Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1919-10-23
GOOD ADVICE FOR NEGROES

THIS is AN EDITORIAL ADDRESSED DIRECTLY TO
the negroes of the South. We want the ne roes in
the Memphis territory to read it carefully. is written
for their welfare says the Commercial Appeal.
No sane and rght-thinking white man in the South
wishes anything for the negro but prosperity health and
happiness.
We have had some strange doing down here within
the last three years Under the press of many negroes
went North The wages there attractive and prom
ises were roseae 1t is the ght of the negro il he thinks
he into any other country and do better than in this
country to go hence. 1t is his right to live in the country
to live in the city, is his right toll in the field or in
the factory But the exercise of right may always be
best for the individual We have right to live in Labra
dor if we WISH but we would be very foolish If we made
it our permanent abode
Some of the negroes have returned from the North
Others taking their places in the North Their gen.
era experience in the North has not been pleasant There
have been riots and matter where the fault was the
negro being in the minority, suffered from these
riots than did the white people.
In the South there has been much unrest during the
last twelve months AgltatOrs have gone among the
groes just they have gone among the white people, But
the agtator is dangerous to the negro than he is
the white man. The experience of the white is
broader than that of the negro He u.s. therefore, in bet
ter position to separate the false from the true than is the
negro white agitator speak to a crowd of white
people and tell them they have the right go across
street and take possession of all of the property there but
the white people do not attempt to do this because while
they might grant the theory of the orator. they know his
theory is not practical Other white people know that
they only that which they the fruit of
their efor-hat they cannot get something for nothing
If we could all be rich by wishing for riches we would
all be mionaires Even so, unless all of us mionaires
Went TO work With our hands or brains would sarve to
death
groes and have tod them thew We're beina dapvod o
certain naienable rights. Certain negroes 90 among
them and preach to them theories as to property which
impossible They tell them they not receiving half as
much for their cotton they should get They tell them
that their land rent too high They tell them that thew
are the victims of profiteers Now this may be true in
some cases. But if the negro suffering from these Ills
SO also is the white man. If the negro is paving big
price for bacon the plantation he should remember
that the white in the city, or his white neghbor who
is a tenant farmer is paying the same price.
There are millions of American people that have sud
denly got the idea that less work and more wages is
solution of all their troubles This doctrine has filtered
down among the coored people, and some Of them are
oe tod tnat hey can get along with less work should
get along with less work.
Some negroes have come back from France where
they saw conditions that they think should apply in this
country Now these conditions in France dc not apply
even to the white people in this country ana certainly
then, they cannot apply to the negroes.
ABOUT three weeks ago in the city of Memphis there
was misunderstanding between two white men. It re-
suited IN the saying Of some sharp words then there was
fight and both men killed Loose talk caused the
tragedy.
In the lower part of Phillips County, Arkansas last
week there was an outbreak It is hard to get at the fun
damenta causes Of this collision The community is
largely coored Somehow the negroes got ideas into
their heads that they We're being deprived of something
they thought they had earned or being deprived of some
thing they thought they had right to earn There was
collision between the whites and blacks The first man
Killed was white man. Then white forces came in from
without The result is that number of white citizens
killed. W. :
Now, if these negroes had grievance surely thew :
proceed In the wrong way to get any material relief Just
what happened at Elaine will happen anywhere in the
South under similar conditions n
I In killed and wounded the negro will always get the
worst OF the fight In property losses he will suffer more
IMAM the white man WILL because probably every dollar
that he has earned has come from hard labor 8
ms is time for negroes to be patient This is also
time for them to be cautious Let them beware Of The s.
voices OF strange teachers and prophets Let them