Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-10-30

Is the unprejudiced opinion OF the
most conservative observers that they
are the most thieyish, unchaste race
upon the face OF the earth, and they are
infinitely worse now than they were
when In slavery. In 1870 there were
but 200 negro convictS in our peniten-
tiary. and now there are 1000 in Geor-
gia. and the number increases as the
years roll on In spite OF schools. col
leSes and millions OF northern money.
The good negroes are on the farms and
under the dominion OF their landlords.
II is safe to say that 10 per cent OF the
negroes about the towns and cities
will steal, and that so per cent OF the
negro children are born out OF lawful
wedlock. Two OF our negro BARRIERS
decamped to Bessemer last week-one
has been keeping three wives and the
other two, but they left them and took
two new ones along with them We
have got so accustomed to this state
OF negro morals that II eXcltes no COM
ment. Some white men will rob banks
and abduct children and hold up trains
and embezzle money and cheat in trade
and run blind tigers and moonshine |
whiskey. But no ~ all negro servants
Will take little thi..cS-little money or
jewelry or poir o. scissors or stamped
envelopes or a little rice or coffee or
sugar. They all do this. and We submit
to 1t because they still make kind
good-natured servants and we resd
them. And SO the race problem goes
on. but | will prophesy some good TO
come from Roosevelt He Is a crank
about some things. but he is fearless
independent. self-relant and will do
Just as he dogon pleases. Mythology
tells us that King Augean had a herd
OF 1000 oxen, whose stables had not
been cleaned out for thirty years. and
hercules came along one day and GOT
Whit OF the foul odors and turned
two rivers through them and cleaned
them out in day. believe that Roosc-
welt is for clean, honest work in the
government departments and will
clean out the Augoan stables. If he has
10 turn the Potomac river through
then. For thirty years their stencil
mas nauseated us. He has just appoint-
ed "r foulke to the head OF the civil
service commission. Foulke has long
o. en- the prosecutor OF frauds, periu-
rleS ana cvasions. the terror OF post
masters the Watchdog of public ofii-
c!als. but he was handicapped by politi-
clanS. lie Will sweep the deck now. to-
ne ana tho president are of one mind
on that law. The vlctors will no lon
ger get all the spoils. But we want the
president to let the negro alone. The
race problem belongs to us and will be
settled on wise and humane basis If
the fool yankee editors and preachers
VIII let lis alone.
But we will wait ani watch and
some good people VIII pray for dcliy-
erance-"deliver IS from evil"
haven't given up Mr.. Roosevelt yet If
we could only get him down here for
Two or three years he would become SD
dlsSusted with the negro and so exact
ing that they wouldn't hire 70 him.
Our observation long has been that the
northern people who come south to
llve soon get their eyes opened and
understand the situation. Not long ago
tne eiltor OK Baptist paper in New
YORK said that the south was not ready
Tor II now. but the time would soon
come when miscegenation would be-
found the best solution OF the race
problem. And only last week the cd;-
tor OF republican paper defended Mr..
Roosevelt and said that in another gen
Grafton social equality between the ra-
ces would be universal at the south
and it was we'll to start it at the white
mouse. with such malignant fools we
can do nothing. for they are too far
OFT. But they had better shiny on
their own sile.-Bill Arp in Atlanta
Consttu;ic.'-
+. 81 am gratifled that Mrs. Park
and others have come to the rescue of
Nancy Hart and have established her
as fact and heroine in our history of
the revolution. We ought to have O.
state historian to record anl preserve
these things. Fifty years from now
somebody will be saying that Bill ARD
was myth, and wouldn't Ike il.
b. A.
y. B.-We read that the American
Missionary Association at Chicago
nave indorsed the president and com
Inended social equality between the ra-
ces. 1t is about time now for the bl G
and the gray to embrace again. Let
brotherly love continue. B.. A.
Later from the front The uniGue
las vanished and Roosevelts capers
have become multifarious. ubiouitous
and ridiculous
Hope for season bids the south
farewell To your tents, Oh. Is-ae.i
Call on the dogs. I'm going out to work
in my garden. b. A