The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-29
Mr.. DOOLEYS VIEWS ON
THE NEGRO PROBLEM

What's goin' to happen to tn nay
gur?" asked Mr.. Hennessy.
We'll" said Mr.. Dooley. hell ayther
have to go to tn North an be a subjick
race. or stay in tn South an be an OBJ
jick lesson. IT'S har-rd time he'll have
anyhow. I'm not sure that I'd not as
lave be gintly lynched in Mississippi as
baten to death in New York. If 1 was a
black man, I'd choose tn cotton belt in
polisman's club. I wud SO.
I'm not so much throubled about tn
naygur whin he lives among his oppris-
sors as am whin he falls into tn hands
Nv his ;liberators. Whin he's in tn South
he Gun make up his mind to be lynohed
soon or late, an give his attintion to
his other pleasures iv composin' rag
time music on a banjo. an wurrukin'
f'r tn man that used to own him an
now on'y owes him his wages. But It's
tn divyle's own hardship FIR a coon to
step out Nv tn rooms iv tn S'ciety FIR
tn Brotherhood Nv Ma-an where he's
been r-readin' pome on tn Future. iv
III &siOnCb anu VIC Pun SOSNo NC IL iilSD ~
abolitionists till he's driven to seek polls
protection-which, Hinnissy, is tn po-
lite name FIR fracture Nv tn skull.
Il was FIR sthrikin' off tn shackles ~
tn slave me la-ad. Twas thrue didn't
vote fr it, bein' that 1 heerd Stephen
A. Douglas say twas unconstitutional,
an in thin days 1 wud go to tn flure
wit
I'm still with it, but not so sthrong.
It's movin' too fast fr me. But no
mather. Anyhow 1 was FIR maxim TIL
| black ma-an free, an though l sthud
| be tn South as a spoortin' proposition
L was kind iv glad in me heart whin
| Gin'ral UlysS S. Grant bate Gin'ral Lee
an tn rest Nv tn Union officers cap
tured Jiff Davis. i says to mesilf, Now,
l says, TIL coon IL have a chanst fl
| his life says ], an in due time we may
injye him. 1 says.
4 An sure enough it looked good fl
a while, an tn time come whin tn oc-
casual dollar bill that whit acrost this
bar on pay night wasn't good money
Eonless it had tn name iv q naygur or
II. In thin days they was young la-aC
la frind iv wan iv tn Donohue boys
that wint to tn public school up be-
yant, an he was as bright a la-ad as
1 yt WANT W ste III IL udy WIKI. In
| larnin' Nv that la-ad wud sind Father
Kelly back to his grammar. He cue
spell to make a hare Nv tn hedge school.
masther. he was as quick at figures a:
tn iddycated pig they showed in tn
tint last week in Haley's vacant lot, an
in joggerphy, astronomy. algybbera
5ommethry, chimisthry, physiojnomy
bassoophly, an fractions / was Otter
harrd put mesilf to puzzle him. 1 heerc
him gradyooate, an his composition
was so fine very few cud make out wha
he meant.
| II met him on tn street wan day at
Their he got out iv school. What arr,
we goln' to do FIR ye'ersilf, SNOWFALL
says Ibis name was Andrew Jackson
George Wash'nton Americas Caslatera
Beresford Vanilla Hicks, but 1 called
him SNOWFALL him bein' as black as
coal, dye see-I says to him: VIVA
ARE we goin' to do FIR ye'ersilf?' says !
I'm goin' to enter tn profession iv law,
he says, where be me acooman an In
dusthry I hope he says, f'r to rise t.
be judge he says. "a Congressman
he says, "a Sinitor.' he says, an pr
haps.' he says, "a Prisidint Nv tn Unit
ed States he says. Theyse nawthin
to prevint.' he says. Divvle a thing
says l. .'Whin we made We free say
I. we opened up all these opporchuni