The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-03-20
BILL APPS LETTER
Barlow Man Raverts to Muchly
Discussed Negro Problem,
4 Kind OF REACTION has CONE
'fsortnern People are Beginning to Sec
the LIoht--All Except President
Roosevelt, Whose shtboleth
ls: stand by Minnie"
4 KIND OF REACTION has CONE

A late paper sent me from Fayette
county, Missouri, says they are rum
ming all OF the negroes out of Fayette
and Howard counties and the whipping
post awaits those who tarry, and that
the race war Is on in earnest That Is
bnd-Very bad Where are the poor
creatures to go, for 1t is awful wealth.
er in Missouri, with the thermometer
below zero and billiards raging
around / wonder what they have
been doing to provoke such treatment.
H they move to another county, how
long before they will have to move
again? And 1t looks like they Will per-
ish or freeze before the winter Is over.
Some towns in Illinois have given
them marching orders, and 1t looks
HE they have no friends but the south.
ern people. We used to wonder why
they all did not leave here and go up
10 their deliYerers and bask on 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
20 her serfs a few acres and a cottage
were allotted to every family, anG 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 Spaniards who live in Spain
own all the land in Cuba. and it is ex-
empt from all tax, but the laborers
who rent it have to pay tax on every
thing, their shanties, their horses and
carts and stock of all kinds and plan
-tatIon tools, and on what produce is
left after paying rent, and when they
buy anything with Spanish money
they are charged 70 cents in the dollar,
and when they sell they have to take
GS cents. They are generally no ac-
count, but can live fairly we'll on the
hOuntiful products of a fertile soil and
the fruits that abound everywhere.
My friend says it is most delightful
climate. He has wife and five chill
dren and never a days Sickness In
drive around his place you will see
Sg50,000 worth of pineapples growing,
and he is now planting 10000 more
plants, and they make good crops from
five to ten years without replanting
and are worth from 2 IL to 3 cents
apiece. 1t costs $50 per acre to pre-
pare the land and $35 more to buy the
plants. The sweetest and best or
;gnges you ever saw grow all over the
hills and sell for 50 a thousand. Then
there is grape fruit and lines and lem
ons and mangoes, guavas, plantains,
figs and grapes.
Now, l was Eliminating why our ne
groes didn't go to Cuba, where they
would not have to work half the time
and where they could mix and misce-
genate with the natives and have So
cIal equality to their hearts content.
The Cubans are all colors now, from
nearly white to nearly black, and they
will mix with any race. One day
saw "a curious looking specimen in the
negro car, and the conductor didn't
know whether to move him or not, and
SO he asked him: Are you white
man or a negro?" and he replied: my
lfader was a Portugee and my mudder
I vas a mayer" The conductor smiled
and let him stay. Go into a cigar fac
/ tory in Tampa and you will see falI
assortment Of Cubans-fOur hundred
i in one long room, and Of all shades
4 sizes and compilations. They have nc
Il national or race color. l should thlnF
H Cuba would suit most of our negroes
very well, for they could live on frulI
and honey My friend says ne has
framed hives ten feet square and rob'
the hives every other day in the dr.
season, and it is a profitable business
hut | don't see any good reason TO
i driving negroes from one town o.
county to another 1t is not playini
fair with the other towns. Chief Bal
j ,renorts that he is driving them out o
4 Atlanta. why not take up the vaga
bonds and punish them under the va
grant law and put them to work VIII
mt call back the whipping post?
win cure the. negro of small crimes an
fdIeness quicker than anything in tn
H. world. When they get into the chair
III E4sng they get a whipping-post or n
III nost-and a good whipping before
hanN would keep many one from g
me there But the most remarkabl
/. treats. on the negro and his rae
traits his Just been written and sp
,mofoseor noud of WILSON,