The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-11-06

lost my faith. Hope and despair ar,
sometimes not far apart. Last wecl
| was sanguine, which means hopeful
confident; and now / am sanguinary
which means fighting mad.
''This world is all hceting show,
For mans dclusion given;
And you can't always sometimes most
generally tell what is going to hap
pen
The smaricst doctor can / iiugnosc
every case, nor cure disease if the
patient does not want to be cured.
My idol is shattered. wish that
Brann was alive with his Iconoclast.
May be he could do justice to the
situati nd save me the use of Ian
guagc. Bob Toombs said that the
fanatacism Of our Northern brethren
about the negro fatigucd his indigna-
tion, and just so now our contempt is
getting tired. The day after read
about it ! couldn't realize it, nor did
[ believe it was as bad as pictured,
and so I waited for light-morc light
Il had an idea that Booker Wash
ington in some way happened in about
dinner time, and Mr.. Roosevelt, hav-
ing more heart than head, thought
lessly asked him to sit down at his
table. thought that maybe he SYM
pathizcd with the man who had douc
80 much for his race and was taboocd
everywhere by white people and hotels
and churches aud white folks, cars
and opera houses, and so his heart
got the better Of his head and he did
it in haste and would repent ut his
leisure. | thought it was just one
case, for The New York Press said it
was unique. Then remembered that
Cleveland invited the dusky queen of
the Sandwich islands to the White
house, and maybe Roosevelt looked
upon Booker Washington as kind Of
ambassador or chief Of foreign race,
and kept on thinking and hunting
around for an explanation or pallia-
tion until it was discovered that the
case was not unique, for he did like
thing before at Albany, while he was
governor, and that he sent his chill
dren to school with negro children at
Oyster Bay. Then gave it up. He
has sadly disappointed his friends and
dishonored the State his mother came
from and desecratcd the president
mansion. 1t is no longer tho white
house, but like the chameleon, takes
any color that comes. Now suppose
that Miss Washington, who is at
Wellesley College, will be welcome
visitor at the mansion during her va
cation, and maybe Roosevelt's son
will fall in love with her and marry
her without having to elope. That is
the tendency Of this new departure
this unique case. But hopeful man,
an optimist, should wait few days
and ruminatc. Time is good doctor
and am not as mad this morning as
| was last week. think maybe that
1t Is not as bad case as I think it is.
by nature | am Il good deal like my
good old kind. hearted mother. who
gently took evcrybody's part who was
abused. One day my father came
home very mad with man who had
mistreated him and when he related
his grievance to mother she said
Maybe the man didn't mean it and
will make it ri right after while"
Father got irritatcd little with
mother and said: Caroline, l be-
lievc you would defend the old devil
II he was here Oh trial" And she
said: "Wcll, have sometimes thought
that too much was laid on him
l still believe that Roosevelt is
naturally good, big hearted man and
he didn't think that his official posi-
tion limited his private aud domestic
rights. The white house was his
homc-his castle and be could ask in
or shut out whomsocver he pleased.
He was born and reared at the North, !
where foolish and fanatioal sympa-
thy with the Southern negro is almost
universal. 1t monopoiizcd the press
and the pulpit, thougl. they knew no ,
more abou. the negro and his racial
instincts than We know about Bulga-
ria and the Macedonian bandits. |
What strange folly is that sympa- !
thy. Its tendency i, to spoil the
most contcntcd aud happcst race on
earth. Sometimes envy them their
merry nature. Booker Washington
seems In carnest.in his efforts to cle- |
vatc and refine his people, but | doubt
wnether he is really doiag them any
good. TO labor is ;h.ir nature and !
tho hIp Epr pGnpatinn unEt. ,l.,, c..