The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1900-12-07
LOVE FOR OUR FRIENDS COURTESY FOR ALL; FEAR
SCRANTON, MISSISSIPPI, FRIDAY, DECEMBER Z, 1900

ti0n. In my experience OF the negro,
he usually gets house on the "aidge"
OF town much cheaper than elsewhere,
so that he may shave a good time"
which is his main object in liie-and
which he invariably manages to grasp
Ito his own satisfaction. Aud il in
old age he is destitute, like his i'm.
pr0vident white brother, he will at.
tach himself "or herself" as the case
may be, to some family. you may be
sure.
When contrast the assurance and
utter carelessness and disregard Of
the lower class here, with the lower
class north, l am forced to acknOwl.
edge that he would soon land in jail
with very little sympathy, IN any
other section.
| am not the author Of a club writ.
ing for fat remuneration, nor have l
measured the height, breadth, or
cranium. OF the criminal and lower
class except with practiced eye, but
/ feel fully competent to Judge of the
merits respectively of the class refer
red to in Illinois and Mississippi
where the unfortunate have ever
claimed my most earnest endeavOrs
and sympathy without regard to color.
1t is past understanding why the
condition Of the negro down south
should arouse more sympathy and out.
cry than the depl0rable condition of
whites. 1t is also folly to compare
the facilities for education in the
sparely settled south with the north
rather compare them with sparely
settled Western States, and even then,
more credit is due the former who
were made paupers and homeless,
with the bone OF contention left for
them to look at, and provide for.
1t would be well to investigate the
negro condition in Chicago, who are
inside of all the influences. Miss
KellOr says: "The northern mothers
with her smaller family and with her
trained assistants in the home, school,
library and church, will realize what
the problem for the negro is and what
the result must be-" Is the writer
comparing the negro as class with
the people who have trained assist
ants in home, school, library, etc?
There is no comparison even II the
negro was white.
The laboring class to which the ma.
jority Of the negroes belong, in the
south, must be compared with the
same class north and do not remem-
Der Of ever noting any trained assist.
ants, etc, among them, in fact II that
lady will traverse part Of Canal street
and some of its tributaries and Jeffer-
son, Judd and Clark and then come
through the worst Of the foreign ele-
mcnts westward along Eighteenth
street, she will find very few trained
assistants and il memory serves me
Alright the children in these localities
have more to contend with than the
hard headed little negro who is jolly
and content with plenty to eat, which
he always gets in the warm climate.
where his little body dose not freeze
three or four months in the year. The
writer of that article has not ''investi.
gated" In northern Wisconsin evident.
ly or in Minnesota to say nothing Of
her native city.
To say that the negro women are
immoral because of "subserviency" To
the whites is preposterous. That
same immortality is alarming the
mothers OF young boys-boys scarcely
In their teens. A northern community
would I'll the jails with these women
and build more to suppress this worst
Of all evils.
Miss Kellor is strangely inconsist.
ant. She bewails the lack OF kinder
garten schools for the negro when we
do not possess them for Our white
children and again she compares the
negro of the lower class with the
"white child who is going to school"
The negro has splendid schools In
the south, thanks to genrous north.
erners who had his welfare to heart
regardless OF the other color. Equally
rs good schools are provided for the
negro in towns, and settlements, as
for the white children, and no matter
what their social grade they can at
tend that school II they will
would like to ask, why this cter'
nal fuss about the southern negro who
never realizes that lie Is abused until
he reads OF II from a northern pen.
Miss Kellor may he able to judge OF
the respective merits Of jail life, but
certainly not Of every day condition
outside. JENNETTE Oliver,
Scranton, Miss. Ex.Chicag0an.
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