The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-08-01
FROM THE FIELD.


Some time since | wrote two let
tiers on the rent problem for which
have been commended or con
demned as | happened to meet the
appreciation or disapproval of my
| respective dealers. AS a preacher |
care very little for the adverse criti-
cism of those who do not agree with
me when | am conscious OF the fact
that am right. nor do | think one
should become puffed up on recetv-
ing the plaudits of the grateful when
he has only performed a plain duty
+ there were fewer time savers
among us preachers, fewer cringing
sycophantic panderers to pelf and
power for good in the land. The man
who says he is entirely free from
sensitiveness to the opinion of his
fellow man is either a liar or too de-
based for association with cattle. but
he who will not maintain an honest
conviction in the face of all opposi-
ton is depriying himself of about
the only invaluable privilege of gem
uine manhood | fear | am about to
wander away from the route | had
mapped out for this letter We have
among us two races, the white and
the black, The white man is here
from choice of himself or his ances-
tors, the black man is here because
commercial buccaneers kidnap-
ped his forefathers from their ma
tive land and sold them into slavery.
| believe in even and exact justice
to all men without distinction of
race or color. AS long as the negro
is among US he should be given ALI
opportunity to live
| do not think any fair minded
man objects to his being given a
home in the country Of IN the town.
The landlord wno lets him have soil
to cultivate and shelter for his
family does no wrong He must have
a chance However, / find some men
with large acreage of land who rent
exclusively to negroes and who
have turned down the applications
of deserving white people for homes
To such | would make an appeal tC
give the white man an equal showing
with the negro. There are fortunate
ly only few in this county who
make a speciality of the negro but
they in some instances have sue
| ceeded in injuring the social ans
! educational interests OF the com
munity. For the two races will no
associate nor attend school togeth
ties in the state where the whit
tenants had been driven out for tn
negro until they could not main
tain school where a few years az
there were flourishing countr
schools. | may not thorough
understood so viii plainly state m
proposition. ! do not believe in tt
oppression of any class of people.
believe every human being shou
be given an opportunity for exis
ence and the pursuit of happine
but / do believe that in the strut
gle for existence the white ma
| should be given an equal shown
/ ~
| a little personal crouch in this 70
a few years ago I got disguised will
the occupation I had starved at fol
about twenty years and concluded tC
go out and chop cotton | had to
wait until every negro in the com
munity got a job before any one
would try me and | have seen the
1+h
casionally you find man in posses
sion of considerable estate who Is
so damnably sorry that white people
will not deal with him-for such |
entertain no other sentiment than
one of pity To such the arguments
herein set forth do not apply To
such, however, as are fit for asso-
citation with their own race | only
have to say put two or three families
of nice white people on your place,
divide up and see how cheerful you
will become I believe your neigh
bors will appreciate you more and
you will probably have greater self
respect.
On last Monday | met my friend,
j. w. Mccoy from Forreston l and
was instructed to renew the sub
scription of Mrs. Lula Murphy at
Seattle, Washington. A r. Murdock
from Waxahachie 6 was in town. He
had missed one issue of the Enter
prise and said he had not thought of
his appreciation for it when il was