Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-08


B. f. Ward, az follows:
Bishop Galloway, in his great ora
tion at the Southern Educational
Conference, steps to the front as the
competitor of Roosevelt and Booker
Washington in defending the South
ern negro against the imaginary
wrongs inflicted upon him by the
Southern white man. The "hot air''
utteranoes of the partisan politician
are not more calorific than the fervid
oloquence and the blood red phrases
of the Bishop. He says "we must
insist that the negro have equal OPP
portunity with every American citi-
zen to fulfill in himself the highest
purpose of an All Wise and Benefi-
cent Providence"
A WHITE MANS COUNTRY.
No man is denying to the negro
any inherent right of legitimate
privilege. This government, with
all its history, civilization, institu-
tions and achievements, is the herit-
age of the white man. The negro
did not discover it; he did not con-
quer it; he did not purchase it; he
did not form its constitution and
laws; he did not build its literature,
nor project or execute any of its
enterprises. Nations and races, like
families and individuals, are entitled
to only what they lawfully inherit or
rightfully acquire. The negro
brought no laws, library, learning,
nor material inheritance to this coun-
try, and having evolved or con-
structed none of these things for
himself, he is incapable of maintain
ing them if given him by another.
He is, therefore, fortunate in the
possession of life, liberty, property
and the pursuit of happiness under
the laws made and executed by
white men for the control and gov
ernment of white men. He is un-
warrantably arrogant when he de-
mands more. The white man who
claims more than this for him is
either unreasonable and illogical
profoundly ignorant of the philosophy
of history, or unfaithful to his birth
right and unworthy of his lineage.
THE NEGRO NOT DIsCoNTENTED.
The Bishop says "there ia no dis
guising the fact that there is great
unrest and growing discontentment
among the negroes of the South"
This statement is gilded gauze of
truth over dark background of
pernicious error and profound misn-
formation. Why this "great unrest ?"
They are well fed, well paid, well
protected, and work or play, or steal,
according to the suggestion of their
own unbridled will and liberty of
action. All other races on earth
have had to fight for life, liberty and
property; but all these blessings
have been bestowed upon the negro
without effort, or sacrifice, on his
part. In all the wide range of his.
tory every other race has paid for
its education or done without it !;
but the education of the negro costs
him practically nothing. 1t is wrung
from the toll and sweat and self
abnegation of the white man and the
white mans children. The Bishop
says "the negroes are beginning to
feel frendless and helpless" This
is fragrant misrepresentation of the
negro. He is not "friendless and
helpless, "and no one knows it better
than the negro. The Bishop says
"there are few negroes in my native
State OF Mississippi, owners of prop
erty, who would not sell out at a fair
valuation" This is a gratuitous
proclamation, without foundation in
fact, or semblance of certi6cation-a
bid for Northern applause and North
ern sympathy at the expense of the
truth or current history. But admit
that it is true, what would the Bishop
have us do about it? He says
"many of the thriftiest and most con
servative feel that sentiment is so
hostile to their race as to make their
values insecure"
THIRTY-FIvE YEARS OF FREE
SCHOOLING.
If such stupidity as that is the
result of thirty-five years of free
education it is time to let them 90,
or pay for their own schools. The
Bishop says eve need not close our
eyes to the inevitable. We are soon
to face Industrial disaster unless con-
ditions are radically changed" How
changed? The negro already has
every opportunity, except social and
political equality, in Mississippi.
These are the only changes to be
"radically" made in his favor. The
Bishop says "our cotton lands will
lie fallow, and our fertile fields will
cease to yield their valuable staples. :"
Not unless the negroes are stampeded
by "fire ALARM" Bishop, for they are
now peacefully at work, happy and
contented, or wrapped in the deep,
dull slumber that comes of well
stored stomachs, and their dreams
are no longer disturbed by ku.klux
visions of VardamaD militant. The
negro has not been to free schools
tor thirty years for nothing. They
fully understand how the labor
exodus racket was worked by the
Bishop and those who believe in his
divinity, to intimidate landlords and
to influence votes.
TIE QUESTION OF WHITE SUPREMACY.
The Bishop says ''the old cry that
white supremacy may be imperilled
is travesty on Anglo-S Saxon chiv-
alry"-another lightning fringed
thunderbolt of bombastic ignorance.
White supremacy has not only been
imperilled in the South, but it has
been ruthlessly overthrow, trampled
in the dust and stamped into the
very mire and filth and stencil Of
negro domination. What mas been
done once can be perpetrated again
by the same forces. We were the