The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1901-11-08
BILL ARP'S LETTER
Barlow Man Changes Quickly
From Sanguine to Sanguinary.
Observation-Disclosures INCIDENT

| OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES INCIDENT
williams Faith in New President Re-
eeives q Decided shock-Wishes
Editor erann Were Among the
Living Just Now.
II looks now like my old friend, Evan
Howell. has lost his influence with the
new president. and l have lost my
faith. Hope and despair are sometimes
aot far apart Last week l was san
.uine. which means hopeful. confident;
ana now am sanguinary, which
means fighting mad.
This world u all q Aeeting show.
For mans delusion given;
And you can't always sometimes most
generally tell what ID going 70
| happen"
The smastest doctor cant diagnose
every ease. nsr cure . disease II the
patient doe not want to b cured. Ny
idol Is shattered. wish that Brann
was alive with his Ieonoolast. May be
he could do justice 10 the situation and
save nae the use Of language. Bob
Toombs said that fanatacism Of our
northern brsthrea about the negro "a
tigued his Indignation. and Just 20
now our contempt u getting tired The
day after I resd about II ] couldn't
realize II. nor id believe II was -
bad as pictured. and so waited fCr
| li2ht-mor0 light had an idea that
Booker Warrington In some way hap
peaed In about dinner time. and Mr..
Roosevelt. having more heart than
head. thopghtlessly asked him to sit
down at his table. Thought that may
be he sympathlzed with the man who
had done 80 much for his race and
was tabooed everywhere BY white peo-
pie and hotels and churches and white
folks. cars and opera houses. and so
his heart got the better Of his head
and he did II In haste and would re-
pent at his leisure. I thought 1t IVES
Just one case. for the New York Press
said II was unique. Then / remember
ed that Cleveland invited the dusky
queen Of the Sandwich islands to the
white house. and maybe Roosevelt
looked upon Booker Washington as q
kind Of ambassador or chief OF a for
eign race, and kept on thinking and
hunting around for an explanation or
palliation until 1t was discovered that
the case was not unique. for he did .
like thing before at Albany. while he
vas governor, and that he sent his chill
dren to school with negro children at
Oyster Bay. Then I gave II up. He
has sadly disappointed his friends and
dishonored the state his mother came
from and desscrated the presidents
mansion. II Il no longer the white
house. but. like the chameleon. takes
any color that comes Now I suppose
that Miss Washington. who 10 at Wei
lesley college. VIII be . welcome visi-
tor to the mansion during her vacation.
and maybe Roosevelt's SON viii fall In
love with her and marry her without
having TO elope That Is the tendency
Of this new departure-this unique
case. But q hopeful man. an optimist.
should wait few days and ruminate.
Time Is q good doctor and I am not as
mad this morning as was last week.
! think maybe that 1t Is not as bad q
case es I think IL Is BY nature am
. good deal like my good old kind
hearted mother, who gently took every.
body's part who vas abused. One day
my father came home very mad with
q man Who had mistreated him and
when he related his grievance to moth
er, she said: Maybe the man didn't
mean II and WI make 1t al right A.
ter avhIla" Father got irritated 1t
Tie with mother and said: Caroline.
I believe Jon would defend the old
devil II he was here on trial. And
she said: well. l have sometimes
thought that too much vas laid on
him"
stin believe that Roosevelt u ma
turally . good, big-hearted man and he |
lidnt think that his omeial position
limited his private and domestic (!
rights. The white house was his home |
his castle and he could ask In 1t or |
shut out whomsoever he pleased. He |
was born and reared at the north. |
where Q foolish and fauatical gympar
thy with the southern negro u almost |
universal. II monopolixed the press
md the pulpit though they knew NO
more about the negro and his racial in
ltincts than We know about Bulgaria
md the Macedonian bandits. What .
strange folly u that sympathy. Its
tendency Is to spoil the most contented |
md happiest race on earth. Some
lines envy them their merry nature. |
Booker Warrington seems In earnest |
n his efforts to elevate and refine his