The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1914-01-02

grades of cotton-and can do it much
quicker.
He Gets What the White Man Has.
He is no longer slave to man of
Mammon, and verify that scripture
which says, "The last shall be first
and the first shall be last" already
has come to pass, and the negro now
has reserved seat in the front row.
If any good things are to be had, he,
is sure to get his share. One day a
negro asked me if I thought negro
had soul. told him I most assur-
edly did, and if he did not have one.
it was the only thing l had ever heard
of white man having that a negro
did not get if he stayed with him long
enough. The negro has no great prob
lens to solve. There is no race oues-
ton so far as he is concerned. He
enjoys the society of all races, ages
and nationalities and will mingle
freely with any of them, he enjoys
with equal pleasure the comanionship
f a five year old white boy or an
aged Chinaman who is unable to
speak or understand single word of
English, for in either case he gets to
10 most of the talking.
For Silver Standard.
The tariff question or the currency
question does not interest him in the
least. Silver is his standard and he
! does not want any other kind of
money, neither does the Mexican Sit
uation worry him. All those things
are the white mans troubles. But if
the white folks want to whip Mexico
Tor anybody else for any cause or
without any cause for that matter,
and will furnish him with the arms
and ammunition, and will back him
up in it, he will be glad to do it for
him.
His One Great Trouble.
The road question is the only aues-
tion that ever gave the negro any
real trouble, but that was when he
was subject to road duty, and happi-
ly for him, that burden has also been
shifted to the white man, and the
roads of the Delta are now being
worked by taxation, and all he has
% do is to pack them down after they
are constructed.
Neither does the levee or the want
of levee bother him, that is some
more of the white folks trouble. If
we have an overflow or do not have
one, it is all right with him. If we do
have one, he is the first to have a
boat and get out into it and paddle
around from morning until night
with the blessed assurance that there
will be no more work done while it
lasts and that he will draw his ra-
tions from his landlord or from the
government and sometimes from both
until it subsidies.
When He Comes to Town.
When negro tires of country life,
he moves to town, acquires a charcoal
bucket and tailor's goose, forms an
alliance with some white mans cook
and with his living thus assured
opens a cleaning and pressing estab-
lishment. He gets out Monday morn
ing and gathers in the Sunday clothes
of the white clerks of town, and after
wearing them himself every night
during the week he gets up Saturday
morning and treats them to a gaso-
lene bath, flattens them out with a
red hot iron and rushes them home to
their owners so that they may wear
them Sunday, collects $1.5O for his
services in their behalf and goes on
his way rejoicing. But should there
be any special occasion in town on
Saturday night which he wishes to
attend, he holds back the best suit
that he happens to have on hand and
wears it to that, and carries it home
Sunday morning, if he wakes up in
time; otherwise its owner can lay in
bed over Sunday, and he will bring it
back some time the following Mon
day.
If perchance his fancy does not run
to cleaning clothes, he gets himself q
gasolsne stove and other parapherna-
liza wherewith to defeat the vasrant