The Washington bee., 1910-04-09

OlaCk prostitutes In favor OF the
whites The white man is more
disturbed and worried about the
colored man than he is.
If the colored American is in
ferior, why worry about him
Why don't you permit him to
advance if he can? The recent
Maryland act is in violation OF
the Constitution of the United
States.
Will the Republican party
stand for it.
AUTHOR WEARING REPLIES
Washington, D. c., March 26, 1910.
Editor, Concord Monitor,
Concord, New Hampshire.
Dear Sir:
A marked copy of your paper, is
sue of March II, 1910, containing
an editorial comment on my book,
"As We See It," has reached me.
l thank you for this very flattering
editorial.
appreciate the fact that the book
held the reader until he had reached
its last word, moreover he is think
ing about it yet"
Therein lies the object of my
work.
My motive in writing this booi,
! is. to portray, truthfully, conditions
along racial lines as they exist-as
we see ito bring before the think
ing people of this nation that other
classe, Crackers" (poor whites, clay
eaters), who have been for genera
tionS, and still are, ignorant, idle and
vicious; a class of white men who
absolutely refuse to be educated, ele-
waited, ChriStianized, and | may say
Americanized; who are inoculated
with DR.. Stiles newly named pest,
the hoOkworm, having taken it in
to their system from soil worked and
cultivated by Negroes, this inocu-
lation being the root of all their evils
body and soul, evils that have been
with the Crackers" from time i'm
memorial
(This good doctor gained their
enmity by saying that ninety per cent.
of the Cracker" children are af1ict-
ed with this worm. To regain their
good will (the Crackers) he said,
Eyes, you have the worm, but you
got it from the 'Niggers,'" a balm
that never fails to heal all Crack
er" wounds. These are people who
produced the Arkansas Fiddler, .
drawn from real life, the man with
roof on his house, who fiddled while
the sun was shining and who could
not roof his house while it rained,
the people who aSsassinate, burn and
and pillage the homes of thrifty Ne
groes, who make it dangerous for a
Negro woman to move out of doors
after nightfall, whose exploits are
always twisted by newspaper writers
into an heroic defense of their wO-
men and homes.
More, misdemeanor committed By
a Negro (striking a white man) is
felony, a felony committed by
white man (kilIing a "nigger") is
misdemeanor, the former usually
gets a year or more in prison, while
the latter pays a fine of ten dollars
and costs; This, 'in the land of the
free and the home of the brave,
amid Southern chivalry!
Now, the educated Negro, the
sociological study" the man who
has taken on the white mans civili-
alton, good and bad, as no other man
has who has come among you. What
of him? Why is he beyond the
pale? What is his fault? He has
passed out of your college carrying
honors with him. He has your bill
of health. But, let him hold up his
head, strive to be a man, the same
As his co-graduates, Malays, Chinese,
Hindus, Japanese, Turks, and native
born Africans, if you please, and this
native born American citizen, whose
iorbears bled and died for this coun-
try is mighty soon told that he has
place, not assigned to other men,
be he in church. lecture hall or thea
tire.
But he is a man in your barroom