par
beers are allowed. They would lynch one
just as soon rs he put up his striped pore
There IS really less prejudice against tle
negro at the south than at the horth'
There are more trades and occupations
open 10 MN. ifuL All NlAio A4t'1
and resaid for thirty years "Oh but you
lynch them" they say. and The New YORK
Herald keeps an account against us-oVer
300 i'm the last twelve months. II II was
1900 we would still ask Ike Governor
Oates, "What are you going TO do ABOUT
t2' Iynching for that crime is the law
of nature and Will go on. When Jurles are
organized TO try hycnas and wolves ana
gorillas. maybe these brutes in human form
H.. l.
ment is exhausted. and We stand by our
wives ana children. If the brute who was
burned at Dallas had had as many lives
as a cat, l would have burned them all.
The fate OF that poor little child has haunt
cd me ever since. And so let the negro
bishops and preachers and teachers ana
editors stop bewalling the lynchings ana
go TO deuounc!ng the outrages and teach
TO their people the onornity of the CRIME
and it's swift ana sure punishment. The
emotions of the human heart are the
same at Urbana as at Dallas.
But Anglo-SaNOn fears are aroused pre-
maturrIy. No white children have yet
been displaced that l have heard Of The
papers say that some wealthy negroes
are about to build cotton mill in Ala
bama. That is all right, of course. and
they VIII employ negro labor Mr.. Anglo
Saxon can't complain about that, but he
charges that Hon. Hoke Smith in 1898 wrote
an article for The American Review advo-
eating the employment of negro labor In our
cotton mills as a means of competing with
the Cinnamon. Well, l don't believe that
Mr.. 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? 1 know
of no trade or occupation in which the
negro eXcels the white man, either in skill
or cheapncss But This man is very mad
with US and actually abuses Frank stan
toa for writing poetry about mules ana
wltcrmelons ana Violcts and daisies whlle
the white people are threatened with the
direst calamity of thirty years. Stop. stan
ton stop and write Il poem about mo
black cotton mills that loom up in the
But while on the subject of the dusky
rtcc, my attention was caileu oy my ~ 40
TO a photograph and a sketch oil queen
III that appears i'm the July number OF
The puritnu. The photograph Indicates a
handsome woman al hEht MOORISH COM
pleNion and features quite as English as
Queen Victoria 5. The sketch gives htr
praise for her manners and her LAVISH en-
tertaiumcnts and her modcsty OF depotl-
ment Ii closes with these words She
is really 4 Quceuly woman. Her bearing
is dgnidcd, her manner GIaclous. her ltl-
guagc perfect and one leaves her presence
cchong the sentiment: once Il queen al
Now that dethroncd woman has been the
butt of hundreds OF cruel Jokes ana slitil-
dorS ana for what was ~. for pohtical
schemes that are now about To mature in
the annexation Of Hawaii. or am / too
SUSPICIOUS of our American poiiticiansf
Nav the good Lord help us all and keep
us from stealing. especially from a woman.
BILL ARP.
T. S.-Allow me 20 thank an those kind
friends far and near, Who have sent me
The poem | asked for: "Man wants but lit
A., here below" by j. - Adams. Ii graf
iGts mo 10 learn that SO many are better
fH IA
them for their kind consideration Of my
ignorance. IS. A