The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1903-04-11

live on lEuls
aayg he has Trained hiees t
square, and robs e hives
zohherAdaH iii dry aeaeon end
profitable business
But i don't see any good
for driving negroes from one tQVn
or county to another. l6 IS NOT Nta
ing fair with the other towns.
Ball reports that he Is driving tdem
out Of Atlanta. IT does not seem ~
concern him where they gog 90 they
leave Atlanta, Why not take UP the
vaqabonds and punish them undeE
the vagrant law and put them g
work; why not eafl baelI the whip
ping post3 IL win cure the negro ee
small crimes and idleness quieees
than anything ia the world. When
they get into the chain gang they
get q whipping -post or no post
= and o good whipping before
hand would keep many Il u from
going there. But The most remael
able treatise on the negro and his
race traits has just been written and
spoken by Prof. Dowd, Of Wisconsin,
university. Such q ~deliverance from
a northern source is amazing. He.
has been down here, and gone FROM
town to town and studied the nee
gro's actual condition, and declares
he is on the downward grade IN o
atty, in health and physical condi-
tion, and the race will become exq
tinct If some great change is not made
/ - AEasa aIrrnlksl4 .~n7 -.~sm ~dHHnmH
control placed over their morals
| They have almost ceased to marry
but take up and cohabit atapleasures
and change when they feel like it.
He says that out of 100 families he
visited at Durham, N. c., only 90
of the women had husbands, and Che
children are almost universally sup
ported by the mothers, while the fa-
theirs spend their time in idleness or
have took up" with some other
woman. He writes like he had been
to Cartersville. for in sight of my
house is a woman with three sets Of
children-six in abby three ia
theirs, but she has no husband, and
never been married. She works hard
for those children, and stands we'll
in the church. Her sister has four
children and no husband, for he has
abandoned her. The colored barber
who shaved me for years had three
wives with children, and ran away
with another one, and went to Bes-
semer, and there swapped her of.
There are no doubt a hundred bastard
negro children within our town linz
its, and as Prof. Dowd says, the mar
riage relation is now almost un-
known among negroes. This degra-
datiOn of the negro has come along
so gradually and i%nsidiously that our
people have gotten used to it, and no
4 attention is paidstO it by courts or
grand iuries. We hire these very ne
gro women for domestic servants, and
many Of them are good ones. Their
children 90 to the public schools, and
/. in time the boys get big enough to
/, steal and the girls to follow theil
mothers examples. When viii an thi.
folly stop?
But Just now there seems to be- I
8 cessation Of political h%osthities about
the negro and the race problem. q
p kAnQ Oh LGaCbAUA Ada GOING 0NEA GNl
northern mind, and they, too, ar,
r getting tired of the negro. In fact
E nobody seems concerned about hin
+ except a few politicians like Crum
packer, or Stumpsucker, or wbate9ei
his name is. But ever and anon ther,
r comes a laundering sound from
l Mount Olympus, where Jupiter Ton
o ans sits enthroned in royal dignity
Harkl Jupiter has spoken. Their
5 shook the hills with thunder riron
/, and louder than the bolts of heaven
' we hear a mighty voice that rolls its
I echoes from the Atlantic to the Pa
2 cifc and reverberates among tn,
clouds and is borne on electric cur
rents from Washington TO Indianola
r and whispers: "Stand by Minnie!'
and they stand. Minnie ought to 81
up there and take refuge in til,
white house where jupiter coulC
stand by her day and night. Now lei
that be the G.. o. P3.s shibbOleth and
let it roll down the corridors of time
as a watehword-'Stand by Minnie!'
Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution.