Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-10-30
ARP HAS LOST FAITH
he Is Inclined Just At Present To Be
Fighting Mad.
WISHES BRANN WERE HERE NOW.
Roosevelt. Washington Dinner Has
Aroused the Anger Of the Barlow
Ph!ios opher.

1t looks now like my old friend.
Evan Howell has lost his influence
with the new president. and have lest
my faith. Hope and despair arc some
times not far apart. Last week | was
sanSuine. which means hopeful, conf
dent: and now | am sanguinary, which
means fighting mad.
This world is all a fleeing snow.
For mans delusion given:
And you can't always sometimes most
generally tell what is going TO
happen"
The smartest doctor can't diagncse
every case, nor cure 4 disease iffhe
patient does not want to be cured My
idol is shattered. l wish that Brann
was alive with his Iconoclast May re
he could do justice to the situation and
save me the use OF language. Bob
Toomhs said that the fanatacism OF orr
northern brethren about the negro fa-
tigued his indignation. and just so now
our contempt is getting tired. The day
after read about IL couldn't realize
1t. nor did / believe it was as bad rs
pictured. and so | waited for light
''-O'N ''7be hoo dii lhtt llaC bOONt-
Washington in some way happened in
about dinner time, and Mr. Roosevelt.
having more heart than head. thought
!oSsly eskcd him to sit down at his ia
bic. thought that maybe he symra-
thized with the man who had done 81
much for his race and was tabooed
everywhere by white people and hcteis
and churches and white folks. ears and
opera houses. and 50 his heart got the
better or his head and he did 1t in
haste and would repeat at his leisure
thought ii was just one case. for the
New York Press said 1t was unique.
Then remembered that Cleveland in
vitcd the dCSky queen OF the Sandwich
islands TO the white house. any may
bc Roosevelt looked upon Booker
Washington as n kind OF ambassador
or chi of a foreign race. and kept
on thinking and hunting around for an
explanation or palliation until il WAS
discovered that the case was MT
unique, for he did like thing before
at Albany, while he was governor. and
that he sent his children to school
with negro children at Oyster Bay.
Then | gave 1t up. He has sadly disap-
pointed his friends and dishonored the
state his mother came from and de-
secrated the presidents mansion. 1t is
no longer the white house. but like
the chameleon. takes any color that
comes. Now suppose that Miss Wash
ington. who is at Wellesley college
Will be n welcome visitor at the man
sion during her vacation. and maybe
RooSevelt's son will fall In love with
he" and marry her without having 70
"lope. That is the tendency OF this
new deDarture-this unique case But a
hopeful man. an optimist. should wait
n few days and ruminatc. Time IS a
good doctor and / am not as mad this
morning as | was last week | think
maybe that it is not as bad n case as
think 1t is. BY nature I am n good
deal like my good old kind-heartcd
mother. who gently took everybody's
part who was abused. One day my
father came home very mad with
man who had mistreatcd him aad
when he related his grievance to
mother she said: Maybe the man
didn't mean 1t and viii! make il all
right after while" Father got irrit1t-
ed little with mother and said:
Caroline. I believe you would defend
the old devil if he was here on trial"
And she said: well | have sometimes
thought that too much was laid on
him"
I still believe that Roosevelt is natu-
rally a good, big-hearted man and he
didn't think that his off cal pest or
limited his private and domestic rights.
The white house was his home-hs s
castle and he could ask in or shut out
whomsOever he pleased. He was born
and reared at the north. where fool
ish and fantatical sympathy with the
southern negro is almost universal. 1t
manopolized the press and the pulpit.
though they knew no moro about the
negro and his racial instincts than we
know about Bulgaria and the Macedo-
nian bandits. What strange folly is
that sympathy. Its tendency is t
spoil the most contsnded and happiest
race on earth. Sometimes | envy them
their merry nature. Booker Washing
ton seems in earnest in his efforts t.
elevate and refine his people. but
doubt whether he is really dong them
any good. To labor is their nature and
the higher education units them for it,.
i suppose that Tuskegee has TUNED out
1000 or 5000 graduates. but where are
they and what are they doing? We
never hear Of one in this region AMI
last ycar n professor from Tuscaloosa
declared publicly In Atlanta that ne
had becn in TvsHegce and investig tod
and could hear OF only about dozen
ont OF 200 who were at work. The
most OF them como out mechanics or
farmers. but they have been trans
formed into gentlemen and are living
OFF OF their kinfolks. A few have been
sent to Africa to start the cotton bust
ness, and II is TO be hoped that the
others will so there and stay. Educl-
tion is not what the negro stands most
stn need OF. 1t Is a reform in morals. 1t