The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-29
HOUSTON. SATURDAY. July 20. 1899
!. TEN PAGES TODAY,
THE NEGROES BEST FRIENDS.

Those racial prejudice promoters In the
North, who imagine or profess to believe
at times, that the negro has no white
friends in the South, and who so often. es-
pecially the women "philanthropists, for
get the poor victims of lust and blood
thlrstiness in their mawkish sentiment for
the lynched brutes ought to learn some
thing about the real relations between the
blacks and whites in the South before
making themselves ridiculous as well as
sanderous.
The following editorial utterances from
the Austin Tribune most admirably voice
the sentiment of the better people of the
South toward the negro when he really
needs a friend The Tribune among other
things says:
The Tribune editor was coming to Austin
last Sunday on the southbound international
ana Great Northern train and heard Two
white men discussing the Brazos bottom hoou;
We'll | suppose 1t is pretty bad. remarked
one, but they are mostly all republican ne
groes and | propose to let them hustle Tor
II was about as heartless remark as the
Tribune scribe ever heard uttered. suppose
they are negroes? Suppose that they are all
so black they can spit ink suppose every
ono OF them has been republican since Tree
dom and voted for that party? That cuts no
figure whatever in the case.
They are citizens OF Texas and deserve pro-
lection. The cries OF the little Jet black pick
aninny, sitting astraddle of log OF Mistor-
tune and floating down the river Of Starvation,
should meet with Just as prompt assistance as
though his skin was snow-white. 1t s his
utter helplessness that appeals to every man
who has heart in him as big as mustard
seed.
The Tribune Is not afraid but what the
white men of grand old Texas Will see that the
hungry are fed and the naked are clothed, be
they black or white. 1t Is only n human
shark that would even suggest that hungry
newro ought to he allowed to hustle for him
self" and no decent white man will sanction
that sentiment
The Tribune editor Is himself enc Of the
democratic white men of grand old
Texas" and knows the white people of
the South. When the recent disastrous
floods came, sweeping cway ZONES and
growing crops, rendering thousands des-
titute without food or money, without II
dollars worth of property on earth, and
drowning many. it Is safe to say that
a5 per cent of the helpless victims were
negroes, withstanding that fact nearly
every community in Texas that had not
suffered and the most damaging food WAS
confined chiefly to the Brazos valley only,
at once set to work to ,upply these poor
creatures, black and white alil:e--wth, as
Just stated, 95 per cent of the relief going
to the blacksmith food, clothing and
other necessaries. And the supplies went
from our people and from Houston and
other Texas cities by carloads!
The whites of the South not only are
educating the negro, but wnen misfortune
overtakes him it is to the white msn ne
appeals and 1t is the white man from
whom he most promptly obtains relief.
The prompt and generous assistance by
the white people OF Texas to the negro
Hood sufferers In the Brazos bottoms ought
alone to Offset and reb Ike a thousand
sensational and sentimental lids for noto-
riety like that OF Miss Jewstt. the Boston
old maid. who wants to parade In the
North as horrible example" Of lynching
the family of the negro postmaster in
South Carolina who was assassinated by a
mob. But the Southern people ere con-
stantiy called upon for aid in cases Of ex-
treme suffering among the negroes and
1t is always freely given.
1t would perhaps ne more honest and
satisfactory II these Boston women who
forget an outraged sister ia their eeep
interest In the murderer and ravisher,
would settlS at lonely spots through the
South and obtain their knowledge of con-
ditions and their horrible examples" at
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