The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-08-11

coarse and profane language toward
each other. A black policeman evident
ly one of their chums. was on the car.
There were several white ladies on the
car also. One of them appealed to the
policeman and asked him to stop the
cursing and swearing. Boys" he
said. 'dar's some ladies aboard"
why you don't say sou
'How do yon know"
"Who else said so but you?"
''Tel them that walking is good"
These and other similar expressions
came from the dusky crowd.
you see | can't do anything with
EN-" said the black police pretender
and the ladies had to endure the insults
| am not writing this in the interest
of politics. | am panied to have to write
it. | am writing it in the interest of
peace and good order-in the interest of
the negro as well as the white people
for | know and everybody else knows
that such Il condition of things is not
going to be maintained here or elsewhere
very long. The good people of Whining
ton are patient. law-abiding and long
suffering They have endured much.
They will perhaps endure much more.
but the time will come. if this state of
affairs goes on. when patience will cease
to be Il virtue. ! could hear murmerings
during my stay in Wilmington of vigi-
ance committees for the protection Ofthe
the homes of the citizens and their honor
and virtue as well.
Not all the negroes in Wilmington
are arrogant. ins0ent or lawless There
is class here that is resnectful and
law-abiding and they deprecate the mis-
deeds a s much almost as the whites and
have as little use for the incompetent
officials. but these are the exceptions.
judging from what | can see and hear,
while the great majority belongs to the
other class.
| hear it said every day that when
this war is over and when the Spanish
flag ceases to float over Cuba and Porto
Rico that this great country will be call
ed upon to plant upon these pOpulOus
islands some kind of an American pro-
tectorate for the reason that these peO-
pie are not competent to govern them
selves ] take this to mean that the
Anglo-Saxon must plant and maintain
safe, honest and intelligent Anglo-Saxon
government on the ruins of ignorant and
supcrstitions dynasties thousand years
old
| tell You that the city of Wilmington.
the city of Newbern and every other
city Cor community in North Carolina
now under negro domination needs an
Anglo-SaXon protectorate. Ignorance,
incompetency. superstition, prejudice
and dishonesty can no more rule in Will
mingtOn than it can in San Juan. 1t can
no more govern Newbern or Craven
county than it can Santiago or the pro-
vince of Pinar Del Rio, and in the same
proportion that the Pearl of the AntiiitS,
suffers from an attempt to govern it by
lazy hungry, ravenous. incompetent men.
so also will the city of Wilmington suf-
fer. Nor will the city of Wilmington or
the city of Newbern. or the county of
Craven he any less unfortunate BECAUSE a
few white men will for boobies sake take
seats in the councils of these blacks and
scheme and connive with them for con
troll. 1t would be easy enough to get
few designing white men who would for
sake. aid the incompetent con
glomerate of our soon to be new pos
sessions. and with them foist gov
eminent that would gall worse than the
yoke of Spain.
There are enough true Anglo,
Saxons in North Carolina to
come together and tear down by honor
able methods these black dynasties that
are being builded in our eastern counties
and towns. There are enough patriots
t does seem to me. in the State who
# they knew the real situation would
break into thousand atoms the bonds
that scheming politicians have bound
about them. shake off the unholy and in
humane negro fusion letters and save
their State from further advance into
that dark realm of negro domination.
T. b ARENDELI