The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-30
PLAIN FACTS.
By JAMES r. RHODES.

l intend, in stating these facts, t
tell what l really know to have beer
said and did to me by envious Negroes
and the lowest type of white men
Most of these truths that l shall tel
have been done since March, 1915
some were done before. / have al
ready in a previous statement stated a
great many things that were done to
me. So l just began where l left off.
Down where l lived in a hell-hole, at
least the Negroes and two certain
white men that 1 know of, tried to
give me a lot of hell. l would have
paid them in their own dirt, but being
alone l did not have n witnesses to
testify in my behalf, in your ~so-called
courts of justice, and no one friendly
enough with me that l could use. So
l had to let the devils do their dirty
undermining tricks without me paying
them for it. 1 saw the way the thing
was going, that either / would get
killed myself or I would have to de-
fend myself by killing some of them.
So 1 decided to get out, in fact l had
intended to have moved two years be-
fore l did but just kept putting it off
from time to time until in March, 1915,
I saw that it would not do for me to
stay in that hell-hole any longer.
The special interest that worked
down that way and the Negroes had
begun to be awfully annoying. What
for? Just for devilment, of course.
Then I heard one of their shippers say:
"They are not going to let him stay
down here in peace" l was glad that
l caught that important information
because I knew it was right off the
reel. I knew this much, that if /
killed n of them a great sensation
would result. Papers telling about the
act of a crazy Negro; but if they killed
me it would be an act of duty. Note
the difference, still they were bother
ing and annoying me sneakingly and
underminingly, and are doing it yet
with the able assistance of ignorant,
envious Negroes.
l have caught two or three very i'm
portant wireless message since l have
been living from pillar to post in the
last six or seven months, and very i'm
portant ones they were. One of them
was to the effect that when they did
get me that l would not get out any
more Another was, when we get that
little Negro we will beat him to death.
Talking to some ducks at 14th and
Michigan. No, l am not a hard man
to catch, what did you two want to
catch me doing? Tell me might do
it for you. This is another thing a
blackbird told me this one. They will
get you before six months longer then
you will get what is coming to you. It
was telling what it had heard straight
from the mouth. That was no infor-
nation to me. Now if that bird and
others had wanted to show to me their
friendship or kindness for humanity
they would have told me what they
had heard, also who it was that told
them.
l was a "simp." i did not realize
how deep the seed of contempt had
been planted until the night of Sept.
4th, a friend of mine had secured me
a place to work for a couple of days.
l went out there on Saturday evening.
A bomb dropped in the yard could not
have causer more excitement than my
presence did. The situation was too
embarrassing for words. I did not
feel so bad for myself as l did for my
friend, who was ignorant of the fact.
So that night along came the devil
making inquiries as to why l was out
there and who was it that told me to
come. We thought that he was up to
some of his old tricks again; what
tricks? Don't you know? It amuses
me sometimes the way my name has
been hurled broadcast over the city. 1t
proves to me how much of a gentle
man ! am. Ships running around town
telling people to watch him, he is a
thief, they are after him. Seven
tenths OF all Negroes are ignoramuses
anyway. 1t is not hard to get them to
believe any kind of a statement wheth.
er it be a lie or the truth. 1t is a won.
der that would not go off and die to
please some of those ducks. By the
way, / wonder how much do those
snipers get per day. It is lawful to
kill snipers in some countries, espe.
cially in Mexico, but these / happen to
know are not worth killing. / know
they will be sorry when their jobs run
out, making good easy money just
standing around watching a little Ne
gro. l offered one a job one day and
he said no, he was a carpenter. Next
day / saw him with an old rusty saw
and hammer, stalling. Hurrah, hur.
rah, for the Negroes and others, you
certainly have got many different seed
planted for my benefit. II some OF
them don't bear fruit it viii be a mira.
Gle, but of course you know strange
things will happen. After it is all said
and done IL one would ask any one of
those ducks who are causing and do
ing me all the dirty undermining
tricks they have done to me, why
these things were done and for what
cause, the only truthful answer they
could give, would be, because we do
not like him. He is above US and he