The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-08-26
CAN'T FOOL HIS WIFE
Bill ARP Says the Old Lady VIII
Find Out
"a. cat Do,,n some Trees Whilc Mrs
Arp WAS Nbscnt-shc Was N"t
ConsuItrd-Morc About
INnching,

Tau the llnt. mat . A'' ''''' 49,
/ will add that man can't fool ms VIE
at all. She catches up with HIM by
instinct. NV wife has been away 10
Rome and so | tool, advantage OF her
absence and had two trees cut down.
One was dying at the top and the other
was crowdiug two other trees and 40
ing no good. But she is utterly nos
tile to cutting down a tree and so !
have to do il while she is away one
of them was cut down low TO the
ground, and after every chip and tWlg
was cleared up | had grass put over
the place where the tree was. was
going to do the other the same way
but / got sick and she came home pre-
maturely and there was the stump
grinning with its fresh cut edges
was getting better, lplt when saw
her coming | took a horizontal attn
tude on the couch and tried TO look
sick and sad and melancholy, 1t was
two days before she noticed that stump
and when she called my attention to il
told her that it was an old stump and
had been there for years. She never
said anything, but there was a doubt
| full expression on her tranquil counte-
nance. If there were no grandchildren
around here l could get along, but they
let the cat out of the bag every time
and | am the victim. 81 don't remem-
Der ever seeing that stump before,
said she, but ! persuaded her that the
late rains had colored it. When she
found me out. | assured her that the
tree was hollow and was bound TO die
soon and that its proximity to the other
trees prevented their expansion and
that expansion was now the policy OF
the country. YES" said she, 81 sup
pose we must cut down the smaller
trees so that the larger ones can have
more room. We must kill off the Fill
pinos for the same reason. | wonder
how many of the poor creatures they
have killed. If our people kill black
brute down here, they make an awful
fuss about it, but they are killing thou
sands because they are defending their
native land 1t is all very strange to
me-"
| don't like some of our governors
late utterances. The daily paper prints
in big lines that he said the man or
men who lynched a negro were as
guilty in the sight of God as the ne
gro they lynched. Surely he didn't say
that. The reporter must have mis-
L.,
like him. There is no such theology
in the books. If God had not put
a mark upon Cain anybody might have
slain him. Moses had to provide cities
of refuge for those who accidentally
killed anybody, lest the avengers of
blood should pursue and oyertake and
Stay them. The avengers of blood were
factors in the administra-
ton of the law What would have been
the punishment of these black brutes
cannot imagine, for with the Jews no
such crimes were known, and to this
day no such crime is known among
them. As a race they are the purest
people in their domestic relations.
Husbands are loyal and true and kind
to their wives and wives to their hus-
bands: children are Obedent to their
and affectionate to one another.
But here among us are numerous peo-
pie who seem utterly devoid of those
family virtues that are the safeguards
of all good government. Within the
last 30 years they have grown from
childhood to manhood and have be
come infinitely worse than their fathers
md mothers were while in slavery
There are more bastard negroes in and |
around this city than those born in
vedlock. They are not mulattoes, but |
they are negroes of full blood. The |
moral degeneracy of the race is alarm
ng. The state convicts and county con
7icts now aggregate over 1000, and all |
If them have come to maturity since |
he close of the civil war. The morals |
If these negroes get worse and worse |
md their outrages upon white women |
more frequent and more brutal. Our
people are shocked and whisper to one |
II.
When the savage Indians burned the
homes and tomahawked the women
md children our forefathers pursued |
hem by day and by night and had
heir revenge. We have people
lmong us many of whom are worse
han savages, and every man among
Is who is loyal to his wife or mother or
lister or daughter is an avenger of
blood and should never stop until the
lrute is caught and slain. For such
here are no cities of refuge and no
lorns of the altar for him to Law hold
If. This is one crime that makes a man
n outlaw and the people have no more
ear of provoking the vengeance of God
han did Gov. Gambler when he was
eading his brave men against the en-
my and crying at the top of his voice:
Shoot EN-, boys! Shoot 'em! Kill the
asst rascal; come on, boys; come on
nd follow mel" He never thought of
living them trial by jury nor of be-
ng guilty of murder. Let governors
roclaim in their perfunctory fashion
ct preachers and judges speak ex-
from the pulpit and the
ench, our people will lynch brute
S soon as they can catch him, and it is
10 sign of lawlessness, either. You
annot find in any state better citizen
hip than in Early county, and my let
ers from friends who live there de-
end them most heartily from all their
landerers.
If you wish TO hear the truth. lust
ound the common people-the coun-
ry people, the working people, who
We in the peril of these outrages-the
eople who are too poor to move to
owns or cities-the people who are of
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