The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-08-18
THE EXODUS INVESTIGATION.
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people wanted to come to let hem eo<nef A. Wecsr-
tainy intended to upa barrtr the border
of the State against whites blacks anybody else
who seek TO better their condition by coming into the
stare. We have large and prosperous State demand
State should be developed and everything that tends
promote its maleriAl wealth anxious TO encour
O. Did yoa think that 1t would tend TO the material
wealth Of the state TO these people
intot taking all the circumstances under which they
Gomez A. Think that an influx Of labor upon our
farms and into workshops would certainly tend
the material prosperity of the sta,e. -I-r
Q. Well, sm trying to get at the fact whether you
thought influx Of this kind Of labor-these people
from North Carolina, ceming In the condition that
they are in, and as they do come into our State
would be to the material advantage the State Ifso
| just say so. A. lfthese people come-or rather,
would say that the trouble with this population
lug there, as has been reported TO me- and as have
found by the Investigation have made upon the sub
jest s that about 90 per of the influx has been
| women and children. In that proportion do not
think would add to the material wealth OF the State
If they operatives If the proportion
half tn I'd operatives then think IL would add
to the material prosperity of the State: IT, however,
the pei age reported me- and the inves
cation that have made upon tends TO show 90 per
cent. women and children, and they not operatives.
then think is not 20 the material interest Of the
/ State to come; that's, not in that proportion.
Q. In other words, without adopting Mills Lam
guage, there are too many women aud children com
ing there ought to be more and fewer women and
children, you thfnk7 A. mean that IL they were
producers, as these women and children not look
ing at 'tas matter of political economy, 1 do. Il
Q. Yes; but 1 am not asking you reasons want
to know II In point Of fact there were more and
fewer women and children it would help the State to
| have them come into it, in your opinionf A Yea
sir; think it would; have doubt that IL would
Q. But as IL is, with 20 few men and 20 many more
| women and children, you have your doubtsf A.
do not think IL would be for the material wealth Of
the State to have them come in that proPsrusa-
They are consumers rather than producers.
Q. You would he disposed then, to advise them %
stop coming in the way in which they are eomingS
A. am looking at IL from Indiana stand point
| U. O A DOL at from Ind "A
standpoint; an Indianian, ask you whether, n
these people who are coming were to change tie pro-
A. Answering the question you ask il, Q ,itzen
of Indians, from thar stand point say yes.
.. You may answer as you choose; am not cut
ting out the answers for you. simply want TO get
| ct your views. You representative in your
| party, and want your views; 50 will repeat the
question, whether in the proportion in which these
people coming you would advise against it. and IL
that proportion were adjusted that there were
more men and fewer women and children you would
advise them to come, the wealth and pros
perity Of Indianaf A. Yes, sir.
WHAT THIS ALL MEANS.
| Here Is the same complaint made by Mills Of not
| enough men in The movement and too many women
Here is an Endorsement of negro emigration to lnd
ana the condition that the will come and the
| women remain away. 1t istrue Mr.. New assigns 9
reason for approving such masculine emigration
that it would impsovs the material prosperity of the
State. Doubtless, however, he and his party COLA
sorers are fully persuaded that the surest way 70
achieve that material prosperity Is TO the
Democratic majority in Indiana, aud as the most
tain means 10 that end the presence at she baotboK
South Is extremely desirable.
Sir, ightappropriately pause here to show from
the proof that outside Of Mr. New and few controlling
republican, leaders nobody of party in Indiana be-
lieves prstsnds to believe that negro emigration
and settlement there, either of men, women chill
dren, separately or all combined, would advance the
material wealth. prosperity, and wel-being Of that
| great and progressive COmmonw eath- The evidences
on this point before the committee came from every
shade Of party politics, and the lsboring Of the
republican party and the representative man Of the
greenbsek labor party were emphatic in their de-
NAL Of Mr.. News statementas the most prenounced
democrat in the State. Mr. New says:
| Wehsve large and prosperous State, demanding
development, and ali Of us anxious that the State
should be developed and everything that tends
mote its material wealth anxious TO encourage
He and his fellow managers Of politics aec TO be-
eve that this material wealth" would be promoted
by voting, not voting, black population In the
State by q male, not female, population Of th&
race; by an adult male population, entitled to WELD
the elective franchise. This opinion Is not shared in
Indiana beyond the circle Of the Republican
State Central committee. the Federal Ofceholders.
a shallow folks no think that anything,
the ruin Of The STATE justihable in order to defeat
the Democratic party.
THE KIND OF IMMIGRANTS INDIANA WANTS.
indiana is indeed large and prosperous State, and
Is susceptible Of still greater Development but she
prefers to rely in the future upon the same agencies
which have pressed her forward rapidly and
grandy in the past Ina galaxy Of States
spects taken together the fifth State in this mighty
| Union. When New York. Pennsylvania, Ohio aud III
nois have been named, Indiana answers next on the
rolcall of American States. Her railroad develop
men is the marvel Of modern progress and her school
system surpasses that of any other known Common
aud her mineral constitute her empire OF
physical wealth Her people, too, are a strong race,
brave, devoted, and aggressive pioneers who IittIs
while ago subdued the wilderness and nearly all Of
whom now sleen In their honored graves. The awsof
Indiana liberal, just and equal. The decis-
highest author
ity at Westminster, and the names Of her jurists
are mentioned will respect at every English
speaking court in the world She has been State the
brief space ofsixiy tour years. but in that time she
has swept far up to the every department Of
thought and action. She has outstripped her older
sisters seated on the tern scaboard sail
ing modern vessel on the ocean W" aid pass ancient
bright career, however Indiana has not depended for
anything upon the negro, either as q slave or as
freedman, and she does not propose to do so now.
She has much kindness much shelter and protec
ton under the law FOR the black and for his house,
hold who seek home within her borders in the ordi.
nary and natural way ofmoyng from one place to an
other asshe has for people Uher color but when
rush is made to convert her into mere miserable
colony for colored for political ends under the
pretense of aiding the developm of her material
wealth she will an sist the base deement
and inflict punishment all who have conspired
against her honor and good fame
Mr.. New, in speaking Of the coming OF the male
negro into Indiana, says:
81 think that aninhux Of labor upon our farms and
into workshops would certainly tend 10 the
material prosperity of the State"
THE WORKING PEOPLE OF THE STATE
AGAINST THE REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS
1 Every witness examined, except republican Office
holders and politicians testified that such influx
would be the abomnaton Of the people of the State;
that the supply Of laborers greater than the
demand, and had been for many years, especially
since 1873; and that the negroes already imported
there had fallen hard lines, many Of them not
ployed at ALL objects of daily charity and others OBJ
tanning o precarous subsistence from temporary and
uncertain engagements. Mr. New says that IL the
| proDOrtion between the males and females was
| changed, that n,gro men constituted The
influx Of which he speaks upon farms
and into workshops, he would
encourage them to come. The testimony Of farmers
| and mechanics is voluminous and overwhelming ON
this point in the printed evidence, aud it lie all
way 1t is book within ITSELF and can not read it
here. 1t condemns in every line, page and chapter,
furnished by Republicans in greater numbers than By
Democrats, and with equal emphasis. the position
the Chairman Of the RepublicaE State Central Com
!, mittee of Indiana.
There is demand for the labor Of the negro In In