The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-09-14

millions OF Christian citizens of one of
the most powerful governments of this
age.
, Let the South alone and look to
your own neglected opportunities and
correct your own wrongs.
4 appeal to the white mon OF the
North to think more kindly OF both
= black men and white mon of the South.
Every honest negro heart is loyal ant
true to the South. We all deplore
whatever Is wrong there. In every
community the best black mon and
white men are unitod for our common
good. The criminal class Is made up
: of the worst elements Of both races. We
can no moro check, in single genera
tion, our criminal tendencies than you
can put down tho mob spirit in your
own section, which manifests In strikes,
boycotts and riOts-starving women
and innocent children, pal alyzing in,
dustry; crippling commerce, filling the
air with the black smoke and red
flames of ruin, the, cries of the dying,
and the walls of the friends Of the muir
derod dead. Compared to these, our
disorders aro as gentle as Florida
breezcs to Kansas cyclones. We need
and want the sympathy OF every sec-
tion of the country, but there is kind
and unfriendly modelling which In
variably increases friction and harms
the negro. We have strong mon in
the South who are capable, and have
tho righteous inclination to fairly ad-
just all problems growing out OF our
new relations. There Is o class OF
Northern whites who come South as u
disturbing element. They are hypO-
critics, singing one tune to the negroes
aud another to the whites.
"There arc many mistakes In our
own social lifo, which we as a race
must correct and which we alone can
correct. Our women and children are
left unprotected by fathers mothers
and sisters are deserted by sons and
brOthers and often leave home to in.
crease the army Of idlers and criminals.
The great maj0rity OF Our boys are not
in school, do not attend church, arc
growing up idle, vicious, insolent,
Ignorant, or shun hard, honest toll and
look for soft jobs. The negro woman,
almost alone, Is fighting ono OF the
grandest battles In the annals of man;
with the cook pot, the.wash board, SOW
ing needles, ironing board, scrub brush,
she builds churches, supports schools,
cducates her daug ghter, often support
ing an improvident husband or an un.
worthy son--tempted, assailed on all
sides, she maintains degree 'Of.virtuo
which would deserve conmendation In
. women with more favorable environ
ments.
We are negroes and should be true
to our own nature In order to become
strong and fair in. the eyes OF an intel
ligent world. Let us be more con-
cerned about Strengthening the kinks
inside Of our heads and tho kinks on
the outside will be. all right.
- honor the white man because he
honors himself. honor him because
he does not go whining around, beg
since the old Teutonic tribes Of Cor
' man forcsters started out for civiliza-
: tion by their own efforts they have dis.
, sipated rivers, raised valleys, Ieveled
mountains, dipped the great ocean
. dry, and harnessed natural .Orces tC
thoir appliances-they cut and carve
, their own destiny-true to their racia
/ characteristics. They protect and de-
y fond their own women, and throw theil
r powerful arms around their chill
. dren and make 1t possible for thom tt
Q rise in this world. Let the negro dc
y likewise. He has 1t In his power to d(
i 80 especially in the South. There he
j. can grow rich. There and hore Am
|. erican, prejudice Is but the voice o
8 God telling him to establish all kind
? of business, put his own boys and girls
q in charge and grow rich. Hear thi
Is, voice and not 60 about begging fo
" admission and accommodations whcr'
>, we are told plainly We are not wanted
" American prejudice may yet do for u
q what lack OF race pride fails to &C
r. mpish--force the ncgco TO patrOniz
d himself and to grow rich in the good
" Of this world"
lr That negro's head and heart arc bot
It right He is brave man aud dare
y to speak the truth. wonder why tn
N negro papers don't copy that address
" 1t should be scattered broadcast anon
IL thoir readers and would do good. Bu
g, the Atlanta editors are not on tina
IS line. They want sensation and Nortl
t. ern sympathy. They are politician
m Politicians and preachers keep thing
le hot. My friend Ham, who has bee
10 to q chautauqua in Missouri, says h
lg hoard q lecture there from Bisho
Fowler, on Abraham Lincoln, In whic
he took occasion to lampoon and scarif
te us as Is usual up there, and amon
other things rocharged that old Ii
:, that Governor Brown had offered II
vi ward of $5, 900 to have William Lloy
eG Garrison kidnapped and brought
au Georgia. The bishop ought to max
III up new stock. Those. old lies ar
h. worn out. Ho knew ii was lie whe
Y he repeated it. This is lie for whic
~ there WAS no oXcuSe and no foundt
C. tion, but 1t Is good traveller an
IS, preachers can sond lie as far Us an,
e body If the devil, who Is the fstht
,r- of lies, has any preference for subject
Il. | think he would choose lying, sla
10. dcrous preachor before anybody. b,
OF suppose that wasn'ta lie ; what GOO
can possibly come Of resurrocting
,h- now? Joe Brown is dead Garrison
>p- dead, and maybe they have settlt
in their own affairs over there. w,
ch Illuminating about the difference b
ch tween this white Northern bishop al
It's the black man, President Council, wi
lor made that kind conciliatQry address
ck Bismarck, and that brought to mil
all the persistent slandcrs Of our Southc
It'll hero, Lieutenant Hobson, who W
re. retired almost to oblivion because