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SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1899.
EDITORIAL
The black man’s joys—the white man’s burden.
Even the sa-called kissing bug seemingly draws the color line.
Colored men must be established in business enterprises and colored people must patronize and thereby encourage such race institutions.
Frequently some misinformed white man will say that the American Negro is as doomed to extermination as the Indian. The rec ords now shows a population of 250,000 Indians in the Western ‘’p tates alone, and several thousand ^well in other parts of the county the present census will show a population os 300,000 Aboriginees.
A delegation of leading colored men called upon President McKinley last Monday for a conference on matters pertaining to the race, and before they left incidentally assured the President that the socalled “uprising” against the administration amounted to but little. No doubt President McKinley appreciated this little bit of information, but not to the extant of his assuring any consideration of the wrongs that are daily being perpetrated all over this country.
The breach of faith manifested by a few of the leading colored Republicans of Kentucky in their state convention last week is indeed deplorable. The same spirit shown by these few colored men is seen in the every day walks of life—in the church, in societies and in business organizations among colored people everywhere. It is an insatiable desire to either rule or ruin, These ill-advised Negroes have undoubtedly made a mistake, and the eommon people will have to suffer.
Spirit of Jhe Press. This talk about colonization is monotonous in the extreme, it is silly, idle nonsensical prattle indulged in only by some nincompoop who can think of nothing else to write or talk about,- State Capital. The Negro who will not buy a Negro paper, belongs to that crowd who go to make up the black man’s burden and the white man’s prejudice. He has no right to live in this age. Yea—he should have died with slavery—Courant. It is becoming pretty generally understood that there must be more effort put forward in establishing enterprises that will care for the product of the schools. Colored of men of means should see to it that the present condition of things no longer exist.—Freeman. There are a great many people in this world who make it hard for themselves because they lack selfgovernment and old time common sense. It is pitabl&r to see individ uals who could be useful, render themselves objectionable because they cannot control themselves. It equally pitiable ta see individuals with plenty of book sense but not enough of common sense to get along smoothly through the world. In many instances common sense is worth, more than book sense— Christian Index.
In the Philadelphia Press of a recent issue there appeared an article giving a number of views from Southern white men on the question of Negro labor in the South. The opinions which ere reproduced in these columns shows that the labor of the Negro is material to the Negro is material to the interests of the South, and one Southerner, Mr. Joseph B. Ager, states that his only objection to colored laborers is, that he can’t obtain them when most needed. The most forcible reason presented by the Southern white man, in favor of the Negro is his active opposition to all schemes for a general deportation of colored families to other sections of the country.
Well, there is one reason, and one that is all-sufficient why our Negro regiments should be sent to the Phillipines. It is that there are no better soldiers in the world than those whose dark skins are covered with the blue [uniform of Uncle Sam. The American army officers—and no one else knows a brave fighter and a good soldier so well—are agreed that our regular Negro troops are unexcelled. That is why they should go to the hillipines—because Gen. Otis wants and deserves the best soldiers he can get.—N. Y. Press. We can not expect the same consider from white business men that they give members of their own race. If we want clerkships and other position of trust and responsibility in commercail lines we must lave something of our own. There are a large number of colored men in this country, with sufficient idle capital to embark in enough busi ness to employ hundreds of men and women of the race in profita jle and creditable positions. The race patriots who have the money should do something or make less noise about Negro enterprise and their ardent devotion to the cause of the race.—Western Enterprise. The State of Texas, in which two Negroes have been lynched and roasted within the past few years, sustaned a loss of $5,000,000 by the recent flood. It’s cotton crop is said to have been damaged this extent. This looks very much like retribution. “The terror by night and the arrow that flieth by day, the pestilence that walketh in darkness and the deletion that wasteth at noonday” are sure sooner or later to overtake other southern states where bloody murder has run riot, where human life has sacrificed [upon the altar of human prejudice and hate. Whatsoever men sow, that shall they also reap. The South has sown, and is still sowing to the wind, and it will reap the whirlwind with with terrible certaidty,—Col ored American.
At a reception given by the American Ambassador, Gen. Hor ace Porter in Paris, France, Prof. Booker T. Washington and wife were honored guests. He also ad dressed the University Club, of which ex President Harrison is a member. Mr. Lyons, register of the Treasury, ex Representative Cheatham, recorder of deeds, and John P. Green, Unired States stamp agent, three of the leading colored men of the administration, had a consultation with the President Monday regarding matters of interest to the race. During the course of the consultation, the effort of certain colored men to array the colored race against the administration on ac • count of the Philippine policy was mentioned, and Mr. Lyons assured the President that, in his own opinion, it would amount to little. Miss Lillian Clayton Jewett, a young white woman, addressed a meeting of colored people in St. Paul’s Baptist church Sunday evening in Boston, Mass., on “Lynching in the South,” and created a sensa tion by offering to go to Charleston S. C., and bring to Boston the family of the murdered postmaster, H. M. Baker, who was lynched some time ago, for the purpose of creat ing sentiment in the North in favor of the Southern Negro. The church was packed to the doors, and all the principal colored organizations of that city were present. In the speeches that followed Miss Jewett was referred to as the new Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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General Race News A Negro refused a postmaster’s position In a small town in Alabama. He feared race trouble. In an oratorical contest at Chicago, a colored lad won over a number of white boys and got $50. A New York woman has given Booker T. Washington $150,000 for his Tuskegee Industrial school for colored hoys and girl.
NEGRO LABOR IN THE SOUTH. That there is a wide diversity of views on the problem of Negro labor in the South is shown in the character of the testimony that has been adduced before the congressional industrial commission. At one of its last hearings J. Polk Brown of Georgia, gave it as his opinion that the colored man was a permanent barrier to the material advancement of the South, That the Negro is indolent and careless, and as long as the South is compelled to depend solely upon the black race for its labor, just so long will it remain in a backward and unprosperous condition. Testimony of a different nature was furnished the commission by Joseph B. Ager, master of the Maryland State Grange. He is a dairyman, owning and operating a large farm. Ilis fault with colored labor is that in summer, when labor is needed the black men flock to the city, where they are paid higner wages and have shorter hours of labor. As a rule farmers suffer for want of hands in the field and in the dairy. Still another character of evidence was given by L. W. Youmans, who hails from the South Carolina “black belt.” Mr. Youmans told the commission that he had no fault to find with colored labor and said he preferred it infinitely to imported labor. Continuing, he said, in substance: “I employ 300 or 400 Negroes, and I find them docile and willing to work. I go away and leave my family among them, feeling confident of my family’s safety and protection. I think, however, that the Negro as a race is irresponsive and indifferent to the efforts to educate him, and while I willingly pay my share toward his education, I consider the money so spent as thrown away.” The above, representing three sides of the question, can be taken as a fair sample of the general line of evidence concerning black labor in the South. Yet there is nothing in it that will not apply with equal force to almost any class of white unskilled labor. The assertion that Negro labor is a bar to the progress of the South is not generally acceptable. in the South. Experience shows that every movement for extensive Negro colonization which threatens to draw black men and women from any part of the South is met with denunciation and objection, and the cry is raised that it will rob that section of its natural
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The testimony of Mr. Ager mere ly shows that the Negro has all the selfish interest that animate white men in his desertion of the farm in summer with its low wages and long hours for the city with its shorter hours and higher wages. The same experience comes to thousands of families in the North every year where colored servants desert their employment for more lucrative and pleasanter occupations at the seaside and meuntain ressrts. Mr. Youmans’ statements are particularly valuable because of their source and the light which they throw in a general way upon the Negro character. Mr. Youmans comes from South Carolina and is an employer of from three to four hundred colored persons. He would rather, he asserts, have them than the imported labor of Europe because they are docile, willing to w’ork, anti he can leave his family among them without fear, knowing that they would be protected. The main fault, and it is probably correct in portions bf the Southern
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black belt, is that the colored man t roots, which should be treated or re-
is indifferent to education. It is in awakening him to the advantages of epucation that his future ad vancement and prospertity must lie. This is the concensus of opin. ion of the leaders of the race today The testimony of Youmans is a refutation of the charge that no white woman’s life or honor is without constant peril in a Southern community with a large colored element in its population. There are scoundrels and degenerate among the Negroes of the South just as there are among the white masses, but the condemna tion of the whole race for the misdeeds of it criminal element should not follow. There must ever be kept in view that back of the present position of the race there lie two hundred yeers of slavery. It is asking too much that this once subject race should display all the virtues of the white race within a generation after its release from slavery.—Philadelphia Press.
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