The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-19
TAT IT AGAIN"

mage's. One was enough.
 Generally speaking the editor who imposes sermon upon his innocent and unsuspecting readers should pc stigmatized--if any body knows what
 But when attention is called to sermon by big head lines and riVeted with The Duty of the South to the do as cheerfuIly as I can the unavoid{ able. Now the South is general name that includes me- and IT the South" is under any obligations 10 performance I'm willing to shoulder my part.
 However, there are so many fellows who undertake to tell of the duty oiI the South towards the negro; ana tel it so variously, I'm inclined to go slow" till ascertain if they know. l want to be understood as admitting that every whipper-snapper who speaks or writes of the matter is ful- ly satisfied that he is perfectly fam, iliar with, the whole derned business. I can't help but say that much Tn praise of the writer or orator or the negro problem
 views on the difficult problem, but thinking the matter over seriously, concluded that my ignorance or the matter is on par (if that De pos sible1 with all others who speak ana write, and being on good terms with the public l thought it sin and shame" to be guilty of launching out into displays of ignorance.
 The public will now understand (and be under renewed obligations to mel, why have never lucidiy explained the negro problem.
 The solution of the vexed question has hitherto been attempted by those who innocently and unwaringly un- cover the ignorance of which they seem to be proud.
 I must not be understood as includ- s..-w kE- 1y sv. i. vi The preacher is generally afflicted with a sort of inspiration. and to ques- tion his utterances Is like boarding the lion in his den. or treading with un- hallowed feet upon holy ground, put when his sermon Ncaptioned with capi- tals gets into the circular press (as have heard it called). feel like have the privilege to express my opin- ion of 1t as whole, and to agree or disagree with subdivisions.
 And first. want to protest against an invidious comparison Of Cain with Paul He. who thoughtlessly or even with malice prepense makes such a comparison is likely to run amuek In argument and conclusion.
 Paul had several thousand years or world development and moral progress the advantage of poor Cain, and any comparison which ignores conditions IS apt to be faulty. If I were going 10 speak wisely on great question, would be careful of these little things,
 
 for anybody and everybody to jump on Cain with all feet" and give him what Paddy gave the drum.
 The poor fellow has been dead quite & while and he can be abused with inl-- punity, though it is said to be bad taste to strike fellow when he IS down.
 day to speak a word in favor of the worlds first farmer. I'm a farmer and have a sympathy for all farmers (though they are devllish neglectful Of reciprocating.)
 Gains offense was serious, and while he never had jury and court acquit- tai, it can be said to his credit that he didn't plead insanity. He appears to have been too self-respectfng TOT that:
 (The informed man will recollect"<nat Paul resented the intimation of insan- ity, when he was on trial
 But I don't want to get away from Cain for awhile. Nobody knows the provocation of his offense and we can't do him justice without that knowledge; Recollect, he was farmer man and in in the the fieid." Abel may have been careless and let his rams and wethers and billy goats trespass upon the grow ing erop That's ats, enough Hnd to ma max: saa event antedates instruction in piety 1t | isn't hard to give poor Cain the beneft of ignorance of meum and teum rights If 1t is allowed that it was case ot sheep and goats playing the wild" with the crop, we can't help but find some extenuation for hasty temper. Once when my neighbours old steer got l into my crop fell from grace and gave l that steer a piece of my mind that wouldn't do for Sunday School exhioi- | tion. my neighbor found his early garden plants all scratched up by his neigh | bor's hens, he took two hops and jump" from grace and very feelingly 1 IA hhw tradition teaches there Is great rapidity | in, the scorching of a feather. Upon his report to the church of the decline and fall the Senior Deacon said his l conduct was not only excusable but justifable and commendable. If, in this day of enlightenment, good men are ready to excuse lapses for intol- | erable provocation, surely, surely we ought to be charitable to poor Cain
 Moreover, Paul or any of us, might have done the same thing among the same circumstances.
 I want to dissent from any conclu- sion of comparison that neglects con- ditions.
 If the doctor stands up for Paul. who was preacher. l must be permitted to stand up for Cain, who was the very head and front of my profession.
 As to the negro question. I'm afraid the Doctor has approached it on stilts in the air of enthusiastic vision he overlooks the ponderous facts at his | feet.
 He seems to think that the Southern people desire the development of the negroes as a race, their education as people.
 Any conclusion which he may reach | through the seVerest mental struggle, ] from that hypothesis, will be unsatis- | factory to whom It. may concern" 1 | In Alabama the negro is becoming such valuable criminal asset of the l State that the tax payer doesn't want | him moral.
 The Southern man has no use for the negro but for the work that is in him.
 As slave the negro was wonder l full wealth producer, without knowing a letter in the book" It is learned l that education really impairs his quail | think intelligent Southern sentiment is cordially in favor of doing naught that | injures the negro as a laborer.
 What do we want with negroes, any how? Everybody is agreed that the 1 ''nigger is a good fellow in his place" and I think, outside of visionaries and impractical philosophers, it is agreed that the negros place is working like a good fellow for some white man. l Public opinion is against his educa- | think can safely say that The South" | has no use for the negro who will not work for a white man.
 | The duty of the South to the other kind is to make him move on" and I'm of the opinion it will not neglect its duty.
 One other matter and I will close.
 The Doctor wants the white people to | get in touch with Washington's Tus- | kegee school, and this after a blushing l observation of four mulattoes to one black negro in the school. It appears | to me that q good minister ought not to want a closer touch than that. | Perhaps it ought to console him that ha has g,f fEa fa fw.u