The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-09-11
ARP FAV0RS A WALL
He Says Northerners Haze the
South Anyway.
NEGRO ISSUE NOT IN IT
...r+ Race Riots North of Mason and
Dsxon's Line Discussed
by Bill.

v thought that maybe the late
York and Akron riots would even
:.,s and the South haters up in
ID" .,orry would call off the dogs,
'@. .r-v are still blowing the same
'.. They are hard up, however.
"' .+bp hounds have lost the trail,
0 .- ar. scattered and there is no
" 10 rally them-the buglers
n.rmonize. Some said that the
New York was owing to a
...,t Democratic administration in
:., The Akron horror called
...+Npr solution, and now they
that they saved the niger, but
49,. t,4 been down South he would
bepu Ivnched with Sam Hose
+.ra- \ late paper sent me as a
,s.a1 coay says that Southern mob
has crossed the line and is
~4..t;oo the lower classes up North,
+ as a contagion spreads in unheal-
~r-oionS, 1t all comes from the
s"[ n and there is no quarantine to
.rr--T us itloS IN
Cd Let's build a wall.
pr- seriously we must warn our
,l NEGROES not to cross the line. 1t
arngtrous. Keep away from Pana,
l~ni Nrly York. Stay at home and
-r+nate our cotton and corn and let
,,rtfr~ alone and you are in no dam
Ir likeness is your curse. If | had
L ,r,y would re-establiSh the old
aa-r,,1 system and make every tramp
r4or0 carry a pass or take Il whip
,tnu would empower the town
nnarshaIs and the country constabies
~, arrest every vagabOnd on the high
,,ay and If he couldn't give q good ac-
..nrt of himself he should be tied up
and dressed down. We old men know
thar one good whipping has more eff
4ar on a bad negro than five years
IN the ~chaingang. Even a hanging is
r1arv. for they are going straight to
heaven. Last Saturday night a tramp
~4ar, cut the Slat from the blind Of
Mr.. Carv's house and opened it and
ravIrd in and stole his paternal gold
watch and his pocket book within
+rraa feet of his head. while he was
s+rpiuo. No doubt he was armed,
and would have shot Mr.. Cary had
r.. walked up and resisted. The negro
uk a night freight and was arrested
At Kingston. and the watch was re-
covered. but he got away. We have
elf 10 do something with these
ramps. Our c~haingangs are full
enough. repeat it. thai no good. in
n1fous negro is in any danger in
te south, and they know it. Jim
NTH is the biggest farmer in the
>--. and he says there is no labor
--, a-,rll anIal To that of we'll
regulated negroes. and he knows.
But the spirit of ~mobocracy is not
confined to the race problem up
North. The lynching last Saturday
uUlIman. in Illinois, was against an
at drfrnseIesS white wOman-a doc
trr>s who wa suspected of causing a
Young girls death by malpractice,
but who had not had q trial. nor had
any intention to harm the errlng girl.
Amob Of 25O men attacked her house
in the night. and she defended herself
and her home and killed and wound
I'd as many as she could. They NOR
tally wounded her and burned her
house. What kind of civilization is
thate Why didn't they hunt up the
man who ruined the girl? Our civlll-
cation down South mas always pro-
tected women 10 matter what they
did. We will not hang them for MUIR
der, for even old Mrs. Mobiles was SEM
10 the chaineang. Our women must
have protection from white bruteS
and black tiends, and we would nave
f~Iojeed if somebody had gwen
that scoundrel. DR.. Wilkerson, VINO
ram away with his wife's sister. a hun
tred Iashes before he was turned loose
IN Atlanta. That was 4 good case
Tor a little mob law. If the law couid
not reach him the lash would. Poor,
helpless, pitiful woman! How you
have to suffer in silence and live and
de with your wrongs unaVenged
How many hearts are breaking now
because of a husbands tyranny or ms
l~tAtuluess to his marriage vows
For her children's saks she keeps 81
rent and buries her secret in her DO
som. ! know Of men who made fame
"AI@ living, and on whose monu-
"ehta tulsome epitaphs are chlseled
VINO dt>9raced and dishonored
Tie name of husband. | know
some Who are not dead who are
'.-ug the same thing now. n woman
.4a'Hed 10 an unprincipled man Is
me most helpless creature upon
'4F'H. frometheus, bound to the
luz" and the eagles eating his heart,
WAS not worse off. Blackstone says
mere Is 30 wrong but has a remeA
was mistaken. Women have q
,,o'.@aHd wrongs hat are r~emedliess
""'f KIND OF remedy is divorce OF
'I'Ia1lon or alimony? 1t IS the
"''F' that is broken. 1T is love and
"O"'r that woman wants, and that
'N promised her at the altar. II
" '"ef resort, she leaves him, ne
..''@ around and claims the child
"' HE children are mine" nc
Ihr man who says that IS q
-'.''t.r1 fool. In the first place he
~, "o' hnoW for certain that he Is
'"fh~r, and if he is. he made nc
r..'"'r 10 he so. MI the pain OF
~ . * hers. All the tender
AMY "'a Nursing and night watching
NM generally all the prayers fol-
l.r' >'Ir'N and good conduct are
rr "AlIe he is at his bank or store
Or Knee or shop or maybe at his cIul
uL'."it table. There was n time
s.,," 'Ar Wife was the husbands
dGIs. according 10 the law, and the
larI YIN We're mis- property. and it is