Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-02-01
DAN MORGAN ON TOAST.
JAKE COOK REPLIES TO MR. MORGAN AND
COOKS HIM THOROUGHLY.
QUITE IN INTERESTING LETTER,
Some Very Funny Comparisons White Peo.
N2ple Should Not Educate Negro Children.

SN1P'o Shoe'u 'NUk CouCtSlt CtsliQTGT.
Fort MADISON, January 3O.-EditorS
Courier: Sam Jones says it is tho hit dog
that hollors. Wo hear D. j. Morgan, of
Return, howling mournfully. We sup
pose he has been hit. Please toll him
that if tho shoe fits him too tight and
pinches his toes ho had better lay it of, ;,
and wo will sond him about three num-
bers larger this time. Wo suppose ho is
tho samo cd. j. NJ" who was on n big
"strctclr' last yoar, making sovon balos
OF cotton to tho aero. If so, we are not
surprised at anything he might say. Wo
arc not responsible for his failure to
make tho sovcn bales por aero. We told
him that it was an impossibility before
he tried it; therefore We aro not to
blame.
Mr.. Morgan says in regard to our lot
tor in reply to "Nod Todd'' that wo
"convey tho idea that wo object to tho
poor riding tho public roads which thoy
holped to keop up" Now ovory man
of common sense in this country knows
that this is gross misrepresentation OF
the meaning of my letter and its inten-
tions arc for an injustice, and such statc-
monts arc dcmoralzing, to say tho least.
We suppose ho thinks the negroes arc
not dcmoralizcd bad enough. It's lust
and right for everybody to rido the pub
lie roads when and where thcy please,
provided thcy holp to keep them up. But
''Ncd Todd'' said that tho "propcrty
should keep up tho public roads," and
now we know if tho property was taxed
to keep up the public roads, the class of
people that wo mentioned would bo al
most exempt from public road duty, and
at tho samo time travel tho roads moro
than any other class. am poor man
myself, Mr.. Morgan, and always have
been. Wo did not nhcrt a single dol
lar Tho negroes were set FREQ before
my father sot me free. l have worked
at fifty cents per day and boarded my
self. l only got about twelve months
schooling, all told, and it was not paid
ny the public. But am willing to pay n
tax to school tho poor white chiluien,
but wo think tho colorcd race should
school their own children. l saw poor
white mans children working in the
field; | asked the father why he did not
send them to school. IIo said thcy had
no good clothes to wear nor nothing
fttcn to cat to carry with them to school,
The same day | saw big gang of
negro children walking moro than two
miles to school. If thoy conld get two
green apples and n soda cracker they
will cat that for dinner and study hard
all day on it, simply because tho whito
citizens were paying for thoir schooling
believe majority of thcm arc better
without an education than with it. |
have been told that moro than so per
cent of the colorcd convicts are educated.
MIR. Morgan says that wc "seem to
think that tho coorcd people arc rcspon-
siblc for their gourd heads" No, wo
don't think the colorcd people arc re-
sponsiblc for their gourd heads, neither
are VIC responsible for those wheels in
Mr.. Morgan's head. Those wild, social
istic, anarchist ideas Of his show plainly
that they have passed through head
full of wheels, and We arc not surprised
that they came out badly tangled.
"God says we should give onc-tcnth
of our incomc.' Wo admit that this is
Gods commandment. But he does not
command us to give it to a dispcnsary
mob, nor to Il lot of college professors,
nor as premium on tritlingncss. 1t was
to be given to the religious cansc, and
thank God wo have kept this command
mcnt. We arc in tho habit Of giving
more than cnc-tcnth of our profits each
year to the church, and we arc not a
member, either.
Mr. Morgan says "thc best way to re-
lucc our taxes is to have pcntccostial
feast and divide equally one with ano-
ther, and then we would not be COM
planning of one paying so much more
tax than othcrs.' Now what will the
average citizen Of our country think of
tho above c0nglomeration of penny wise,
pound foolish, socalistic, anarchist COM
munism? Such ideas as these wcro very
common among the stragglers of the tail
end Of Coxcy's army. But wo had nc
idea, until now, that any Of them had
lodged in tho state of South Carolina.
Now if all the good citizens Of the coun-
try could arrange matters and divide
their property, which they had worked
hard to pay for, equally among the
tramps and vagabonds, | suppose those
trampS and vagabOndS would think that
the day of pcntccost had fully come,
sure enough. But We have no idea that
a day like this will ever come.
Sc if this is the way Mr.. Morgan means
to get property he might as we'll hang
up. Honest men don't get property that
way. We don't know Mr.. ID. j. Morgan,
but ! am constrained to say that he
| might get on his knees and pray to God
| the balance Of his days for Il pcniecOst
like the one he mentions and his prayers
never would reach higher than the cell
ing Of his house Tho Same God who
tells me to give onc-tcnth Of my income
| also says to Mr.. Morgan ''thou shalt not
covct anything that is thy neighbours.
Tho desire of the slCthful killcth him,
for his hands refuse lt labor. lie c0vct-
eth grcedily all the day long. The
righteous givcth and spareth not
Now there arc some vagaOOndS in our
country who are always covoting, OK
pccting tho good people to give and
spare not just as long as they covet.
But it is Il big mistake to ride free
horse to death.
Now for tho last twenty years prcccd-
ing the time that our new road law came
into effect we never saw Il time in the
whole twenty years that we could not
hire a hand to work the road i'm our
place for fifty cents per day; nor We
never had to work more than fonr days