The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1902-06-21

whites, Why is il. as you probably
ask. that in Spanish America AMI
British colonies these outyageS do rot
come 10 pass can answer it com-
lpletely, and the answer carries Il leSSad
to every white man in the North wha
/ is above a brute or who is no, wholly
given over to hatred of the southern
people 1t is this,
t M where else in the world does
] large ana respectable element ~ the
white race egg the negroes an u ag-
/ gresslon against their former owners
land their descendents That Is the
whole matter in nutshell The men
|who went south in the federal army
and saw for themselves, understand
the negroes and the Southern White
and take no part IN thair cultivation
Of aggressive dispositions in the ne-
gToes against the whites. L is the
man ike Marion r. Rax;er " the
Seattle Times--no not men-iudlvidu-
ais, who write such articles as he
wrote November 8, 1901, eoudemning
women and female children 10 out
rage and horrible death az the hands
.af mere handful ~ irr-econelliab,e
negroes in the South His articles
will sift It's way down carrying to the
dim lntelleets of the negroes the :dea
shat their outrages are approved by
the Northern whites and in time they
will be freed from their restrain, of
slavery.
Since your editorial appeared. ne
groes have been burned in two and
lynched in several other Northern
states for their crime. The white people
Of the North win learn that in culti-
waiting hatred in the mind of the ne
gro for Southern whites, they cannot
get him 10 discriminate, he will hate
all who have a white skin.
WN'se wrong was never done 10 a
race than TIE eternal hate element
in the North did 10 the negro in thus
setting him in antagonism to his form
er owners. You speak Of the inherent
hatred Of the negro by our own South
ern people. There is no such thing,
on the contrary the Southern whites
are far more tolerant of negroes than
are the Northern whites.
There is a negro preacher living who
as a boy was my mothers wedding
present from her father and he is an
exceptionally good man, is in fact,
Indian, white and negro mixed. Not
long ago he applied TO ME for help to |
pay a lawyer to defend his son who |
had had a serious fight and was in |
danger of a long prison term. How |
could l refuse the man in his trouble. |
who had cared for me and carried me !
on his back as a little black boy, |
year in and year out as we grew up to- |
gether? He had saved many a step |
and piece Of work for my mother and |
father in their frontier farm life and |
cherishes their memory as I do. He |
told me that he cautioned his lawyer |
10 get the jury made up Of old slave |
holders and if enough Of them could |
not be had then Of their sons" In |
short the different rule for blacks !
and whites runs throughout with the
Southern people.
If after the war the white people
Of the North had done as the soldiers
would, had 1t been left them.
and told the negroes your ancestors |
were slaves in Africa wore of than
when transferred to America. Ameri-
can slavery has in some ways bene-
fitted you; treat your old masters
right and they will generally treat you
right" there would have been but lit
tie trouble. But they have been taught
the falsehood that not the whole cotton
using world but solely the cotton grow
ing slave holders We're in the wrong,
they have sown crop Of Dragons
teeth whose harvest no one can fore
tell In the South [ found many
Northern men; in Florida they are in
tine majority in many towns, but they
told me I've vote the republican ticket
on national affairs, but on all local
matters all white people have to stand
together Many q time / have look
ed al the same teamster who drives
his employers mules, hauling coal
summer ami winter rain and shine.
sticking to one employer for years, and
/ think how unfortunate that a dozen
Of the worst negroes should give the
whole race a bad name by that many
rapes and murders in a year. Lately
| saw the picture Of Boston woman
who wanted negro women admitted to
clubs with white women. Her own
confession could not more truly tell
that hate, not love, is her motive.
Her face Is hard. unsympathetic
cruel On fhe other hand / had
great surprise from a Kansas ex-sol-
dier who told me that he went
South in 1861, supposing they would
kin off and drive out all the white
slavehOlers and leave the negroes in
possession. But in a very short
time, in Arkansas, he found the South
erners a fine people and the negroes
a helpless case except under their
management, and now he thinks it
would have been better to leave slave
ry alone than to do what we did
But I told him l could look back
over family history of two and one