The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-30
As Good Advice as was
Ever Given.
A GRADUATE OF SHAW
Compares the Privileges and 0pportun.
tiles Given by the Different Sections.
The Future Welfare Of the Negro
Race is Dependent Upon
the South.

A wise negro, successful in life, and
an exemplary graduate of Shaw Uni
versity of this city, is spending a few
months in the North, and has been in
New York city several weeks. He is
studying the condition of the negro
in the North, and in New York city
especially as particularly illustrative
of the North.
Yesterday The News and Observer
received letter from him. which Ger
tains wholesome advice to The negro,
and it is embellished with vivid and
graphic descriptions of the hopeless
ness of the Northern negro.
The letter, we'll worth reading by
every negro in the South, (the North
ern kind is generally worthless) is
as follows:
/ have very often heard that the ne
gro is given more privilege and bet
ter protection in the North than in
the South. Well, it is my desire to
show that it is untrue. While walk
ing across Fifty-third, between Ninth
and Tenth avenues, L met large
number of white boys, ranging from
eighteen years up. My hat was taken
and l received a few boxes on my
cheeks. The most severe blow was
on my left arm, which was given
with very large stick.
Il called an officer to my assistance
and he only said: Did they hurt you
much? They generally do UP a coon
every once in a while
Had | been in the South and been
held up in just the same way, our
police would have found out the rea-
son why such an assault was made
and if they could not give some just
cause, although white, they would
have been punished severely. Ct say
our police, because | am a Southern
negro, a student of Shaw University
II have always argued that the
South is the place for u.s. for we are
treated better by the whites down
there than we are I'm the North. We
have no race riots, because we know
our places. You often hear the
Northern negro say: We have no
Jim Crows. We can have anything
We can buy That's it, they can t
buy anything, because they haven't
anything but a pair of creased pants
Suppose they did have money like
the Southern negro, he might walk up
to the desk in the Astor House or the
Waldorf Astoria; ask for a room and
the clerk would say, twenty dollars per
day; he would pay for a day or SO
just to act big. A white man goes
a bath. for ten dollars per day, be-
cause he is wanted there and the ne
gro isn't
IF one hundred negroes would
stop at one of the above named no.
tells, paying two dollars to the white
mans one, they could very soon build
a nice little Jim Crow get in it, and
be served the same as the white peo-'
pie, for the same money.
"Onpn /
l passed a swell ice cream parlor.
There was a crowd of white people
inside. / went in Ice cream sodas
were going at five cents each. / was
charged fifty. Ratio: ten to one.
Suppose a hundred would pay that
fifty cents; they would have a nice
little Jim Crow in the SWEETEST par
Tor in New York, and be served at
the same price. Now, which is the
best? Have Jim Crow and serve
decently for the same money, or no
Jim Crow and pay five dollars to
the white mans one, when we don't
make one dollar to his (the white
man's) twenty-five?
"Give to us Southern negroes our
Jim Crows and let the Northern
ones pay what they please! But l
pity the poor fools.
1.-THE negro would of course, be re-
fused a room in the Marlborough
House in Raleigh n. c. Why? Be-
cause the Southern white man use
sense for us when we don't use it for
ourselves. 1t isn't that they think
we are not good enough, but that they
long to save our money for us. 1t is
said that we owe the Northern white
man for our freedom. We have been
free something like forty years, and