The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-11-06
BILL AkP'S LETTER.
Arp is Inclined Just at Present to be Firht-
ing Mad.
-dUanta Constitution.

y few have been sent TO Africa TO
start the cotton business, and it is to
be hoped that the others will go there
and stay. Education is not what the
negro stands most in need Of. 1t is a
reform in morals. 1t is the unprciu
diced opinion Of the most conscrva-
tive observers that they are the most
thlcvlsh, unchastc race upon the face
OF the earth, and they arc infinitely
worse row than they were when in
slavery. In 1870 there we're but 200
negro convicts in our pcnitcntiary,
:n4 nc" there arc :,1GG in Georgia,
and the number increases as the years
roll on IN spite Of schools, colleges
ana millions of Northern money. The
good negroes arc on the farms and uu.
der the dominion Of their landlords.
1t is safe to say that - per cent Of
the negro. about the towns and cities
will steal, and that 80 per cent Of the
negro children are born out of lawful
wcdlock. Two Of our negro BARRIERS
dccampcd to Bcsaemcr last wcck-onc
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 accustomed to this state
OF negro morals that it cxcites no
comment. Some white men will rob
banks and abduct children and hold
up trains and cmbezzlc money and
cheat in trade and run blind tigers
and moonshinc whisky. But nearly
all negro servants will take things
little money or jewelry or u pair of
SCISSORS or stamped envelopes or a lit
tie rice or coffee or sugar. They all
do this, and we submit to it because
they still make kind, good natured
servants and We need them. And SO
the race problem goes on, but will
prophcsy some good to come from
Roosevelt. He is IL crank about some
things. but he is fearless, indcpcn-
dent, seli'rcllant and will do just as
he doson plcascs. Mythology tells
US that King Augcan had herd Of
3,00o oxen, whose stables had not
been cleaned out for thirty years, and
Hercules came along one day and got
Whit of the foul odors and turned
two rivers through them and cleaned
them out in Il day. | believe that
Roosevelt is for clean, honest work in
the government departments and will
clean out the Augcan stables, if he
has to turn the Potomac River through
them. For thirty years their stencil
has nauscatsd us. He has lust mn.
pointed MIR. Foulkc to the head of the
civil service commission. Foulkc has
long been the prosecutor of frauds.
pcrjuries and cvasions, the terror Of
postmastcrs, the Watchdog of public
otiiclals, but he was handicapped by
politicians. lie will sweep the deck
now, tor he and the president are of
one mind on that law. The victors
will no longer get all the spoils. But
we want the president to Let the negro
alone. The race problem belongs to
US aud will be settled on a wise and
humane basis if the fool yankee cdi
tors and preachers will let us alone.
But we will wait and watch and
some good people will pray for deliv.
erance-"delivcr us from evil" RI
havn't given up Nj. Roosevelt vet.
II we could only get him down here
Tor two or three years he would be-
come so disgustcd with the negro and
so eXacting that they wouldn't hire to
him, Our observation long has been
that the Northern people who conc
South to live soon get their eyes open
cd and understand the situation. Not
long ago the editor Of Baptist paper |
in New York said that The South was
not ready for it now, but the time |
would soon come when miscegenation
would be found the best solution of !
the race problem And only last |
week the editor of Republican paper
defended Mr.. Roosevelt aud said that
IN another generation social equality
between the races would be universal
at the South and it was we'll to start
It ut the white house. With sucb
malignant fools We can do nothing. for
They are too far off. But they had
better shlnny on their own side.
RIr An,,~