The colored American., 1903-05-02

smoke in the presence of their own
women whom they had never been
taught to honor as the white man hon.
ors everything that wears a dress in
his race; l have met our women on
the street, on railroad, in the church
with the snuff quid or snuff mop stick
ing from their mouths, and the w. c..
7. L. women in a certain city told me
how the men of our race frequent the
saloon. spend all their earnings, where
the mothers are compelled TO go to
service to pay rent and buy food for
the children, and how as a conSe
Quence children run wild all day long
cant go to schoOl-mothers not able
to keep them in suitableclothes.
Through tn request of the president
of this city l see opportunity for our
Flower Mission superintendent to-
open barrel right here in the church
where half worn childrenS garments
might be put in and sent, when full,
to help educate some little boy or girl
whom the w. c. T. L. could keep in
school through our assistance. The
| most pitiful, and heart-rending ObSer-
vation was to learn and see so many
| old men and women of our race at
| Newbern who have become the victims
| of sharpers through this eX-slaye PEN
| sion idea. January l, 1908, was ap-
| pointed as the day when the govern
ment would send in large iron wag-
on laden with their money. Crowds
| of these duped old people thrOnge6
| the railroad line eagerly expecting the
| wagon. Their illness and suffering
| from cold contracted as we'll as from
| appointment, caused the civil au-
| thOrities to investigate the matter, but
| so firmly had these INSCRIPTIONS men
matured their plans that the short cut
| o a beneficial society was easy and
| they turned it into one as continued
| means of getting money from these
| believing but deluded old souls who
| thrOng the halls one night in every
week, carrying all the dues they can
get, fortified by the announcement
| that Senator Hanna's introduction of
that eX-slGve pension bill would briug
the iron wagon filled with money
| April 1, 1908.
Il could not help hearing colored
| woman's opinion Of northern colored
| people as she loudly cOnverSed with a
| man on the train. She said if you got
money-all right; if not they don't
want anything to do with you Wheth-
| er You re sick or whether you 'reweIl
| nobody wants you without your dollar
up there. You can spend more In a
| day than you need spend in a month.
| down here. She went north with
$50 in her pocket; and when.
she got back home could see nothing.
| she had bought but a 9Sc skirt She
| had lovely voice and used excellent
| language. and when the man left her
| | drew her in conversation told her
| OF my mission, etc, and she said she
was from Wilmington. Then I asked
| her how our people were getting along
since that terrible riot down there,
| She said We don't call it the riot any
more We called it that and the 10th
| OF November, but the white folks
| didn't like it and we had to stop talk
| Ing about it by those names. for thev
| threatened us. So we changed the
name 10 the Passover. and | tell Won
since the Passover if you are making
any money or accumulating anything
you don't dare let the white folks
Know it Every now and then they
call themselves reminding the niggers
Ihey take TO our term Passover he
| cause we got scripture for that-and
| they say you mustn't forget the pass
over, for if we come the second time
we will not spare the infants in the
cradle.
This is the civilization from which
the Mauley brothers fled: the despot-
| ism which lynching cries out against
Negro domination-when the lash is
IN It's own hands; which has forced
Hon Geo H. White and other ren~e
sentative citizens ~ OuiorS- to1-o =