The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-02-26
BILL ARP.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

| "A ldlS paper SCul IL lOlA foySSSS
| county. Missouri. says they are run
| ing all OF the negroes out OF Fayctte
and Howard counties end tie whipping
post awaits those who tarry. and that
the race war is on in earnest. That is
| bad-very bad Where are the poor
creatures to so. for it IS awful weather
in Missouri. with the thermometer be-
low zero and blizzards raging around.
! wonder what they have been doing
to proycl,e such treatment. II they
move to another county. how long be-
| fore they will have TO move again? and
II locks like they will perish or freeze
before the winter is over. Some towns
| in Illinois have given them marching
| orders, and It looks like they have 10
friends but the southern people. We
used to wonder why they all did not
leave here and go up to their deliverers
and bask en- their bounty, but only a
few were fools enough and now they
would come back if they could. We
are getting sorry for the negro. He has
! no abiding place. They are tenants at
| will of the landlords. When Russia
gave freedom to her serfs few acres
and a cottage were allotted to every
family, and this could not be taken
away not even for debt. The poor,
shiftless laborer has a hard time
everywhere. A friend writes me from
Quemadas. Cuba. that the wealthy
Spaiards. who live in Spain own all
the land in Cuba. and it is exempt
from all tax, but the laboIers who rent
it have to pay tax on everything, their
shanties. their horses and carts and
stock Of all kinds and plantation tools,
and on What produce is left after pay
/ ing rent, and when they buy anything
with Spanish money they are charged
! IS cents in the dollar, and when they
sell they have to take !6S cents. They
are generally no account. but can live
fairly well on the bountiful products
of fertile soil and the fruits that
abound everywhere. My friend says
it is a most delightful climate. He has
! wife and five children and never
! iav's sickness. In q drive around his
place YOU will see $S50,000 worth OF
nincappleS growing, and he IS now
! planting 10000 more plants. and they
| make eccd crops from FIVE 10 ten years
| without repIanting and are worth from
! ~ 10 3 cents apiece. 1t costs $50 per
r".e 20 prepare the land aid S35 more
10 buy the plants. The sweetest and
best oranges you ever 81" grow all
over the hills and sci! fer 50 thous-
ard. Then there is crane fruit and
lines and lemons and mangos, suayas.
rlaLtins, figs and grapes.
Now. I vas Illuminating Why Our ne
grcus didn't go TO Cuba, where they
would not have 10 work h2if the time
and where they could nix ald misceSe-
nate with the natives and have social
equality to their hearts content. The
/ CUbans are all coIcrs row frcm nearly
white 20 nearly black. and they WI!
mix with any race. One Gay saw i
curious locking specimen il the reS!o
ear, and the conductor didn't know
whether to move hin cr net, and 50 re
asked him: Are yCu 2 white man or
negro" and he replied: Ny fader was
q Pcrtugpe and my muder was nag
sr." The conductor smiled and let MIN
stay. Go into ciga: factory in Tampa
and you will see fair assortment OF
Cubans-four hundred in one long
room, and of all shades, sizes and COM
plexions. They have no national or
race color. | should think Cuba would
suit most of our negroes very well.
for they could live on fruit and honey.
NV friend says he has framed hives lo
feet square and robs the hives every
other day in the dry season. and it Is
a profitable business.
But | don't see any good reason for
driving negroes from one town or
countyto another. It is not playing fair
with the other towns. Chief Ball re-
ports that he is driving them out of At
lanta. 1t does not seem to concern him
where they go so they leave Atlanta:
Why rot take up the vagabonds and
punish them under the vagrant law
and nut them to work; why not call
back the whipping post? 1t will cure
the negro of small crimes and idleness
quicker than anything in the world.
When they get into the chaingang they
get whipping-post or no post-and
a good whipping before hand would
keep many a one from going there.
But the most remarkable treatise on
the negro and his race traits has Just
been written and spoken OF by Profess
sor Dowd. of Wisconsin university.
Such a deliverance from northern
source is amazing. He has been down
here and gcre from town to town and
studied tie neg-oes' actual condition,
| and declares he is On the down-grade
in morality. IN health and physical
condition. and the race will become eX-
tinct il some great change is not made
in their education and some radical
control placed over their morals. Trey
have almost ceased to marry, but take
up and cohabit at pleasure and change
when they feel like it. He says that
out of one hundred families he visited
at Durham. N c.. only twenty-nine OF
the women had husbands, and the
children are almost universally sup
| ,.rt.d by tho mothers while the faith