The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-07-11
BILL ARP ON THE NEGRO
He Declares That His Best Friends Are in the
South Yankees Do Not Like Him.

South--Yankees Do Not Like Him.
These Boston Yankees already
have big money in cotton mills
in South Carolina. Three fourths of the
capital in the new mills in Spartanburg
| is New England money, and they have
never yet even suggested the employ
ment of negro operatives. 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 a base of political operations. The
new little city of Fitzgerald that is made
| I'D of Illinois Yankees, won't even ALLOW
| him a domicle in the corporation. L
| 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
| had to tell her they were cooked by ne
grOes. 1t is curious how they don't mix
| things up North, for in one hotel you
| will find all colored walters, and in anoth-
er all whites. There are hotels in
Florida where all the walters are New
England 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 preju-
| dice 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 resaid for thirty
years. s'Oh, but you lynch Them" they
say, and the New York Herald keeps
an account against us-over 300 in the
last twelve months. If it was 5000 We
| would still ask, like Governor Oates,
l 70 do n
Lynching for the crime is the law of ma
ture, and will go ON. When juries are
I>organized to try hyenas and wolves and
gorillas, maybe these brutes in human
| 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, l would have burn
| ed 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 lynchings and go to denOuncing the
outrages to their people the enormity of
| the crime and its swift and sure punish
ment. 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 l have heard Of.
| The papers say that some wealthy ne
groes 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 he charges that Hon. Hoke Smith
| i'm 1893 wrote an article for The Am
| erican Review advocating the employ
| ment of negro labor in our cotton mills
| as a means Of competing with the Chi
namen. 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? / know of
no trade or occupation 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 watermelens and violets and
| daisies, while the white people are
| threatened with the direst calamity Of
thirty years. Stop, Stanton, stop, and
write a poem about the black cotton
mills that loom up in the distance.
I 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 num-
Der of The Puritan. The photograph in
dicates 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. 1t closes with
these words: ''She really is a queenly
woman. Her bearing is dgnifed, her
manner gracious, her language perfect
and one leaves her presence echoing the
sentiment, Once a queen, always a
queen"
Now that dethroned woman has been
the butt of hundreds of cruel jokes and
ISLANDERS and for what was it? For poll
teal schemes that are now about to ma
ture in the annexation Of Hawaii. Or
am too suspicious of our American poll
| ticians? May the good Lord help us
all and keep us from stealing, especially
| 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: "Man
wants little here below" by j. @.
Adams. 1t gratifies me to learn that so
many are better versed in literature than
am. and / thank them for their kind
consideration Of my ignorance. b. A.