The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-10-11
rHE SAYINGS OF AN Old NEGRO.
hiiI Arp Writes About Good Old Sam
titts-Fhc Difference Between No

hiiI Arp Writes About Good Old San
Pitts-Fhe Dinorencc Between No
grocs.
Uncle Sam Is dead Good old San
mitts. Ho nover changed his name
whom freedom came. "My old master
was q good man" no said. "Dar was
good people den and bad people jes
like dar Is now-black and white, but
ue olack has got wusser and wusset
since dey got FREQ. Ellen black man
ndd good master he was mighty well
| on! Tor ne didn't have no sponsibility
| Ellen L bin shO OF u good master and
my wllo and children been shO OF ono
ana we all 1.-Two togodder Untill wo die
wouldn't keer anything bout freedom.
MY ola master used to make dc niggcr
gals got married and take man and
SUCK TO him, but nowadays dcy don't
marry at all hardly. got lot OF
10 speak OF and don't know my sons in
law. Dey don't come about in daytime.
i'ot's what killed my old woman. She
Jes' 30 mortified and so shamed she
noVcr got ovcr 1t. So many spurious
childron all round cullin' hor granny.
hlIcn Whito woman d. dat way sho
IL dlsgra2ed, but black oman don't
kccr she shine ~ big as ever and doy
uont turn hor outen dc church. In do
oiu times sho got "a whippin and dcy
ort TO have It yet. White folks dun
quit whipPin bad niggers; doy scnd
EN- to chaingang and dcy don't kcer
lor dat. | hear dat dar Is four or five
Thousand In dar from Gcorgy. Ilow's
dat---dldn't have nary one before do
war. Gwine to school too much spck
and work too little. Don't know what
ls gWine to como OF all desc grow in up
nlkEcrs. Oar is dozen or more round
dc depot or trampin' around town doiu'
nuthln' all dc time--livin' oifcn dcy
mammles ana smokin' deso little papor
scegars."
Old Uncle Sam lident talk much
but sometimes he would lean ON his hoe
or MS aX and spress his fcolins. II did
him good. He has been choppinp my
wood and helping me in the garden for
thlrtccn years and we will miss him.
ne iell down ralyHcd with his hoo in
MS hand. lie was th" man with the
noe to the very last, but he never
WAS poor, for he made ~ good living
ana mad many friends and owned a
comfortable house aud lot. They sent
to my wife for som. grave clothes and
he Will be buried In Il right decent suit
l was ruminating about this good
old negro who had seen thirty-threo
years ot slavery and thirty-scvcn OF
freedom and knew the good and the
bad OF both conditions and then my
thought wandered to the malignity OF
those who have slandercd us so long
without s cause. Here Is Is book OF pCcm;
by John G. Whittier and thirty-sevcn
Of them arc pitiful appeals for the poor
slave and invoking Heavens curses
upon his master. He knew no more
about slavery as 1t really was than he
did about Barbara rreitchie and he
fed the young people of New England
upon poetic lies for thirty years and
lnstlllcd into their hearts that hatred
from which they have never recovered
Strange IT Is that smart people will
write about things they have never
seen. Now the idea OF an uneducatcd
negro slave getting down on his knees
and making an apostrophc to tho north
star-and yet that Is the title OF one Of
the poems" The Saves Apostrophe
to tho North Star" The nj gger wa;
'possum hunting right then, but the
poet makes him to say
"Star OF the North, look to thee
Thy light and truth shall sci me free
But enough Of this. The question
still survives what will become OF tn,
negro. And that other question looms
up before lis, what will we do will
100000 more Of them over in tn,
Philippines a more senseless wa
was never wagcd. 1t was conceived |,
sin and is being Carried on in iniuuity
Prosperity Yes, it is war that losse
over suffering and death and grief will
coat Of prosperity. but it is nothln,
but coat. War always produces
semb"ncc OF prosperity, for armic
! have to be fed and clothed and equipped
Ships have to be built and cannon mad
and thousand things collateral to thcs
sho" activity and give employment t;
labor and to capital This activit
began with the Cuban cmbr0glio an,
still goes on, but in tho long ru
somebody will have to foot uD tn
money bill. The bill for blood an
suffering will never be paid. VIII
wants tho war but contractors who ar
growing rich from their profits? Whe
] was last in Texas heard u catt!
man say he hoped that Russia an
England would get up IL fight, for h
had 100, 1000 head Of cattle that woul
go up 80 per cent. in day. Dali
wages don't go up, but vcrything tn
laborcr is Obliged to consume ha
| advanced. low ABOUT clerk hire, mai
and female, in the towns and cities
How about child labor In tho factoric
not In all tho factories, but In most q
them, for there arc not many Gunb
JOrdans at the head OF Southern c0tto
mills. What Il beautiful tribute hi
people paid him in Columbus whe
ho returned from t,lropc. What
touching ovation those factory worker
gave him. Why can't the owner
oi every mill t.n t'.n same by thci
operatives and secure their love, whic
is worth more than q crown OF gold.
read in an Atlanta paper about poo
woman who swOro her son would no
be nine years old until next Christmas
but her husband certified to the super
intendent OF the mill that he was elcvc
so as to get him place, for no 30
under ton would be employed.
What q degree OF misery must be I
d family who have to resort 80 suc
methods. The poor have but fc,
friends, but | hope they have cnoug
to press that labor bin before the mex
general assembly.
Latcr-Nows has just come that oil
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