The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-19
ALABAMA 5 VEV
OF The NEGRO
Would Be Glad to Be Rid of
the Colored Race.
APPEAL TO N0RTHERNERS
And Show Them That They
Treat Them Far Better.
APPEAL TO N0RTHERNERS

EetiadEhSo one Oh the COUNSEL Aof lLe
planters who pleaded guilty to peonage,
that the north could devise a way to
nd ms of the negro bodily. That's about
the only thing we ask of you in the
way of Tightening the heavy burden We
carry.
But what would you then do for la
bor7-who would work your felds?" was
inquired.
For time we should suffer But
while immigration would then set in, and
presently this rich country would be real
ly reconstructed and reconstructed and
once more happy. As it is now, white
labor viii not come here We are criti-
cised for not encouraging white immi-
grafton. We've done what we could,
Bat here is the difficulty: White labor
ers will not come south and work along
side black laborers. That is true; 1 don't
care what Europeans you name-they viii
not work with negroes at the same en-
ployment and in the same rank.
why he went on, there's a G.. A.
r. colony in one of our neighborng
states-a colony of veterans of the north
ern army-and they will not allow ne
gro TO enter. There are two other set
Elements in the south. one a fruit col
ony at Fitzgerald, Ga, where negroes are
not permitted to live; and the settlers are
northerners.'
The popular reason for resenting in
trusive censure" from the north is that
supplied in the familiar story of the
change of heart always experienced by
the Yankee who comes south Accord
ing TO this to live day by day in the
shadow cast by the negro is to feel at
once a dull chill of helplessness, and
then TO determine that preservation
is the first law. and that government by
the vote of blacks must be resisted by
all means. 1t is curious fact that a
New Englander of what Oliver Wendell
Holmes called the "Brahmin Glass; and
who has excused the political corrup-
ton In rural Rhode Island, has become
after a few years residence IN the South
g believer in negro disfranchisenent.
Alabamans-reference is made only TO
those high in the public life and civil
aetivities-explain unroservedly that the
only occasion for revising the state con-
stitution was the increasing power OF the
negro vote. and that the purpose of the
clauses allowing no one to vote who could
not read and write, or who did not pos
sess $500 worth of property, was ito
legalize what had been illegal-the sup
preston of the ignorant and dangerous
black vote
There arrived here the other day an
official adjuster for a Connecticut life in
surance company. He has always lived
in Hartford; his stock is purely Yankee.
81 come to the south once a year. he
said. land l believe the southerners are
right when they declare that they are
fonder of the negro than the northerner
is l believe they are better fitted TO
deal with him; they know him; they
even have affection for him in individual
cases"
Another northerner. only hurrying
through the south. ventured it as his
conclusion that not only does the south
like the black man better than the orth
does. but that the black man imself likes
8 southerner better than he does
northerner.
Certainly that's true" remarked a
Montgomery citizen THE negro here
knows that the white neighbor is his
friend in emergency. If a negro is in
trouble he never goes to one of his own
he 6OES 10 Il " Aillt man. StCH 70
him like a child to his father. We may
swear at him harder than the north does,
but we do more for him
Here is a story which he regarded as
illustrative of the difference between the
Northern and Southern treatment Of the
negro:
An old black man went north after he
was freed. He had many handshalles
and congratulations on the new fortunes
OF his race, and people gathered to make
speeches about him. But curiosity died
out; instead Of personating the freed
slave, he came TO be simple wandering
black man without an occupation
He had at last to beg. New Eng
land housewives are afraid Of him when
they saw him coming and locked their
back doors. He began 10 try front doors
something which in the south would not
have been tolerated. But he had no bet
ter success. Finally. AT the ront door
his ring was suddenly answered by the
man Of the house.
'.You olankety- blank scoundrel Of a
niger. how dare you come TO my front
porch Get off, If you want anything
to eat so TO the kitchen door, blank you.
Inc negro cast his eyes rapty up
ward, and said quietly.
BLESS de Loro, Use found some of my
own people
The habit Of looking 70 the white man
for relief or assistance facilitated the
peonage abuses. According 10 the testi-
rony, il often happened that negro wonl-
en- or negro men furnished the false az
fdayits on which mock trials were had
At the hearing the other day al Birming-
ham It was disclosed that q girl Nellie
Fields who had been kept in forced servi-
tude at a Brookside camp. was taken
TO a camp along with another girl by q
negro named Kidd. who said he could
finu them paying positions there.
They are always borrowing Of white
men declared a federal officer; and We
as often either lend or give them money.
One comes TO me for instance. and says:
Boss. 1 need a dollar powerful bad II
you lend it to me III sure pay you back
Now 1 know that probably q quarter IS
all ne really needs; whatever il is ne
wants money for quarter viii prob
ably get IL So, knowing that he does
not intend 10 pay the money back. viii
give him q quarter and say: This VIII
do you; you needn't pay back
He has no intention OF pAing back
when he borrows for the reason that al
negroes in the south have feeling that
what the white men possess IS theirs
siso. 1t is q feeling they have kept
since slavery days, when they looked 70
the master for everything they wanted.
II is because Of this feeling that negroes
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