The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1903-10-22

heard upon the cotton patch PROPOSE
ton. but or the kitchen and nursery
question | can speak "as one having
authority
1t is well enough for our wise states
men, who
Dip into the future far as human eye
can see,
and for our shrcwd politicians, who dip |
only as far as the next election, to in |
dulgc in learned theories about the ne
gro as a social and political factor in
our midst. But, sir, the real negro
question is not political, is not social,
it is domestic
The fear of the negro which is ever
before the eyes of the woman of today
is that said negro will not turn up in
time to edit the gravy department in
the morning. The negro who is on the
who is causing their heads TO gray,
but not with years" is the one whom
we seek eagerly, but do not find, at her
post in the nursery; and consequently,
the piouS men of this country, contrary
to their religious scruples, are forced
in the uncanny hours of the night to
do skirt dance stunts to the bellicose
lamentations of their latest born.
These sir, are living. wide-awake
questions; questions which vitality af
feet the health, wealth, morals and re-
| ligiOn of the land; and unless they are
solved and that right quickly, our agri-
cultural industries will wane, our
| churches will be filed with men who
have lost, the last vestige Of their re-
| ligion. those, evil-minded lawyers who
run the divorce mills will feed and fat
ten on excess of toll, and the ancient
and honorable institution of marriage
will fall into disrepute and disfavor
among the people.
20, why did Dinah go away,
When we SO wished her for to stay?"
is a song as full of pathos as the
mournful Song of the Shirt
Mr. Editor, we need the negro in our
business. He suits the South and the
South suits him. and the man who says
a word to engender strife and prejudice
between us is an enemy Of both races.
The only fangs the negro ever had
consisted of ballots and those were
artistically and scientifically extracted
by the constitutional amendment; and
today they are as people, harmless as
blind puppies. A hundred white men
in this county can easily and without
strife and without friction keep them
exactly where they belong.
There are three of these people on
my place, and my four-year-old boy can
and does rule every one of them as abso
lutely as a Gar Anyone of them would
fight to the last ditch for him. and
would not swap them off for any other
labor on earth. Mr.. John Temple
> Graves is brilliant orator., but | sub
nit, when he talks about EXPORTING
my cook and your nurse, he is under
mining the very foundations of society
and an injunction should be sued on
against him requiring him to shut up
i In recent issue of your paper yol
!, said, speaking of the negro question
y that 'nobody's opinion is worth much
For the very same and very sufficien
reason that nobody's opinion would b.
worth much as to what sort of timbe
the North Pole is made of. The fruit
full writer's on this subject violate CIV
e cry principle of logic by assuming tn
d existence of a condition in the Soutl
g which is absolutely nonresident. | re
peat, there is no political or social Ne
gro problem. Those questions are re
adjudicata. We have fixed the negro
bounds and determined his habitatio
x in perfect accord with his nature an
x necessities, and in the place assigne
If him he is, as race, content to dive
The constitutional amandmopt ,,,,t h;
out OF commission politically, an
there is no sort of trouble about hi
social status. 1t is as hard for a whit
= man to get into a social pew for whic
le he is not scheduled as it is for came
y to do the needle act, and there need b
a no fear about the negro's doing so.
! insist that North Carolina, an