The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-02-04
COMMENTS ON HIS FUTURE IN
NORTH AND WEST
Final Misery VIII Come From Fail
ure to Understand Him. Looks
for Revival of Business

gentle SO!IclLUue 1OE tilc hSeIltH S'iio
welfare of his family that the south
has given him without regard to po-
litical views,' said Sensator James
Hamilton Lewis, distinguished AM
erican, who was the guest yesterday
of the South Carolina bar association
and who, while at the Jefferson hotel,
spoke briefly Of the migration OF the
negro. Senator Lewis is a man who
has had unusual opportunity to OBJ
serve the negro situation as it exists
in Chicago and who, being southern
born and bred, knows no little of the
racial characteristics of the negro.
"The negro will fnd," he contin-
ued, ''thatahe is only a machine in
other sections from which certain
hours of l.bor will be exacted, with
out reservations, while he will be kept
at arms length in all dealings and
will be dealt with only as servant,
never as confdant or as friend
as he is in the homes Of the south.
POLITICALLY. he will be useful only
in contests at the ballot box accord
ing to the Numerical strength he car
give to the contesting side, and then
he will be dropped, his political lead
ers being rewarded in money or in
small positions as an encouragement
to prevent them from aligniag them
selves with come opposing faction to
that in power.
Final Misery
.'The final misery to the negro IN
the west viii come from the lnablilsy
of the people to understand him and
to appreciate properly his docile and
religious nature, and in every little
infraction of the law, born Of his I'M
pulsiveaess, the north and west Will
make him pay the penalty providea
for the criminal. Even EoW there IS
toe much of tendency III the north
and west where the negroes are, t.
charge every lewlessness not idensl-
fed, to the presence OF the negro anc
to make the whole race pay penalty
by being deprived, Of employment Or
recognition in any way If the COM
mercial aid domestic life."
Senator Lewis, in discussing busi-
ness conditions ard prospects for I'M
provemsnt, said, Il want the south
to know thas she is aow, in the track
of a new business revival.
"The first Of the various industries
which Will benefit are those of the
cotton grower and the cotton manu-
facturer.
Business in Chicago and the West
has in the. past 80 days taken on new
life and this revival is now moving
down towards the south.
s.With the purpose of purchasing
the cotton ard the products OF the.
south and west, the eastern banks are
preparing 70 advance credits to Ger
many, Austria, the Baltic countries,
Japan and China, all Of which are
wanting to use the credits in the pur-
chase of the cotton of the south and
the grain of the west.
Everything w&its fer the little
while to determine the exact position
of the new administration SO that al.
NAV know which way to turn IN order
to take the fastest road.
.'The south, as a cotton producing
section, should remember that the
conservative law abiding nature OF
her life and her institutions during
the times when other sections yielded
to the threads of extreme raolcaism,
is in pa: me security which is invit-
ing the Interests of the north and the
oos+ % -
Visited in Columbia
Senator Lewis, who was born N
Virginia and whose father was
Confederate soldier, spent his child
hood and youth in Augusta and sa-
vannah. He recalled yesterday with
much pleasure, g visit he paid to Co
lun.bia as a youth when he was en-
tertained in the home Of Col. ). u
Haskell. He also recalled that while
living in the state Of Washington, ne
entertained J. B. Howe, son OF the
late Rev. W. B. Howe, former bish-
op of the diocese of South Caro'n:.'
and w. NJ. Meyers, also CT Sou1h
Carolina.
Senator Lewis met many SouIh
Carolinians yesterday aad made many
new friends.
In Memor:e=a