The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-09-20
BILL ARP'S LETTER
The Recent Riots In Akron and
New York Are Discussed.
FAyORS BUILDING SECTIONAL" WALL
william Says Northerners Hate People
of the South Any Way and Negro
Question Is Not In 1t.


New York and Akron riots would even
up things, and the south haters up
in Gods country would call of
the dogs, but they are still blow
ing the same old horn. They are
hard up, however. Some OF the
hounds have lost the trail, and all are
scattered and there is no keynote to
rally them-the buglers don't har-
mouize. Some said that the riot
in New York was owing to corrupt
Democratic administration in that
city. The Akron horror called for an
other solution, and now they boast
that they saved the niger, but if it
had been down south he would have
been lynched with Sam Hose tortures.
A late paper sent me as a marked copy
says that southern mobocracy has
crossed the line and is affecting the
lower classes up north, just as con-
tagion spreads in unhealthy regions.
1t all comes from the south, and there
is no quarantine 10 arrest its progress.
That's bad and sad. Let's build a
wall.
But seriously we must warn our
good negroes not to cross the line. 1t
is dangerous. Keep away from Pana
and New York. Stay at home and
cultivate our cotton and corn and let
politics alone and you are in no dan
ger. Idleness is your curse. If l had
my way l would re-establish the old
patrol system and make every tramp
negro carry pass or take whipping.
l would empower the town marshals
and the country constables to arrest
every vagabond on the highway and if
he couldent give a good account Of
himself he should be tied up ana
dressed down. We old men know
that one good whipping has more
effect on bad negro than five years
in the changing. Even a hanging is
glory, for they are going straight to
heaven.
Last Saturday night tramp negro
cut the slat from the blind of Mr..
Cary's house and opened it and crawl
ed in and stole his paternal GOLD
watch and his pocket book within
three feet of his head, while he was
sleeping. No doubt he was armed,
and would have shot Mr.. Cary had he
walked up and resisted. The negro
took night freight and was arrested
at Kingston and the watch was recov-
cred, but he got away. We have got
to do something with these tramps.
Our chaingangs are full enough. !
repeat it, that no good, industrious
negro is in any danger in the south,
and they know it. Jim Smith is the
biggest farmer in the state, and he
says there is no labor il the world
equal to that of well-regulated negroes,
and he knows.
But the spirit of mobocracy is not
confined to the race problem up north.
The lynching last Saturday at Gillmsn,
in Illinois, was against an old defense
less white woman--a doctress who was
suspected of causing a young girls
death by malpractice. but who had not
had trial, nor had any intention to
harm the erring girl. A mob of $50
men attacked her house in the night,
and she defended herself and her home
and killed and wounded as many as
she could. They MORALLY wounded her
and burned her house. What kind of
civilization is that? Why dident they
hunt up the man who ruined the girl
Our civilization down south has al
ways protected women, no matter
what they did. We will not hang
them for murder, for even old Mrs
Mobiles was sent to the changing.
Our women must have protection from
white brutes and black fends, and we
would have reioiced if somebody had
have given that scoundrel, DR.. Will.
kerson, who ran away with his wife's
sister, hundred lashes before he was
turned loose in Atlanta That was good
case for little mob law. If the law
could not reach him the lash would.
Poor, helpless, pitiful womanl How
you have to suffer in silence and live
and die with your wrongs unavenged.
How many hearts are breaking now
because of husbands tyranny or biz
faithlessness to his marriage VOWS.
For her children's sake she keeps
silent and buries her secret in her
bosom.
know of men who made fame while
living, and on whose monuments full
some epitaphs are chiseled who dis
graced and dishonored the name of
husband. I know some who are not
dead who are doing the same thing
now. A woman chained to an I'M
principled man is the most helpless
creature upon earth. Promethius,
bound to the rock and the eagles eating
his heart, was not worse off. Black
stone says there is no wrong but has
a remedy. He was mistaken. Women
have thousand wrongs that are RENE
diless. What kind of remedy is di-
vorce or separation or alimony? 1t is
the heart that is broken. 1t is love
and honor that woman wants, and that
was promised her at the altar. If, as
a last resort, she leaves him, he struts
around and claims the children. "The
children are mine, he says. The man
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