The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-01-18
A FEW
BRIEFS
Editor Providence News
BY ALEX s. ARNOLD.
Woonsocket, r. l.

Editor Providence News:
Here are few more briefs for your
considerations
1S. Governor Vardaman OF Mississippi
tells the people that education Is harminB
the colored people in the south; In fact'
that ignorance is the best condition for
the negro. And yet the we'll educated
graduates OF Tuskegee furnish no crimi-
nails. but from the colored race that
splendid institution sends out students
that in sterling morality and genuine
utility will compare favorably with the
graduates of any seat OF learning where
white students alone receive their educa-
tion FOR the battles OF life. The trouble
with poor. ignorant Ward is that he Is
neither, an average judge OF human ma
ture nor student OF things that make
for righteousness and prosperity. Cover
nor Nardaman is especially ignorant or
political economy. When the colored peo-
ple were slaves they were not out of work
winter or summer. and these crimes winch
now around public sentiment OF the south
against them were very FEW. The problem
of the negro Is being solve din some degree
by that great and good Christian man,
Booker T Washington, who, I'm the provi-
dence OF God, sees SO clearly that work
and education can solve the riddle whlch
Ward always guesscs wrong. The aFeFsFe
southerner is an excellent reckoner, Whlle
the northerner guesses well; but poor
Ward can neither reckon nor guess within
seven rows OF apple trees OF the right an
swer. Ward Is the wrong man In the
right place. as suitable for the position
OF governor as "A Digger Indian 20 occu-
py the position left vacant by President
Harper Set the negro at work and the
problem will solve Itself.
a. Ex-Governor Douglas generosity is
like the great mountains and his magnan-
unity like unto the mighty deep. He Ia
willing 10 have - per cent OF the duty
on shoes deducted if the west Will con-
sent TO have 100 per cent taken from
hides This, the former governor OF
Massachusetts says, will enable him TO
compete with the semi-pauper labor OF
Europe and Asia. There Is a man way up
I'm Vermont equally generous and fully
as magnanimous; he Is willing To allow
the farmers 25 per cent OF the profit II
thev will merely consent TO pasture and
feed his cattle who Is so morally blind
as not 20 rali2e that selhshness Is rapid
lv disappearing and the millennium dawn
already gliding the horizon?
rs. Dcducting time to eat and sleep,
Bigelow spent from l2 TO = hours IN a
Thoroughly EXHAUSTIVE luNtSikduon ol
the Panama Canal and the surroundings.
II Is well that We have one man in all this
broad land who never takes any super
nclal view OF anything he looks at. Pains
taking Big - fully justified In harboring
rigkxcpus Indignation at the lack OF
Tcsdy's appreciation of his wonderful
abilities as a singer OF mud and dirt As
We contemplate the amount OF dirt he
sling on paper we cannot doubt that
were he on the isthmus he would sling
mud az n left-handed Rcniaminte used
I'm oldeu times 10 sling stone ammunition.
lG Let's see. what's become of all
those Rhode Island advocates Of free
trade per se and free trade duties2 10
will be noticed that the able Democratic
congressional leader. Williams. denounces
the idea that his followers are advocates
~ free trade: in fact. so poor has the
doctrine ~ free trade become that few
political leaders of any party ever deign
10 do 10 reverence. Poor old free trade
how art thou fallen and oil they weapons
~ political war pertshed!
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