Rough on Them
May 8, 1897
Summary
A Texas Newspaper rebukes all black people “who won’t pay for a little colored man’s paper.”
Transcription
[Lockhart, Texas, New Test.]
The Negro, who won’t pay for a little colored man’s paper for the pretended reason that “it is not big enough and has no news in it,” is a hog that couldn’t thrive on anything but slops. He would take a buzzard in preference to quail for dinner, simply because the buzzard is the bigger of the two. The colored man’s paper, no matter how small, is valuable to every right thinking colored person. Not for the variety and amount of its matter, but for the character, quality and purpose of it. There is always more in a single issue of the “New Test” for the instruction and encouragement of colored people that will be put into all the 365 issued of one year of the best daily in Texas.
The Negro, who won’t pay for a little colored man’s paper for the pretended reason that “it is not big enough and has no news in it,” is a hog that couldn’t thrive on anything but slops. He would take a buzzard in preference to quail for dinner, simply because the buzzard is the bigger of the two. The colored man’s paper, no matter how small, is valuable to every right thinking colored person. Not for the variety and amount of its matter, but for the character, quality and purpose of it. There is always more in a single issue of the “New Test” for the instruction and encouragement of colored people that will be put into all the 365 issued of one year of the best daily in Texas.
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Lower Right Quadrant
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Brian Schrott
Citation
“Rough on Them,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed January 20, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/1160.