The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-11-06


limited his private and domestic rights.
The White House was his home-his
castle and he could ask in or shut out
and reared at the North, where a
foolish and tanatical sympathy with
the Southern negro is almost universal.
1t monopoized the press and the pull
pit, though they knew no more about
| the negro and his racial instincts than
! we know about bulgaria and the Mace
donian bandits. What strange folly
is that sympathy. It's tendency il to
spoil the most cOntepted and happiest
race on earth. Sometimes I envy lhem
their merry nature. Booker Washing
ton seems in earnest in his efforts to
elevate and refine his people, but i
doubt whether he is really doing them
any good. To labor is their nature and
the higher education units them for it.
L suppose that Tuskegee has turned
out 2 900 or 5000 graduates, but where
are they and what are they doing? We
never hear of one in this region and
and Las year n professor from Tusca-
loosa clared pubhcly in Atlanta that
he had been to TUskegee and lnvesti-
gated and could hear of only about a
dozen out at l 200 who were at work.
The most of them come out mechanics
or farmers, brJ they have been trans
formed into gentlemen and are living
off of their kinfolks. "A few havc been
sent to Africa TO start the cotton busiy
ness, and it is to be hoped that the
others will 60 there and stay. Educa-
tiou is not what the negro dands most
in need Of 1t Is a reform i'll morals.
1t is the unprejudiced opinion of the
most conservative observers that they
are the most thievish, 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 i'll our peniten-
tiary, and now there are d 900 in GeOr
gia, and the number Increases as the
years roll on in spite of schools, col
ieges and millions of Northern money.
The good negroes are on the farms
and under the dominion of their land
lords. Al is safe to say that rs per cent
of the negroes about the towns and
cities will steal, and tnat so per cent of
the negro children are born out CT law
full wcdlock. Two of our negro b2r
bers decamped TO Bessemer last week
ono has been keeping three wives
and the other two, but they left them
and took two new ones along with
them. We have got 80 accustomed to
this state OF negro morals that 1T eX-
cites no comment Some white men
will rob banks and abduct children and
hold up trains and embezzlc money
,,,l ,l> Il hlin1 fin.ra
and moonshinc whisky A3nt nearly all
negro servants will take little things
little money or jewelry or 1air Of
scissors or stamped envelopes or a little
rice or coffee or sugar. They ali 20
this, and we sub llt 10 it because theyI
still make kind good natued servants
and we need them. And SO the race
problem goes on, but L will prophesy
seme good to come from Roosevelt
He is crank about some things, but
he is fearless, independent, sef-reliant
and VIII do Just as he dogon pleases.
Mythology tells us that King Augean
had IL herd Of 3 900 oxen, whose stables
had not been cleaned out for thirty
years, and Hercules came along one
day and GOT whiff of the foul odors
and turned two rivers through them
and cleaned them out in day. ! be-
lievc that Roosevelt is for clean, honest
work in the government departments
and will clean out the Augean stables,
If he has to turn the Potomac river
through them. For thirty years their
stencil has nauscated us. He has lust
appointed MIR. Foulke TO the head of
the civil service commission. FOulke
has long been the prosecutor of frauds,
pcrjucies and evasions, the ror of
postmasters, the watchdog of public
officials, but he was handicapped by
politicians. He will sweep the deck
one mind on that law. The victois
will no longer get all the spolls. 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 tool yankee editors
and preachers will let us alone.
But we wait and watch and some
good people will pray for dellvcrance-
"d"lIver us from evil" | havn't given
up Mr. Roosevelt yet. If we could |
only get him down here for two or
'hiSS 1Noio hS "oulu DCSoIuC SO ulS-
gusted with the negro and SO eXactiDg
that they w"udn't hire to him. Our
observation long has been that the
Northern people who come South to
live soon get their eyes opened aud I'M
derstand the SITUATION. Not long ago
the editor of IA Bapust paper in New
j ork said that the South Was not ready |
for IL now, but the time would soon
come when miscegcnation would be
found the best solution Of tie race
problem. And only last week the
9dilor OF Republican paper defended
Mr. Roosevelt and said that in another
generation social equality between the
races would be universal ut the South |
and ii was well to start il at the White
House. With such malignant fools we
can do no'hlng, for they are too far Off
But they had better shinny on their
own side. BILL ARP.
p. 81 am gratified that Mrs. Park
and others have come to the rescue of
Nancy Hart and have establish d her
as fact and heroine in our history of
The revolution. We ought to have
State historian to record and preserve
these things. Fifty years from now
somebody will be saying that Bill Arp
xryo a,I n q.