The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-31
BROTHER GARDNER.
some Pointers for the Members of the
Iirnelxilm Club.

When the Limekiln club had finished
the regular order of business at its last
meeting Brother Gardner arose with a
very serious expression of countenance,
and after a long look up and down the
hail. he said:
''Gem'len of dis club, I feel it my
dooty to make a few general remarks
dis eavenin on a subjick dat consarns
US all. Bout TO weeks ago de Hon.
Clngstone johnson, of Souf Caraliny,
arrove yere to make speech befo' dis
club. didn't 'zactly like de looks of de
man. He was too long in de back OF
de neck and too short in de legs. HIS
eyes was too clus together and his
mouf too fur apart. He had de appetite
of a boss while claimin' to hev de senti-
ment of poet
''All of you will remember dat speech
1t had to do wild de rights Of man. and
it appeared to make out dat one man
was Jest as good as another, no matter
what his color, condition or de length
of his heels. Instead of gWine back
home arter maxim dat speech, de Hon
Clingstone decided to hang arouNd fur
a spell, and he's hangin' yit. If Brud-
der Jones and Brudder Samuel Shinn
want to take a free boarded into DER
cabine hev no objections, but de time
has arrove when also wanter say sun
thin bout de rights of man.
1T has panied and grieved me to OBJ
sarve de effects of dat speech. Feelin'
dat he was as good as any other man
on airth, Waydown Bebee has put
mortgage on his mewl to buy hissen a
fifteen-dollar dress coat
six weeks ago Elder Penstock was
satisfied to drink cold water and lib
mostly on puddin' and milk. Yesterday
he was orderin' in a case of beer and
gallon of ice cream.
"A few days ago Pickles Smith would
hev climbed ober de fence to make
room fur a white man to pass, but to-
day he wants all de road fur hisselt,
and am wishin' dat some white man
would jest try tic crowd him de least
bit
II notice a swagger in de gait Of
Nfcodemus White, and a surprisin' air
Of independence in de way ledge Car
ter walks into grocery ana inquiries
dc price of pineapples.
.'Three weeks ago States Rights Hen
derson thought q pair of cowhide shoes
good huff for him. He appears yere
dis eavinin' wearing patent feathers dct
cost 70, dollars, and instead of waikiki
five blocks on foot he took de street
kyar.
Two months ago Jubilashun Scott
was so humble dat he dasn't assert dat
Columbus diskivered America, but dis
AFTERNOON he was swellin' around town
and offering to lick any man who de-
MED dat Noah's Ark was painted blue.
up to a few days ago any member
of dis club ridin on street kyar would
hev bin ashamed to keep his seat wni'e
a woman of any color stood I'D. Three
eavenin's ago 1 saw Washington Blair,
hangin' right to DER seats like grim
death, while TO women was hangin' 10
de straps. When dey was spoke to by
a white man who had gin up his seat
long befo' dey sassed him back.
Il see a change in Watermillyon Car
ter Emancipation Hardee and PreYI-
ousIy Green, and see it in Kurnel Ca
bfff Shutdown Jackson and Comealorg
Harper. Humble Black am no longer
humble, and Retiring Davis isn't on de
retire any mo-.
IN his speech befo' dis club on Hon.
CHngstone was fool nun to declar dat
de Lawd dun created all men eka1, and
meant dat one man should hev jest as
much as another. YO hev evidently
been asses 'nuff to believe him, and am
actin accordingly. II somebody dun
told yo' dat all bosses was created elal,
and dat de scrub boss was jest as good
as de race boss, yo'd laugh at him.
Samuel Snln am a breeder ana dea-
Ter in dawgs. He's got ours and poodles
and settlers and terriers fur sale. He'll
sell yo' a cur dawg fur dollar or two,
but when 20 want a collie or a grey
hound yo' hav got to come down wild
SIS. Why? If all men and all dawgs am
created ekal why should one cost moro
dan another?
''Yo' kin go down to de auction
places and buy a work horse fur fo'ty
dollars; but If yo' dun want a race
boss, yo' may hev to pay thousands.
If one boss am de same as another,
how does dis come about? Yo' jest
put it down in black and white dat
dar's about fo'teen different sorts of
men in dis world, and dat when a
one-X man gifts de idea dat he's as
good as a three-X man, he's shorely
breedin' trubble fur hisself-
DE Hon. Clingstone GIBBS us to I'M
derstand dat one man has jest as
much right to dis worlds goods as
another, and some of yo' am idiots
huff to believe him. De only right
dat yo' or any other Twin man has
got is a chance TO arm yo'r way, and
yo' can't allus git dat.
IF yo' kin git few dollars ahead
and make dem few dollars bring yo'
in a few dollars mo-, OATS all right,
but yo' jest dun keep yo'r hands of de
basket of cokernuts in front of de