Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-10-31

1t looks now like my old friln /,
Evan Howell has lost his infu-nce
with the new president, and have lest
my faith. Hope and despair arc some
times not far apart. Last week | was
Sanguine, which means hopeful, ccns-
dent; and now | am sanguinary, which
means fighting mad.
This world is all fceting SHOW,
For mans delusiOn given:
And You can't always sometimes m0st
generally tell what is going II
happen
The smartest doctor can't diagn-se
/ every case, nor cure a disease If the
| patient does not want to be cured. My
| idol is shattered. | wish that Brann
| was alive with his IcCnCclast. May lie
| he could do justice to tie situation and
save ne the use of language. Bob
| IoOmbs said that the fanatac.sm OF Our
| northern brethren about the negro ia
| tGued his Indignation, ana jTst 50 now
our contempt is getting tired. The day
| after | read about it | couldn't real Zo
| it. nor did ! believe it was as had as
| pictured, and 50 | waited for light
| more light had an idea that BCoker
| washington in some wy happened in
| about dinner time. ami Mr.. Roosevelt
| having moro heart than head, thought
| lcssiy asked him tO st down at his ia
| bic. | thought that maybe he symTa
| thiZed with the nan who had dCne so
| much for his race and was t3bo0cd
| everywhere by white people and hOte,s
| and churches ami white folks, cars and
| opera houses, and 50 his heart got the
| better of his head and he did it in
haste and would repeat at his leisure. |
thought it was just one case, for thc
| New YORK Press said it was unique.
| Then | remembered that Cleveland il
| vited the dusky queen of the Sandwich
islands to the white house, any may
be Roosevelt looked upon Booker
| Washington as a kind Of ambassador
| or chief OF a foreign race. and | kept
on thinking and hunting around fOr an
explanation or palliation until it WIS
| discovered that the case was II
unique, for he did a like thing te'oro
at Albany, while he was governor. AMI
that he sent his children to school
with negro children at Oyster Bay.
| Then I gave it up. He has sadly disa0-
| pointed his friends AMI GishOn0Ted the
|
| secTated the presidents mansion. 1t is
no longer the white house, but like
the chameleon, takes any color that
comes. Now l suppose that Miss WASH
| ingtOn, who is at We lesley college.
will be welcome visitor at the man
sion during fer vacation, and maybe
| Roosevelt's son will fall in love with
| her and marry her without having to
| &c, ho Of
new departure-this unique case. BGt a
hopeful man, an optimist, should wait
a few days and ruminate. Time is
| eCod doctor aHd l am not as mad th;s
morning as I was last week | think
maybe that it is not as bad case as
I think it is. BY nature | am good
| deal like my good old knd-heartcl
mother who gently tcOk evcrybodyS
part who was abused. Cne day my
| father cane home very mad with
man who had mistreated him and
when he related his grievance to
mother she said: "Naybe the man
didn't mean it and will make it all
right after while" Father got irritat-
ed a little with mother and said:
"Carolino, I believe you would defend
the old devil if he was here on trial"
thought that too much was laid On
him"
still believe that Roosevelt is -tU-
rally a good, big-hearted man and h"
didn't think that his off cal POS t Oh
limited his private and domestic + ghts.
TIE white house was his hcme-hs s
castle and he could ask in o. shut Out
wh0msCCver he pleased. He w s Orn
l i =, ~..,1
'sh and fantatical sympathy with the
southern negro is almost IN versa. 1t
man0poliZed the press and the pI pi-.
though they knew no NOR about thn
negro and his racial instincts than we
know about Bulgaria and the MacodC-
nian bandits. What q str nge folly IS
that sympathy. Its tendency s Il
spoil the most contended and h3ppiest
race OH earth. Sometimes ! envy item
their merry nature. Booker Washing
ton seems in earnest in his efforts u
elevate and refino his people. bat /
doubt whether he is really doing them
any good. To labor is their nature and
the higher e1Ucation units them for II.
suppose that Tuskegea has turned out
. 600 or 5000 graduates, but where are
Trey and what are they doing? We
never hear of one in tn. region ant
rast year a professor from Tuscaloosa
declared publicly il Atlanta that he
rad bean in TUsEogce and inTestig ted
and could hear OF only about a dozen
out of eco who were at Work. me
nCst c. them come out mecS a1ics or
farmers, but they have been trans
Eocmct into gentlemen and are HVlAR
Of OF their kinfOlks. a few have CeeH
sent TO Africa to start the c0tt1n Duo--
ness. and it is to be hoped th1t the
others will go there ana St3y f-fLc1-
ton is not what the negro sIahCS III oat
in need Of 1t is reform IN mofais. II
is the unprejUdced opinion OF t>e
most conservative observers that they
are the most thieyish, unGhaste race
uD1n the face OF the earth. AMI they are
infinitely worse now than they were
when il slavery. IN 1870 there were
out 200 negro convicts in our pe1itea-
-iary, and now there are 1000 in GaOr-
cia. and the number increases as the
years roll on in spite OF schools, col
.eces and millions OF northern money.
The good negroes are Oh the farms ani
under the dominion OF their landlords
It is safe to say that Is per cent Of the
nerroes about the towns and cities
Will steal, and that so per cent or the
negro children are born out Of lawful
wedlock. Two of our negro BARRIERS
decamped to Bessemer last week-Cne
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 acoustic med to this SAFE
Of negro morals that it excites no COM
ment. Some white men viii rob banks
on5 ohdrcT chiIdran and hoId nm fra n !
and embezzle money and cheat in trade
aad run blind tige-s and moorshilc
whiskey But relrly negro s-rvA1ts :,
will take little things-little cney or
jeUeIry or 4 poir o. SCISSORS Or ssanpel
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