The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-03-04

county, n~ulbsouFis says tuSy are run
ming all Of the negroes out Of Fayette
and Howard counties and the whip
ming post awaits those who tarry, and
that tho race gar is on in earnest.
This is baj very bsd. Where are
the poor creatures'to 60, for tits awful
weather in Missouri. with the Their
mometer below zero and billiards. rag
inc around. I wonder what they
have been doing to provoke such treat
ment. If they o to another coun-
~. how long before they will have to
move again? and it looks 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 no friends but
the southern people. We used to
zonder why they all. did not leave
here and 60 up to their deliverers and
bask on their bounty, but only a few
we're fools enough and they would
come back if they could. We are get
ting sorry for the negro. He has no
abiding place. They are tenants at
will of the landlords. When Russia
gave freedom to her serfs a few acres
and a cottage were allotted to every
family, and this could not be taken
away not ven for debt. The poor,
shiftless laborer has a hard time every
where. A friend writes me from Que
msdes, Cuba, that the wealthy Span
iards who live in Spain own all the
land in Cuba, and it is exempt from
all tax, but the laborers who rent it
have 10 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 "#Aea they buy anything
with Spanish money they are charged
70 cents in the dollar, and when
they sell they have to take SO cents.
They are generally no account, but
can live fairly well on the bountiful
products Of a fertile soil and the fruits
that abound everywhere. My friend
says it is q most delightful climate.
BE has a wife and five children and
never a days sickness. In o drive
around his place you will see $3.50, 900
worth of pineapples growing, and he
is now planting 10000 more plants,
aud they make good crops from FIVE to
to ten years without REPEATING and are
worth from % to 8 cents apiece. It
costs $50 per acre to prepare the land
and $50 more to buy the plants. The
sweetest and best oranges you aver
saw grow all overrthe hills and sell for
s2a thousand. Then there is grape
f'uit and lines aud lemons and man
sos, guasas, plantins, Ags and grapes.
Now, l was Eliminating why our me-
groeS didn't go to Cuba, where they
would not have to work half the time
and where they could mix and mis-
~eegenate with the natives and have
social equality to their hearts content.
The Cubans are all colors from nearly
white to nearly black, and they will mix
with any race. One day 1 saw o curious
looking specimen in the negro car, and
the conductor didn't know whether to
move him Or not, and 80 he asked
him: Are you o white man or a
lnegro,' and ha replied: "My .fsder
WAS a Portugee and my muder vas a
Pager The conductor smiled and
|ss him stay. Go into q cigar factory
p Tampa and you will see Q fair as
f0rtment of Cubans-four hundred in
pne long room, and of all shades, sizes
|afnd compilations. They have no
RATIONAL or race color. / should think
Tuba would suit most Of our negroes
l9ery we'll, for they could live ON fruit
s@nd honey. Ny friend says he has
fl7es 10 feet square and robs the hives
very other day in the dry season,
slnd it is a profitable business.
Bnt l don't see any good reason for
irving negroes from one town or
3ounty to another. It is not playi ng
aplr with the other towns. Chief Ball
fports he is driving them out of At
1t does no. seem to concern
en- where they go so they leave At
fnta. Why not take up the vaga-
a9nds and punish them under the
3,grant law and put them to work;
10y not call back the whipping post?,
will cure the negro Of small crimes
pa %ldleness quicker than anything in
20 world. When they get into the
%paingang they get q whipping-post
no post-and q good whipping be-
~ hand would keep many 9 one
ION going there. But the most re.
3afkable treatioe- on the negro and