The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1904-01-02
cOnvIets and the "JIm Crew.

are, with their white guards, allowed
to travel in these cas-. 1 have often
! seen college professors and students,
, male and female, and ladies in delicate
health riding in the same car with
cOnVicts. The latter chained to the
car seats under an armed white guard.
This is bad enough, but to make it
worse, white convicts, which should
be taken into q car for whites, are
also forced into this Jim Crow"
which is against the law.
Dining Car Service.
There are, in some places, especi-
ally large cities, Jim Crow" lunch
places in the railway stations. and
to the fellow who has travelled from
one to three hundred miles, living
on the fruits sold by the news butch
er, paying a double price for them,
these Jim Crow" lunch places, with
all Of their faults, filth, spider webs
and flies, are hailed with a hungry
Joy. AS a rule, the railroads in the
South have made no provision for
feeding the colored patrons. This is
a serious mistake. 1t is hard enough !
on men, but what might l say of the !
ladies, and especially the mothers, |
with infant babes at their breasts, |
having to go without food to make
punishment for her young for hun
dreds Of miles, and with other hun
cry little ones at her feet-hungry,
and money in her pocket to buy bread,
and yet so Jim Crowed" that she
cannot get it. If this is not the eli
max of wrong and injustice l never
saw it.
God will not always suffer corpora
tons to prosper and grind the life
out Of this helpless people. No wonder
wrecks are increasing. God is dis
pleased, and vengeance is His.
The other Side.
One thing must not be lost to view
in discussing this subject. The great
majority of cOlored passengers often
do not conduct themselves as they
should while travelling. Sometimes
some of them are not clean in their
dress and language; they take all
kinds Of baggage in the car, including
young trunks, small coops Of chickens,
bags Of opossoms, Jugs of whisky,
syrup, etc. And, too, this class Of pas
sengers often make themselves more :
than any other. I was
On a train last week and noticed a
neatly dressed lady, with the appear
ance of a school teacher, board the
train at a certain station. I noticed
she carried a large hat box, with
which she was very careful; of course
here was nothing unusual in her great I
are for the hat box, for above all [
Kings don't Intentionally, or other i
wise, mash ladies' fine hat So, she Il
md her box quietly occupied a seat v
ust in front of me. Just before day
was awakened from my uncomfort- I,
bic slumbers by the Growing of a II
ock somewhere near at hand. I was =,
lot long is discovering that a rooster 4
vas peacefully riding in the box that =
thought contained a fine hat The o.
Their passengers did not seem to be n,
cry much surprised. They were, no p,
oubt, used to such company on the
pad.
No one will deny the fact that there
something Objectionable in such -,
onduct among some passengers. =
gain, l believe the Jim Crow"
srvice is largely responsible for such -
ehavor. If these people knew they
Guild have better service they would -
t and behave better and dress bet VI
T. III
The Remedy.
1 never get on the train in places IL
here James Crow is king, but that an
feel that l am being robbed Of my oOI
ard earned money. That is one ar
zee Of money I begrudgingly give WI
J. As feel so feel millions Of other Sc
prospecting colored men and wO- pa
en-. When l board a train to go to WI
place there is something else 1 wa
INT besides the mere getting there; n.
want to get there in peace and with ipr
the comforts Of other passengers, ser
fares being equal The so-called aal
vs. call form some states-equal Jer
oommOdation; but all which col BIT
ID passengers, and the railroad Da'
LhOrities themselves, know that al -
'ugh they pay for equal sccommo- T
lion, they never get it. II they did ing