The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1912-04-13
Vivid Ace cunt Of vile Race Pref
udiGe Tod by Eyewitness
HUMAN TREATMENT SCORNEO.
Mrs r. IA. Hsthsrinston Of Detroit
SURPRISES at Existing Conditions on
Public conveyaness En- Route on
Missionary Tour to caddo, Okla.
Sharply Criticised by Whites.

Detroit. MIch.-Mrs. +. NJ. hether-
inCton OF t...s ,ity relates the follow
ing story If Ler experience on her hrst
trip south:
Reing white woman of the north TO
the eX,int lat / was never south unul
RECENTLY. my business required my
presence Ia the little town of Caddo'
In southern Oklahoma. was greatly
surprised 1T EaGy things. In the hrst
place. af.er leaving Kansas CITY en-
rout: FL cI classification oil color
begap and con. inued. Being much IN
tereS;ed in bO.h home and foreign mis-
sion work. became very obserVant
md beg..n Investigating conditions
along ri, iIl lines
Later IS we reached McAlester and
got of for breakfast I was attracted
by fine stone s,rl@ture. Upon inves-
fighting | was Informed that II was
the state prison. where there were
no prison. rs. half white, the remain
ing half Negro and Mexican When
the train moved out ] became engaged
In conversation with a lady who was
seated with me and lived In Durant,
OH. She RENTED a cent incident
that had happened in Durant, an out
rage committed upon a while woman
and the Iva. hing of a colOred man.
I his aroused the boiling blood OF south
ern preiudf e.
Some white men. commonly called
Night Riders. plaC ed n bomb under a
Negros house. and while waiting 10
eager delight to see the explosion OF
the house occupied by a family Of Ne
grOes the Negro himself came out and
shot the white man of his horse. The
law protected the Negro in saving his
own life and property. so again the
whites were enruGed and proceeded to
Danish all the Negroes from both Du-
rant and CaddO. This was in Septem-
Der. 1911
The cotton was ready for picking.
but while some OF the white people OF
Caddo tried to protect the Negroes
whom they had employed in their
fields shots were continually fired
among them while at work. and they
were compelled tn 20. leaving some Of
their CROPS nS they stood OF accepting
such a paitry sum as might be Of
fered them. mere pittanre for their
seasons work. Business was dull with
the m"rt = u,S whom | called upon.
The r. t-UI TO- this WAS attributed to
the fart "a u tit Of race prejudice had
arisen and he NcCr1es. numbering 800
-
banished - in southern phraSeolOgy,
"they had driven all the old niggers
off-'-cOnSp IupntIy there was no one to
pick the cotton
This was kepnIy fei 10y the mer-
chants. hotel K, e:rrS ard housewives.
No business for tire m; rcllnts, no help
for the hotels. and housewives were
obliged to do their own wOrS Boys in
knee pants wHiiel upon the tables In
hotels. and We waited upon ourselves
most Of the time. Remember. this was
chiefly done by the AlItCrate white peo-
pie I was criti iSed for calling the
black people Negroes The people
said to me: Don't be 80 polite. They
are simply old niggers here In the
south. You can call them Negroes in
the north. where you consider. them on
TN equal with the white people"
meditHted on these conditions when
it affected the town commercially,
which I was interested I'm. and con-
cluded that the Negro must be a neces-
sity. and the report went into the firm
I represented that the Negroes had
been banished and no one to pick the
cotton" was the cause Of business be-
ing partially suspended. A boy Of six
teen asked me IL the "niggers'' went to
school with the whites I'm the north.
When hearing that they did he be-
came rebellious. but was somewhat
convinced Of the -erroneOusness OF It
when l asked him II he did not sleep
with his old black nanny and love to
do II and II he slept with her in a bed
he could surely live I'm a schOolroom
with two or three black children or
exist outside in playing ground.
a traveller whom was seated with
going to Duncan, Okla, spoke Of a Ne
gro lawyer In Oklahoma City as being
the ''whitest" man in principles they
had to deal with in their business or
profession. Later at COmanche. Okla,
a man came into the store where I was
to purchase clothing for his children.
he declared most emphstically that he
was either going to move where col
ored people were permitted to live so
he could get help or he would be CON-
PEELED to break up bis home, as he had
an invalid wife and was compelled to
60 home from business to do house
work
Going from Chickasha TO Hobart.
Okla. I observed that. while there was
the most rigid classification OF color
Existing eEery where separate esrs.
waiting rooms. tUIlet rooms for Ne
groes-flthy. rep1isive. half civilized
Indians in SAVAGE farb came on the
train at every station rnd were seated
in coaches with fhe wife people. I
pointed this OUT TO others on the train.
Some Of them rd:aIttcd they would
4 much prefer 70 isp seated with a ciern