The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1897-07-23
The1emorrH-g Star
ARR ON THE NEGRO.
HE DECLARES THAT HIS BEST FRIENDS
ARE IN THE SOUTH.

M AAA@h
ARK IN THE SOUTH.
These "Bnston 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,
II is new departure If Boston has sud
denly 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 opera
tons. The new little city OF Fitzger-
aid that is made up Of Illinois yam
KEGS, wont even allow him a dOmicile
in the corporation. 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 Ions illness. Kind neigh.
bors took nice things to her, but had
TO tell her they were cooked by ne
groes. IL 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 Florida where all the walters are
New England girls. In the Northwest
no colOced BARRIERS are allowed. They
would lynch n 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
resaid for thirty years. "Oh, but you
lynch them" they say, and The New
York Herald keeps an account agains.
us-oyer 800 in the last twelve months.
Ii it was 1900 we would still ask, like
Governor Oates, what are you going
to do about it, Lynching for that
crime is the law Of nature, and will go
on. When jurics are organized 10 try
hyenas and wolves and gOrillaS, maybe
these trutes in human form will be
tried, but not before. The argument
il exhausted, and we stand by our
wives and children. If the brute who
was burned at Dallas had as many
lives as a cat, ! 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 teachers and editors stop bewail-
ing the lynchings and g. to denounc-
ing the outrages and teach to their
people the enormity Of the crime and
its swift and sure punishment. 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 have heard
Of. The papers say that some wealthy
negroes are about to build a cotton
mill in Alabama. That is all right,
OF course, and they will employ negro
labor. Mr.. Angl0SaSsaa2l can't com.
plain about that, but he charges that
Hon. Hoke Smith in 1893 wrote an
article for The American Review ad'
vocating the employment OF negro
labor in our cotton mills as a means 81
competing with the Cinnamon. Well.
! don't believe that Mr.. Smith wrote
any such thing, for we have no China
men in that business and II we had
how could the negro compete any bet
ter than the white race? l know o
no trade or occupation in which thu
negro cxcels the white man, either il
skill or cheapness. But this man i
very mad with US and actually abuses
Frank Stanton for writing pOetr.
about mules and watermelons ant
yiolets and daises while the white PEG
pie are threatened with the dires
calamity Of thirty years. Stop, Stan
ton, stop, and write "A poem about Thu
black cotton mills that loom up in tn,
distance.
But while on the subject Of The
dusky race, my attention was called
by my wife to a photograph and
sketch of Queen Lii, that appears il
the July number of The Puritan. Tn,
photograph indicates a handsome wo
man Of light Moorish complexion anc
features quite as English as Queer
Victoria's. The sketch gives hel
praise for her manners and her lavish
entertainments and her modesty o.
department. 1t closes with these
words: "She is really a queenly wo
man. Her bearing is dignifed, hel
manner gracious, her language per
feet and one leaves her presence echo
ing 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 political schemes that arc
now about to mature In the annexa
tiOn OF Hawaii. Or am | too suspi
cious Of u American politicians
May the good Lord help us all ant
keep US from stealing, especially from
a woman. BILL ARP.
The Boston Post declares that the
tariff bill which has just got through
the Senate Is abh0rrent to the people
Of Massachusetts, because it taxes
their industries out of existence
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