The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-11-23
pAmNs THE WORLD BY RACES.

peace and good will can not be com
PEELED 10 adhere to their text More
is the pity that ministers who claim
TO be the followers Of the meek and
lowly man Of Nazareth should find
themselves wholly unable 70 control
the Adamic appetite for vuI- IT noto-
riety During a recent visit 20 Bal
timore Rev. Thopias Dixon, in speak
Ing OF negroes, said to reporter:
Il have known them frorA the first
years Of my life. My deliberate opin-
ion Of the modern negro in this coun-
trr is that he Is not worth hell room.
II we're the devil would not let him
in hell. They will be driven from the
South Just as surely as they swarm
that place now. make the statement
that no farmer in the South can make
his farm pay with negro labor of the
modern sort. ! have farm Of 500
acres in Virginia. and employed 100
negroes TO work It in grain and other
marketable stuff I strove and stroye
with them. but ! could do nothing
I discharged them, and have turned
to raising Polled Angus beef cattle
for the English market. Now | work
my farm with two white men. There
is no hope for the Southern farmer
until the negro labor is expelled and
,,-htto Iahor euhatftufed -
That many Of the negroes are thrift
less. indolent. worthless and even vic
ious. there is no question. That some
OF the milder statements regarding the
difficulty one finds in making a farm
pay with negro labor. etc, are true,
many farmers Of experience will agree.
But II will be conceded by every fair
minded man that there are some in
dustrious. thrifty and reliable darkies
There are few who viii consider II in
order to condemn the whole race to
something worse than hell because
some Of the blacks are undeserving
II this rule OF administering Justice
should be adopted. where would the
rest Of us go?
There are some worthless and vic
ious whites. Il Is asserted by farmers
that Mexican hands are quite as slow
and more uncertain than the blacks.
Il seems that some tribes Of the In
dians VIII not work at all. It seems
that Preacher Dixon found II necessa-
ry to change the nature OF his farm
work In order 10 succeed even with
white hands Considering all the
weakness of other races, including his
own. how can any man. much less a
preacher, justify a judgment by which
he sentences a whole race Of people to
worse place Of torment than the hell
about which he delights to preach?
Some farmers Of the South have sue
ceeded fairly well with negro labor.
Others have failed, sometimes because
Of foods. drouths. pests and other hin.
drances which no human foresight or
effort could prevent. Others have fail.
ed because Of their bad management,
some Of these fancying that their
farms would run themselves while
they were travelling over the country
to talk loudly and wildly In order to
win notoriety for themselves. In ma.
ny other cases the failures have been
traceable directly to the Incidence and
worthlessness Of the tenants and
hands. In many instances such ten
ants and hands have been black. In
other cases Of failure they have beer
brown or white. II some of the peo
pie OF Mr.. Dixon's color had been in
charge OF his farm, like a few to be
found even in his native state, he
would probably have been mourning
over flabby pooketbook just the
same, and might be declaring ever
that his own race is worth something
less than hell room.
II Is better not to indulge in bite
condemnation Of this kind in any case
because there are few people in thil
world who are not closely related t,
a shabby sheep here or there OF doubt
ful color, who stands ready to brihl
such harsh language home 10 them
Even a distinguished preacher ma
have a worthless or even vicious rel
b ative. Il one is to resort to damna
} tion OF this kind, let him see to il tina
+ he does not thus set in TO damn tn
3 world by races. as TO do the work 4
! this fashion is obviously unwise an
' unjust. At any rate, there Is appal
I emily no reason why a man posing a
minister OF the gospel of mercy, peac
and good will should not find som,
J. thing better to do than to preach IN
low and vicious doctrine OF a hopeles
r hate.