The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-12-09
ADMINISTRATIONS POLICY DEP.
RECATED BY PREACHERS.
PRAISES THE REV. DIX0N'S SERMON
The COlored Man In the South Ia Happy
and Should Be Let Alone by
the Politicians.

Ihe press and the pulpit are fulml-
mating their various theories and are
giving advice in no uncertain sounds.
DIR. Parkhurst preached a unanksgiv-
ing sermon to an immense congrega-
tion and left the thanks out. He made
bold to denounce the war as an un-
holy one, conceived in sin and waged
with iniquity, and declared that this
country had gained neither glory nor
respect by reason of it. He said that
not even the president could toll
whether he declared war because the
Maine was exploded or because the
Cubans were being starved, or be-
cause lot of congressman threatened
to play Judas to the admin istration if
he dident declare war.
He says the president is continually
putting his ear to the ground like an
Indian to hear what the people of the
great west have got to say about it,
1t was terrible arraignment of the
war party.
DR.. Van Dyke, another notable
preacher, took for his text "The Amer
lean Birthright and the Philippine
Pottage," and forcibly denounced ter
ritorial expansion. Then again DIR.
ular preacher, refused to give thanks
'for having made war upon feeble
! nation, a war that was entered into for
| humanity sake only and not to acquire
| territory"
And there We're other preachers on
| the other side and between the preach
ers and the press the people are be-
| wildered and don't know what to
! think. But il is to be observed that
| all the preachers have some filings to
cast Mt the south about the negro ex-
cept Dr. Thomas Dixon. "The Mig
ger is in the wooIpiie" up there and
everybody is crazy about him. But
DR.. Dixon held forth at the Grand
| opera house to an immense audience
and dared TO tell them the truth. He
declared that Mrs. Grannis as simply
insane and he hoped the Lord would
save the negro from such friends. He
said:
| 81 knowthe southern people and the
northern people, and l know the ne
northern = he:tGE of "G,atlf7.' atlf7'avn t""nn etNhaes the
Starves or suffers for bread. The sun
| ooes not rise or set on this city but
| what some white man or woman or
ioi H'"iNe 10 ueatn. For every
negro IN the south found sleeping on n
bed of straw, I will show You five
white persons in the north who have
got no straw, and would be glad to
have 1t. The northern white man
thinks less of the negro than the south
ern white man does. You don't wnnt
nm III your house nor close about YOU.
No trades are open to him here. He
is nothing here but a servant; whereas.
Mt the south, he competes with the
white man in every trade and walk in
1.4eonomic world
New York no nov 10000 negro voters in
negro office holder among tffSSHmr tffSHr say lEMara a
81 n". one; aud never will be- The Anglo
saxon will rule, and the sontha.,, ,,r,l' s,o
need expect no more art;f.;aI s''
port from the north. The exner;,np.
no ~ U'.e"' !he war gave this nation
,,, era ol It's life. The bloody shirt
was buried on San Juan hill. The |
nR." t,ar must now stand alone, and
mere can never be bloody shirt issne
asa'n IN TINS nation. The negro alone
g can solve his problem, and he mnst dc
IT, w not by politics, but by work"
ven that sounds fine. hut n good
e"' u OF IL Is fancy. The fact remains
''' oeiore the war there was not a
leSro in the chaiugang in Ge.ro;o
.nu now there are 1000, and ths
"nn ".t"er is increasing daily, and ths
"r'hern Republican press and RennI'
va. P".Plts are still denouncino nc
r H. In the language of Govern g
'a,es' am continually temptcd ta
Hciaim. well, what are ron,,, w. s
plng to do about it?" n
g, put we are going to have n maze. 4
oilee down here. and as John r. r,
g uraves said of Henry Grady. "Wo :
e g gong to love nation ,nto peace" :" 8.
'e II we don't. We are go;Mato b[
'a' our northern visitors So oonor &c
S'! ana love them so hard that wh.r &c
~ Se. back home they won't soy
ISri ,or TWO weeks, maybe month
WiSh IL were possible to get tboso m
i"'''s 10 stay down here year or IS
u see Tor themselves how tbe noc, Go
!"ing-not in Atlanta or Sovo, 4oc
any OF the big cities where most of SOC
chaihgangs come from, but in tho sm
'h"y or the smaller towns. will f5c
y would visit Cartersville and s.n I'M
negro drayinen hauling cotton on1 -
7 Their merry laugh and their ;otn. con
see 'he cotton pickers in town or i5C
"f!'aY evening and night apcod;ro
r "eek wages for sometime oon5
"n""y' or see them in their cho
rcnes on the Sabbath and hear try
',us WY ana shont and give glory to ms, ms: