The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1901-11-01

was pdSstu Dy Tue STATE lePIsidlur
closing the school. The news of tn
passage of the bill was received by tn
ringing of church bells and Othe
demonstrations of popular favor b,
the inhabitants of that commonwealth
who are now shedding great, big
salty, bitter, cOpious tears over th'
negro's treatment in the south.
Pending the passage of the
bill, shops and meeting houses
were closed against the young enthu'
siast and her pupils; rides in public
conveyances were denied them ply.
sicians would not wait upon them
the well was befouled with filth; the
school building was assailed with rot
ten eggs and finally set on fire and
burned to the ground.
Tuskeegee college, located in re-
mote ex-slave state, has no such his
tory.
From the start Booker Washington's
hands were uplifted and supported,
his worth and ability at once recog-
nized and the educators and press of
the south of the Caucasian race gave
him his distinction and his promi-
nence.
He was guest at the Atlanta fair
and it was there that he made the
speech that made him famous.
The teachers and mechanics he
turns out from his institution are not
wined and dined nor admitted to the
drawing rooms of the white people of
the south, but they are given employ.
ment, which is very much better.
How is it with the people who are
painting us i'm odious cOlors and pelt-
ing us with bad language?
Let's see.
The echoes of presidential cam
paign has scarcely died away since a
cargo of strong, able-bodied men, Of
Tending only in the pigment of their
skins, left the state in which Booker
WashingtOn's college is located and |
went to seek honest employment in |
the state of Illirois.
Their welcome was the unfriendly |
shot gun. They were not permitted |
to warm the soil of Illinois with their
The poor, unoffending
cratures, were kept penped like dumb
driven cattle and were refused even
q drink of cold water. The republic
can governor of the state refused to
give them protection. The pulpit and
press, so loud-mouthed against the
south for the slightest offending, made
no cutlery against the treatment they
received in the state of Abraham Lin
coin, and the hungry, starving
had to be sent back to their
southern homes and like prodigals
were taken back and given food, shell.
ter, raiment and employment.
How does that speak for the brutal,
Darbarous south!
This was at Pana, in Illinois, not
Cana, in Galilee, where Jesus was, be-
cause he seems to be q stranger in
Pana, and soon thereafter second
largo LETT the same state and were
anded at Verdin, Illinois.
They met even q worse fate. They
we're shot down like mad dogs and
chased over the country the same as
criminals.
Again the governor refused to give
hem protection and the press and the
pulpit, instead of boiling over with
ighteous wrath and indignation
against the heartless treatment of
hese men, whose only offense were
hat they belonged to a different race,
we're as omniously silent as so many
lams.
Does it not go without saying that
he crocodile tears the northern pulpit
nd press are shedding over the ne
ro's treatment in the south, is the in.
arnation of yellow hypocrisy and
ant.
The south is taxing herself for the
ducatiOn and elevation of the African
ace. Out of moneys cheerfully coll
ected by self-impOsed taxation, she