The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-09-13
BREER LEE CAMPBELL

I just got back home from Austin,
Texas. mo, 1 didn't get sent up
there to the Crazy House,. I went
up to interview the Rev. DR.. L. L.
Campbell, concerning his noted speech
delivered at the opening of the st.
John Baptist Association. Me and
the doc" on the dam road. (Shutt
up! / mean the road which leads to
the DAM doc" got the best of the
argument, however, and I come back
sadder but wiser man.
No, children, we amt got no bus
mess complaining bout our treatment.
In the first place the doc" explained
to me that the white folks were over
here in America tending to their
own business, and our fore parents
stole some Dutchman's ship and
brought ourselves over here and
made white man feed us and clothe
us for 200 years.
That's where the saying arose:
The white mans burden"
About this time some folks who
was nutty bout some crazy saying of
some rabid abolitionists, who didn't
like to see our folks impoverishing
their Southern brethren like we was
doing, got up a great big army and
made our friends quit feeding us. The
doc" sure got eloquent along here,
and pictured to me what a good time
my folks were having. Nothing to
do 'cept a little blowing and hoeing
and chopping and cooking and pick
ing cotton, which didn't keep them
busy but about 1853 hours a week.
After the white man was freed, the
doc" went on to tell me how the
darkies used to chase them things
called pat-a-rollers, and others call
ed Ku-Klux. I almost shed tears,
the doc" had become so dramatic,
while picturing the horrors heaped
upon the poor citizens of the other
race by the blood-thirsty blacks.
Even now in these days and times,
the doc" showed me how the white
man pays the taxes and our people
reap the benefits, they paying $3.50
on the 800 and our folks only pay
$1.79 and A cents. The best soft
streets are reserved for the blacks,
while the other race is compelled to
wear out their shoe-laether on old
hard paved streets.
On the trains our folks get the
best place, right up near the engine,
where they can shake hands and chat
with the fireman and engineer, and
to keep from getting lonesome, We
have the butcher" boy and train
crew as companions.
In our section Of the towns the col
ored man is so naughty he won't al
low any other race to stay, except
they run corner store and as soon
as we compel him to get rich, we
make him move on one of those hard
paved streets and dare him to speak
to our people. We even make him
object to our jitneys passing by his
home
The divine even spoke Of how badly
our boys acted in France, trying to
the French people against
the good soldiers of the other race
from America. He even said our
soldiers tried to get all the white
officers removed from their commands
and have their place filled by black
officers.
On our way back to the encamp-
ment ground, hotfoOt1ng 1t, or course
the doc" didn't want to hurt no
body's feelings by using his auto, I
was told how the Colored man re-
fuses to vote at the elections because
he is so "biggety," and lots of other
things to numerous to mention.
About 10 p. nj. we reached the
grounds where / expected to see that
10000 people, but for some rea son
7 could only count about 300 folks. |
Cess the others ran around so l
couldn't count 'em.
No more complainin' from Cimbree,
cause I've been made to see the sub
ject IN a different light Nothing
like having fine educated minister
10 lead you. o, body.
Houston Informer