The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-26
Mg. D001eY f 1H Degro Problem.
Copyrighted, 1900, by Robert Howard Rus
ny r. p. Dunno.

Copyrighted, 1900, by Robert Howard Rus
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What's goin' to happen to tn nay
gur?" asked Mr.. Hennessy.
WELL" said Mr.. Dooley, "he'I ayther
race, or stay in tn South an be an OBJ
jlck lesson. IT'S a hard 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 I was
black man, I'd choose tn cotton belt in
prifrince to tn belt on tn neck firm tn
polisman's club. I Wud so.
I'm not so much throubIed about tn
naygur whin he lives among his opprts-
sors as I am whin he falls into tn hands
iv his nberators. Whin he's in tn South
he can make up his mind to be lynched
soon or late an give his attintion to his
other pleasures " composin' rag time
music on a banjo, an wurrukin' FIR tn
man that used to own him an now ony
owes him his wages. But tbs tn divvle's
own hardship FIR a coon to step out iv
tn rooms Nv tn Sciety f'r tn Brother
hood iv Ma-an, where he's been r-readin'
pome on tn Future Nv tn Moke' an
be pursooed be mob " abolitionists till
he's dhriven to seek polls protection,
which, Hinnissy, is tn polite name f'r
fracture iY tn skull
IT was f'r strikin' Off tn shackles iv tn
slave, me la-ad. Twas thrue I didn't
vote FIR it, bein' that I heerd Stephen A.
Douglas say twas oncons titootional, an
! in thin days l wud go to the fure with
amy ma an FIR tn CONSTRUCTION. I'm
still with IL, but not so sthrong. It's NOV
! In too fast FIR me. But no mather An
INFLOW I was FIR maxim tn black ma-an
| free, an though I shtud be tn South as
a spoortin' proposition I was kind iv glad
| in me heart whin Gin'ral Ulyss S. Grant
! bate Gin'ral Lee an tn rest tv tn Union
officers captured Jif Davis. I says to
mesilf, Now I says, TIL coon II have a
chanst FIR his life,' says I, AN in due
time we may injye him. I says.
"An sure enough it looked good f.
awhile an tn time como whin tn oe-
! cas- nal dollar bill that whit aCrost this
bar on pay night wasn't good money on
less 1t had tn name w naygur on 1T.
In thin days they was d young Ia ada
frind " wan iY tn ponohue boys-that
wfnt to tn public school UP beyant, an
! he was as bright la-ad as ye'd want
to see in a days walk. TIL larnin' iY
| that la-ad wud sind Father Kelly back
to his grammar. He cud spell to make q
hare iv tn hedge schoolnlaster, he was
| as quick at figures as tn iddycated pig
they showed in tn tint las week in
Haley's vacant lot, an in jiggerphy. as
thronorry. algybbera, jommethry, Chin
isthry, phystoinomy, tassoophly an frac-
lions, I was often har-rd put mestlf to
puzzle him I herd him sradyooate an
his composition was so fine very few cuA
make out what he meant.
ST met him on tn sthreet wan day
afther he got out Nv school. What ARE
We goin' to do f'r ye'erstlf, SNOWFALL,
says Ibis meme was Andrew Jackson
George Wash'pton Americas Caslattraa
| Beresford Vanilla Hicks, but called him
Snowfall, him bein' as black as a coal
dye see-I says to him: What ar-re &c
goin' to do FIR ye'ersilf?' says. I'm 60
In to enther tn profession tv. law he
says, where be me acoon1ap an ir,
| dusthry, I hope. he says. FIR to Use to
be judge. he says. a congressman he
says, sinitor,' he says, am p'rhaps,
he says. a prtsidint w tn United States,
he says. 'They'se nawthin' to prevint
he says Divvle o. thing says I. 'Whia
we mado we free says 1, we opened up
all these opportunities to ye, says I.
Go on says I, an entye tn wealth