Them
there Angle-Saxtons, that come over from Ireland
and Scotland and France and the Great British
Islands and settled up the South jest simply couldn't
afford to let that happen, he says, and so they Ku
Kluxed the niggers to make 'em quit voting. It was
THEIR job to MAKE law and order, he says, which
they couldn't be with niggers getting the idea they
had a right to govern. So they Ku Kluxed 'em
like gentlemen. But these here night-riders, he
says, is AGIN law and order--they can shoot up
more law and order in one night than can be manu-
factured agin in ten years. He was a very quiet,
peaceable old man, Mr. Davis was, and Bud says
he was so dern foolish about law and order he had
to up and shoot a man, about fifteen years ago, who
hearn him talking that-a-way and said he reminded
him of a Boston school teacher.
But Miss Lucy and Bud, they tells me what all
them night-ridings is fur. It seems this here to-
baccer trust is jest as mean and low-down and un-
principled as all the rest of them trusts. The farm-
ers around there raised considerable tobaccer--
more'n they did of anything else. The trust had
shoved the price so low they couldn't hardly make
a living. So they organized and said they would
all hold their tobaccer fur a fair price. But some of
the farmers wouldn't organize--said they had
a right to do what they pleased with their own to-
baccer.
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