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ARKANSAWAS GILBERT PORTER FOUND IT.nrtheda of Ileal ins by Which theFarmer hat* F very thins to Loae and Nothliig to F.xorbltanl Hateaof Interetti-He waa Shot.Who does not know Oil Oort N, Porter, the black monopolist, who, in the summer season jogs up and down the streets, [ dissipating dust and making business for the boot blacks? Gilbert has a wonder fudy sharp pair of eyes in that head of his, and during his recent visit in the in- Inermost recesses of Arkansas they saw• ' |what no w hite man could see, and he has brought back with him a fund of infor* mat ion, gathered by himself, so that he I can ta'k for hours without wearying. I Last November he Jstarted for that I State, intending to bring back some rela- I tives he had down there, and he wasgone I three months. Going from Massillon to I Memphis, he there boarded a steamboat, I the ‘‘Joe Peters,” and floated down the Mississippi to the White river, and then up the White river into the interior of Arkansas, ninety miles, to St. Charles lt;It was wdtile 011 board this boat thut he I got his first impressions, which led him to come back declaring emphatically that | the condition of his race is worse than it I Iwas before the war. Then they were given 1 everything but responsibility; now they I I have nothing but responsibility. i
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Massillon Daily Independent
Massillon, Ohio, US
Sat, Jan 28, 1888
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