The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-02-27
How to Treat immigrants.

The Abbevil)e Met1iun,, we'll
informed and admirably conducted
paper, announces that the Germans
ore leaving Long Cane and hunting
homes among the mountains,
"On last Saturday" says tho Me
ajunn, several families left for
Groenville county, whero they have
tte promise Of higher wages and
more profitable and pleasant en-
ployment. During the past year
thcy became very much dissatisfied
ut the rate paid thom for their work,
and now they are on the move.
They say that this is no country for
Germans; that we think more of
the negroes and will always give
them the preference. There is no
truth in such IN assertion, of
course. The trouble with these fell
lows is that when they come to
America they think it is free mans
country and that everybody is to live
alike. They must take the country
as they find it. If they can't get
cake they must content themselves
with COM bread until they have
saved enough from their earnings to
indulge in luxuyies. 4 negro will live
on peek of meal, three pounds of
meat and quart of molasses a week
and think he is living in clover, but
the Go, man must have the best OK
or no becomes dissatisfied and
quarrelsome."
We would call the attention of the
lUedi'tm to the fact that it is just
this system of treating immigrants
that is calculated to keep them from
our State. No State in the Upion
s5anas in ,<pcnatf" a5eS the down
trodAen Palmetto State But if
farmers expect to get white mon
and women to work farms, and live
on IA peck of meal, thrco pounds of
meat and quart of molasses q
week, they may rs well at once re-
sumo the u,valicd employment of
negroes, doing half work, and,
unless converted, voting year in and
year out to rob them Of their sus.
tenanoo. Until the farm owners in
South Carolina learn that educated
and enlightened white labor from
Europe must be treated with con-
siderntion, they cannot expect to
induce immigrants to come hore.
An inferior laborcr, who does half
work reluctantly, may subsist on a
peek of meal and quart of molas-
ses a week, but intelligent, energetic
and superior white labor can do
botter, and will not be satisfied.
PickinHs end stealings the honest
energetic German immigrant is not
educated to practice, and conse-
quontly he fiAds it little difficult,
with family to support, to live on
peck OF meal, three pounds OF
meat and quart Of molasses. Be-
sides, Europeans all are accustomed
to better houses and moro space
than labor at the South is usually
provided with. And. we NAV az
well understand and recognize these
facts. If The people Of Carolina
want to induce intelligent, educated
workmen to settle here, let them
establish thrifty peasantry by
dividing their lands into small
farms and rent them to competent
and safe tenants, or sell alternate
tracts to settlers on time at low
prices. BY filling up tho country
they will create u demand for land
and n market for its produce. We
haye remarkably fine climate aud a
sod that with proper preparation is
very productive. Population will
now benefit all land owners
Journal Of Commerce.
4 LyNATrc BURNS H1MsEIr TO
D1,Etr4sTrHlI5-sMr PA TrHlI5-s Ru,hfelt, who lives
Near South Point, CASTOR county,
A.. g, and who owas thought to Cbe 4
crazy. SGT fire. to his house and
burned himself in it, on last Mon.
day night. His wife, who was the
orly other person. in the house.
ra'w%!olk raw%!oke to find the room, in which
her husband was sleeping almost
entirely consumed! She barely
escaped with her life, 'UAis is all
the, particulars lofithis horrible deed
that 7 wehayo yet been able to asoer-
tain, Sh'h"ei