The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-12-08
Bill Arlp's Letter.
The Barlow Philosophers Educ atng the
Negro Has Been Failure.

house for our numerous offSprings and
kindred and friends can hardly get along
without them. / can still black my shoes
and go to market and postoffice and work
in the garden, and l don't mind making
one fire in the morning if feel like get
ting up, but there are numerous things
that don't like to have to do. Old Uncle
Tom is chopping wood for me now and
my wife has just sent him cup of coffee
and some biscuits to help out his din
ner. She has great regard for these old,
humble good-natured negroes. / don't
believe Uncle Tom would steal, for lie
says is was whipped out of him when he
was boy. Pity it isn't the rule now to
whip them and save them from the chain
gang. Bishop Gailor says the Tennessee
people have tried education long enough
and the people will no longer be over
ridden with horde of trifing illiterate
and immoral negroes. Mississippi de-
clares that although the negroes outnum-
Der the whites, they pay only ten per
cent of the poll tax and get back sixty
per cent for their own education, and
that it has got to be stopped. If negro
won't pay dollar year for the educa-
tion of his children they don't deserve
it and the people have determined to quit
spending half million a year on them.
Georgia seems determined to do the same
thing and our people will all say amen,
Let them have the taxes they pay and no
more.
Well. this is enough at this time
whether it be orthodoxy or heterodoXy,
it is my doxy and nobody is responsible
for it but myself. l would lynch every
brute who assaulted a white woman. I
could see him massacred or hanged or
burned drawn and CHARTERED. If this be
treason make the most of it. | would
pursue him with arms and pitchforks as
Israel Putnam pursued the wolf that de-
voured the lambs of his flock. Even tie
law excuses some homicides when done
in the heat of passion and before he has
time to COOL, father or a husband or
a brother of the victim never cools. 1t
rankles and stings to the quick as long as
life lasts If the officer gets the brute
first let him keep him, bur / have little
respect for the officer who runs his horse
to get him first. / have not forgotten
the ten years we lived III the country
and the anxiety / felt every day that |
was away from home. The citizens who
live in cities and towns and whose wives
and daughters are protected by day and
by night know nothing of the sEseowy
fear that follows those who live in the
country and have no protection against
the rbutes. This fear is the greatest i'm
pediment to the country schools and the
controlling reason that causes every pros
porous farmer to rent out bis farm ard
move to town. 1t was this that broke
up our school and brought my family and
most of the neighbors to Gainesville.
And now the Northern press is gloating
over the prospect of reducing our rep-
resentation, because the negro has been
DISTINGUISHED. Let them do it." says
Bishop Gailor--we must control the negro
or the south will be ruined by them.
After it is done will we have reace--or
will the Republican party and the G. A.
RS GRAB all, Republcans), hunt for
something else to feed upon? Well,
Mordecai is still-setting at the gate, but
it was Hannah who was hanged.
BILL APP
p S: 1 have just read Bishop KEEL
lys reply to the symposium and heartily
indorse every word of it, He understands
the negro and knows what he is writing
about. And / have read Prof. Councils
earnest pleading for the negro girls who
are nursing the little white children all
over the sunny south. He begs the
mothers of these children to train these
nurses in good morals and virtuors con-
duct and save them from shame and dis
grace. His letter is admirable, AMI so
are all his writings and speeches have
great respect for him. b. A.